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Essential Mod’s free Minecraft world hosting lets you invite friends to your world without needing to pay for a server.

Select a world for free Minecraft hosting with Essential Mod, no server needed.

Learn how to easily start hosting your Minecraft world and invite friends with Essential Mod.

Host from main menu

Press the Host World button

Select the Minecraft world you want to host

Set up

Basic Settings and press Next

Select friends you want to invite and press Done

Host from world

Open the pause menu

Press the Host World button

Set up

Basic Settings and press Next

Select friends you want to invite and press Done

Can I host worlds with mods?

You can host and join worlds with mods—as long as everyone has the exact same mods and versions installed. You and your friends simply need to add the mods you want to use to your mods folder and start hosting. If you're using the standard Minecraft launcher, you can follow these steps:

Open the Minecraft launcher.

Click on the Installations tab.

Hover over your installation and click the 📁 button.

Navigate to the Mods folder.

Place the desired mod(s) into this folder.

How many players can we have?

You can have up to 8 players in a world at a time.

That’s the current limit built into the game itself, so there’s no way to increase it for now.

Can the host be offline?

The host needs to be online because they are the server. If they’re offline, there’s nowhere for the other players to connect to.

Still stuck?

You can reach our support team on Discord.

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Can the host be offline?

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