A port may sometimes need to be provided for players to join your Minecraft LAN game (Image via Mojang) At its core, hosting a LAN game in Minecraft isn't quite like hosting a server or realm.

Discover various ways to enjoy Minecraft multiplayer with friends, from local LAN play to online servers and Mojang-hosted Minecraft Realms. Explore different setups like free server hosting with ...

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.

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 ...