How To Host a Minecraft Server

This video is our complete guide on how to host a Minecraft server in order to start playing Minecraft with your friends. This video specifically talks about hosting a Minecraft server on your own computer, but we also quickly give a company you can use to host your Minecraft server remotely meaning no matter what you will be able to create a Minecraft server exactly how you like!

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About this video: How can you host a Minecraft server on your computer? Well, this video is our complete guide on how to host your own Minecraft server. We cover everything about creating a Minecraft server from where to download the Minecraft server files to how to play Minecraft with friends on your server, this video shows you how to do it all.

To get started, we will need to download the Minecraft server jar file. This is the file that you will use to create, start, and turn your Minecraft server online. You can find a link in the description above to download the Minecraft server files. This will take you to our complete text guide on how to host a Minecraft server that is always kept up to date to the most recent version of Minecraft.

For you to join, you will just use the IP address “localhost” when joining the server. What if you want to play Minecraft with your friends on the server you are hosting though? Well, in order to do that, you will need to port forward 25565 on the TCP and UDP protocol.

There is an in-depth guide on how to port forward for a Minecraft server once you are hosting it. After you port forward, your friends will be able to join using your public IP address.

At this point, you have hosted a Minecraft server on your own computer. However, if you want to host a Minecraft server remote, we recommend our company SimpleGameHosting. This will allow you to create a 24 hour Minecraft server for you and your friends without having to worry about port forwarding or anything like that.

Nevertheless, you now know how to host a Minecraft server. If you have any questions about how to create a Minecraft server, let us know in the comments. We will try our best to help you out.

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[TheBreakdownXYZ]

★ Get a 24-hour DDOS Protected Minecraft Server from SimpleGameHosting & start playing Minecraft with your friends in under 5 minutes!

[Thisishowwedoit-zn]

why is Minecraft server hosting so freaking complicated... i just want to play with my friend and yet I have to go through several pages of rocket science tomfoolery just for nothing to work because everything needs to be a nit picky version in order to function properly.

[Mat-private]

I tried all the methods possible, nothing works, you should make videos where you actually say important things like, if this doesn't work type in this command ect

[Stuwionic]

im not an expert at things so its weird for me to go onto a java website and install java 8 that says its the latest one then go to another website and be given java 22 then they saying its the latest one

[der.einzig.wahre.jemand]

I actually didn't expect this to be that easy!

[BrandonPop]

i downloaded the java and jar and once i double click server i did not do nothing it loads but then does nothing

[wardenplayz]

when I double clicked it sent me to notepad and I installed the other stuff but it still didn't work

[HuangCa_H]

Hello, I am hosting a Minecraft server on my old laptop, but I am not able to join it with my other laptop in the same network. For the ip, I typed in "localhost". When trying to join it, I get a message saying that "connection refused: getsockopt".

[fskryanttv_]

Can i make the Public ip linked to a ip i buy from like namecheap?

[johnnygongy]

I have Java 23. Will that still work?

[codas]

how do you increase memory allocation? mine seems to default to around 500mb

[kikopatrica]

hi, it works very weel, great video!!
I just would like to know if its possible to make the render distance larger, mine wont surpass 10. And if possible i would like to know how to configure other things like dificulty and such(though its not a priority) Thanks in advance love your tutorials

[tatilişte]

hello thanks for the video, can you please show us how to make a velocity server and connect it to my paper server.

[FrankOnline]

how do i upload a world and how do i add mods

[skeyenexus]

Bro just cover the topic in the video 🙄

[federalhater]

can you show us how to make a server and hide our own IPs?

[itsyaboisnakexs]

my friends have cracked client can he join the game ?

[RDMANGLEYT]

the server.jar file keeps getting an exception error

[NrD]

wath if it says falidead to verify username?

[stubbzss]

Do you remember that time Roan Atkinson From Manchester watching this video and went happy days lads i know what to do-