How to Find Minecraft Screenshots
There are a few different versions of Minecraft out there, and they install in different places. These different Minecraft versions also save screenshots in different places. Here’s how you can find them….
How to Allocate More RAM to a Minecraft Server
If you’ve recently added more players, more mods, or both to your Minecraft server, then it might be time to allocate more RAM. Here’s how to do so for a smoother gameplay experience.
How Much RAM Is Good for a Minecraft Server? Is 1GB Enough?
Hosting a Minecraft and playing with friends is fun—but not if the experience is a laggy mess. Here’s how to calculate how much RAM your Minecraft server needs.
Protect Your Home Minecraft Server From DDOS Attacks with AWS
Want to run a Minecraft server from home without revealing your IP address? You can! Just set up a free proxy with Amazon Web Services to protect your server from denial-of-service attacks. We’ll show you how….
How to Set Up Minecraft So Your Kids Can Play Online with Friends
Your kids love Minecraft, their friends love Minecraft, and they want to play it together when they can’t be in the same physical place—and they’re begging you to make that happen. Don’t worry, you don’t have to figure it o…
How to Share Your Minecraft Game Over the Internet
If you’d like to share your local Minecraft game with friends across the internet, it’s a bit more complicated than just pushing a button. Let’s look at the behind-the-scenes settings you have to tweak in order to connect two…
How to Make Minecraft More Friendly for Small Children
Minecraft is a great game for kids, no doubt about it, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a wee bit frustrating for smaller children. If you have a younger player and you’d like to adjust the game to their age and skill level, we…
How to Disable Player vs. Player (PVP) Damage In Minecraft
If you’re tired of accidentally killing your buddy while fighting enemies in close quarters, or your kids are screaming because one of them 8-bit-murdered the other again, this is the tutorial for you. Read on as we show you …
How to Troubleshoot Minecraft LAN Game Problems
Minecraft is a fantastic game to play on your local network with friends, but it’s no fun when you have to spend half your time troubleshooting connection problems. Let’s take a look at how to identify and iron out issues wit…
How to Play Multiplayer LAN Games with a Single Minecraft Account
So you want to play Minecraft with your family, but you only have one account. You won’t be able to play online, but with a few tweaks to the configuration files, you should all be able to play over the network together at h…
How to Back Up and Restore Your Minecraft Realms Worlds
It’s easy to invest a lot of energy in your Minecraft creations. Thankfully, it’s just as easy to back them up. Read on as we show you how to ensure your Minecraft Realms worlds are safe and sound.
How to Back Up Your Minecraft Worlds, Mods, and More
Minecraft is a game that lends itself to hundreds of hours of exploration and building. Don’t let your creations go up in a puff of dying-hard-drive smoke; read on as we show you how to locate and (automatically) back up your…
How to Add Custom Worlds to Your Minecraft Realms Server
Although there is something to be said for starting with a fresh map, it’s easy (and fun) to upload an entire world to your Minecraft Realms server–whether it’s a world you created yourself or downloaded online….
How to Use MCEdit to Speed Up Building in Minecraft
MCEdit is a powerful third party program for editing Minecraft maps. MCEdit has many tools and filters for editing and building, and can speed up the building of large or complex Minecraft creations.
How to Make High Quality Renders of Your Minecraft Creations
Do you have a really cool Minecraft world, and want to show it off? If so, Chunky will take very high quality pictures of your Minecraft worlds, which will show off your creations better than a simple in-game screenshot….
How to Set Up a Simple No-Stress Minecraft Server with Minecraft Realms
There are a lot of ways to go about hosting a Minecraft game but it’s tough to beat the simplicity of buying a server directly from Mojang, the company behind Minecraft (and now it even comes with a free 30 day trial!) Read o…
Minecraft Doesn’t Need Java Installed Anymore; It’s Time to Uninstall Java
One of the big complaints Minecraft players have is that Minecraft runs on Java — it’s a pain to deal with because it’s insecure and needs frequent updating to avoid exploits, and they’d rather not deal with it at all. Than…
The Beginner’s Guide to Command Blocks in Minecraft
Minecraft is one of the best ways to introduce young and new people to coding. Command blocks are easy to learn and use, and Java programming is right around the corner with Minecraft mods and Bukkit plugins. It’s also just a…
Make Building in Minecraft Easier with WorldEdit
Minecraft is a game all about blocks, and the beauty of it is that you can build anything your heart desires. Building in Minecraft is like building with digital Legos, but, like Legos, building takes a long time and is ofte…
How to Run a Spigot Minecraft Server for Customized Multiplayer
Minecraft’s native LAN support is great for running games on the fly, but if you want a dedicated, customized server, Spigot is the way to go. Spigot is built on a plugin API called Bukkit, which makes customizing your gamep…
How to Play Minecraft from a Flash Drive for Block Building Fun Anywhere
What’s more fun than the creative block-building in Minecraft? Building whenever and wherever you want with a portable Minecraft installation on a flash drive you can take with you. Read on as we detail how to configure a por…
How to Upgrade Your Old Minecraft Maps for Seamless Transitions to New Biomes
Upgrading Minecraft to get to the newest features is always fun unless it breaks your old maps and creates huge and ugly artifacts across them. Read on as we show you how you can take an old Minecraft map and bring it into a…
How to Unlock The Difficulty Of A Minecraft Map
Minecraft 1.8 introduced a new feature map feature: the ability to permanently lock the map’s difficulty setting. While it’s a great way to encourage you to play without cheating it’s also frustrating if the difficulty is loc…
Add Dungeons, Ruins, and Treasure Hunts to Your Minecraft World with MCDungeon
If you’ve grown tired of exploring the vanilla Minecraft world and the thrill of stumbling upon the tiny dungeons or sprawling mineshafts is gone, we’ve got just the thing for you: enormous procedurally generated dungeons cou…
The Parents’ Guide to Minecraft
Minecraft is and, for the foreseeable future, will remain one of the most popular video games among children. Behind all those millions upon millions of downloads are more than a few curious parents; read on as we help clear …
