How to play with a friend in minecraft

To play with your friend in the Micheraft computer game, you can choose for yourself any convenient way, as they are a huge set. The most convenient and popular of them are the local network, the creation of your own server, game on one third-party server. Choose the best and proceed to the steps of this article. Please note that each option has its advantages and its cons.

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How to play with a friend in minecraft on the local network

This option is suitable only for those players who are going to spend time in minecraft only together, and never separately. Since the game world will be available to you only if the other player is connected to the network. For example, your friend distributes the local network and tells you the IP server. You play a certain time together, but as soon as a friend goes to bed and disables the Internet connection on the computer - the server becomes more inaccessible to you.

If you decide to choose this particular option, then proceed to the algorithm.

Download the Hamachi program to your computer and a friend's computer. This program is in open access on the official developer website, it does not require additional surcharges. Open the program on your computer.

Open the "Network" tab and in the drop-down menu, select the "Create a new network ..."

Enter the network ID. This is a kind of login that your friends will be entered to connect to your local network. Password also think about your friends to remember it easy. After entering, click "Create".

Turn on Hamachi by clicking on the large blue button on the toolbar.

Now enter the game Minecraft. See what you have the version installed. Your versions with a friend should coincide.

Enter the single game mode, you will distribute this world to play with friends. Create your world with any regime.

In the game, press the ESC key and in the menu that appears, click on the "Open for Network" field.

From above you will see the settings of the game: its mode and availability of cheats. Cheats are better to turn off at the initial stage, you can enable them later if desired. Click "Open World for Network".

Immediately, the port number will pop up in the chat to the left, copy it to the notebook, it is needed to form the IP address of your local network.

Now go to Hamachi again, click on the left button along the program header, two lines will appear before you, you need the highest "copy the IPv4 address", click on it.

Now open a notepad, first insert your IPv4 address there, then put the colon and insert the port number. You received the IP address of the server.

You have completed all stages to create a local network for a friend from your computer. Now look what you need to do your friend to connect. To connect to someone else's local network for a joint game in Minecraft, open the chamachi network. Click on the "Network" tab and select "Connect to an existing network ..."

Enter the identifier and password that your friend at the previous stage. Click "Connect".

Now go to the game Minecraft, select "Play Network", then "Direct Connection" and in the IP Address IP field enter the numbers that your friend turned out in notepad. Now you can safely play together on the local network. This method is good because the server is always on your computer, and your world belongs only to you.

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How to play with a friend in minecraft on your own server

If your computer is too weak for the local network and starts to brake constantly, then it is better to choose this option, since here the entire amount of data will be stored on the hosting. In addition, you can install special plugins that are not available in a single game.

Go to any site to create hosting, for example, https://server.pro/login.
Register your account or log in through Facebook.

To register, you need only an email address, come up with your password and login. After that, you will find yourself on the main page of the server creation.

Click on the blue "GET Your Server Now" button.
You need to come up with hosting name, set it in a white input field.

After that, select the region. For example, "europe". And the type of hosting is free, that is, "FREE".

You can choose only the type of server. If you want a functional server, with advanced options for the administrator, select "CraftBukKit".

The remaining options remain unchanged, since on the free type of server you cannot change them. After that, you have a game on your own server, simply copy the IP address. Please note this free hosting, so you need to enter a capping every hour.

In addition to these two options, you can simply select the server on the Internet and play with other players together with the other.