Play Minecraft on the internet
The open world game Minecraft is particularly fun when you can play it together with other players on the Internet. Since there is no official server for the multiplayer mode, there are certain things you need to consider, which you will learn here.
Note on playing Minecraft on the Internet
Playing Minecraft on the Internet enables the Multiplayer-Mode of the game and interact with other players in a variety of ways.
- Playing Minecraft on the internet is not an alternative to buying the game. In order to use the multiplayer mode, you must first go to the official Minecraft Homepage to buy.
- Then you first have to find and select a suitable server in order to be able to play Minecraft on the Internet and build the same cube world together with other players. You can find a list of servers, for example. on the game's official homepage.
- Alternatively, you can have your own server to play Minecraft together with other players over the Internet.
Start the game in multiplayer mode
After you've installed Minecraft and found or created a suitable server, nothing stands in the way of playing on the Internet.
Minecraft - joining a server works like this
The computer game Minecraft can be played either alone in single player mode or ...
- To play Minecraft on the Internet, you must first select multiplayer mode in the game's menu.
- Then you only have to select the external IP address of the server you have selected in the corresponding input field and start the game.
- If you want to join a server that is on your own computer or is running on a computer in your network, you have to use "localhost" or enter the network IP of the respective computer as the IP address.
- Note that not all Minecraft servers are freely accessible, but may be protected by an access block. To find out the IP address of a server, it is best to contact the owner of the server and / or register as a user.
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