Tutorials/Playing on servers

Minecraft is a single player game. You survive by yourself and your only friends are the animals that you will probably cook for food! Yet you might want to roam the world with friends. Just experience it with other Steves and more mobs that you can shake a Creeper at. So servers have made a mark in the Minecraft world of blocks. Here is a lowdown on them:

Joining a Server
1. Find a website on the Internet that lists servers.

2. Read the descriptions and pick one you like. Find its IP. This is often a number displayed next to the name of it, or a domain.

3. Boot up Minecraft, click Multiplayer and click ADD SERVER. There should be two boxes, SERVER NAME and IP ADDRESS. The server name does not matter a bit. Call it what you like. Now remember the IP and type it into the bottom box. Confirm your entries.

4. You should go back to your list of servers. The server should appear on it with green bars on the right.

5. Click this server, click JOIN SERVER and you're good to go.

POSSIBLE ERRORS

Things will go wrong at some point, so here are some error messages and what they mean. I do not know them all,so add others+make major edits. These messages appear when you click JOIN SERVER.

1. Disconnected by server. Outdated server!

If you've updated your Minecraft recently, you might get this error message. This means that you might be running on 1.1, but the server is still on 1.0. You will have to wait for the server to update, which depends on the OPs.

2. Disconnected by Server. Bad login!

There are many reasons for this, one being you selected PLAY MINECRAFT OFFLINE. Simply reset Minecraft, connect to the Internet and try again.

3. Cannot connect to server

This appears next to the list of servers. There are many reasons for this: You might not be connected to the internet, the server may be offline or there is a problem. Click REFRESH. If nothing happens, then wait a bit.