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How to Create Your Own Minecraft Server on Windows

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How to Create Your Own Minecraft Server on Windows

Have you ever wanted to make your own Minecraft server on Windows? This tutorial will teach you how, without having to download Hamachi.

The whole process is a lot simpler than you might think, and it will only take a few minutes!

You will need:

Firefox web browser

Computer running Windows XP/Vista/7

Access to your router's setup page

A Minecraft Premium account

Step 1 Download the Server Software

Create a folder on your desktop, or wherever you wish, and name it "Minecraft Server".

Open Firefox and go to http://www. minecraft. net/download. jsp .

Scroll all the way down and click on the download link that reads, "Minecraft Server. exe", and save the file.

On the Downloads window that pops up, right click Minecraft_Server. exe, and select "Open Containing Folder".

Open the Minecraft Server folder you made and drag the server application to it.

Run the Minecraft_Server application. If a security warning pops up, select "Run".

The application will then create the files it needs to run, and a world, within that folder.

After the spawn point is set, you can close everything.

Step 2 Opening the Port

Open the Command Prompt by typing "cmd" on the Start Search.

Once on the command prompt, typing in "ipconfig" without the ".

Look for the Default Gateway address, and write it down.

Do the same with the IPv4 Address.

Open your web browser and type the Default Gateway in to the address bar. You can also copy and paste it.

You will be prompted to enter a username and password. If you know them, enter them; if not, you can look up the defaults on the manufacturer's website.

Once on the settings page, look for an "Applications and Gaming" or "Port Forwarding" link, and click it.

Then look for "Port Range Forwarding" and click that.

Type in Minecraft for the Application name, 25565 for the Start Port and 25565 for the End Port.

For "Protocol," select Both if available. If not, create a TCP and UDP, with the same information.

As for the IP Address, fill in the last segment of the IPv4 Address you wrote down earlier.

Finally, check the box to enable the Port, and save the settings.

Step 3 Invite Your Friends to Your Server

If you plan on running the server on one computer, and playing on another, type in your IP instead.

Server List

Server Information:

MobArena, Chestshops, Powerful Economy. Factions, Creative, Ultimate Greif Protection, Biggest Football feild, HugeBuilds, Mob Disguise, MultiVerse, Casino, Lottery, Lockette, WorldEdit, Essentials, CAPTURE THE FLAG, Spleef, TreasureHunts, BattleHunt, and many more!

This is a Epic server! We have taken minecraft and made the game even better here! We use state of the art hardware that will make you not lag at all. We are an experienced server with dedicated Owners and Administrators.

The Owner of this server is nickie_G1010

We use some of the best plugins known to bukkit servers. We have essentials, mob arenas, spleef, mob disguise, and plenty more for everyone to enjoy.

We have Multiple Worlds on this server. We have. Economy, Creative, and soon to be Factions.

Gadgets on the go

The entire Earth recreated in Minecraft.

I want to slay zombies while sitting in bed. That's normal, right?

I wouldn't call myself a serious gamer, but I have taken a liking to Minecraft. The frustrating thing for me about getting into desktop games is that I tend to jump between computers during the day. That's fine for work, thanks to the cloud, but it creates a problem when it comes to games that like to run on one computer.

After experimenting with a few of the notebooks around the house I ended up installing Minecraft on my Windows 7 media centre PC so I can play it with my kids. Turning it into a "sometimes food" family activity seems to work well because, as I said a few weeks ago, I can be a bit obsessive sometimes so I need to keep games in perspective .

I'm pretty busy these days, which makes it easier to keep my Minecraft habit in check. But sometimes at the end of the day I think I'm entitled to play on my own for a while. That's obviously not practical if my Minecraft world is locked away on my media centre but someone else is using the television. I experimented with using the cloud to sync the Minecraft data folder between multiple computers, but my games started corrupting.

Eventually I decided that the easiest option was to set up the media centre as a Minecraft server, which I could connect to from any computer in the house running the Minecraft software. I could still play on the media centre if I wanted to, using it as both the server and client.

I thought I might be in for a world of pain, but in the end setting up a Minecraft server wasn't that hard. You simply need to download and install the free Minecraft multiplayer server. One issue that I ran into is that, the first time you run the server, you need to run it in administrator mode or it won't install properly.

Once you've been through the initial setup you should be fine. You'll find a server configuration guide at Minecraft Wiki. With the server running, you simply launch Minecraft on any computer connected to your home network. Select multiplayer and it will scan your network for Minecraft servers, although this doesn't always work (it might be a Windows security thing). You can also manually enter the IP address. It's possible to expose your Minecraft server to the internet for playing from afar but I don't need to go that far. As that Minecraft Wiki entry warns, take care opening up ports if you don't know what you're doing or you could create security problems. Alternatively you might consider using a hosted Minecraft service -- you'll find a long list of hosted Minecraft servers an MinePick .

The Minecraft developers recently added an "Open to LAN" server option to the single player mode, which is a great way for letting other players join your game without the need to run a separate server. The problem with this is that you can only use your Minecraft login on one computer at a time. If I run a single player game on the media centre and try to join it from my notebook, the media centre session shuts down. I don't really need two Minecraft accounts, so creating a Minecraft server seems more practical.

The final step was importing my single player Minecraft world into the server, which again wasn't that hard. It might be possible to point both the Minecraft server and client at the same game data folder on my media centre, but I didn't want to over-complicate things and risk data corruption again. Instead I copied my single player saved world from here;

Users/USERNAME/appdata/roaming/.minecraft/saves/

into the same folder as the Minecraft server application. You then edit the server. properties file so it loads your world when it runs. I also made of a backup copy of my game folder, just as a safety precaution. I haven't run into any problems playing Minecraft this way from notebooks around the house, but I can't make you any promises so proceed at your own risk.

One limitation is that if you want to create multiple worlds there doesn't seem to be a way to choose which one to load (without editing the server configuration files). There are third party servers and plugins that seem to support this kind of flexibility, but I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible. I found it was easier just to create two copies of Minecraft server on the media centre, in different folders, which each server designed to launch a different world.

I still need to set up an easy way to launch the Minecraft server remotely. Using remote desktop tools obviously starts fights when someone is watching a movie on the media centre. It's a work in progress, but I'm getting closer to my dream of Minecraft on demand.

Have you set up a Minecraft server or other gaming server? Was it smooth sailing?

Minecraft

Minecraft is a sandbox indie game originally created by Swedish programmer Markus "Notch" Persson and later developed and published by Mojang. It was publicly released for the PC on May 17, 2009, as a developmental alpha version and, after gradual updates, was published as a full release version on November 18, 2011. A version for Android was released a month earlier on October 7, and an iOS version was released on November 17, 2011. The game was released on the Xbox 360 as an Xbox Live Arcade game on May 9, 2012, and on the PlayStation 3 on December 17, 2013. The game was released on the PlayStation 4 on September 4, 2014, launching on the Xbox One the next day. All versions of Minecraft receive periodic updates, with the console editions being co-developed by 4J Studios .

The creative and building aspects of Minecraft allow players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D procedurally generated world. Other activities in the game include exploration, gathering resources, crafting, and combat. Multiple gameplay modes are available, including survival modes where the player must acquire resources to build and maintain his or her health and hunger, a creative mode where players have unlimited resources to build and the ability to fly, and an adventure mode where players can create custom maps for other players to play.

Minecraft received five awards during the 2011 Game Developers Conference. Of the Game Developers Choice Awards. it won the Innovation Award, Best Downloadable Game Award, and Best Debut Game Award; from the Independent Games Festival. it won the Audience Award and the Seumas McNally Grand Prize. In 2012, Minecraft was awarded a Golden Joystick Award in the category Best Downloadable Game.

As of June 25, 2014 [update]. over 12 million copies of the game on the Xbox 360 and 15 million copies on PC have been sold; nearly 54 million copies have been sold across all platforms.

On September 15, 2014, Microsoft announced a deal to purchase the game's developer, Mojang. granting the company ownership of the game's intellectual property. The all-cash deal is worth $2.5 billion. [ 13 ] [ 14 ]

Contents

Gameplay

A few of the hostile and neutral mobs displayed in Minecraft from left to right: Zombie, Spider, Enderman, Creeper, Skeleton

The game world is procedurally generated as players explore it, using a seed which is obtained from the system clock at the time of world creation unless manually specified by the player. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Although limits exist on vertical movement both up and down, Minecraft allows for an infinitely large game world to be generated on the horizontal plane, only running into technical problems when extremely distant locations are reached. [ nb 1 ] The game achieves this by splitting the game world data into smaller sections called "chunks", which are only created or loaded into memory when players are nearby. [ 24 ]

The game's physics system, in which most solid blocks are unaffected by gravity, has often been described as unrealistic by commentators. [ 26 ] Liquids in the game flow from a source block, which can be removed by placing a solid block in its place, or by scooping it into a bucket. Complex systems can be built using primitive mechanical devices, electrical circuits, and logic gates built with an in-game material known as redstone. [ 27 ]

Minecraft features two alternate dimensions besides the main world – the Nether and The End. [ 23 ] The Nether is a hell - like dimension accessed via player-built portals that contains many unique resources and can be used to travel great distances in the overworld. [ 28 ] The End is a barren land in which a boss dragon called the Ender Dragon dwells. [ 29 ] Killing the dragon cues the game's ending credits, written by Irish author Julian Gough. [ 30 ] Players are then allowed to teleport back to their original spawn point in the overworld, and will receive "The End" achievement. There is also a second boss called "The Wither", which drops materials used to build a placeable beacon that can enhance certain abilities of all nearby players. A third boss, which lives in the sea, is currently known as the Guardian, it has been added in the 1.8 update of Minecraft .

The game primarily consists of two game modes: survival and creative. It also has a changeable difficulty system of four levels; the easiest difficulty (peaceful) removes any hostile creatures that spawn. [ 31 ]

Survival mode

A screenshot of the Minecraft crafting screen, showing two stone axes being crafted

In this mode, players have to gather natural resources (such as wood, stone, etc.) found in the environment in order to craft certain blocks and items. [ 19 ] Depending on the difficulty, monsters spawn at darker places on the map, necessitating that the player builds a shelter at night. [ 19 ] The mode also features a health bar which is depleted by attacks from monsters, falls, drowning, falling into lava, suffocation, starvation, and other events. Players also have a hunger bar, which must be periodically refilled by eating food in-game, except in peaceful mode, in which the hunger bar does not drain. If the hunger bar is depleted, then the health bar will slowly diminish. Health replenishes when players have a nearly full hunger bar, and also regenerates regardless of fullness if players play on the easiest difficulty.

There are a wide variety of items that players can craft in Minecraft . [ 32 ] Players can craft armor, which can help mitigate damage from attacks, while weapons such as swords can be crafted to kill enemies and other animals more easily. Players may acquire different resources to craft tools, such as weapons, armor, food, and various other items. By acquiring better resources, players can craft more effective items. For example, tools such as axes, shovels, or pickaxes, can be used to chop down trees, dig soil, and mine ores, respectively; and tools made out of better resources (such as iron in place of stone) perform their tasks more quickly and can be used more heavily before breaking. Players may also trade goods with villager mobs through a bartering system. [ 33 ] Emeralds are often the currency of the villagers, although some trade with wheat or other materials. [ 22 ] [ 33 ]

The game has an inventory system and players are limited to the number of items they can carry. Upon dying, items in the players' inventories are dropped, and players respawn at the current spawn point. which is set by default where players begin the game, but can be reset if players sleep in beds in-game. [ 34 ] Dropped items can be recovered if players can reach them before they despawn. Players may acquire experience points by killing mobs and other players, mining, smelting ores, breeding animals. and cooking food. Experience can then be spent on enchanting tools, armor and weapons. [ 31 ] Enchanted items are generally more powerful, last longer, or have other special effects. [ 31 ]

Players may also play in hardcore mode, a variant of survival mode that differs primarily in the game being locked to the hardest gameplay setting as well as featuring permadeath ; upon players' death, their world is deleted. [ 35 ]

Creative mode

In creative mode, players have access to all of the resources and items in the game through the inventory menu, and can place or remove them instantly. [ 36 ] Players, able to fly freely around the game world, do not take environmental or mob damage, and are not affected by hunger. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] The game mode helps players focus on building and creating large projects. [ 36 ]

Adventure mode

Adventure mode was added to Minecraft in version 1.3; it was designed specifically so that players could experience user crafted custom maps and adventures. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] [ 41 ] Gameplay is similar to survival mode but introduces various player restrictions. This is so that players can obtain the required items and experience adventures in the way that the mapmaker intended. [ 41 ] Another addition designed for custom maps is the command block; this block allows mapmakers to expand interactions with players through certain server commands. [ 42 ]

Multiplayer

Multiplayer on Minecraft is available through player-hosted servers and enables multiple players to interact and communicate with each other on a single world. [ 43 ] Players can run their own servers or use a hosting provider. Single player worlds have local area network support, allowing players to join worlds on locally interconnected computers without a server setup. [ 44 ] Minecraft multiplayer servers are guided by server operators, who have access to server commands such as setting the time of day and teleporting players around. Operators can also set up restrictions concerning which usernames or IP addresses are allowed to enter the server. [ 43 ] Multiplayer servers offer players a wide range of activities, with some servers having their own unique rules and customs. A stand-alone server called CraftBukkit [ 45 ] has been developed by the community to facilitate development of server-side plugins enabling otherwise impossible gameplay elements such as permissions, ranks, virtual currency, and chat formatting. Competitions are available in some servers, in which players can participate in a variety of games, including some resembling The Hunger Games . [ 46 ] [ 47 ] A gamemode, PvP (player versus player ), may be enabled to allow fighting between players. [ 48 ] In 2013 Mojang announced Minecraft Realms, a server hosting service intended to enable players to run server multiplayer games easily and safely without the hassle of setting up their own. [ 49 ]

Development

The developer of Minecraft . Markus "Notch" Persson. began developing the game as an independent project while working for King. com and later jAlbum. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] He was inspired to create Minecraft by several other games such as Dwarf Fortress . Dungeon Keeper . and later Infiniminer . At the time, he had visualized an isometric 3D building game that would be a cross between his inspirations and had made some early prototypes. [ 50 ] Infiniminer heavily influenced the style of gameplay, including the first-person aspect of the game, the "blocky" visual style and the block-building fundamentals. [ 51 ] However, unlike Infiniminer . Persson wanted Minecraft to have RPG elements. [ 52 ]

Minecraft was first released to the public on May 17, 2009, as a developmental release on TIGSource forums, [ 53 ] later becoming known as the Classic version. Further milestones dubbed as Survival Test . Indev and Infdev were released between September 2009 and February 2010, although the game saw updates in-between. The first major update, dubbed alpha version, was released on June 28, 2010. Although Persson maintained a day job with Jalbum. net at first, he later quit in order to work on Minecraft full-time as sales of the alpha version of the game expanded. [ 54 ] Persson continued to update the game with releases distributed to users automatically. These updates included features such as new items, new blocks, new mobs, survival mode, and changes to the game's behavior (e. g. how water flows). [ 54 ]

To back the development of Minecraft . Persson set up a video game company, Mojang. with the money earned from the game. [ 55 ] [ 56 ] [ 57 ] On December 11, 2010, Persson announced that Minecraft was entering its beta testing phase on December 20, 2010. [ 58 ] He further stated that users who bought the game after this date would no longer be guaranteed to receive all future content free of charge as it "scared both the lawyers and the board." However, bug fixes and all updates leading up to and including the release would still be free. Over the course of the development, Mojang hired several new employees to work on the project. [ 59 ]

Mojang moved the game out of beta and released the full version on November 18, 2011. [ 60 ] The game has been continuously updated since the release, with changes ranging from new game content to new server hosts. [ 61 ] On December 1, 2011, Jens "Jeb" Bergensten took full creative control over Minecraft . replacing Persson as lead developer. [ 62 ] On February 28, 2012, Mojang announced that they had hired the developers of the popular server platform "CraftBukkit" [ 45 ] to improve Minecraft ' s support of server and client modifications. [ 63 ] This acquisition also included Mojang apparently taking full ownership of the CraftBukkit modification, [ 64 ] although the validity of this claim was questioned due to its status as an open-source project with many contributors, licensed under the GNU General Public License and Lesser General Public License. [ 65 ]

Audio

Minecraft ' s music and sound effects are produced by German composer Daniel "C418" Rosenfeld. [ 66 ] The background music in Minecraft is non-lyrical ambient music. On March 4, 2011, Rosenfeld released a soundtrack. titled Minecraft – Volume Alpha ; it includes most of the tracks featured in Minecraft . as well as other music not featured in the game. [ 67 ] The video game blog Kotaku chose the music in Minecraft as one of the best video game soundtracks of 2011. [ 68 ] On November 9, 2013, Rosenfeld released the second official soundtrack, titled Minecraft – Volume Beta . which includes the music that was added in later versions of the game. [ 69 ]

Minecraft – Volume Alpha