So I am creating a home minecraft server just for use on my LAN. I have a copy of minecraft and my kids have been playing in offline mode on there computers. We want to be able to have one world to create and build together. I have read that you can use a LAN server and connect to it in offline mode, but every time we try to connect, we get a stream has ended error. The server and client are both 1.4.6. I can sign into the server if I login to my account, but not in offline mode. I have turned off validation of accounts on the server. I have read that their may be an issue with servers and 1.4.6? Is this true, or due I need to buy to more copies of minecraft so we can all connect?
If you want to all play at once, you'll all need different minecraft accounts.
Edit: HOWEVER, it may work in offline mode because everyone gets assigned a different player name id, but I don't know how to setup an offline server.
I don't know about any specific server bug, but I know that they can get a little buggy. Also, it's cool that you wanna play minecraft with your kids
I cannot log into the server when I am in offline mode. I have read conflicting info. if you can in fact log onto a local server in offline mode. I am not trying to pirate or anything, but I read on some sites that you can use offline mode and this is Mojang approved!
I don't think you can do a LAN offline mode server, if you download the vanilla server you can change the option online-mode=true to false and host that, and offline mode players are assigned the name "Player" if I remember, you would have to find a way to change that for the other kid, there are launchers that do so, I use MultiMC and if the login servers go down and I press Offline Mode it gives me my name still.
I don't think you can do a LAN offline mode server, if you download the vanilla server you can change the option online-mode=true to false and host that, and offline mode players are assigned the name "Player" if I remember, you would have to find a way to change that for the other kid, there are launchers that do so, I use MultiMC and if the login servers go down and I press Offline Mode it gives me my name still.
I have not even ventured into multiple people logging in. When i try to log onto the server in offline mode, I get an error "End of stream" I never get connected in offline mode. When I log into my mojang account, I am then able to log onto the server.
Thank you
Edit: HOWEVER, it may work in offline mode because everyone gets assigned a different player name id, but I don't know how to setup an offline server.
I don't know about any specific server bug, but I know that they can get a little buggy. Also, it's cool that you wanna play minecraft with your kids
I cannot log into the server when I am in offline mode. I have read conflicting info. if you can in fact log onto a local server in offline mode. I am not trying to pirate or anything, but I read on some sites that you can use offline mode and this is Mojang approved!
I have not even ventured into multiple people logging in. When i try to log onto the server in offline mode, I get an error "End of stream" I never get connected in offline mode. When I log into my mojang account, I am then able to log onto the server.