Guides to playing Minecraft with friends
How to set up a server for your friends, what it costs, and how they join. Every guide is for Minecraft: Java Edition.
- How to make a Minecraft server for friendsMake a Minecraft server for you and your friends in three decisions: what to play, who’s playing, and a name. Start with a free trial. For Java Edition.
- How to play Minecraft: Java Edition with friendsThe ways to play Minecraft: Java Edition with friends, on the same Wi-Fi or far apart, and which one lets them play when you’re not on.
- How much does a Minecraft server cost?What a Minecraft server for friends costs, and why you shouldn’t pay for hours nobody plays. Cubepals starts with a free trial.
- A Minecraft server that starts when someone joinsHow to make a Minecraft server start when someone joins: the free self-host tools, and Cubepals, where every server wakes on a join. Java Edition.
- How much RAM does a Minecraft server need?What decides how much memory a Minecraft server needs, and why on Cubepals you never pick it: you say who’s playing, and it’s sized for you.
- How to host a Minecraft server without port forwardingWhy port forwarding is so often the step that stops friends joining, the ways around it, and a server with one address and nothing to open.
- How to play a modpack with your friendsPlay a Minecraft modpack with your friends without installing a server: pick a pack from Modrinth and Cubepals installs all of it. With Plus.
- A Minecraft server for friends in the UK and EuropeCubepals runs servers in Frankfurt for friends in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, the Nordics and the rest of Europe, and in Virginia for the US.
- How to play Lifesteal, Manhunt and Skyblock with friendsWhat Lifesteal, Manhunt and Skyblock are, and how to start a server for each one with your friends, who join with plain Minecraft. For Java Edition.