diff --git a/hosts/Gutterman/default.nix b/hosts/Gutterman/default.nix
index ac1fdc1..f790576 100644
--- a/hosts/Gutterman/default.nix
+++ b/hosts/Gutterman/default.nix
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
     ../../modules/nixos/programs/git.nix
 
     ../../modules/nixos/services/tailscale
+    ../../modules/nixos/services/gameserver/minecraft-server.nix
 
     ../../modules/nixos/system/headless.nix
     ../../modules/nixos/system/minimal.nix
@@ -29,30 +30,11 @@
     CacheFromLocalhost=true
   '';
 
-  networking.firewall = {
-    allowedTCPPorts = [
-      8000
-      8001
-    ];
-    allowedUDPPorts = [
-      8000
-      8001
-    ];
-  };
-
-  environment.systemPackages =
-  let
-    nixpkgs-unstable = import inputs.nixpkgs-unstable {
-      system = "${pkgs.system}";
-      config.allowUnfree = true;
-    };
-  in [
+  environment.systemPackages = [
     pkgs.btop
-    nixpkgs-unstable.graalvmPackages.graalvm-oracle_17
-    inputs.nixpkgs-pin.legacyPackages.${pkgs.system}.graalvm-ce
     pkgs.steamcmd
   ];
 
   nixpkgs.hostPlatform = "x86_64-linux";
   system.stateVersion = "25.05";
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/modules/nixos/services/gameserver/minecraft-server.nix b/modules/nixos/services/gameserver/minecraft-server.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..46767a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/nixos/services/gameserver/minecraft-server.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,178 @@
+{ inputs, config, pkgs, lib, ... }:
+
+
+{
+  networking.firewall = {
+    allowedTCPPorts = [ 10000 ];
+    allowedUDPPorts = [ 10000 ];
+  };
+
+  users = {
+    users.minecraft = {
+      group = "minecraft";
+      isSystemUser = true;
+
+      home = "/var/lib/minecraft";
+      createHome = true;
+    };
+    groups.minecraft = {};
+  };
+
+  environment.systemPackages =
+  let
+    nixpkgs-unstable = import inputs.nixpkgs-unstable {
+      system = "${pkgs.system}";
+      config.allowUnfree = true;
+    };
+  in [
+    # to control the interactive server console
+    pkgs.screen
+
+    nixpkgs-unstable.graalvmPackages.graalvm-oracle_17
+    inputs.nixpkgs-pin.legacyPackages.${pkgs.system}.graalvm-ce
+  ];
+
+  environment.etc = {
+    "minecraft/java21_args".text = ''
+      -Xmx8G
+      -Xms8G
+      --add-modules=jdk.incubator.vector
+      -XX:+UseG1GC
+      -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200
+      -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions
+      -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions
+      -XX:+DisableExplicitGC
+      -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch
+      -XX:G1NewSizePercent=28
+      -XX:G1MaxNewSizePercent=50
+      -XX:G1HeapRegionSize=16M
+      -XX:G1ReservePercent=15
+      -XX:G1MixedGCCountTarget=3
+      -XX:InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent=20
+      -XX:G1MixedGCLiveThresholdPercent=90
+      -XX:SurvivorRatio=32
+      -XX:G1HeapWastePercent=5
+      -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=1
+      -XX:+PerfDisableSharedMem
+      -XX:G1SATBBufferEnqueueingThresholdPercent=30
+      -XX:G1ConcMarkStepDurationMillis=5
+      -XX:G1RSetUpdatingPauseTimePercent=0
+      -XX:+UseNUMA
+      -XX:-DontCompileHugeMethods
+      -XX:MaxNodeLimit=240000
+      -XX:NodeLimitFudgeFactor=8000
+      -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=400M
+      -XX:NonNMethodCodeHeapSize=12M
+      -XX:ProfiledCodeHeapSize=194M
+      -XX:NonProfiledCodeHeapSize=194M
+      -XX:NmethodSweepActivity=1
+      -XX:+UseFastUnorderedTimeStamps
+      -XX:+UseCriticalJavaThreadPriority
+      -XX:AllocatePrefetchStyle=3
+      -XX:+AlwaysActAsServerClassMachine
+      -XX:+UseTransparentHugePages
+      -XX:LargePageSizeInBytes=2M
+      -XX:+UseLargePages
+      -XX:+EagerJVMCI
+      -XX:+UseStringDeduplication
+      -XX:+UseAES
+      -XX:+UseAESIntrinsics
+      -XX:+UseFMA
+      -XX:+UseLoopPredicate
+      -XX:+RangeCheckElimination
+      -XX:+OptimizeStringConcat
+      -XX:+UseCompressedOops
+      -XX:+UseThreadPriorities
+      -XX:+OmitStackTraceInFastThrow
+      -XX:+RewriteBytecodes
+      -XX:+RewriteFrequentPairs
+      -XX:+UseFPUForSpilling
+      -XX:+UseFastStosb
+      -XX:+UseNewLongLShift
+      -XX:+UseVectorCmov
+      -XX:+UseXMMForArrayCopy
+      -XX:+UseXmmI2D
+      -XX:+UseXmmI2F
+      -XX:+UseXmmLoadAndClearUpper
+      -XX:+UseXmmRegToRegMoveAll
+      -XX:+EliminateLocks
+      -XX:+DoEscapeAnalysis
+      -XX:+AlignVector
+      -XX:+OptimizeFill
+      -XX:+EnableVectorSupport
+      -XX:+UseCharacterCompareIntrinsics
+      -XX:+UseCopySignIntrinsic
+      -XX:+UseVectorStubs
+      -XX:UseAVX=2
+      -XX:UseSSE=4
+      -XX:+UseFastJNIAccessors
+      -XX:+UseInlineCaches
+      -XX:+SegmentedCodeCache
+      -Djdk.nio.maxCachedBufferSize=262144
+      -Djdk.graal.UsePriorityInlining=true
+      -Djdk.graal.Vectorization=true
+      -Djdk.graal.OptDuplication=true
+      -Djdk.graal.DetectInvertedLoopsAsCounted=true
+      -Djdk.graal.LoopInversion=true
+      -Djdk.graal.VectorizeHashes=true
+      -Djdk.graal.EnterprisePartialUnroll=true
+      -Djdk.graal.VectorizeSIMD=true
+      -Djdk.graal.StripMineNonCountedLoops=true
+      -Djdk.graal.SpeculativeGuardMovement=true
+      -Djdk.graal.TuneInlinerExploration=1
+      -Djdk.graal.LoopRotation=true
+      -Djdk.graal.CompilerConfiguration=enterprise
+    '';
+  };
+
+  systemd.services.minecraft = {
+    description = "Minecraft Java Edition server";
+    wants = [ "network-online.target" ];
+    after = [ "network-online.target" ];
+
+    path = [ pkgs.screen ];
+    script = "screen -dmS minecraft -- ${lib.getExe inputs.nixpkgs-pin.legacyPackages.${pkgs.system}.graalvm-ce} @/etc/minecraft/java21_args -jar server.jar nogui";
+
+    serviceConfig = {
+      User = "minecraft";
+      Group = "minecraft";
+      WorkingDirectory = "/var/lib/minecraft/vanilla";
+      Type = "forking";
+      Restart = "on-failure";
+      TimerSlackNSec = "5ms";
+
+      # very necessary and sane hardening for a private minecraft server
+      CapabilityBoundingSet = [ "" ];
+      DeviceAllow = [ "" ];
+      DevicePolicy = "strict";
+      LockPersonality = true;
+      MemoryDenyWriteExecute = true;
+      NoNewPrivileges = true;
+      PrivateDevices = true;
+      PrivateTmp = true;
+      PrivateUsers = true;
+      ProcSubset = "pid";
+      ProtectClock = true;
+      ProtectControlGroups = true;
+      ProtectHome = true;
+      ProtectHostname = true;
+      ProtectKernelLogs = true;
+      ProtectKernelModules = true;
+      ProtectKernelTunables = true;
+      ProtectProc = "invisible";
+      ProtectSystem = "strict";
+      RemoveIPC = true;
+      RestrictAddressFamilies = [
+        "AF_INET"
+        "AF_INET6"
+        "AF_UNIX"
+      ];
+      RestrictNamespaces = true;
+      RestrictRealtime = true;
+      RestrictSUIDSGID = true;
+      SystemCallArchitectures = "native";
+      SystemCallFilter = [ "@system-service" ];
+      UMask = "0027";
+    };
+  };
+}