How To Make A Minecraft Server With Plugins

You have so far set up the server that only you can use it. The whole point you decided to make a Minecraft server was so that you and other people could play Minecraft on the same world and interact with each other. It would be boring for you to play all alone so I will show the steps to allow others to join your Minecraft server.

1. Open CMD by pressing the windows keys + R and entering "cmd"

2. Once CMD is open, type "ipconfig" into the address bar and hit enter. You will see a screen with many numbers and letters. This screen contains all information about your internet connections. It's Time For

3. Go down to Default Gateway and copy the the number. It should look something like 192.168.0.1

4. Open the web browser that you prefer, and copy the number down into the URL address line.

5. Log in to the internet router.

6. Click on the advanced settings and go to the port forwarding section. Click on Add New and enter "25565” for the port number

7. Open CMD again by pressing Windows key + R and entering "cmd". Find your IPv4 address and use that as your IP address.

8. next you need to find out your public IP address by going here

9. Minecraft servers To allow people to join your servers, you need to give them the public address followed by "?25565". It should look something like this: "PublicIP.25565"

Your friends and you will now be able to play together and interact in the Minecraft world. The IP address is probably not what you were hoping to give people but to have a IP address like "us.mineplex.com" but to do that it costs money and is much more complicated.