MinecraftLANProxy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9003363

by maxinbjohn • 11 years ago

5 11 11 years ago

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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."

piraccini• 11 years ago

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

pdx• 11 years ago

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

gadders3• 11 years ago

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

RavingGoat• 11 years ago

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

AndriusSutas• 11 years ago

Cute! Have you looked into using VPNs?

WonderfulVoid2• 11 years ago

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.

gadders3• 11 years ago

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

maxinbjohn• 11 years ago

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

chatmasta• 11 years ago

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? Milesrichardson@gmail.com

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