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Hi All,
My son and I recently started playing Minecraft together on a shared LAN world. I let him play on my main gaming computer (computer 1) and I play on a secondary PC (computer 2). Something I thought I could do was play on my profile on computer 1 in the same world. However, when I log in and go into that world on computer 1, my inventory is my son's inventory instead. I'm in my skin and my player name, but I get his inventory. The only way I can get my inventory back is to go back to playing on computer 2. I hope that explanation made sense.
Is there a way I can get to this work? Thanks in advance!
Because Open to Lan is an extension to the single player game you are running into the fact that the Host of the game uses a special non-user specific file to store inventory and location. This is the same feature that lets people share out challenge / adventure maps.
You can either make sure to always play via Open to Lan and 2 computers, or switch to actually running a server, where you both are connecting to it.
The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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Ah, I see, this is an inherent "feature" of "Open to LAN" world sharing. Alrighty, that solves that.
Now, I hate to ask, but I've never setup a Minecraft server before. Can I create an internal-only-to-my-network server, where the computer which is running the server is also connecting to play on it? If that is possible, can you point me to some links/tutorials for that?
Thanks in advance for your help! I really appreciate it.
using it only locally is fairly easy.
Host it on the better of your two machines.
Put the server.exe into a dedicated folder so that all the server related files will be contained in and under it.
You may discover that the server IP address changes once in a while, depending on how DHCP works on your network.
You can ignore everything about vpns, port forwarding, hamachi, and security since you are not trying to open your server up to the world.
You can migrate your current single player world to the server. By copying your SP saved world "some name" as a sub folder in your server directory called "world"
Then start the server. To avoid damaging your world you should always take care to properly shutdown the server. You might also want to back up the 'world' directory periodically.
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My son and I recently started playing Minecraft together on a shared LAN world. I let him play on my main gaming computer (computer 1) and I play on a secondary PC (computer 2). Something I thought I could do was play on my profile on computer 1 in the same world. However, when I log in and go into that world on computer 1, my inventory is my son's inventory instead. I'm in my skin and my player name, but I get his inventory. The only way I can get my inventory back is to go back to playing on computer 2. I hope that explanation made sense.
Is there a way I can get to this work? Thanks in advance!
Check out my son and I playing games together! Thanks if you do!
You can either make sure to always play via Open to Lan and 2 computers, or switch to actually running a server, where you both are connecting to it.
Now, I hate to ask, but I've never setup a Minecraft server before. Can I create an internal-only-to-my-network server, where the computer which is running the server is also connecting to play on it? If that is possible, can you point me to some links/tutorials for that?
Thanks in advance for your help! I really appreciate it.
Check out my son and I playing games together! Thanks if you do!
get the server from minecraft.net https://minecraft.net/download
using it only locally is fairly easy.
Host it on the better of your two machines.
Put the server.exe into a dedicated folder so that all the server related files will be contained in and under it.
You may discover that the server IP address changes once in a while, depending on how DHCP works on your network.
Info here and here
You can ignore everything about vpns, port forwarding, hamachi, and security since you are not trying to open your server up to the world.
You can migrate your current single player world to the server. By copying your SP saved world "some name" as a sub folder in your server directory called "world"
Then start the server. To avoid damaging your world you should always take care to properly shutdown the server. You might also want to back up the 'world' directory periodically.