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Hi, I've been trying to figure out how to get this MO'CREATURES mod on my private server. So I started to look at a youtube video and follow along, the guy says to open the minecraft_server.jar with Java™ Platform SE Binary. The problem is that I do not have the option to open with Java, its not even there and I couldn't find it anywhere in my computer. I did try to reinstall Java but it messed everything up and made all my .rar files into a Java icon. When I did that though I did have the option to open the .jar file with Java but it wouldn't open. I am running on windows 8 but, of course, in the desktop. Could this be the problem? Sorry for writing so much, I just want to give as much info as I can so less questions are asked.