How to Invite Friends to Your Minecraft Server (Whitelist & OP)

Once your free server is running, inviting friends is a matter of sharing one address. This guide also covers keeping strangers out and sharing admin rights.

Share the address

On your server dashboard, press Copy address next to the address (it looks like play.mgame.gg:25600) and send it to your friends. They join through Multiplayer, then Add Server.

Friends need:

• Minecraft Java Edition with a Microsoft account. Bedrock Edition (consoles, phones, Windows Bedrock) can't join a Java server.
• The same game version as your server.
• For Fabric servers with content mods: the same mods installed.
• The server has to be running. It stops after 10 minutes without players, so whoever plays first presses Start.

Keep strangers out with a whitelist

Server addresses get scanned and shared, so a whitelist is a good idea. On mgame.gg there are two ways to set one up:

In Settings: type your players' names into Whitelist, separated by commas, and save. It applies on the next start and is enforced, so anyone not on the list is turned away.

With console commands while the server runs:

whitelist add FriendName
whitelist remove FriendName
whitelist list
whitelist on

whitelist on switches it on, and whitelist off lets everyone in again.

Give trusted friends admin rights

Operators can use commands like gamemode, teleport or time:

op FriendName
deop FriendName

Only op people you trust: an operator can do almost anything, including kicking you or changing the world.

Removing someone

kick PlayerName
ban PlayerName
pardon PlayerName

kick removes a player once, ban keeps them out, and pardon lifts a ban.

More useful commands: Minecraft server console commands.