Bring your friends into your world

Some of the best moments in Minecraft happen in a world you made yourself. Until now, sharing one meant renting a server, opening ports or following a long guide. Now it’s an invite.

Invite them, or let them ask

While you play a singleplayer world, it has its own place in your Friends window. Invite friends from there, or from the pause menu, where Invite friends takes the place of Open to LAN. Your friends see where you are, Playing in Hollow Creek, and can ask to join in one click.

You decide who comes in: friends ask first, any friend walks straight in, or only you. When someone asks, a small pill appears over your hotbar. Press Y to let them in, or N to say no.

Your world stays on your computer

Nothing is uploaded and nothing is hosted for you. Your friends’ games connect to yours, directly when your two networks allow it, and through Sakura when they don’t. Either way the connection is encrypted from one game to the other, and only the friends you let in can reach your world.

Made for playing together

New land reaches your friends as fast as your connection can send it, and it never gets in the way: movement, hits and chat always go first, so nobody walks through lag while the world loads in around them.

To join a friend, use their row in Friends, their profile, or the launcher’s Friends page, which starts the game straight into their world.