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

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

If you happen to don’t need much help, go there. But when you like photos, begin right here.

That is the first a part of a three half tutorial:

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

Half 1: Setup Server

Download the minecraft server jar file.

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

Make a command file

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

Open TextEdit (/Functions/TextEdit).

Set the format to plain textual content.

Copy in the following text.

Be certain to alter the minecraft_server.jar to match the title of the jar in the listing (in my case minecraft_server.1.7.4.jar).

Reserve it in the identical 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 and then press enter.

Double click the start server to start out the server.

If all works a new server window will open and you will notice several errors about lacking information and directories - don’t worry this is fine.

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

In the event you ran into problems, verify this troubleshooting section for fixes.

Troubleshooting server setup

Unable to access jarfile error

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

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

Repair this by opening the beginning.command file

and changing the filename to be appropriate (ensure you get the numbers, in my case, 1.7.4 included within the file title).

Wealthy-text-format error

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

Configure Time Capsule

Earlier than any clients can connect with our server, we have to configure Time Capsule to keep a static local IP deal with, and inform it what port quantity our server is going to be working on.

You may need your mom or dad for this step (as a result of it will require Time Capsule password).

Open System Preferences > Network

Click on the advanced button within the lower proper hand corner. And then the ‘TCP/IP’ tab.

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

Change the IP address to 10.0.1.x, where x might be any number from 1 to 100. No pesos

Word the deal with you sort here: 10.0.1.x. You are going to want it later once we setup the Airport Utility

Hit Okay and go back to ‘System Preferences.

You may have to save lots of your changes earlier than leaving the ‘Network’ preferences first. That’s Okay.

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

Do that by first clicking on ‘USB Ethernet’

After which double clicking ‘Internet Sharing’ on the left hand side. When it asks you if you actually need to enable Web Sharing say ‘OK’.

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

Click the Time Capsule picture and then the ‘Edit’ button within the lower proper.

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

Sort in the following:

- Description: Minecraft Server (or whatever you want to call it)- Personal IP Handle: The tackle you selected for the 4th step.

Change every little thing with the phrase port in it to 25565.

It should look something like this now.

Now hit ‘Update’ and update the Time Capsule.

Okay. At this level try to be good. You will have a server. You've gotten a router that knows about your server and won’t try to change your IP handle. Subsequent we're going to setup the native consumer. And then after that the web consumer.