LAN

LAN is a feature added in snapshot 12w24a. It works by connecting over your home network rather than the world wide web. to access it, the computer must be connected to your internet.

LAN is fairly buggy at this point, as joining characters are unable to choose their gamemode and whether cheats are enabled.

To start a LAN game, go into single player with cheats enabled and type /publish. This will give you an ip to use, for example :"Local game hosted on user-pc:12345". To join a LAN game, type the ip (User-pc:12345) where you would normally put the server ip. you should be able to join as long as you share the same network connection.