If everything went right so far, they’ll see the local multiplayer game you started on their screen. Now if you have that screen on your PC, your friends can launch their Minecrafts as well, but this time, instead of going to single player, they should select Multiplayer. Pick your settings and start local network world. You can play survival, creative, adventure and spectator, turn on game cheats on and off. And this is where we will setup our game. There’ll be a button in the menu named “Open to LAN”. Just start a single player game, and when your game loads, click on “Escape” button and return to game menu. don’t accidentally start a multiplayer game because that option is for connecting to remote servers only.

Next up, let’s fire up our Minecraft launcher, select version and start a new single player game. Also double check everyone has the same Minecraft Java version installed, otherwise, they won’t be able to join you. So here’s how you play multiplayer over network.įirst step is, makes sure both you and your friends are on the same network, connected to the same internet connection. If your friend could take their laptop and come over to your house or vice-versa, playing Minecraft on LAN, also known as local area network is the cheapest and best option, it literally is free. Now don’t get me wrong, We’d be glad to sell you servers, but the truth is, most Minecraft players don’t need it and you can still play it multiplayer without purchasing a server whether from us or any other company.

This is the free and easiest method out there for those looking to play Minecraft with family or close friends.

So without further ado, let’ get started.

I work as a server infrastructure engineer at GameTeam and we hosted well above 50 thousand game servers to date, so you can trust I know what I’m talking about. One more thing before we get started, the page is divided into sections, feel free to jump into the part you’re interested in, at the end, I’ll try to answer most asked questions, if you have any of your own, please do let me know in the comments and I’ll get back to you right away.

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