How To Make a Minecraft Server (2023)

Making a Minecraft server we’re going to show you exactly how to do it in 2023 from how to get the correct server files to how to get started making your server and get your server joinable it’s all gonna be covered in this video now first things first I do want to mention that

This is not a 24 hour server it’s only going to be up and running when your computer is up and running it’s also only meant for your friends your family people you trust because not only is it hosted on your own computer it’s hosted on your own internet connection and

Anyone who joins This Server can do things like ddashi which means hit your internet offline as well as figure out where you lived under your latitude and longitude coordinates so it’s very important that you only provide This Server and play on this server with people you would invite basically over

To your house last but not least it’s not super simple to set up a Minecraft server this video is the basics of it it’ll allow you to join your server but in order for your friends to join you’ll need to port forward of course we have

Guides on how to do that and we link out to them but it is an additional step that you need to take overall be expect to probably spend at least an hour if this is your first time setting up a Minecraft server with that being said

What if you do in a server that you don’t have to host on your own computer what if you want a server that’s up and running all the time 24 hours a day what if you want a server that can be made public or private it’s up to you or what

If you want to just install things like mod packs and plugins and all that super simply with just a few clicks well that’s where this video sponsor Apex Minecraft hosting comes in go to the first link in the description down below the breakdown.xyz slash Apex to get your

Server up and running we actually host every single Minecraft server on apex Minecraft hosting that we have and guess what we don’t just talk about Apex as their sponsor we talk about them because we love them and truthfully they’re the best Minecraft server hosting company

Out there so much so we do a yearly review of Apex just to make sure that is still the case and for 2023 it was so if you want to start a server where you don’t have to worry about Hardware because it’s on apex’s Hardware you don’t have to worry about internet

Security because it’s on apex’s internet connection and it’s set up to be public or private and they have DDOS protection that’s why it can be public and on top of all of that if you want a server that has one click installation of things like mods plugins all of that stuff well

Then guess what check out Apex they also have 24 hours seven day a week support system have an issue with your server they are there to help day or night again we use Apex every single day so go check out Apex in the first link in the description down below the breakdown.xyz

Slash Apex to get your server up and running nevertheless if you do want to start a server on your own computer let’s jump on into it first thing you want to do is go to the second link in the description down below now one thing we guarantee with this video is that

You’ll be able to start a server whether it’s version 119 3 like we’ll be doing in this video or 1.20 or 1.22 in the future how do we guarantee that well while the video may become outdated this article on our website won’t we update it for every Minecraft version that

Comes out not only is a video updated for every sub version the article is updated for every main version and for sub versions if there’s something specific that needs to be changed but 119 is very similar to 119 3 in this case but nonetheless it is all up to

Date we keep it all super up to date that way you could start a Minecraft server in confidence we actually have a complete revamp of this article coming very very soon so be sure to look forward to that but nonetheless this article is up to date and will work no

Matter what with your Minecraft server ensuring that you can get things up and running correctly the article will allow you to go at your own pace but with this video we’re going to cover everything as well once you’re here just scroll down and click on the download Minecraft

Button to go to the official minecraft.net server download page on this page you want to click on the Minecraft underscore server.1.19.3.jar now again this may not be 1193 it may be a different version of Minecraft and if that’s the case go ahead and select that now on the bottom

Left the server.jar will start downloading you may need to keep this on Google Chrome or save it in Firefox it’s 100 safe to do that this is official minecraft.net the official Minecraft website so no worries there it’s a save file now we can go ahead and minimize

Our browser in this is going to be found in our downloads folder now if you’re on Windows 10 you can click the load of those icons probably the bottom left of your screen but if you’re on Windows 11 it’ll be in the bottom center of your

Screen click on that and then type in and downloads you have a file folder here that’s most likely called downloads if you don’t click on the file explorer then come under this PC in the left hand sidebar and select the downloads folder there here is the server.jar let’s drag

It to our desktop now coming back to our desktop we actually want to create a new folder so let’s right click create a new folder and then we can title this Minecraft 2023 server you can name it whatever you want I’m just going to name it that because well that’s what the

Video is let’s go ahead and drag the server.jar into this folder now at this point all you need to do to start your server is double click on this file and don’t be alarmed if it doesn’t say dot jar if you want to make it say that

Click on view at the top and then make sure file name extensions is checked right like so nevertheless though you should be able to double click on this but some of you won’t be able to and if that’s the case you need to download and install Java 17. Java 17 is required for

Minecraft servers you must have Java 17. now for a lot of you that’ll fix it you’ll get Java 17 this article by the way Linked In the description is super in depth and we’ll go over everything you know to get it and I say Java 17 it

Might be Java 18 in the future might be Java 19 but this article will always work with the most recent version of Minecraft just like our server article will so that is always going to be up to date here and make sure it works and everything is

Correct so that’s why this might be different in the future and if it is don’t worry about it but you may also need to run the jar fix after you get the correct version of java from here so get the correct version of java then run

The jar fix and it’s going to take all the jar files on your computer and Link them back to Java making them work happily together so keep in mind that you may install Java and it still may not work when you double click on server.jar you still may need to come

Run the jar fix and then it will work nevertheless though we can go ahead and minimize our browser here and double click on that server.jar now when you do that it’s uh not going to work really it’s just going to generate some files and folders and things like that

Ultimately it’s not going to start a server the reason though is because it generated this eola.txt file go ahead and open this up and then assuming you agree to the Minecraft Ela here which we do we can change unit equals false duelit equals true t-r-u-e exactly like

That click file save and you’re good to go by the way make sure there’s no spaces or anything like that on the EULA line it should be exactly like this and then file save now when we double click on the server.jar this is actually going to start your server your server at this

Point is going to start it’s going to open up as you can see here is the Minecraft server kind of backend and it’s preparing the spawn once it’s finished doing that it’ll say done and your server is started at this point you can join your server you’re the only

Person that can join your server though so let’s go ahead and join your server really fast and then after that we’ll show you how to allow your friends to get in server so here we are our Minecraft server is open on the left and Minecraft is open on the right if you go

Into multiplayer and then we click proceed and direct connection we’ll be able to see local hosts right here now you probably don’t have that you’ll probably need to type in localhost this is how you can join your server this is how honestly you should always join your Minecraft server however it’s not your

Friends will join you’re the only person that can join your server this way but when we do click join we can see on the left-hand side boom we pop on through we are now in our server it’s worth noting a few General tips for your server at this point first is opting someone

Upping someone allows them to use commands like game mode creative and things like that right now for example I can’t do that but if you come over here into the server console and we type up and then our username in my case that’s Nick’s games and hit enter we can swing

To Game Mode creative now be careful who you give that to because it also allows people to do things like ban your server and all of that stuff should you have an apex server and want to make sure and ensure that it is private you will want

To do something called White listing now once you’re opt-in game you can run this in-game but you can also do it from the console that’s his uh the console over here and type in whitelist on now only people who are white listed on your server can join to add someone to the

Whitelist to do slash whitelist add and then their username will add myself to the white list so you can also turn the white list off with whitelist off as the command but that’s just a few General like server rules tools and server upkeep things that you might want to

Know when you’re first getting your server started to ban someone should you have someone who needs to be banned you can slash band and then their username but nevertheless you’ve got your server up and running how do your friends join well then order your friends to join

Your server you will need to port forward we have an in-depth guide the chapter where half a million people at this point port forward for Minecraft now the point you’re gonna afford is 25565 on the TCP and UDP protocols that probably sounded like a bunch of gibberish and that’s why you should

Watch our in-depth guide here we show you how to do everything with of course a ton of helpful links in the description as well in order to help you out so go check that video out we’ve also got other links in the description for example how to fix a broken

Minecraft server if you have issues with your server and it’s broken guess what this is a great way to do it 21 minutes of specific troubleshooting for how to fix a Minecraft server if you want to add mods to your server we’ve got a video on it linked in the description

You want plugins on your server you’re gonna use paper for that this is linked in the description as well as other guides on plugins and making a Minecraft server Network so this goes over things more in depth as well so all that is linked in the description down below go

Check it out nevertheless though that is how to make a Minecraft server like I said in order for your friends to join you’ll need to port forward and keep in mind that at Apex you don’t need to port forward at all but anyway my name is

Nick thank you so much for watching and be sure to stop your server correctly to do that you want to come over here and type stop right like so and hit enter that’s going to stop your server correctly making sure everything closes out saves and nothing gets like messed

Up or corrupted in closing it out but that is how you can start a server if you enjoyed the video give it a thumbs up subscribe the channel for more incredible content every single day of the week and be sure to share the video on your screen right now because YouTube

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