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

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

If you don’t want much help, go there. But if you like pictures, begin here.

This is the primary a part of a 3 part tutorial:

- Part 1: Setup Server- Half 2: Setup Local Consumer- Half 3: Setup Web Consumer

Half 1: Setup Server

Download the minecraft server jar file.

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

Make a command file

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

Open TextEdit (/Purposes/TextEdit).

Set the format to plain textual content.

Copy in the following textual content.

Be certain to vary the minecraft_server.jar to match the name of the jar within the listing (in my case minecraft_server.1.7.4.jar).

Save it in the same listing as your jar file.

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

chmod a+x

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

Double click on the start server to begin the server.

If all works a brand new server window will open and you will note a number of errors about missing files and directories - don’t worry this is fine.

Congrats! You’ve setup the server. Liberty Subsequent we are going to configure Time Capsule so your server runs for everyone in your network.

In case you ran into problems, examine this troubleshooting part for fixes.

Troubleshooting server setup

Unable to entry jarfile error

If you got ‘Unable to entry jarfile’ when double clicking the start.command file,

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

Repair this by opening the beginning.command file

and altering the filename to be appropriate (ensure you get the numbers, in my case, 1.7.Four included within the file title).

Wealthy-textual content-format error

If your textual content file retains eager to rename itself start.rtf, it’s because you haven’t made the text file ‘plain text format’. Go over the directions again above, and make this file plain text format.

Configure Time Capsule

Before any clients can hook up with our server, we need to configure Time Capsule to keep a static native IP handle, and tell it what port number our server is going to be operating on.

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

Open System Preferences > Community

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

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

Change the IP address to 10.0.1.x, where x can be any quantity from 1 to 100.

Be aware the deal with you sort here: 10.0.1.x. You're going to need it later when we setup the Airport Utility

Hit Ok and return to ‘System Preferences.

You may have to avoid wasting your changes earlier than leaving the ‘Network’ preferences first. That’s Okay.

Now go to the ‘Sharing’ part of System Preferences and make sure that Internet Sharing is on.

Do this by first clicking on ‘USB Ethernet’

And then double clicking ‘Internet Sharing’ on the left hand facet. 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 the Time Capsule picture after which the ‘Edit’ button within the decrease right.

Go beneath Community and ensure the choice Router Mode is about to DHCP and NAT. Now, click the + button below the Port Settings.

Kind in the next:

- Description: Minecraft Server (or whatever you want to name it)- Personal IP Address: The tackle you chose for the 4th step.

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

It ought to look one thing like this now.

Now hit ‘Update’ and update the Time Capsule.

Okay. At this point you have to be good. You have got a server. You've a router that knows about your server and won’t try to alter your IP handle. Subsequent we're going to setup the local consumer. After which after that the internet consumer.