How One Can Setup Minecraft Server On A Mac Part 1 Setup Server

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These instructions are based on the official mac instructions at minecraft site. Minecraft pixelmon servers



For those who don’t want a lot assist, go there. But when you like footage, start here.



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



- Half 1: Setup Server- Half 2: Setup Native Consumer- Part 3: Setup Internet Client



Part 1: Setup Server



Download the minecraft server jar file.



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



Make a command file



To make it easy 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 next text.



Ensure to change the minecraft_server.jar to match the identify of the jar in the listing (in my case minecraft_server.1.7.4.jar).



Save it in the same directory as your jar file.



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



chmod a+x



with a space after it. Drag and drop the beginning.command file into the terminal window and then press enter.



Double click on the beginning server to start 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. Subsequent we're going to configure Time Capsule so your server runs for everyone in your community.



For those who ran into issues, verify this troubleshooting part for fixes.



Troubleshooting server setup



Unable to entry jarfile error



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



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



Fix this by opening the beginning.command file



and altering the filename to be correct (be sure to get the numbers, in my case, 1.7.4 included in the file title).



Wealthy-text-format error



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



Configure Time Capsule



Earlier than any clients can hook up with our server, we have to configure Time Capsule to maintain a static native IP tackle, and inform it what port quantity our server goes to be operating on.



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



Open System Preferences > Community



Click on the superior button within the lower proper hand corner. After which the ‘TCP/IP’ tab.



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



Change the IP tackle to 10.0.1.x, the place x can be any quantity from 1 to 100.



Notice the handle you sort right here: 10.0.1.x. You're going to wish it later when we setup the Airport Utility



Hit Okay and return to ‘System Preferences.



You may need to save lots of your adjustments earlier than 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 that 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 on the Time Capsule picture after which the ‘Edit’ button within the lower proper.



Go under Network and make sure the choice Router Mode is set to DHCP and NAT. Now, click the + button underneath the Port Settings.



Kind in the next:



- Description: Minecraft Server (or whatever you wish to name it)- Non-public IP Tackle: The deal with you chose for the 4th step.



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



It should look one thing like this now.



Now hit ‘Update’ and update the Time Capsule. Minecraft pixelmon servers



Ok. At this point you have to be good. You have got a server. You have got a router that is aware of about your server and won’t try to change your IP handle. Subsequent we are going to setup the native consumer. After which after that the internet consumer.