How to invite friends to a server in Minecraft: LAN, IP, VPN and Realms (2026)
Information is current as of August 2026.
The server is up, the world is generated - the most important thing remains: invite your friends.And here Minecraft has several different roads depending on the type of server and edition of the game: local network, Realms, direct IP, VPN tunnels. We analyze each method step by step and analyze typical errors due to which “a friend cannot log in.”
