
If your kids just want to play Minecraft with friends, don't have any interest in playing with Minecraft game mods or server plugins (advanced tools that expand the functionality of Minecraft), and they only need space for 10 players or less, then getting a Minecraft Realms account is a no-brainer.

The Realms servers are strictly whitelist only, which means players have to be manually approved to gain access to the server-a random person can never join the server with your kids. Related: How to Add Custom Worlds to Your Minecraft Realms Server

Minecraft Realms is the only officially hosted Minecraft server platform in the world, as it is directly hosted and maintained by Mojang, Minecraft's parent company.įor $7.99 a month (the first month is free so you can try it out), you get an easily accessible and always up-to-date Minecraft server with three world slots (so your kids can rotate out which Minecraft worlds they play on) as well as a bunch of mini-game templates if they want to play mini-games with their friends.

The absolute simplest solution, hands down, is to purchase a Minecraft Realms subscription.
