When you play a new game, it enthralls you with unexpected challenges. It's more fun to play computer games with friends. Many fans of running around computer worlds are interested in how to play Minecraft with a friend.
Why play Minecraft with a friend
Minecraft is a world in which you can not only fight the aggressors provided by the game itself, but also unite in teams, fighting against other players. By playing Minecraft with a friend, you can achieve much more. Since you can jointly mine resources, use all buildings together, organize military campaigns against other players, your success in the game can be doubled.
You can play the Minecraft game with your friends over the network.
How to play Minecraft with friends over the Internet
To travel around the cubic world in a friendly company, you need to install Minecraft on the computers of each player, go online and find an interesting server. To get into a common game with friends, you just need to register the ip address in the same way when logging in.
Meet with your friend, plan joint hikes, chatting, when private territory, indicate the name of a friend in the owners section.
By the way, playing Minecraft will be even more fun if you communicate during the game by phone or, for example, via the Skype program.
The choice of free and paid servers with various maps and add-ons for Minecraft on the Internet is huge. To find a suitable one, refer to a search engine, read minecraft forums or visit the corresponding groups on social networks.
How to play with a friend over a local network in Minecraft
There is another option that allows you to play Minecraft with a friend together. It will help out a lot if at least one of the players has no Internet connection. For this, a local network is used. Unfortunately, if your computers are far from each other, this connection will fail. But if the distance problem is solved, you only need to insert the LAN wire into both computers. It is usually included with the adsl modem, or you can always purchase a cable of the required length from a specialized store.
To play Minecraft with a friend over the network, you need to set up a connection. To do this, go to "Start> Control Panel> Network and Sharing Center". In the left part of the window that opens, find the "Change adapter settings> Local Area Connection" section, open the "Network" tab and in the properties section uncheck the "Internet Protocol 6 (TCP / IPv6)" line, and in the box next to
protocol 4 (TCP / IPv4), on the contrary, check the box. Write the numbers as the ip address: 129.168.0.1. In the Subnet Mask section, fill in the following: 255.255.255.0. In the column "Default gateway" write: 192.168.0.2. In the "DNS server" section, fill in the numbers: 192.168.0.2. Save the settings by filling in the same data on the connected devices.
Install the Minecraft server on your computer and in the server.properties park, instead of the ip address filled with numbers, write server-ip =. On the line online-mode = enter true.
In order to play Minecraft with friends on a local network, they must write 192.168.0.1: 25565 when entering the section where the server is indicated.
