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Looking for answers to simple Minecraft questions (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Voodoo@lemmy.world to c/minecraft@lemmy.world
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Hi folks,

I introduced my daughter to Minecraft and we have both been playing a great deal on my PC (on Bedrock). I enjoy survival and creative modes but she is more into creative mode. I've just ordered a Steam Deck and am planning to install Minecraft on it (as I have learned, it would be Java which is fine). Here's what I was wondering:

I'd like to try playing multiplayer with her, each with our own character, and play together (one of us on the Steam Deck and one of us on the PC). We have not played at all online (she's only 7) and I am inexperienced with servers so forth. I'm looking for some advice on what the best setup is. Do we each need our own Minecraft account? Do we need to play on Realms or something like that? I'd like for us to be able to play creative or survival together. Is there some easy cool way to play together over the home network, sort of old school LAN style? Ideally I'd like for us to play alone together (I'm not ready to have my 7 year old daughter socializing online, I think).

Here's a blocky Santa she made last christmas! I hope this post is not painfully cringe or newby.

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[โ€“] Voodoo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks everyone for the educational responses! My daughter and I are now happily playing in one of her bedrock worlds on LAN using the steam deck. Steam deck setup for the bedrock launcher was a bit tricky but now it runs awesomely, in game mode, and even has the exact same controller setup. If anyone is curious about how to set this up I'd be glad to help, I had lots of tricky missteps on the way, but I got there.

[โ€“] Mishmash2000 3 points 1 year ago

LOL I was like, I know about this, I can help! I play on Realms with my Nephews (but we're both on Bedrock) and then I read @whileloop@lemmy.world's comment and yeah, you should go with their advice ๐Ÿคฃ

The older Nephew and I prefer survival but my younger Nephew only plays creative so the kinda wonky solution we came up with is we'd start up a survival game and every now and then I'd say OK, we're going into creative mode and I'd switch over and let the younger nephew stock up on stacks upon stacks of their favourite blocks, spawn eggs, whatever they wanted then we'd switch back to survival. The two of us would go back to laboriously branch mining for precious diamonds and building a modest base out of cobble and oak planks while he would be building a mansion out of diamond blocks and sea-lanterns ๐Ÿ˜€

[โ€“] whileloop@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can't cross-play between Bedrock and Java. (Well...technically you can if you run a Java server and install the Geyser plugin onto it, but I get the impression you want a simple solution.)

Do we each need our own Minecraft account?

Yes. Two people cannot use the same Minecraft account in multiplayer at the same time.

Do we need to play on Realms or something like that?

Realms is basically a way to pay Mojang to run a server for you, rather than doing it yourself. Unlike a LAN game, or joining a friend's world in Bedrock, Realms and servers remain available to join even if the host player isn't playing.

sort of old school LAN style?

Both Java and Bedrock have ways to set this up. In Java, you can open a world up to LAN play. [https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tutorials/Setting_up_a_LAN_world](Tutorial for LAN play)

Both Java and Bedrock allow for multiplayer games over the internet. In Java, you can either use a Realm or set up a server on your own [https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tutorials/Setting_up_a_server](Tutorial for setting up a vanilla server). In Bedrock, you can join your Xbox friend's worlds so long as they are playing at the same time, and you can also join Realms or servers just like Java. (Sorry, I didn't see a tutorial on the Wiki for this)

One last thing, I'm a server owner who's been working with this stuff for the better part of a decade. If you want to chat more, I'm happy to help you.

tl;dr: Buy a second copy of Java edition and use that on the PC. Then you can host a LAN world from either the PC or Steam Deck.

[โ€“] ShittyKopper@lemmy.w.on-t.work 2 points 1 year ago

Just letting you know your caption and links are swapped. The text should be between [square brackets] and the link should be (between parenthesis)

[โ€“] AustNerevar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I had no idea Geyser was a thing, holy shit.

[โ€“] RobotDaniel@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

There is a way to play bedrock on Linux, you can install in on the steam deck in desktop mode using flatpak and the Discover centre, you just need to own bedrock on android

[โ€“] Podo_Danderfluff@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you both will need to be on Java version. You guys just playing vanilla? Setting up a server would make it so you both can connect to the world anytime, in case she plays when you are unavailable. Sounds like you don't need this. If you plan on having a separate world that you both play on together only, then you don't need a server; You can just open the world to LAN in settings (press esc) and she or you would connect to the other's local IP address. The person that is joining would connect from the title screen. This is just going off memory, I'm at work right now just killing time.

If I were doing this with my kid, I would have them play on their world, on their own account; They would just open to LAN when I had time to play, connecting with my own account.

[โ€“] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Open to LAN on Java edition is definitely the right way here, if you're only going to be playing local with the person in the same room at all times. Steam deck should have no issues doing that.

OP, you will need to have a separate account for both yourself and your daughter to use open to LAN. This also necessitates both having a Microsoft account (as disgusting as that is to say, i still despise that change), although you can control the second account easily enough.

[โ€“] Moxvallix@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

As for playing it on a SteamDeck, your best experience is going to be docked with a mouse/keyboard/external monitor. Minecraft Java does not natively have controller support.

If you don't have the setup to dock the Deck, you can install mods to add support for playing it using the Steam Decks controls. I will warn that playing that way is certainly not as nice as mouse/keyboard, but it is enough to still be fun. In fact, I have just written a guide for setting up the Steam Deck with Minecraft, in handheld mode, hopefully it helps if that's the route you choose to take.

https://sopuli.xyz/post/960903 << my guide