I had a really great time playing ~5 min of Minecraft last night. I am definitely going to start a new game tonight.
My biggest challenge was building a roof on my hideout. I ran out of time so I walled myself into a cave I dug for the night. If I’m being honest I also wasted time on frivolous things like picking berries and hunting foxes. This tells me Minecraft is realistic. Without society and many support systems I would probably die because it’s winter and i have a bunch of delicious berries but no shelter or warmth.:)
I want to play with my siblings an RPi LAN setup won’t do. I tried a “Free” private server but the catch is you have to renew it every few days. It looks like hosting is cheap and I could get a a 10 player server for around $30 USD per year. There are also free public servers but I’m not sure if they are good for new players.
@derickflorian It was so nice before microsoft took over. Just download the jar and host a server.
Is that no longer possible? Or is your problem that you cannot port forward in your LAN?
That's still how to do Vanilla Java. Download from the official site, run. You will of course need the correct Java, and there are versions such as PaperMC and others that offer more server oriented features. I'd be happy to discuss those. But I've recently used just the vanilla server from Mojang Official with 1.19.2.
