Find Out How To Setup Minecraft Server On A Mac Part 1 Setup Server

These directions are primarily based on the official mac directions at minecraft site.

If you don’t want a lot help, go there. But if you want footage, begin here.

That is the primary part of a 3 part tutorial:

- Half 1: Setup Server- Half 2: Setup Native Shopper- Half 3: Setup Web Shopper

Half 1: Setup Server

Obtain the minecraft server jar file. Uooka

Create a listing known as ‘server’ and drag the jar file in there.

Make a command file

To make it easy to start your server, we're going to create a ‘start.command’ file. Double clicking this file will launch your server.

Open TextEdit (/Applications/TextEdit).

Set the format to plain textual content.

Copy in the next text.

Make sure to change the minecraft_server.jar to match the name of the jar within the directory (in my case minecraft_server.1.7.4.jar).

Reserve it in the same directory as your jar file.

Make this command executable by opening a terminal (/Applications/Terminal) and typing

chmod a+x

with an area after it. Drag and drop the start.command file into the terminal window after which press enter.

Double click the beginning server to start out the server.

If all works a new server window will open and you will see a number of errors about missing recordsdata and directories - don’t worry this is okay.

Congrats! You’ve setup the server. Next we're going to configure Time Capsule so your server runs for everybody on your community.

Should you ran into issues, check this troubleshooting part for fixes.

Troubleshooting server setup

Unable to entry jarfile error

If you bought ‘Unable to access jarfile’ when double clicking the beginning.command file,

the filename in your start.command file doesn’t match the jar file name on disk.

Fix this by opening the beginning.command file

and changing the filename to be right (be sure you get the numbers, in my case, 1.7.4 included within the file name).

Wealthy-text-format error

If your textual content file keeps eager to rename itself begin.rtf, it’s because you haven’t made the text file ‘plain text format’. Go over the instructions once more above, and make this file plain textual content format.

Configure Time Capsule

Before any shoppers can connect to our server, we have to configure Time Capsule to keep a static native IP deal with, and tell it what port number our server goes to be working on.

You may have your mom or dad for this step (because it will require Time Capsule password).

Open System Preferences > Network

Click the advanced button within the lower right hand corner. After which the ‘TCP/IP’ tab.

Where it says Configure IPv4, change that option to ‘Using DHCP with handbook address’.

Change the IP address to 10.0.1.x, the place x will be any quantity from 1 to 100.

Observe the handle you sort here: 10.0.1.x. You are going to need it later after we setup the Airport Utility

Hit Okay and go back to ‘System Preferences.

You may have to save your adjustments before leaving the ‘Network’ preferences first. That’s Ok.

Now go to the ‘Sharing’ part of System Preferences and make it possible for Internet Sharing is on.

Do this by first clicking on ‘USB Ethernet’

And then double clicking ‘Internet Sharing’ on the left hand side. When it asks you if you actually want to enable Internet Sharing say ‘OK’.

Now, open up AirPort Utility and edit your Time Capsule settings.

Click on the Time Capsule image after which the ‘Edit’ button within the lower right.

Go underneath Community and ensure the choice Router Mode is ready to DHCP and NAT. Now, click on the + button under the Port Settings.

Type in the next:

- Description: Minecraft Server (or no matter you need to name it)- Personal IP Handle: The tackle you chose for the 4th step.

Change all the pieces with the word port in it to 25565.

It ought to look something like this now.

Now hit ‘Update’ and update the Time Capsule.

Okay. At this level you ought to be good. You might have a server. You have a router that is aware of about your server and won’t try to vary your IP handle. Subsequent we're going to setup the local shopper. After which after that the web shopper.