So me and three friends have Minecraft and have been hosting a local, non-online server for a while for the three of us to play on. (non-online so that if someone even managed to find our ip they wouldn't be able to connect n ). Anyway it was working fine until I updated minecraft on my mac and for some reason my brother couldn't update his. When we finally got it working, lan was introduced. We never even used the lan option because our previous server worked fine. We updated again and this time it was my computer that was screwed up with the update. While we waited to fix my laptop, my friends played without me on a lan server. Eventually we just completely dumped out my minecraft folder (worlds and everything, the entire damn folder) and installed a fresh one. It updated and...well...now my macbook pro refuses to play on lan, online, and on our little server. My brother and friend can both play together, but my mac wont find their servers...it just says "searching for lan worlds". The problem has nothing to do with wifi, since both of them can play on the same wifi, i have made sure we're on the same wifi, the actual mac has firewalls completely turned off, my brother uses a mac and my friend uses windows so I don't really think its a conflict between mac and windows, I already tried deleting everything and installing a new minecraft and it didn't work. Im really, really, REALLY stumped. I usually end up fixing things without needing to ask for help...but this really got me good.
TL;DR Minecraft same-wifi server used to work but stopped working on this laptop instead of the other two we play with. Details in the paragraph.Ah I forgot to mention that I've also tried the direct connect thing. The mac that isn't working is not letting anyone connect to its server, nor will it connect to anyone's server. I tried the direct connect thing on all computers to all servers and they all work except the screwed up mac.
I'm not good at stuff like this, but it could be your firewall that's the problem. I don't know the settings anything for mac, but try to allow minecraft.exe through the firewall.
Yeah I already did that, it's weird how it's only my friend's laptop that doesn't work. His firewall is off and everything but he can't play with us while me and his brother can.
TL;DR Minecraft same-wifi server used to work but stopped working on this laptop instead of the other two we play with. Details in the paragraph.Ah I forgot to mention that I've also tried the direct connect thing. The mac that isn't working is not letting anyone connect to its server, nor will it connect to anyone's server. I tried the direct connect thing on all computers to all servers and they all work except the screwed up mac.