me and my sister saved up our pocket money for ten months and finally bought Minecraft. we tried to create our own LAN server and join, but then it won't show up. We tried direct connection but it would just say "there are no route to host" we saved up so much money and paid so much money. This is unfair and we wish it could be fixed as fast as we could.
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anthony cicinelli
Are you on a macOS?
galaxy_2alex
localhost:<port>
The fact it doesn't show up in the Multiplayer list automatically is MC-98598, please read the moderator note on that report.
Southpaw1496
As a workaround, you can connect manually:
Find your internal IP address (Windows, macOS) on the computer hosting the world, then on the other computer(s) go to the Multiplayer screen in Minecraft and click Direct Connect. Then on the hosts computer start the LAN world and take note of the message that says "LAN world hosted on Port xxxx". Then, on the other computer, in the Direct Connect field, put the internal IP address of the host computer followed by a colon ( : ) and then the number in the "LAN World hosted on Port xxxx" so for example 0.0.0.0:123456. You should now be able to connect.
If either one of you are on macOS you should see this other bug report: MC-101244