MinecraftLANProxy

Posted by maxinbjohn on Thursday February 05, 2015 @09:30AM
from the self-post dept.

A father's gift to his daughter - MinecraftLANProxy to help her play Minecraft with her friends.

https://github.com/WonderfulVoid/MinecraftLANProxy

"I wrote this little hack because my daughter wanted her friends to be able to join her Minecraft worlds even when not on the same LAN."

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Re:MinecraftLANProxy by piraccini on Thursday February 05, 2015 @09:38AM (#9003393)

Great! How old it's your daughter? I also want mine to play with minecraft, but she's only 7...

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Re:MinecraftLANProxy by pdx on Thursday February 05, 2015 @10:00AM (#9003513)

My 5 year old daughter has been playing since her 4th birthday. Your daughter will do great at Minecraft.

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Re:MinecraftLANProxy by RavingGoat on Friday February 06, 2015 @03:31PM (#9011351)

My 7 year old daughter is a beast at minecraft. She plays it like it's her job.

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Re:MinecraftLANProxy by gadders on Friday February 06, 2015 @05:43AM (#9008430)

My 9 year old daughter has recently started getting into it as well.

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Re:MinecraftLANProxy by chatmasta on Friday February 06, 2015 @10:29AM (#9009391)

I'm working on easy end user setup of vpn for this use case. Problem is, I don't know much about minecraft. Mind if I ask you a few questions? [email protected]

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Re:MinecraftLANProxy by maxinbjohn on Thursday February 05, 2015 @10:00AM (#9003515)

This program was developed by a former colleague for his daughter.

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Re:MinecraftLANProxy by AndriusSutas on Thursday February 05, 2015 @09:48AM (#9003443)

Cute! Have you looked into using VPNs?

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Re:MinecraftLANProxy by WonderfulVoid on Thursday February 05, 2015 @03:20PM (#9005737)

I did some research for VPN solutions but I think they are too complicated to set up (we are talking children here). Also I don't want to open up my whole network to others. With this little hack, I just start a instance of mclanproxy on my network and tell my daughter's friends what to enter in Minecraft's Direct Connect menu.

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Re:MinecraftLANProxy by gadders on Friday February 06, 2015 @05:47AM (#9008444)

I'm guessing this is Linux only? My other plan was to create a custom minecraft server on a spare PC.

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Re:MinecraftLANProxy by WonderfulVoid on Friday February 06, 2015 @02:09PM (#9010896)

mclanproxy is plain C using Berkeley sockets but uses ip_mreq and getopt which seem to be slightly non-standard. Should work on most Unix/POSIX environments I think, possibly cygwin as well.

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Re:MinecraftLANProxy by gadders on Monday February 09, 2015 @05:20AM (#9020487)

I might give Cygwin a go. Anything more complicated than that is beyond me...

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