This way players can come and go as they please without any one person needing to log in and share their world. Factor in that each world resides on each separate computer and suddenly it becomes a real hassle for more than one person to work on a given map.Ī much more efficient way to go about doing things is to host a stand-alone server on the local network. If there are two parents and two kids playing Minecraft in a household for example, and they spend a few hours one weekend working on a big structure hosted by Kid #2, then anytime anyone wants to work on that world/structure again they need Kid #2 to fire up their game and share it with everyone else by opening it to the LAN. One of the most frustrating elements of the Minecraft local multiplayer experience (both for the PC and the PE edition) is that the original game host has to be active to access previous creations. Today we’re looking at how to run a simple local Minecraft server both with and without mods. While it’s easy enough to share a Minecraft map with other local players on your network, it’s nice to be able to run a dedicated server so people can come and go without the original game host loading up Minecraft.
