Multiplayer

Multiplayer Minecraft is a server-based version of the game that enables several players to interact in one world.

Users can download and run the server package that allows other players to connect to and play on their server. Future versions will have multiple Game Modes, although the current version supports both creative and survival multiplayer modes. It should be noted that game modes can be individually attributed to players, with some in creative and some in survival modes. Individual players can also be promoted by the admin and other ops (system operators) to op status, which grants them access to server commands such as setting the time of day and teleporting players around.

This wiki's sidebar has a link to the Minecraft.net server list. Orcworm Minecraft Hosts a Minecraft server list and Redstone Wire, Ltd. also hosts a Minecraft server list or alternative lists Minecraft survival server list (Survival) and Minecraft SMP & Classic server list (Classic and Survival). However, players can set up their own on a local network (using the local IP address as opposed to a global IP address presented by the server's router). A local server usually does not require port forwarding.

In multiplayer, players can press to chat to others, or issue commands if the server has given them op status. Commands are usually identified by the server by a forward slash (/) at the beginning of the text message.

List of colors: Use § followed by the corresponding color letter/number e.g. §a will give you bright green.

Multiplayer Minecraft was released officially on the 8th of June 2009, after many beta trials.

Technical notes
The server saves the level to the server_level.dat file every minute, or by issuing the /save-all command.

Homebrewed servers do not strictly require access to minecraft.net, and so can be played on an isolated local network with no Internet connection. They use minecraft.net as a repository of player skins and also a database containing a list of accounts, preventing hackers and griefers from using false names while on such a server. This and other settings are modified by editing the server.properties text file.

Variations of Servers
There are many different server types, including SMP's, free builds, and more.


 * SMP stands for "survival multi-player." This is the standard server type and when creating a server, it will automatically become this.
 * Free-build servers are dedicated to just building; no mobs or caves or anything. Sometimes everybody is set on creative mode so building is faster.
 * There are also other variations of these two like RPGs that give people ranks.

Some servers use mods ("modifications") that add items, crafting recipes, and more that are dedicated to servers (like mods that make a currency item).

Known Bugs

 * Multiplayer is unpolished and suffers from a lot of bugs, most of them being graphical or sound-related (like some sounds not playing, or hitting mobs impossible in some cases).


 * If you go to the minecraft folder and change the char.png file, then any other players that do not have a custom skin you see in multiplayer will look like what you changed the file to.

Commands
The commands of a server

You can only use commands if you are an op (operator). On most of the servers only the most trustworthy players become these. Also the owner of the server may give this rank to his friends and so. The commands is used to make the playing easier. The commands always start with a / Some of the commands is:

/op [name]  Explanation: Makes the selected player to an operator wich gives him/her permission to all the commands below.

/deop [name]  Explanation: Makes a player thats already op

/time set [0-24000]   Explanation: This command sets the time to whatever you want. 0 is at the sunrise and 12000 is at nightfall.

/tp [player 1] [player 2]  Explanation: This command teleports players to eachothers. Player 1 is the person who is going to be teleported and player 2 is who the player 1 is going to be teleported to.

/help or /? Explanation: Shows a list of commands. Note: It does not show all commands! Thats why I made the command part of the article!

/kick [name]  Explanation: The command kicks the selected player. They get disconnected and will be able to log in again after being kicked.

/ban [name]  Explanation: The ban command bans the selected person wich makes him/her unable to login until he/she is pardoned (see downwards). Some plug-ins makes the bans timed so the operators don't have too much work and lose the count of how long each player have been banned

/ban-ip [ip-address]  Explanation: Bans the IP of a computer. It makes him/her unable to connect on any account on any computer that uses the banned IP-address

/pardon [name]  Explanation: If you pardon a player he/she becomes unbanned

/pardon-ip [ip-address]  Explanation: Pardoning an IP means that you unban the IP-address

/give [name] [id] [amount] (you can only spawn 64 as max?(see   Explanation: Gives the player a certain block

/tell [player] [message]  Explanation: Sends a private message to the player you choosed

/stop  Explanation: Stops the server and saves chunks.

/save-all  Explanation: Saves the current data of the server

/save-on  Explanation: Turns terrain saving on

/save-off  Explanation: Turns terrain saving off

/list  Explanation: Shows wich players are online

/gamemode [name] [1 or 0]  Explanation: Gamemode 1 is creative and gamemode 0 is survival. The command changes you from survival to creative and from creative to survival.

/toggledownfall  Explanation: Toggles the weather. If its raining or snowing, depends on wich biome, it turns the rain off and if the rain already is off it turns the rain on.

Notice: You need to write the full name.

If you got any other commands you know that I don't do, like how you white-list a player in-game just edit the post =)

--148.160.100.147 20:54, 2 March 2012 (UTC)