Hi All!
This is Carlos once again, and today we will be going over how students can add their classmates to a single private LearnToMod server.
In order to do so, they will need to do the following steps:
- Connect to LearnToMod.
- Enter their Private server.
- Open a server by performing command “/open”.
- Share server number with classmates.
- Have their classmates join by performing “/join##” command in the server lobby.
Accessing the Server
Students must have their Minecraft account connected with the software in order to access the server. Students who have not connected their Minecraft account or added the LearnToMod server to Minecraft can follow the instructions in the first “Minecraft Connect” badge to get set up. If students have received access to LearnToMod through a class key, please check one of our previous posts ,“Giving Students Access to the LearnToMod Server”, for more information.
Entering Server
All LearnToMod accounts have their very own private server where players can run the mods they have created. A player can enter their private server at any time by selecting “multiplayer” at the Minecraft home screen:
and then joining the LearnToMod server (see Minecraft Connect badge if you don’t have the LearnToMod server option yet):
Players will be taken to be taken to the main server lobby where they will wait for a private server to load. The amount of time they will wait depends on the amount of traffic on the server.
Opening Server and Adding Classmates
Before other players can join the server, that server needs to be opened by the owner (we’ll call the owner of the server student #1). As the owner of the server, student #1 can give open access to the server by typing the command “/open” on Minecraft and pressing enter.
After opening the server, a message will come up with the server status and number:
The other classmates (i.e. student #2 – #4) that want to join should now connect to the LearnToMod server. They will be able to join the server by running the “join/##” (replace “##” with your server number) command in server lobby. The command message below will join the server we opened in the previous image:
Nota Bene: If the classmates (student #2 – #4) have their own LearnToMod accounts that are currently connected to the Minecraft account they are using, they may find that they are transported to their own private server before having time to type in /join ## in the server lobby. For this reason, sometimes it’s easier for classmates joining student #1’s server to first go to the mod.learntomod.com homepage and disconnect their Minecraft account before joining student #1’s server. They can reconnect to their Minecraft account after they’ve joined their friend’s server, but this will give them ample time in the server lobby to run the /join ## command.
Another note: If the server is not opened by the owner, those trying to join will receive the following error message:
Limits
Having 4 students per server is the recommended limit, but the hard limit is 10. The servers aren’t designed to hold anything more than 4 players in one server, so any extra players will cause a significant amount of lag (delay) which can really affect gameplay.
Video
The following video goes over what we covered in this blog post:
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