Now I know your called player when you play on a cracked version of Minecraft, but if your username for example is test on cracked Minecraft. You will be called player but if you go on a server that's cracked your name player changes to player366 or player1 or player5948 I'm the only one in my family who has bought Minecraft and my brothers and sisters use cracked, they can still login to my LAN server even if they are called Test.
OK... That must be a new feature since 1.5 when this was last tested. This is great news!!! This means people without any internet connection can play LAN easily!!! =D
hi i was wondering if when you guys make an LAN server, the seed puts you in the middle of the ocean? me and my buddy have an LAN that we play on and we tried hosting it at his house but his laptop has only 2 gigs of ram, so we're starting the server over at my house. I went into the server file, where you set offline mode to false and i set the level seed but for some reason it is the same one as on the other server, which starts you out in the middle of the ocean with nothing for quite a distance. is this a known bug with LAN servers or is there anything i can do to change the world seed? thanks
I get timed out. It says something like "fialed to connect" but i get logging in on my screen, so i know i have done something right. I can't seem to connect at all. It even comes up in my server console that i failed to connect. Any help?
Cracked minecraft lauchers do the trick (as in not all being called player), althrough I have not been able to hunt down a 64bit version (and 32bit versions result in out of memory errors).
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I cant figure out how to open and edit the server.properties file!!! But my server also spawned me in the middle of the ocean. But the main thing is the fact that it wont let me open the server.properties file.
EDIT: I fixed the ocean problem (deleted that worlds folder) but i still need to server to be offline. Please help.
Hello I recently was trying to set up a Local Area Network server and I found there was not a lot of help out there. I will work on this topic and update it regularly so please ask questions and give me more information to add to it.
Unfortunately at the moment it is not possible to have LAN server that works without an internet connection although one can be mad that does not use internet through gameplay (when you have limited or slow internet) This is not possible because if you play minecraft without being connected to minecraft.net your username is always called “Player” no matter what you tried to login as. A person with the username “Player” can play on the LAN server perfectly well but the problem is if two people try to connect to the server and are both called “Player” the second person to connect will kick the first and it will say:
Disconnected by Server
You logged in from another location
Because of this only one player can be called “Player” and all others must have individual accounts which unfortunately means without editing the minecraft files it is impossible to play multiplayer via a LAN server without any internet connection.
To setting up the LAN server, first of all you need to set up a server as normal.
(I may update this later on how to do that if too many people are confused although there is a lot of help out there. The tutorial that helped me the most was on the Minecraft Wiki: http://www.minecraft...ing_up_a_server)
After doing that, do as following:
1. Open "server.properties"
2. Set online mode to "false"
3. Run the server and it will say stuff about how insecure and stuff it is (a heap of rubbish) If you have no problems it should say the Spawn area is ready.
4. To connect from the computer that is running the server click multiplayer and type in as the address: "localhost" hit connect and you should be in almost instantly (if that does not work for whatever reason try this: “127.0.0.1” although I doubt that will do any different).
5. To get others to connect you first need to connect and set up whatever you are using (e.g. Diverter, Ethernet adapter LAN, Tunnel adapter, built-in wireless router, etc.)
Next, on the computer that is running the server, open a command engine:
On a Windows XP open the start menu and use “Run”.
On a Windows Vista or newer (up to Windows 7) open the start Menu and type in “cmd” and select “cmd.exe” from the list. (C:\Windows\System32) On a Mac I think you use Terminal (Applications/System tools?/Terminal) but I do not know the commands and cannot help you with the next step (anyone knows how please post so I can update this).
Edit: On a Mac you DO NOT use terminal. (It is possible but more difficult using the command "ifconfig")
Instead open the Apple menu (the very top right corner of screen) and hit system preferences. A window with lots of icons in sections will show up with titles such as: Personal, Hardware, Internet & Wireless, etc. Open up 'Network' in "Internet and Wireless" and go into the tab that has whatever connection you are using (e.g. Ethernet) and there should be an Ip Address - use that.
If you have an older (or newer) version of Mac and this does not work I am sorry but I again cannot help you. So please again post if you know how it is done or whether it actually has any difference/
Once you have “Run” or “Command Prompt” (“cmd”) open type in the command “ipconfig” and hit enter and scroll down until you find the type of connecter you are using with has an IP address next to it (if you cannot tell disconnect whatever you are using, and run the Command Engine in a separate window and try again and you can check what is different and that will be it). Any IPv4, IPv6 or Default Gateway addresses should work (whichever looks most like an IP address (192.156.1.84 or anything similar). Give one of these to all the people trying to connect and if they put it in they should be able to connect! (If not try a different one) Enjoy!
To all who thinks this is me asking you a question or that it is just an "idea" You are wrong!!! This works perfectly well (if not a bit laggy) and my friends and I use this everytime we are together!!!
Notes:
I have had this working on a Mac and a Windows Vista
Wired is much faster than wireless
I have not tested on a Windows XP and I am not 100% sure about whether and how ipconfig works for "Run"
If you have any questions, problems or if you have any suggestions to this topic feel free to post, I hope I helped.
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doesnt work dude it keeps saying "loging in" then says it took to long loging in.
Hey, this seems like a good thread so I have a question: If you accidentally block the LAN support when Windows Firewall pops up when you first open a LAN game in singleplayer, how would you go about undoing that? Me and my cousin were psyched for this but now we're kinda screwed. Please help
2. Set online mode to "false" 3. Run the server and it will say stuff about how insecure and stuff it is (a heap of rubbish) If you have no problems it should say the Spawn area is ready.
Look at the time stamps on their posts, the posts are all older than the recent update so they don't have the LAN button
actually this thread is in regards to setting up a true dedicated minecraft server on a LAN. the server set up in this tutorial runs even when there is no client logged in.
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I have a problem,
I did everything you said and when I typed localhost it worked fine,
So I tried to connect from another computer it didn't work,
So I went back to the computer it is on and typed localhost again and it said
Connection refused: connect
Problemo: Using Macbook OSX Lion and it won't let me use the start.command . Even though it's my laptop, no permissions higher than
read+write. to the person who can help. This thing is a pain in my neck!
OK... That must be a new feature since 1.5 when this was last tested. This is great news!!! This means people without any internet connection can play LAN easily!!! =D
EDIT: What about Bukkit?
EDIT: I fixed the ocean problem (deleted that worlds folder) but i still need to server to be offline. Please help.
doesnt work dude it keeps saying "loging in" then says it took to long loging in.
3. Run the server and it will say stuff about how insecure and stuff it is (a heap of rubbish) If you have no problems it should say the Spawn area is ready.
So what if it doesn't say spawn area is ready????
Look at the time stamps on their posts, the posts are all older than the recent update so they don't have the LAN button
actually this thread is in regards to setting up a true dedicated minecraft server on a LAN. the server set up in this tutorial runs even when there is no client logged in.
I did everything you said and when I typed localhost it worked fine,
So I tried to connect from another computer it didn't work,
So I went back to the computer it is on and typed localhost again and it said
Connection refused: connect
read+write. to the person who can help. This thing is a pain in my neck!