Post by xlanadenx
I'll admit that I play Minecraft, though I haven't touched it in the past week because of the L4D2 content that has been released.
I tried the Classic version and liked it but due to griefers, I shied away from it and bought the alpha version.
For a couple of weeks, I played the single player Alpha.
As fun as it was, it felt lonely so my girlfriend and I tried to see if we could set up a server. After a few hours of tinkering with my router, we successfully set up our own Alpha server and have been playing it since. :D
Once you set it up, you'll slap yourself over how simple it was.
Caution: Messing with your router could knock out your internet in some fashion and cause deep, seething hatred towards me. Use at your own risk.Also, I am immune to hatred.
Most people have trouble opening a port for a Minecraft server:What we had to do was make my IP static and go into my router and open port "25565". (The default port for Minecraft.)
-To make your IP static,
follow this guide.* If I can, I will try to help but I'm willing to bet there is someone else on the forums better suited to this.
*It will tell you that you can pay money for the software but it's just a tricky little ad, just skip it.
-To go into your router, open your web browser and either go to the default access site located underneath your router or type in your internal IP in the address bar. By default, your username is "admin" and your password is "password".
(To find your intenal IP: Start > Run > type 'cmd' then enter. When the window loads, type 'ipconfig' and press Enter. It should then give it to you.)-Yours may be a little different but I went to the setting "Port Forwarding/Port Triggering" and selected "Add a service"
-You will then be prompted to name the service (You can call it Minecraft server or whatever, it doesn't matter.)
-TCP Protocol
-Starting port: 25565 (By default this is the minecraft port)
-Ending port: 25565 (Ditto)
-The blank part of this partially filled address is for the rest of your internal IP address when you made it static. (I can't word this any better atm)
With that done, the server is pretty much set up. If you are hosting the server, you get people to connect by typing in your external IP address (You can find that out by just googling "what is my ip?" and there is a site that will tell you.) As a host, you can just type in "localhost" to connect to your server.
As for what we've been building, I'll see if I can't upload some pictures. There's not much but we've had fun making it along with our friends :)
Edit: If this post is truly helpful, I will format it so it is a lot more clearer. It's a bit late atm. =/
Post by buzz3070
While i don't play minecraft myself i found this interesting piece about it while using stumbleupon and i thought i would share it.
http://cubeupload.com/files/adf87a1283162881610.jpg.
Post by Kristopher
I spawned a new world and went exploring and found something
amazing. I decided to
hollow out the right standalone structure, and make it my base. While messing around with the floor I found
a cave with a
small deep lake. Further exploring I found an even more expansive lake. I'll upload a video of that soon