These directions are based mostly on the official mac instructions at minecraft site.
In the event you don’t want much help, go there. But if you want pictures, start here.
This is the first a part of a three part tutorial:
- Part 1: Setup Server
- Part 2: Setup Native Client
- Half 3: Setup Web Consumer
Half 1: Setup Server
Obtain the minecraft server jar file.
Create a directory known as ‘server’ and drag the jar file in there.
Make a command file
To make it easy to start out your server, we are going to create a ‘start.command’ file. Double clicking this file will launch your server.
Open TextEdit (/Applications/TextEdit).
Set the format to plain text.
Copy in the following textual content.
Make certain to change the minecraft_server.jar to match the name of the jar in the directory (in my case minecraft_server.1.7.4.jar).
Put it aside in the identical 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 start.command file into the terminal window and then press enter.
Double click on the beginning server to begin the server.
If all works a new server window will open and you will notice a number of errors about lacking recordsdata and directories - don’t worry this is okay.
Congrats! You’ve setup the server. Next we are going to configure Time Capsule so your server runs for everybody on your community.
If you ran into problems, check this troubleshooting part for fixes.
Troubleshooting server setup
Unable to access jarfile error
If you bought ‘Unable to access jarfile’ when double clicking the beginning.command file,
the filename in your begin.command file doesn’t match the jar file name on disk.
Repair this by opening the start.command file
and altering the filename to be appropriate (make sure you get the numbers, in my case, 1.7.Four included within the file identify).
Wealthy-text-format error
In case your text file keeps desirous to rename itself begin.rtf, it’s because you haven’t made the textual content file ‘plain textual content format’. Go over Minecraft pixelmon servers , and make this file plain text format.
Configure Time Capsule
Before any clients can connect with our server, we need to configure Time Capsule to keep a static native IP address, and inform it what port number our server goes to be running on.
You might have your mom or dad for this step (as a result of it would require Time Capsule password).
Open System Preferences > Network
Click on the advanced button in the lower right hand corner. After which the ‘TCP/IP’ tab.
The place it says Configure IPv4, change that choice to ‘Using DHCP with manual address’.
Change the IP address to 10.0.1.x, the place x will be any quantity from 1 to 100.
Notice the handle you kind right here: 10.0.1.x. You're going to need it later once we setup the Airport Utility
Hit Okay and go back to ‘System Preferences.
You may have to save lots of your adjustments earlier than leaving the ‘Network’ preferences first. That’s Ok.
Now go to the ‘Sharing’ section of System Preferences and make sure that Web Sharing is on.
Do that by first clicking on ‘USB Ethernet’
And then double clicking ‘Internet Sharing’ on the left hand aspect. When it asks you if you actually wish 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 decrease proper.
Go underneath Community and make sure the option Router Mode is about to DHCP and NAT. Now, click the + button under the Port Settings.
Sort in the next:
- Description: Minecraft Server (or no matter you want to call it)
- Private IP Handle: The tackle you chose for the 4th step.
Change all the things with the phrase port in it to 25565.
It should look something like this now.
Now hit ‘Update’ and replace the Time Capsule.
Ok. At this level try to be good.
You will have a server.
You have a router that is aware of about your server and won’t try to change your IP address.
Subsequent we are going to setup the native consumer.
And then after that the web shopper.