{"id":12351,"date":"2020-05-02T09:51:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T08:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=12351"},"modified":"2020-05-21T21:03:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T20:03:09","slug":"minecraft-edu-from-the-living-room-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/minecraft-edu-from-the-living-room-pt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft Edu from the Living Room pt 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few more details on how I got Minecraft education running as a “server” on my Mac. More a note to self than anything else.<\/p>\n

I am pretty much a complete novice when it comes to Minecraft, I’ve never managed to get up much enthusiasm for computer games of any sort. I have used Minetest and Minecraft Edu in my class a few times and it is certainly an engaging environment for many of my pupils 1<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Given that Microsoft extends access to Minecraft: Education Edition and resources to support remote learning<\/a> and it works with Glow accounts it seemed worth a punt to set up a server. I had suggested some tasks for individual use, but didn’t seem much sign of action.<\/p>\n

So this is what I did:<\/p>\n

I updated to the latest version of Minecraft education edition.<\/p>\n

I read some documentation, I found some of this a little confusing mostly because I followed a link to help with Port Forwarding. Mentions of X-Box and different ports to open confused me. It seemed to be selling some software to help. Turned outto be a lot simpler.<\/p>\n

Back at the bottom of How To Set Up A Multiplayer Game \u2013 Minecraft: Education Edition Support<\/a> was all I needed.<\/p>\n

You also may need to forward port 19132 on your router.\u00a0Forwarding ports is useful because it can help to make your network connection more stable and sometimes even faster.<\/p>\n