How to Connect to Your Minecraft Server


This guide will show you how to connect to your new server.

To add the server to your client server list, you will have to add it by its IP and port.

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# How to Find Your IP and Port

You can find your server’s IP and port in the welcome email that is automatically sent to you when the server gets activated, or in your Multicraft panel.

The welcome mail is titled `Your Server Details` and it contains your server connection details and the Multicraft credentials.

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If you are not able to find the email, you can access your full email history with GGServers from your billing account. Just follow the next steps:

1. Log in to your billing account [here](https://ggservers.com/billing/index.php/login).

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2. Click on your customer’s profile button, then on `Email History`.

|| ⚠ **NOTE **⚠: You can also access your email history with us by clicking [here](https://ggservers.com/billing/clientarea.php?action=emails).


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3. Click on the first option, “Your Minecraft Server Details”, and you’ll see your server information and the Multicraft (Control Panel) credentials as well.


||| If you are not able to get access to your Multicraft panel, [here](https://help.ggservers.com/en-us/article/getting-started-how-to-access-and-use-your-multicraft-panel-16c29qy/) is our guide explaining the entire process.

You can proceed to connect to your server after you identify your server connection details.

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# How to Connect to Your Server

Depending on if you are using Java or Bedrock Minecraft, you will have to add the server differently on your client.

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## Java

To connect to your Java server, you need to:

1. Launch Minecraft and click on `Multiplayer`.


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2. Click on `Add Server`.


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3. Paste your server address in the `Server Address` field, and fill in the `Server Name` field as you see fit. Then click on `Done`.


Now double-click on the server you just added to connect.

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## Bedrock

To connect to your Bedrock server, you need to:

1. Launch Minecraft, click on `Play`, then on `Servers`.


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2. Scroll down to `ADDITIONAL SERVERS`, then click on the `Add Server` button.


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3. Paste your server IP in the `Server Address` field, your server port in the `Port` field, and fill in the `Server Name` field as you see fit. Then click on `Save`.


|| ⚠ **NOTE **⚠: From your server connection details, the part before the colon is the IP, and the part after the port. In the image shown above, the IP is `0.0.0.0`, and the port `25565` as the connection details were given as `0.0.0.0:25565`.

Now just double-click on the server you just added to connect.

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| If you find any issues, contact us on live chat or via the [ticket system](https://help.ggservers.com/en-us/article/how-to-open-a-support-ticket-qjzuyd/).

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# ❕ Useful Links ❕

– [How to Reset Your Multicraft Password](https://help.ggservers.com/en-us/article/how-to-reset-your-multicraft-password-sqa3sf/)
– [How To Open a Support Ticket](https://help.ggservers.com/en-us/article/how-to-open-a-support-ticket-qjzuyd/)
– [The Difference Between Standard & Premium](https://help.ggservers.com/en-us/article/the-difference-between-standard-premium-104nqdh/)