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How To Set Up A Minecraft Server - How To Make A Public Minecraft Server With Port-forwarding! Alright, so most of my friends have been asking me how I made my Minecraft server ("the absurd kingdom"), so I thought I'd make this thread dedicated to them. (because they don't understand any other of the tutorials ) Obviously, before we go into all the advanced stuff, we have to actually make the server first. Now, I recommend port-forwarding. Not many people like or even have Hamachi - but it is the easiest option. First, we'll need either Bukkit or MinecraftServer. You're obviously going to want Bukkit, so go to bukkit.org and download the latest recommended build. Once you've downloaded Bukkit's latest Recommended build, you'll need your server's directory / file. Make a file on your desktop and name it whatever you want. Then, put the craftbukkit(whatever).jar in this file. Right click on the craftbukkit(whatever).jar and change it to just craftbukkit.jar. In order for you to actually start your server, you'll need a start-up file. ** BEFORE I MENTION THIS, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE JAVA. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE A MINECRAFT SERVER WITHOUT JAVA. DOWNLOAD EITHER JAVA 6 OR 7 - I RECOMMEND 6. ** Open Notepad and type the following if you have Windows (32bit) and you downloaded Java 6: Echo OFF SET BINDIR=%~dp0 CD /D "%BINDIR%" "%ProgramFiles%\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe" -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar craftbukkit.jar PAUSE Windows 32bit with Java 7 is the same as above ^ but instead of jre6 it'll be jre7. If you have Windows 64bit and you have Java 6, change %ProgramFiles% to %ProgramFiles(x86)% like this: Echo OFF SET BINDIR=%~dp0 CD /D "%BINDIR%" "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe" -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar craftbukkit.jar PAUSE Windows 64bit with Java 7 is the same as above ^ but instead of jre6 it'll be jre7. *if you have a mac or linux, please read the top of this post. * Once you've copied the code that matches your operating system, save the file as "RUN.bat" and the Save as file type as "All files". Now, in your server file, double click on the RUN.bat. This will generate the essential files for your server. Everything here will be the same, but all "32beta"'s will be called "world", and there won't be anything called Smap. Ignore that. Oh, and there might not be a "wepif". I have no idea what that is, to be honest. Woo hoo! We've reached Intermediate. Here be the dreaded Port-Forwarding, the step that pretty much EVERYBODY gets stuck on. (the ones that failed to make a server). Click Start > type cmd > press enter. Type "ipconfig" in command prompt. Scroll down until you first see the word "wireless". Now, ignore everything else and look at the number after Default Gateway: - and then paste that number into your browser. Everybody has different routers, so if you have a different router to NetGear, please go to portforward.com > routers > port forwarding guides > your router > model > Minecraft Server. (the router & model can be found under your actual router.) If you have a NetGear like me, you'll have to do exactly what I do. That being said, some different models of NetGear have different options. So, on some of them you have to click "Port Forwarding / Port Triggering". If you don't have this, this is how you do it. Click "Services" under "Content Filtering". Click Add Custom Service. If this is your FIRST EVER minecraft server, which it probably is if you're looking at this post, you'll need to portforward 25565, so in Start Port and Finish Port you'll put 25565. But this isn't my first Minecraft server, I'm going to forward a different port. 25590. Name > anything you want. NO SPACES. like this: mserver Type > Either TCP/UDP or TCP. Start Port > 25565 (if this is your first server) Finish Port > 25565 ^ read above Click Apply. Now click Firewall Rules which is above Services. Scroll down to Inbound Services. Click Add. Service: Select the service you just created. Action: ALLOW always Send to LAN server: Your ipv4 address found in CMD > ipconfig (under Wireless LAN Adapter Wireless Network Connection) WAN users: Any Log: Never Now, under "Advanced", go to LAN IP setup. Press add. Tick your computer under Address Reservation Server. Press add. You will only need to do this once. You have successfully port-forwarded. Ok, now that your port is opened, you will need to enable it for your server. This is very easy, it shouldn't be in Intermediate but you need to port-forward first so it'll have to be after that step. Go to your server's file. Open server.properties (I recommend right clicking and opening with Notepad++, if you don't have that and don't want to download it for some weird reason, right click and open with notepad.) In server-port, type in the port that you've opened. As I've said a million times, if it's your first server, you shouldn't opened 25565 so you can skip this step since the default in server-port is 25565. Lot's of people think it's over after port-forwarding, and the ones who think that can't get people to connect to their server. This is because they're wrong. You're going to need to make your Java public! Type in Windows Firewall. Click the Windows Firewall icon. Click Allow a program or feature through Windows Firewall. I'm assuming you have Java SE installed. Click Change Settings and find the JAVA(TM) Platform SE binary's. Enable them and tick Public. 1: Getting the IP WOO HOO! my world my life You've successfully created a port-forwarded Minecraft server. Now, you just need the IP to connect with. *since you are the host of the server, you can connect with the IP localhost. * Go to ipchicken.com Copy the number and give this to your friends! 2: THE STARTUP The final step! Just click your RUN.bat, connect with either the number at ipchicken.com or localhost! Now that you've got your server up and running, you'll want to install some cool plugins, sometimes known as 'mods', short for modifications. NOW the most ESSENTIAL (haha geddit?) plugin is Essentials! You get all the cool stuff like /invsee /sethome and stuff. There are about a billion commands that come with essentials so I can't say them all! ! Click here to get Essentials There's a whooooooooole lot of plugins, so go to bukkit.org, Get Plugins, and find one that's right for you! So, once you've downloaded a plugin, you'll need to install it into your server. How?... Remember when we talked about the server directory? You'll need to go into there. Once you're in your server directory, open the plugins folder. It'll be empty. Go to wherever you saved the plugin's .jar, and drag it into the plugins folder! Now just run your server and it should work fine. * More things are being added to this thread. Please check back later!
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