Can people who havent bought minecraft play on a private server?

Dazza

I am planning on making a minecraft server with my friends but most of them haven't bought it . Is there a way I could have a server which we could all play together on?
Thanks

DirtyBollox

no. game has to be bought

ShadowHearth

It's not that expensive... Just buy stand support Indy developer.

cherryghost

Alpha server mebbe?

AirBiscuit

Yes, there is.

You have to change the server.properties file a bit, changing onlinemode=true to onlinemode=false.

And you all need to have Hamachi and have to be connected to the same network.

Hoku

^ online-mode=false is the property you're looking for. Hamachi isn't necessary though if you have a proper host, or are able to get around your router (using no-IP.org and DMZ configuration)

Sprrratt

Meaning they got it illegally? cant tell ya babes

Dazza

Thanks guys. Got it working with hamachi with 2 friends. Took a while to set up everything:)
But when I type commands like /list or /spawn nothing happens. The /give commands work tho. Is there any software for controlling a server that's better than the one you get of minecraft.net. I tried mcadmin but it said 'trouble binding port maybe a server is on that port' . Thanks

AirBiscuit

Darragh12 wrote: »

Thanks guys. Got it working with hamachi with 2 friends. Took a while to set up everything:)
But when I type commands like /list or /spawn nothing happens. The /give commands work tho. Is there any software for controlling a server that's better than the one you get of minecraft.net. I tried mcadmin but it said 'trouble binding port maybe a server is on that port' . Thanks

CraftBukkit.

http://bukkit.org/

Dazza

Botulism wrote: »

CraftBukkit.

http://bukkit.org/

Hoku

Darragh12 wrote: »

Not at all! Just download their .jar file and launch that instead of the minecraft_server.jar

You won't see any added functionality until you actually add plugins. Simply drop them into the plugins folder and add the name of the plugin to server.properties like so:

Plugins=Permissions,SuperPowers

The name of the plugin is just the filename, less the extension.

Edit: There's already a Sticky about setting up the server, including CraftBukkit.

Dazza

Hoku wrote: »

Not at all! Just download their .jar file and launch that instead of the minecraft_server.jar

You won't see any added functionality until you actually add plugins. Simply drop them into the plugins folder and add the name of the plugin to server.properties like so:

Plugins=Permissions,SuperPowers

The name of the plugin is just the filename, less the extension.

Edit: There's already a Sticky about setting up the server, including CraftBukkit.

Thanks! Just one last question. Can I rent a server with hamachi and what mine craft hosting companies are in Ireland.. Thanks

Hoku

If you rent a server, you won't need Hamachi since the server will probably already have a dedicated IP.

As to WHERE to host is up to you, but I'd advise you to host in mainland Europe rather than UK or Ireland. It tends to be a fair bit cheaper and you still get great service. If your budget allows it, get yourself a VPS and install a MineCraft server on it - it's likely to work out cheaper, although there is more admin work involved.

I'm not sure if naming/discussing/recommending hosts is allowed in this section, so just Google for "minecraft hosting" and compare a few sites. Then head over to WebHostingTalk and check out the offers in the VPS section. You will probably want no less than 1GB of RAM for the server.

DipStick McSwindler

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