Okay this is a quick video on how to create a Minecraft multi-user server so the first thing we want to do is create a folder to store our server software in and we’re going to name that minecraft minecraft server you can name anything you want but I like minecraft server Then you want to open Internet Explorer or Mozilla or whatever you use and go to minecraft.net once you’re there down on the right hand side here there’s a download link that takes you to the download page and under multiplayer server you want to choose minecraft server now when you get this dialog box On the bottom that asks you to run or save you want to choose save as and then select desktop and the minecraft server folder that you created before and click Save when it’s done it’ll ask you if you want to open the folder choose that option and then we’re going to run the Minecraft server now while that’s creating the new world we need to find out what our IP address is so that we can host the server so down in this search window if you type CMD you’re going to get this option the little black button create it opens this black Window now what we want from here is the IP address and and we’re going to get the default gateway because that’s really going to be the IP address to your firewall so to get that we’re going to type in IP conf eiji IP config you Hit enter and then you look over here at your IP version 4 address most of people’s addresses will look very similar to this on a home network one is you 168 one something and you’re in this case ours is four and the default gateway is one so we’re going to remember that Now our minecraft server when we ran it it generated some config files we’re going to jump back over to there click stop and that goes ahead and stops the server and then we’re going to go to this file here if you’ve never opened a dot properties file then it won’t open Nicely in notepad it’s going to ask you if you want to select it and so you want to select notepad to open the file once it’s open you don’t really have to change anything in here except the IP address you want to type in the IP Address that we just found 192 168 1.4 and then just take note that the server port is 25565 you don’t need to know that I’ll tell it to you later but but that’s the port that it runs on so click file and save and then exit out of here So now your server will be will run on on that IP address every time you launch it so now the 1.1 that we had before we’re going to close this but remember it’s one ninety two dot one sixty eight dot one dot one that’s going to open up The management tool for your firewall I happen to have a net gear firewall you may have something different you might have a Linksys or something like that but they’re all pretty much the same you want to go to the advanced setup of whatever your router is and in there You’re going to find something called port forwarding you want to select that option and we already have minecraft in here but I’m going to delete it just to show you how how this works if you click add custom service given any name you want we’re going to name it minecraft And then this is where that port goes in its twenty five thousand five hundred sixty five and it’s only one port so we’re going to put the same one in because this allows us to put in a range and then right here we’re going to put in The IP address of the server that we created before in which in this case is dot four and then we’re going to click apply so now our service is in there and we can log out up here close the window now our minecraft server setup we’re Port forwarding to it and so we’ll open it up launch the server click run and if you notice over here it’s launched your server on that IP address on that port so your server is basically all set up if you’re on your local network you could connect to it easily and if you’re On the network you can connect to it so the last piece that we really want to do is to tell other people your friends what the IP address is that that they need to connect on and the way to do that is to go to a service that will Tell you what your internet IP address is you may know it already but if you don’t if you go in and type in IP chicken com it will pull up this webpage and right under current IP address it’ll show your IP address from there you can take that information and you can send That to your friends and they’ll be able to pull it put it into their multi-user minecraft server configuration and they’ll be able to connect to your server so that’s that’s how simple it really is so good luck with your minecraft server and thanks for watching our video Video Information
This video, titled ‘MineCraft Server 1.5.2 MultiPlayer Setup’, was uploaded by Synchronous Technologies on 2013-06-02 16:34:11. It has garnered 65939 views and 142 likes. The duration of the video is 00:05:51 or 351 seconds.
This video show the steps needed to install a free MineCraft server and configure it for Multiplayer and allow internet users.