You can play Minecraft solo, but it's much more fun with friends. Here's how to play multiplayer in Minecraft: Java Edition.

Open to LAN allows you to host a multiplayer game on your local area network (LAN) and have your friends and fellow players join the game. This can be achieved directly from your own device without ...

Minecraft servers give the game a great multiplayer option. While there is multiplayer with friends, that's typically just playing on a world with other people. Servers take it to the next level by ...

It was such an obvious oversight that I didn't realise you couldn't share your single-player world over the LAN games until recently. And now I'll never miss it: Mojang have just enabled in a weekly ...