How To Play Minecraft With Friends: Java Edition (PC)

How to play Minecraft Java with friends in! This PC tutorial walks you through setting up your own Minecraft world, and how to allow your friends to join it and play Minecraft with you, by setting it open to LAN and turning it to Multiplayer. Updated for 1.21!

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Steps: First, load up Minecraft and join into a singleplayer world. Then, open the pause menu and click "Open to LAN", and select whatever settings you want your friend to join with in your single player game.
Copy the 5-digit number that you will get in game chat, go to your terminal and type in "ipconfig" and find your IPV4 address.
On your friend's Minecraft, tell them to go to the Multiplayer tab, where your game might show up for them to join. Otherwise, tell them to go to "Direct Connect" at the bottom, paste in your IPV4 address, then a colon, and then the 5-digit LAN number you got in chat.
Example: 192.168.1.40:65535 (Your numbers will probably be different). Then they can click join, and now you can play together in the same Minecraft world!

These steps work for all versions of Minecraft, as long as you and your friend are using the same version! The video shows me using version 1.20, but you can use whatever version you want your Minecraft world to be, including the current version of Minecraft, 1.21

Thanks for watching! Hopefully, you can now play in your Minecraft single-player game with your friends on PC Java Edition!

[CheshireCraft]

Thanks for watching <3 Hopefully these steps worked for you. If they didn't:

[jnxs]

thanks for just getting into it and not adding 20 minutes of filler 💀

[rowansteins]

Why does it have to be so complicated :(

[justacooldudeuknow]

This guide got my niece and I playing together on Minecraft. thank you so much.

[veggies]

this was a lot easier than i thought thank you dude

[runawaymango]

Thank you so much, me and my friend have been trying to figure out what to do to play together, this was a very quick, easy to follow tutorial!

[marbllstrs]

Hello! I wanna ask if this works on friends who are far away too? Because we live in different cities, or does it only work on people on the same network?

[The_Reaper]

The worst part about this for me is that i just watched this out of curiosity, none of my friends have Java Edition

[mindyoliver]

Great walk-through and explanation. Very easy to understand!

[kotlecikmc]

me and my friend was watching many tutorials but every single one was not working but that one work thanks bro🙏

[oliverjackson]

I loved how quick this tutorial was! Thank you it worked perfectly for my friend and I

[calebkbm]

This was an awesome vid, so easy to follow

[MeowSoupFB]

did you just release your ip adress to the whole world

[limitless_yt-cvgn]

THAT WAS SOOO HELPFUL OMG THANKYOU CheshireCraft!

[fakemadara]

so me and my friends don't need to be in the same house, region, or country to connect to my world?

[berkayyeroglu]

doesnt it only work when your friend is near you?

[gamerboy]

We have to be under the same internet right? Else it won't work...

[theman]

does this work regardless of distance? lan is usually for short range distances and this video doesn't really say much about that topic, and there are some methods of doing this but for longer distances with port-forwarding stuff but it doesn't look like much of that is happening here

[Jayleafy]

i was finally able to play with my long distance girlfriend and were both really happy. thank you <3

[GhostRaider-jkrk]

thanks for making it not hard to understand instead of just yapping☺️👍