How To Make A Minecraft Server With Plugins

So far, you have set up your server so that you only 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. A screen with a lot of numbers and letters should pop up, this is all of the information about your internet connection.

3. Copy the number to Default Gateway. It should be something like 192.168.0.1

4. Open the web browser of choice, and paste the number that you have copied into the URL address box.

5. Log into your internet router.

6. Click on the advanced settings button to access the section port forwarding. Click on "Add New" and enter "25565” as the port number

7. you need to open CMD again by pressing the windows key + R and typing "cmd". Locate your IPv4 address to use as your IP address.

8. Next, go here to find your public IP Address

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

Your friends and you will now be able to play together and interact in the Minecraft world. It's time for It is likely that the IP address you are trying to give people is not what it should be. However, to have an IP address such as "us.mineplex.com", but this costs money and is more complicated, it is worth it.