Your Internet-facing router acts as a firewall to protect your private internal network. Similar to before, open up CMD and navigate to where you unzipped the Ngrok zip file.Learn More Buy Allowing Minecraft Traffic Through the Firewall Just unzip it in whatever directory you want. Save this for later.Ĭlick download for ‘your OS’, in my case Windows. Look to where it says ‘./ngrok authtoken XXXXX’ and copy XXXXX (XXXXX being your authtoken). In step 3 you should see something that says ‘Connect your account’. Simply sign up for an account and head to the get started page. Ngrok allows anyone to expose their ports to the internet using their domain for free. We will use a very useful piece of software called Ngrok. Now we can actually expose the server to the internet so that your friends can play. Assuming that went without error we can go onto the next part. It should create the server and the world. Now you can run ‘java -jar Paper-latest.jar’ again. Open up eula.txt in a text editor and change ‘eula=false’ to ‘eula=true’. After you do that it will tell you to agree to the EULA. Simply type ‘java -jar Paper-latest.jar’ (replace Paper-latest.jar with the name of your server jar file). Note you have to have the Java JDK to run the server.Navigate to where you stored your server *.jar file using the change directory command (cd). Type WinKey + R and then ‘cmd’ in the box. Now to install Paper open up a command window. I downloaded it and saved it in a folder called ‘PaperServer’ I will be using Paper 1.14.4 in this tutorial. Ĭlick on the downloads tab and a bunch of options should show up: If you are looking for what server software to install check out Yive’s Mirror, they have the most common server software. It was fairly easy, and if you want to learn how to revive an old computer like this then check out my post about how to save a dying laptop. I actually decided to turn it into a Minecraft server. I already had a good computer, so this wasn’t of much use. I was given an old laptop that was unused. If you have a decent computer this shouldn’t be an issue.

Unless you have an unused computer lying around, you will have to run the server on the machine you will be playing on. Or maybe you do know, you just don't have the capability to port forward.

If you are here, I am assuming you have probably wanted to play some sort of survival world or adventure map with your friends. They allow you to play with your friends and meet new people. How to run a free Minecraft server without port forwarding.

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