Any minecraft experts on here. Kids want to go on servers and I am confused.

[BouleBaker]

Both DS play Minecraft on their kindle fires and have started being able to go into each other’s worlds. They now want to start joining other servers and I don’t have a clue how to do this. Any help appreciated.

@boulebaker How old are your kids? I think you should read up on it extensively yourself before asking people how to implement their request without finding out the facts and dangers yourself first.

I am reading up on it extensively. And we have a lot of safeguards in place. However the mechanics of getting onto Servers is not simple it would seem. Hence the request to help understand.

I found youtube video on it helpful.

@BouleBaker oh ok, sorry if I offended you by the way, the way your post read sounded like you didn’t know what it was about so was just trying to offer safety advice, no judging was meant by my reply. 👍🏽

Sorry BritneyPeedOnALadybug. I’ve spent hours today trying to work out how to do what we want to do!

Minecraft does not make it simple to understand their versions on different platforms and what you can do from where.

How old are your DSs? I love it when my DSs join worlds - I join as well sometimes I may have set up my own world too so I can practice as I am rubbish. DS2 is 8 and the only servers he has been on so far are the Hive ones which are easy enough to go on but require a Microsoft account login to do that. It does allows them to exchange chat with anyone else in the game, so you do need to be aware of that.

Should say, we play on a Kindle Fire too, so it's Pocket Edition I am talking about.

No need to be sorry Boule, I was the one that misunderstood your post.

I echo jobseekers advice, I’ve saved so much money watching YouTube videos by repairing and fixing my own laptop and other tech by copying and following steps uploaded by others instead of taking it to a repair shop that just did all the stuff I’d already tried from reading stuff and watching online tutorials. There must be videos on YT explaining how to join one. (Although I must confess I did do a quick google search to find help for you and to me, from the images I saw, it looks very.. 90’s/early 00’s) I don’t think I would know what to do properly either without an online tutorial or walkthrough

Set up an Xbox live account. You don't need to have an Xbox. You can log in on any device. Then they can join in Blockhunt, Build Battles, Cake Wars etc. There is in-game chat but it's typed on-screen and everyone playing can read it.

DS' favourite server is Mineplex. The games will be suitable for children.

I remember my son getting very upset when his creations were repeatedly destroyed by others on public servers.

My husband created a private Minecraft server that he could play on and invite friends to join. This worked well as the friend group could work together and build worlds without fear of vandalism.

We’ve found mineplex on the list of approved servers on the kindle fire. But it would seem you can’t add other servers to the kindle fire, it will only let you connect to the 4 pre-approved ones.

There are other kid friendly servers but they seem to need the Java edition, which, confusingly, is the PC edition. Has s as my one connected to those?

whatdoyouthinkyouknow how was he getting griefed on a public server? You cant build on them. You can only share worlds with people on the same LAN. You can adjust the settings to prevent visitors building in your world too.
Or spawn a whither on their coordinates to destroy them every time they respawn but now we're getting into programming and command blocks.....

Hi everybody - I'm a grandad with eight DGCs aged 23, 21, 19, 14, 8, 6, 5, and 4! They're a bit spread out - one 90 miles away from where we live, others 130, and some only 12 miles away.

My wife and I are keeping in touch with them as best we can at this time, by email, text, WhatsApp, Zoom and Skype. We've had all 4 of the little ones on Zoom at the same time - and now someone has suggested that the young ones all play Minecraft.

So, how might this work? Does everyone have to take out a subscription or can one person do it and the others piggyback on that?

One mum has said she doesn't want to take a subscription because the children are too young to understand that if you incur debts in the game someone has to pay.

Can anyone help us oldies to understand how Minecraft works moneywise, and how we might engage with the kids this way?

The older ones aren't involved in this - after all the oldest 3 are at or nearly at uni.

Its important to give kids space, there gaming time is key I can tell you first hand from my own. minecraft is very safe and there is no need to check in on there servers.

Just go to multiplayer, add server, and type in the ip.

first of all, minecraft is an extremely safe platform. Second. You are able TO TURN OFF THE BLOODY CHAT. please research on your own before confusing the rest of the mumsnet community.

Thanks, Gamehelper

@whatdoyouthinkyouknow

I remember my son getting very upset when his creations were repeatedly destroyed by others on public servers.

My husband created a private Minecraft server that he could play on and invite friends to join. This worked well as the friend group could work together and build worlds without fear of vandalism.

How on earth do you do that?! I have just installed Java Minecraft on our iMac for my 12 yo to play on. She used to play on her phone, but it isn’t working well as the phone is very old. I set up a new account for her on the desktop version, but we have no clue how to invite her friends to play! Sad, I know. And I thought I was reasonably tech savvy 🤔 If I go into Multiplayer, I can only see an option to Add Server and no invite friends button anywhere (as there was on iOS phone version). I don’t want her to play on public servers and neither does she. She only wants to share PE her worlds with a couple of close friends. How do we go about it? Apologies for thread hijack btw, but not getting much of a response from anywhere and have no clue how to proceed. Thank you 🙏🏻

Minecraft Realms are the private, subscription servers where you can play in a private group.
Alternatively you can invite friends into your worlds if you're all on compatible versions and on the same LAN. (using the same WiFi). You can also adjust the settings as to what friends are allowed to do in your world, to prevent them destroying things.