yeah be nice Niko Bellic I'm not dumb i have heard that you can play without internet

Is he dumb?

Yes if he wants to use his account and ur comp uses internet all the time to look for updates and such

oh yeah I'm cracked so if my friend comes to my house and he wants to go on my server does he have to connect to MY internet at my house

And yes, you have to be connected to the internet, unless you have an Offline server im guessing?

Ok let me explain, ok if you want a server, and your friend is in the same location they can connect to your server, although if your friend is say at his house with a different IP adress, he how cannot connect your server. To allow just a server at your house, download a sever normally from Minecraft.net run it, and go to DirectConnect and type in localhost. Then you will connect to your local host Minecrat server.

i know 13smo123 but what i want to know is do you have to be connected to the internet and your friends boudreau1996 i don't have textedit its only on pc's

THANKS

For this to work, you must be at the same location.

Yes, this is how you do it on a mac

sorry I'm on a MacBook Air if you can help me how to do this on a Mac this would be a big help

If your friend shall connect from your house find your local ip as I showed you, and then
1. download craftbukkit.jar from dl.bukkit.org
2. open textedit
3. paste this(basically runs the jar as a java server)
#!/bin/bash
cd "$( dirname "$0" )"
java -server -Xmx2G -jar ./craftbukkit.jar
4. replace the 2 in -Xmx2G with how much ram you would like to allocate
5. make sure the server jar is named craftbukkit.jar
6. In textedit go to Format --> Make plain text
7. Save as start.command (or something else with the extension .command)
8. Open that with terminal
9. Have your friend connect with the local ip address



--Hope this helps

ok

So LAN doesn't use internet. As long on same wifi network it's fine.

my friend will connect from my house

Running a server on a computer that is connected to you internet will ALWAYS use your Internet. It is impossible for it not to.

Or from his house?

Is your friend going to try and connect from your house?

What do you mean by "dont have to connect to your internet"
If you are running a server that is not LAN they must connect to your internet

so they don't have to connect to your internet and this doesn't use your internet

If you want your friend or someone else to connect who is not on your LAN then you have to port-foward. This should not be hard as there are many tutorials. If your friend is at your house or something find the local ip of the computer runnung the server and put that in. To find the local ip go to System Preferences --> Network

THANKS do they need to connect to your internet if it was your friend

Okay I can help this is easy. So do you know how to set up the server normally? You just do that and on another computer in your wifi network goes on minecraft they just put the internal ip of your computer running the server. I hope this helps if you need more help I would be happy to assist you!

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No sorry this did not help i was hoping more for a server where your friends or family connect to your internet and it doesn't use up internet i know it works because my friends BRO made one but he won't tell me

THANKS keep the posts coming

Ok, Im not for sure exactly what a LAN-Server is, but a regular Minecraft Server with my knowledge will not take up Internet, it will use internet but not take it up. To run a Minecraft Server just portforward you router, you could find this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_forwarding Then you could find your IP, connect to the sever, assure anybody else can connect. Then you have your server. If this helped any, please tell me!

Make a server and whitelist it?

OMG!! how do you make one

PLEASE HELP!!!!

seriously no one knows how to make a LAN server

does anybody know how to make one