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[bayat]

It's fairly easy. If anybody wants to know how, or you're stuck on something, go ahead and ask me!

TUTORIAL:
First, you should start off by going to the Minecraft website.
Download the multiplayer server program here. Follow the instructions at the bottom of the page, depending on your operating system. It is much simpler to use the .exe, but it is for Windows users only. You can use the minecraft_server.jar on any operating system, but it is harder to set up. I reccommend saving it to a new folder, as it creates multiple files when you start a server.

Alternatively, you could download Bukkit - it's an easier way of hosting minecraft servers. It is more reliable, and also has plugins. It takes some more advanced setup, though. You will also need minecraft_server.jar for it to work.

The next thing you need to do, is port forward. This varies on how to do, depending on your router.
I recommend going to portforward.com - it has a list of routers there, and directions on how!
NOTE: One you click your router, it will take you to an advertisement page! There is a skip button!
Once you go to your router, find the Port Forwarding menu (for me it was under NAT > Port Forwarding) and create a new customer-defined service. It should look something like this: (Most routers aren't as confusing as this, don't worry. If you don't have certain options, don't enter them.) TCP is reccommended, as I'm not sure about UDP and TCP/UDP. You can try them too, though. To find your LAN server IP, for xp type cmd in run, and for vista and windows 7, just type cmd in the search bar. Once it starts, type "ipconfig", and scroll all the way up to the top. Under something like LAN/Local Area Network, it should say something like "IPv_" - the number next to it should be your LAN Server IP.

Once you have that, go to where you installed your software - start it up using the instructions on the page you downloaded it from, and wait. Once it's up, I reccommend stopping it by typing "stop" and then closing it when it says you can, if it doesn't automatically. Then, you can open server.properties with notepad - or textedit, or whatever your OS has - and edit the settings of the server!

The last thing you need to do is to get your external ip using whatismyip.com. Tell your friends to connect to this address. If it doesn't work, tell them to put :25565 at the end. (and if that doesn't work, you have a problem.)

Any questions, post below!

Have fun!

-bayat, revised by LegoIsReal

[Suecra]

A tutorial on how to do it rather then answering alot of peoples questions might be easier? Actually, that gives me an idea.

[bayat]

A tutorial on how to do it rather then answering alot of peoples questions might be easier? Actually, that gives me an idea.

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Fine, I put one.

[4mkk]

Thats why youtube has this -_-.

[bayat]

Thats why youtube has this -_-.

Youtube sucks.

[Janthran]

I use a pirate server so my brother can join.

[Luke]

What do you mean by Port it forward

[bayat]

What do you mean by Port it forward

Port forward.
It's required to do that in order to set up a server.

[Dartz654]

What do you mean by Port it forward

Port forward.
It's required to do that in order to set up a server.

You: You have to port forward the server
Luke: What do you mean by port forward
You: Port forward.

Really nice help base you got set up.

[bayat]

What do you mean by Port it forward

Port forward.
It's required to do that in order to set up a server.

You: You have to port forward the server
Luke: What do you mean by port forward
You: Port forward.

Really nice help base you got set up.

Going to portforward.com helps.
If only people go to it first.

Portforwarding means making that when people connect to your IP using minecraft, it would connect to port :25565, where minecraft is hosted.

[Cheesety210]

OF COURSE when i asked for help earlier you wouldn't help!

[LegoIsReal]

Stickied. Useful guide. I made it easier to read, though - hope you don't mind.

[Suecra]

If you guys don't know what port forwarding is, it's something that connects the server to your internet basicly so it can be run and everyone else can access it. You need to find out what brand/number/whatever is your router and then search for the default username and passwords. Unless your parents or you changed it, it's normally containing 'admin', 'password', '123' and yeah.

If you do manage to access your router settings though, you need to find where the port forwarding page is. When you get there open up command prompt(Go to Run and type in 'cmd') and type in 'ipconfig' and find where it shows your IP and then put that in the IP adress bar on the port forward page. Then put '25565' in both the port boxes, last thing to do is put the little other box that I don't remember the name of to 'both'.


OR


Download hamachi and make a network. Done.

[bayat]

If you guys don't know what port forwarding is, it's something that connects the server to your internet basicly so it can be run and everyone else can access it. You need to find out what brand/number/whatever is your router and then search for the default username and passwords. Unless your parents or you changed it, it's normally containing 'admin', 'password', '123' and yeah.

If you do manage to access your router settings though, you need to find where the port forwarding page is. When you get there open up command prompt(Go to Run and type in 'cmd') and type in 'ipconfig' and find where it shows your IP and then put that in the IP adress bar on the port forward page. Then put '25565' in both the port boxes, last thing to do is put the little other box that I don't remember the name of to 'both'.


OR


Download hamachi and make a network. Done.

Some people don't use hamachi.
If you want to have a successful server, you should port forward.

[Suecra]

If you guys don't know what port forwarding is, it's something that connects the server to your internet basicly so it can be run and everyone else can access it. You need to find out what brand/number/whatever is your router and then search for the default username and passwords. Unless your parents or you changed it, it's normally containing 'admin', 'password', '123' and yeah.

If you do manage to access your router settings though, you need to find where the port forwarding page is. When you get there open up command prompt(Go to Run and type in 'cmd') and type in 'ipconfig' and find where it shows your IP and then put that in the IP adress bar on the port forward page. Then put '25565' in both the port boxes, last thing to do is put the little other box that I don't remember the name of to 'both'.


OR


Download hamachi and make a network. Done.

Some people don't use hamachi.
If you want to have a successful server, you should port forward.

Not if it's just a private friend server. alot of people don't care about server success because that's like impossible.