How To Make A Minecraft SMP Server! (All Minecraft Versions)

All right in today’s video i’m going to show you how to set up your own minecraft smp server sap servers are more popular than ever and for some reason everybody wants to host our own smp server now so in today’s video i’m going to show you exactly how to do it

But before we start there are actually two things you have to think about now the first thing is do you actually want to run plugins if you don’t want to run plugins you can just make a normal vanilla minecraft server if you do want to run plugins though you will have to

Make a minecraft paper or spigot server in this video i’m going to show you both methods so don’t worry you can make your choice later but know that if you just make a normal vanilla micro server you won’t be able to run any plugins now the

Second thing you have to think about is do you want to host your minecraft server on your own pc or at a minecraft server hosting company now the downside of a minecraft server hosting company is of course it costs money the plus side though is that your server can be online

24 7 and people can always join also you don’t need to review your own ip address so people can track where you live now the plus side on hosting a microserver on your own pc is of course it is completely free the downside though people can strike your ip at the rest so

I would only actually recommend this if you only play with like a local group of friends that you actually know and you know that they don’t have any bad intentions another downside though on hosting your micro server on your own pc is that your pc has to be on 24 7 for

People to be able to join so if you have any intentions of making a big minecart smp server i would actually recommend hosting it as a minecraft server hosting company if you just want to play with a local group of friends your own pc is fine though you will have to do some

Port forwarding because by default people can join your ip address so you have to change some settings in your router so that people will actually be able to join it now i’m not going to show you port forwarding in this video but there are tons of tutorials on

Youtube on how to do it but this video will all be about how to make your own microsnp server and that’s what i’m going to show you now for the purpose of this video i’m going to show you how to do it on my own pc so i’m going to make

A local minecraft snp server though if you’re hosting your micro smp server it’s a minecraft server hosting company then the only difference is that you will have to access your ftp files instead of just using the regular windows file explorer anyways guys before we start it would really mean a

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Always unsubscribe in the future if you change your mind and then without any further ado let’s dive right into it so to start off this tutorial i’m going to show you how to make a basic vanilla minecraft server so no plugins nothing like that just straight up vanilla

Minecraft if you would go to single player in minecraft and actually create a new world then that’s what you would get but then multiplayer so to actually make a vanilla minecraft server we’re actually gonna download a vanilla minecraft server from minecraft.net so this is the minecraft server that mojang themselves actually releases every

Single time they release a new minecraft version so we’re just gonna click here and there it will start downloading now after it’s done it will probably say something like this server.jr was blocked because this type of file can harm your device now we don’t care it is

From minecraft.net we know it’s safe so we’re gonna click on keep and there we go now we’re gonna put the server to the desktop and we’re actually gonna make a folder where we’re gonna make the server in so i’m actually gonna call it vanilla server there we go there it is

So the server.jar file we’re just gonna put it in there now after that we can go into our vanilla server folder and here we will see the server.jr file the only thing you have to do is double click it after double clicking it it will start creating some files after a while you

Will see a logs folder an eola.txt file and the server properties now to actually finish setting up your server the only thing you have to do is go to the eula.txt file open it and the only thing you will have to do here is change this

Value to true there we go let’s save it let’s close it again and let’s rerun the server and there we go the server is starting now to show you that it works we’re inside of minecraft right now we’re just gonna click on multiplayer and after that we’re going to direct

Connection now indirect connection the only thing you have to type here is localhost because we’re actually hosting this server on our own pc we can just join like this we don’t have to put in any ipad rs this will already work so just click on join server and there we go

This is it we’re inside of our vanilla minecraft smp server it is literally as easy as that now if you’re hosting your minecraft server at a minecraft server hosting company then you’re pretty much done the only thing you will have to do is actually give the ipad address that

The minecraft server hosting company gave you to all the people that you want to be able to join the server and they can disjoin and have fun like i said local host is more annoying you have to do port forwarding and put forwarding can get pretty complicated also you will

Have to give your ip the rest of your home to other people so they can actually track where you live so i would not recommend that only if you are playing like with a very small amount of people and you all know them personally from school from work and you know that

You know they won’t harm you in any way then of course it doesn’t matter but otherwise i would not recommend it now if you want to change something like server properties you can all do that over here so by opening this file you can change all your server properties so

Let’s say you want another motd you can also change if your server has a white list or not you can change if p5p is on or not you can change the difficulty so right now it isn’t easy if you want to make it hard you can make it hard and

That is pretty much it that’s the setting up of a basic vanilla microserver now let’s go to the more complicated story which is actually setting up a minecraft paper server with a couple of plugins so the vanilla server just kind of put it to the site

I’m gonna make myself a new folder and we’re gonna call it paper server there we go paper server beautiful now here we are on the paper dot io website now a link to this website will of course be in the description of this video but right here we can actually download our

Paper mc server so you’re just going to click on the download button in the top right corner and after that we’re going to download the newest version of them all just click on the small icon over here it will start downloading it will tell you that it’s harmful it is not

Just keep it and there we go and we’re gonna put this inside of our paper server folder we’re gonna run it one time there we go okay so now we are pretty much in the same scenario we were with the vanilla microserver we actually have to agree to the eula so we’re just

Gonna change it to true again save the file there we go and then run it again and there goes your minecraft paper server all up and running so if we now go to localhost we would go to this server the minecraft paper server but like you can see we have much more files

Here so while this were the files of the minecraft vanilla server these are all the files of the minecraft paper server it’s a lot more now the server already works i mean you could just start playing if you want to change the server properties you can of course do it in

The server properties files what we actually want to do is we want to install some plugins on the server so we’re gonna stop our micro server again there we go the paper server has been shut down and now we can just start installing some plugins so something you

Didn’t see with the vanilla minecraft server was actually the plugins folder but because this is a paper server we can actually run some plugins so let’s go inside of the plugins folder and like you can see it’s completely empty except for the b sets you can just ignore that

So the first plugin i want to install is essentials x essentials x is like the most essential plugin ever you need to install this on your minecraft server if you’re running any kind of plugin server we’re just gonna click on download from essentials.net we’re gonna download the stable builds so

Essentials x we actually want that we also want essentials chat and we also do want essential spawn they are all really really handy now we also want to install world edits on the server so let’s go and actually download world edits keep the file there we go and we’re also

Gonna install world guards just because it’s really handy it’s a really handy plugin there we go now here you can see all the plugins we just downloaded we’re just gonna select them all then let’s go back to our paper folder plugins and then paste them all here

Easy as that now we’re going back to our jar files and it should actually start loading all the plugins as well and to show you that it works we’re inside of minecraft let’s go to direct connection localhost join server and there we go welcome cassasara to the server thank

You very much like you can see we have some basic tools here that’s actually something that essentials does and if we type slash plugins you will see all the plugins that are currently on the server essentials essentials chat essential spawn world edit and world guard now of

Course this is a very very small portion of all the plugins that you can actually install on a minecraft server i mean a typical minecraft smp server like i have for saracraft smp has around 25 26 plugins now i actually made a video about every single plugin that i use on

My microsmp server so if you want to check that out make sure to click in the top right corner right now the video will be linked there it has recently been updated so every single plugin that i currently use is in that list now if you want some more detailed guides on

How to exactly set up certain minecraft plugins like essentials or lookworms or multiverse i have actually made minecraft tutorials about that they’re all inside of a plug-in tutorial playlist so make sure to check them out as well hopefully it will actually help you out a lot with installing plugins on

Your minecart smp server alright so i have showed you how to set up a basic vanilla minecraft smp server and i’ve also showed you how to set up a minecraft paper server and how to install some plugins on them and then guys that’s everything for now i really

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