How To Play Minecraft With Friends: Java Edition (PC)

How to play Minecraft Java with friends in! This PC tutorial walks you through setting up your own Minecraft world, and how to allow your friends to join it and play Minecraft with you, by setting it open to LAN and turning it to Multiplayer. Updated for 1.21.1!

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Steps: First, load up Minecraft and join into a singleplayer world. Then, open the pause menu and click "Open to LAN", and select whatever settings you want your friend to join with in your single player game.
Copy the 5-digit number that you will get in game chat, go to your terminal and type in "ipconfig" and find your IPV4 address.
On your friend's Minecraft, tell them to go to the Multiplayer tab, where your game might show up for them to join. Otherwise, tell them to go to "Direct Connect" at the bottom, paste in your IPV4 address, then a colon, and then the 5-digit LAN number you got in chat.
Example: 192.168.1.40:65535 (Your numbers will probably be different). Then they can click join, and now you can play together in the same Minecraft world!

These steps work for all versions of Minecraft, as long as you and your friend are using the same version! The video shows me using version 1.20, but you can use whatever version you want your Minecraft world to be, including the current version of Minecraft, 1.21.1

Thanks for watching! Hopefully, you can now play in your Minecraft single-player game with your friends on PC Java Edition!