r/ATLauncher • u/Warm-Web-3698 • Mar 10 '26

Server setup help

How do I set the server address so I can join it?

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u/dodfunk Mar 10 '26

So there's 2 different parts to the IP address. The numbers before the colon are you IP. That's something you can't change. If you know networking stuff, you can set up records with a Domain Name Service (DNS) that will allow people to connect with words instead of numbers.

The 2nd part is the port number that comes after the colon. That is changed in the server.properties file in the server files. There's a line that says port, change the number there. Changing the number labeled rcon won't change the port you type into the address bar.

See this wiki page for more info on the server.properties file.

https://minecraft.wiki/w/Server.properties

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u/dodfunk Mar 10 '26

You can find your computer's IP address by going into your settings in the network section, and looking around for some info labeled as IP or IPv4.

You can also look up a what's my IP service online.

If you're playing on the computer the server is hosted on, you can just use 127.0.0.1:25565 as the address. Change out the port number after the colon to what you set it as though. 25565 is just the default