How To Port Forward Minecraft Server (2024)

How can you port forward a Minecraft server in 2024? Well, this is the video for you. This is our complete Minecraft port forwarding guide showing you every step from logging into your router to what ports you need to forward to even how to make sure that after the port forwarding for your Minecraft server is finished your friends can join!

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About this video: If you want to know how to port forward a Minecraft server in 2024, you have found the perfect video. No matter what router you are using, our goal is allow you to port forward for any Minecraft server. That means we are going to be giving you all of the common terms to look for when it comes to port forwarding as well as the ports you’ll need to forward for a Minecraft server and how to make sure that your friends can join your server after the port forwarding is complete.

First things first though, you will need to setup a Minecraft server on your computer. Luckily, there is an in-depth guide in the description above that covers everything you need to know about how to get a Minecraft server up and running in 2024.

After you have your server up and running, we can move on to port forwarding. You will need to port forward in order for your friends to join your server. If you don’t want to play on your Minecraft server with your friends, you will not need to port forward a Minecraft server.

With that being said, first things first, open up the command prompt on your computer. Then, type in “ipconfig” in the command prompt and hit enter. This will give you a few different numbers. We need the IPv4 address listed here and the default gateway. Make note of both of these numbers as you will need them later. If you have two default gateways, you will need the one that only numbers for port forwarding a Minecraft server.

Next, open up your browser and in the address bar, type in the default gateway you found and hit enter. This will open up a login box for your router. Here, you will enter your router’s username and password.

After you have logged into your router, you will need to find port forwarding in your router. This could be called apps and gaming, port forwarding, NAT forward, app forwarding, and it can be in the admin, security, firewall, administration, or management tabs. Just click around your router until you find port forwarding.

Once you find port forwarding, it’s super easy to port forward for a Minecraft server. All you need to do is add a new port forward. For the name or ID, just enter in “Minecraft Port Forward”. For the protocol, use TCP/UDP or “Both”. It could actually be the word “Both”.

Next, for anything involving “port”, enter in 25565. So internal port, external port, inside port, outside port, first port, second port, if the world “port” is mentioned at all, just enter 25565.

Lastly, you will have a place for a local/internal IP address. This is going to be the IPv4 address that we found earlier. Instead, you may have a drop-down box will all of the devices connected to your network. If that’s the case, select the device you are hosting your Minecraft server on.

You will need to get your public IP address. This is what your friends will use to join your server.

With that being said, you now know how to port forward a Minecraft server. If you have any questions about port forwarding a Minecraft server, let us know in the comments. We will try our best to help you out.

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[STREAMRiv]

was tricky with a different router but thank you!! explained very well even a noob like me understood!!

[nissanaltima]

Man you did it. It was a process but you are incredibly helpful. Keep on doing what you do!

[aaronwentaway]

i love you bro you are a g. simple, easy to use instructions AND i was the 1% who needed to add an external IP to my port AND GUESS WHAT? you explained it PERFECTLY! legit a life saver.

[GioCan]

Thank you for all the videos you have provided towards helping start new minecraft servers. I truly appreciate it and I bet many others do as well :D

[soldierHN]

Dude, you're a beast! You explain very thoroughly and very easy to understand!

[justinspencer]

I came from watching the video on how to PF different routers and I've seen the same issue for many ATT users: the IPv4 isn't listed under the "needed by device" dropdown menu. If you don't know the name of your computer, you can go to your search bar or file explorer, search for and select "This PC, " then right-click and select the properties option, and you should be able to find your computer name. This is what I did, so hopefully it helps someone else in the future.

[freezegfx]

will the server be online until i turn it off? So could I just let it online the whole time for the others to join whenever they want?

[monkehotdogs]

I have a dynamic IP, my friend cant join but I can, my isp static is not allowed??

[froggyaurora]

for my external port it has to be from 1200-65535 for 2 areas, for example 2556-25565. it has to have those amount of numbers in those 2 And i tried so many different ways and it doesnt work what do i do

[rif]

when i do port forwarding i have a "Server IP address" thing to fill out, and it says that the "IP address must belong to the same default gateway network", what am i supposed to put in that textbox?

[dre]

If you have a Unifi router its, network tab -> settings -> security ->port forwarding

[moneymayne]

sold me on the minecraft server link lol, immediately got one. thanks a ton

[tomoyaokazaki]

If I use an ethernet cable to my computer to not need a router, is there any other things I need to do?

[E-Tristan-EBackup]

I'm trying to put my "default gateway" into a browser search bar in order to get the sign in key like you did, but it all keeps coming up as errors, proxy errors, or internet issues. I've tried disabling chromes firewall and that doesn't even work. If i could have some help, its much appreciated.

[entrench]

I have a problem, I followed everthing you said, I can join via localhost, but when I give my friends my external IP they cant join, like it does not even connect I dont see anything on the consol, what am I doing wrong?

[TahaMedyaTV]

getsockopt error will make me go crazy at this point

[Jokamutta]

Thanks worked! Is there a way to mask my public IP for the Minecraft Server so my friends can't ddos me? :)

[clarkroberts]

how would you set a seed for a world/server?

[Bakey-unsd]

when i put the default gateway into my browser it says this site cant be reached