My friend and I want to play modded Minecraft together. We used to use Hamachi when we both had windows machines. Now Hamachi just isn’t working. We can connect and communicate on the LAN we made, but I can’t connect to the direct connection. There aren’t any error messages that help. It just says it couldn’t connect. I have a steamdeck and my friend has a Windows desktop. I’ve done research about it and I am thoroughly lost on what to do. We want to try to do this for free or hella cheap.

Has anyone here encountered this issue and found a workaround or anything?

  • Lettuce eat lettuce
    13·
    3 months ago

    Try using Tailscale, it’s an overlay network that acts similar to Hamachi. It’s totally free for up to three users and you can just use your Minecraft Microsoft email to sign up.

    Tailscale

    It works on all platforms and is fast, easy, and secure. And you don’t need to do anything sketchy with your router like opening ports.

  • Willie@lemmy.world
    7·
    3 months ago

    The issue is on the host’s end. They have most likely put the wrong local IP into the server.properties file. Have your friend find the line that is server-ip= and have them put the IP of the VPN’s network interface if it has one. That should make it so that the traffic for the minecraft server is through the VPN instead of though their real network.

    • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      2 months ago

      Any tips on installing tailscale? It seems kind of straightforward, but I’ve read posts on different forums that Linux noobs haven’t been able to get it to work even with the article’s instructions.

      From what I gather it’s mostly commands konsole ?

      • Noxious@fedia.io
        1·
        2 months ago

        They have an install script that makes this much easier. https://github.com/tailscale-dev/deck-tailscale

        I summed up the steps:

        Create an account at https://login.tailscale.com/start

        Open Konsole and copy-paste the following commands, then hit enter to run them:

        git clone https://github.com/tailscale-dev/deck-tailscale.git; cd deck-tailscale

        sudo bash tailscale.sh

        source /etc/profile.d/tailscale.sh

        sudo tailscale up --qr --operator=deck --ssh This will give you a QR code, that you need to scan with your phone. You will have to log in to Tailscale to add the Steam Deck to your Tailscale network.

        Try running sudo tailscale update

        If this works, i.e. if you don’t get any error messages, run sudo tailscale set --auto-update

        If you use Decky Loader, I recommend installing the Tailscale Control plugin, which lets you control Tailscale from the Steam menu. You can also use KTailctl to control it from desktop mode.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    3·
    3 months ago

    Why are you trying to play over LAN instead of hosting the server and having both users connect?

    If you’re set on playing over LAN you can try zerotier.

    • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      3 months ago

      My friend is insisting we play this way. I just want to get an actual server, but my friend is resisting even though I offered to pay for it