How To Play Minecraft with Your Friends on PC (Java Edition)

Everyone welcome back to the breakdown today I’m gonna be teaching you how to play Minecraft specifically minecraft Java edition with your friends or me going over a few different methods in a few different ways to play Java edition with your friends kind of starting with the easiest method and then we’re moving

To the more difficult or niche methods to where you might have to be in the same house to be able to play Minecraft with your friends we’re gonna be going over it all in this video so let’s just go ahead and jump right on into it so

The three methods that we’re gonna be covering here is when playing on a public server to starting to server yourself either with Apex minecraft hosting or a you know remote server host or on your own computer we have tutorials on both those we’re gonna kind

Of dive into some of that here in this video and then third a LAN world or any layin server and basically that allows your friends to play in your minecraft world your minecraft single-player world but you have to be on the same internet connection for that to work right so

We’re me going over all of this in this video kind of going over every step by step of doing this so first and foremost the easiest way to play Minecraft with your friends is going to be on a public server how do you do this well first you

Need to find a public server and this video I’m gonna be showing you how to join our server played out breakdown craft comm there we have incredible grief particular viable we have factions we have sky block it’s incredible but if you do want a list of five amazing

Servers we do have a video on that in the description down below here it is this is our top 5 servers of 2020 as you can see here so you can go here go through this list you’ll be able to see five awesome servers that you can play

On play top breakdown craft comm is one of them this is our aquatic survival here but how do you join these servers well it’s pretty simple so here we are on the minecraft main menu the current version is one not 16.1 but I guarantee this won’t be changing in the future so

Once you’re here just go ahead and click on multiplayer and then click on add server down here at the bottom right now you can name this whatever you want I would recommend just name to get the server that you’re playing on so in our case play breakdown craft accom the IP

Of this server is in the description down below by the way and then the server address is going to be play breakdown a craft comm right so as you can see played out breakdown craft comm is the name the server address is also played out breakdown craft comm this

Doesn’t have to be capitalized by the way I just always do that out of have it and then click done and when you do that boom there it is I’m a server pops up played out breakdown craft comm you can see there are currently 158 players online and in join this server just

Click on this like play button right let me click on that button it’s going to go ahead and log right on in and here we are in the lobby a breakdown craft as you can see there is sky block if you want to play that you would just

Right-click on this avatar here aquatic survival guess what right click on that Avatar medieval survival right click on that Avatar and in factions right click on that Avatar be it factions it’s in between seasons seasons to a factions on to tomorrow so there’s 0 players online but nevertheless tomorrow there’ll be a

Tub put yourself axes because season two launches but nonetheless we can go ahead and right-click on medieval survival and we can like in log right into either of these servers what I’m gonna me evil North Valley here and so this is basically just one of our medieval

Servers there are a ton of servers on break down crafts as you saw I’m not gonna make this too much about break down craft but you can play with your friends on this service they can join in in the same world as you and as you can

See there are currently on a medieval Northville this server 28 people online if you play it on aquatic survival there are 50 players there are Asgard and being able to survive we have to medieval servers Asgard has 25 players Skyblock 56 and factions usually around 30 to 50 players depending on the day

And well I mean like I said zero right now because season two is launching tomorrow but nonetheless that is right breakdown craft calm and that’s the easiest way to play on a server right so as you can see here we can disconnect and then come back and add other servers

By clicking add server down here typing in you know the name of the IP so this would be a server IP and then you can type in the IP egg in here server IP and then click done and it will join on into the server and it’ll play right here you

Can have as many servers as you want break down craft hypixel mineplex whatever servers you wanted to add in there sky cave you can add all of those in here and play on all of them as much or as little with you want with or without your friends your friends can

Join all of these servers as can anyone else so that is a great way to play with your friends on break down craft where you can share claims you can do things like that share factions together sir Skyblock islands together it’s designed to play with your friends and most

Servers are like that but what if you don’t want to play with your friends in that way you want to have kind of control over the environment you’re playing with your friends on well that’s going to be a server right and specifically apex minecraft hosting is

The easiest way to set up a server it’s not the only way to set up a server if you want to set up a server 100% for free you can do that using the link in the description down below there’s a link down there and how to start a

Server if you click on that it will take you our in-depth guide showing you how to start a minecraft server how to make a minecraft however apex is the easiest way to do it and someone like APEC for another remote server host is going to be the best way

In order to start a server and make it public right if you start a server using the link in the description down below it’s not meant to be public it’s only meant for your friends and things like that on top of that it’s hosted on your

Own computer all this stuff I cover that more in-depth in that video so if you want to have kind of control over your server environment go check out that video and it’s gonna help you out it’s going to show you everything that you need to know to kind of get the server

Up and running whether you do it you know yourself on your own computer using your own computer’s hardware and all that or whether you get a service through Apex we actually host plate up break down craft comm this server right here it’s hosted on Apex minecraft

Hosting so we put our money where our mouth is that’s why we’ve rode apex if they’re sponsoring this video they are incredible so go check out apex if you do an excerpt quickly and easily as you can see here get started in less than five minutes that’s 100% true and yeah

Overall a great service a great system we’re starting a minecraft server you can also do it free using the link in the description down below that’s our in-depth tutorial on that but nevertheless that is the way that you can control the server experience you can have plugins on your server you can

Have mods anything you want on your server you will have 100% control over that now what if you want your friends to be able to play on your single-player world though right if we click on a single player here he’s got a few different things let’s say we wanted to

Play this Bastion parkour map with our friends right let’s say that’s something we wanted to do well how could we do that well we’re gonna go ahead and open up I know what I’m doing it’s just the first time open this world in a while but nonetheless we’re gonna do launch

Indy and if we wanted to procore map with our friends what we would do is we would go ahead and open it to land how do we do that well we go ahead and hit the escape button here and then we have this open to land button you see that

When you click on open d’Alene you get a few options you want us to be survival or do you want it to be creative or spectator right so you have creative adventure spectator or survival we’ll leave it survival you want to allow cheats if you turn cheats on you’re gonna be

Able to go into creative and things like that if you want to ever enter creative mode in the single-player world that doesn’t have cheats just open it up the land and allow cheats you’ll be able to do that I’m actually going to allow cheats here just because it’s gonna be

Easier for me to show you later on you can leave that on or off it does not matter it’s not gonna affect this process at all unless whenever we are in here we can go ahead and do start land world and then you’ll notice down here

In the bottom left local game hosted on port five nine three one eight right just a random it’s not gonna be the same number most likely but local game hosted awesome that means someone who is connected to the exact same internet as you right the same Wi-Fi can join this single-player

Game now right so I’m opening up my other account here and we’re going to join this other account in so if we go ahead and hit tab I believe this tab work no I think someone has to join the game for that to work but nonetheless when we join on in

Here you’ll be able to see that we are in fact joined this server together we’re playing together on the same server so my you know computers lagging a bit a little bit cuz I’m opening up another minecraft client I’m just gonna do a quick jump cut so I’ve got two

Minecraft clients open and then we’ll be good to go alright there we already have this minecraft line open as well as this one in the background what kind of pull both of these up on screen kind of do a wider shot here and to be able to show

Both of these on screen and if we go into multiplayer here right there it is LAN world you’ll see the user name right there and then you’ll see Bastion a parkour or whatever the name of your single-player world is right and that’s what’s gonna be there and anyone who is

Connected to your Wi-Fi right the same internet that you’re on down to like the same router the same Wi-Fi if you’re on a wired connection that’s fine and they can be on Wi-Fi but you have to be connected to the same router for this to work but you can see the land world

There they can double click on that and they’ll join in as you can see mixed games joined the game and now if we hit tab you can see Nick King and Nick’s games there and hey there’s the other account it is joining on it over here it’s a little laggy because again I’m

Recording and running to Minecraft clients but if we turn around there we go I can Crouch on this account come over to this account right here and crouching you’ll be able to see how on the other account pretty simple stuff and that’s a you can enjoin your friends

Single-player world in Minecraft so they have it those are kind of three different methods of playing with your friends in Minecraft you can either join a public so ever like play it off breakdown craft calm you can either start a server yourself using the free method in the description down below or

Quickly and easily with someone like apex minecraft hosting and then you can also play a single-player world with your friends and they’re on the same Wi-Fi on the same internet connection as you using LAN world those are the three basic ways you can play with your friends in Minecraft Java edition if you

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I’ve come check it out it’s absolutely incredible so nevertheless I can’t wait to see you online I hope you enjoyed this video my name is Nick and I am al pace