ConnectQuick Start
This page explains where to download and how to configure the Connect plugin to list your Minecraft server on the Connect Network and allow players to join your server. It's easy!
Prerequisites
- You have a Minecraft server running on your local machine or hosted somewhere else.
- You have a Minecraft account that you want to use for testing.
- You have a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed on your machine.
- Internet connection
Downloading the Connect Plugin
The installation steps are the same as for every other Minecraft plugin (Download jar, put in plugins folder, start server). The only difference is that you can download the Connect plugin right here, instead of SpigotMC.
| Downloads | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spigot/PaperMC | Velocity | BungeeCord |
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Disabling enforce secure player profiles
Why is this necessary?
Since Minecraft 1.19 the enforce-secure-profile property was introduced. Players joining through the Connect network to your server won't be able to join if this setting is enabled. It is safe to disable this setting as it only affects chat messages.
Spigot/PaperMC's server.properties
You need to disable enforce-secure-profile property
...
enable-rcon=false
online-mode=true
enforce-secure-profile=false
enable-status=true
...
or simply disable online-mode which also disables enforce-secure-profile
...
enable-rcon=false
online-mode=false
enforce-secure-profile=true
...
- If using Velocity set
force-key-authenticationtofalseinvelocity.toml. - If using BungeeCord set
enforce_secure_profiletofalseinconfig.yml.
Joining your Server
Every server has a unique configurable endpoint name that directly reflects the domain players can join the server with. If you leave this field empty, Connect will use a temporary random endpoint name for your server provided by our random name service.
You can always update that endpoint name in plugins/connect/config.yml
endpoint: your-server-name
The environment variable
CONNECT_ENDPOINTtakes precedence over the endpoint value in the configuration file.
Joining with free provided Public Domain
After installing Connect plugin and starting your server you will see the free public domain for your server that looks like <your server name>.play.minekube.net.
Ping requests are also mirrored to the endpoint server.
Joining from Browser Hub
Players can also discover your server from the in-game Browser Hub at minekube.net and can join with the in-game UIs or with the /browser join <your-server-name> command.
Joining from your custom domain
Go to Server Domains to learn how to use your own domain for your server.