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OK. Let me start off by saying I bought this game a few days ago simply for the multiplayer. It's a great experience being able to play with friends, and super frustrating when something as simple as opening a LAN server doesn't work.

I've literally tried everything: Hamachi, turning off my firewall, updating java, direct connect. Nothing freakin' works! I can't do something as play a game of Minecraft with my brother who is sitting right next to me!

Mojang, I understand you guys are all great people, who work incredibly hard to provide gamers with a quality experience. But please, do something about your multiplayer engine. It is WAY too complicated, and when something as simple as setting up a two-player SMP on your home network is made completely impossible by a rewriting of the multiplayer engine, then frankly, I sort of feel like this was a huge waste of my time and money.

If someone has a solution to a person in my predicament, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Any solutions?

Edit:Try setting up an actual server. Here's an tutorial: http://minecraft.gam...ing_up_a_server

Its not a problem with Minecraft, the problem is either the computers aren't connected to the same network or they're using separate ports.

You might get a better trouble shooting in the support forum (wich was build for such stuff):
http://www.minecraft...client-support/

Hamachi seems to make it worse:
http://www.minecraft...n#entry17220164

edit: just got nostalgic about my old sc broodwars days - half a night spend getting a lan to work and then too drunk to play a game properly ^^