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Minecraft

Let's get you in.

Sculklantis is our survival world — an ancient city, a village with far too many cats, and whatever your child decides to build next to it.

Home play is not switched on yet. A parent can ask about joining now; before we store a child's Minecraft name, we send the consent summary and confirm the invite list and address are proven.

The address

Not switched on yet. The steps for every console, phone and computer are written and checked — but the server does not answer from outside the house yet, so we are not printing an address that would only fail on you.

The steps below are the ones you will follow when it opens — nothing about them changes. The only missing piece is the address itself, and it arrives with the message telling you your child is on the list.

Find your device

Pick the one your child plays on. Phones, tablets and computers connect straight away; the three consoles need one network setting changed first, and each is marked.

Choose your device

iPhone and iPad

Nothing special to set up. Add the server and join.

Steps

  1. Open Minecraft and tap Play.

  2. Tap the Servers tab.

  3. Scroll to the bottom and tap Add Server.

  4. Enter the name Sculklantis, then the address and port we send you when your child is added.

  5. Tap Save, then tap the server to join.

Android phone and tablet

Nothing special to set up. Open Minecraft, add the server, and join.

Steps

  1. Open Minecraft and tap Play.

  2. Tap the Servers tab.

  3. Scroll to the bottom and tap Add Server.

  4. Enter the name Sculklantis, then the address and port we send you when your child is added.

  5. Tap Save, then tap the server to join.

Windows PC — the regular Minecraft

The version most people have on Windows. Nothing to set up — add the server and join.

Steps

  1. Open Minecraft and tap Play.

  2. Tap the Servers tab.

  3. Scroll to the bottom and tap Add Server.

  4. Enter the name Sculklantis, then the address and port we send you when your child is added.

  5. Tap Save, then tap the server to join.

PC or Mac — Minecraft: Java Edition

The separate PC and Mac version. Java and regular players share the same world.

Steps

  1. Open Minecraft and click Multiplayer.

  2. Click Add Server.

  3. Enter the name Sculklantis, then the address we send you when your child is added.

    The colon and the number matter — type the whole thing.

  4. Click Done, then join.

PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5

PlayStation Minecraft has no Add Server button, so there is one network setting to change first. It takes a minute and undoes in thirty seconds.

What you need

  • The console, and about five minutes
  • Your Wi-Fi name (the console already knows it)

These are the console steps, and they involve changing a network setting. We are not printing them yet: following them today would point your child's console at someone else's DNS server for no benefit, because the world does not answer from outside the house yet. They appear here the day it opens, and the setting takes thirty seconds to undo.

Xbox One and Series S or X

Xbox Minecraft has no Add Server button, so there is one network setting to change first. It takes a minute and undoes in thirty seconds.

What you need

  • The console, and about five minutes

These are the console steps, and they involve changing a network setting. We are not printing them yet: following them today would point your child's console at someone else's DNS server for no benefit, because the world does not answer from outside the house yet. They appear here the day it opens, and the setting takes thirty seconds to undo.

Nintendo Switch

Nintendo Switch has no Add Server button, so there is one network setting to change first. It takes a minute and undoes in thirty seconds.

What you need

  • The console, and about five minutes

These are the console steps, and they involve changing a network setting. We are not printing them yet: following them today would point your child's console at someone else's DNS server for no benefit, because the world does not answer from outside the house yet. They appear here the day it opens, and the setting takes thirty seconds to undo.

Before you start

These two apply however your child joins — at the house today, or from home once that opens.

A free Microsoft account

On PlayStation, Switch, phones and tablets, Minecraft asks your child to sign in with a free Microsoft account the first time they play online. Do that part first — the server needs it to know who they are.

Your child's name will have a dot in front of it

Players joining from a console, phone, tablet or Windows show up with a dot before their gamertag — CoolKid 99 appears as .CoolKid_99, with spaces turned into underscores. That is normal, and not a sign anything went wrong. Java Edition players appear with their plain name.

Playing from home

Not switched on yet. The steps for every console, phone and computer are written and checked — but the server does not answer from outside the house yet, so we are not printing an address that would only fail on you.

The steps below are the ones you will follow when it opens — nothing about them changes. The only missing piece is the address itself, and it arrives with the message telling you your child is on the list.

Stuck, or want your child added?

The quickest route is the family who invited you — this is a between-families thing, and they can usually fix it on the spot. An email address for this page is coming.

How we play

Be kind to everyone
Ours is a scouting family, and that is the standard here — kind, helpful and friendly, including to the person you met five minutes ago. If you would not say it standing next to someone, do not type it. Joking around is part of playing together; the line is that a joke is about a thing somebody did, never about who they are.
It is an open world, and things get broken
Home areas are protected. The rest is survival Minecraft, which means traps, explosions, and occasionally rebuilding a house — that is the game being the game, not something going wrong, and we can usually put back what was lost. What is not the game is wrecking somebody's work on purpose because you are annoyed with them.
If something goes wrong, tell a grown-up
Rather than getting even. The easiest one is your own parent at home, and it always works. The players here are young, and not all of them use the same tools: some are typing hello into Minecraft chat for the first time, and some families choose parent-approved voice while they play. Both are welcome, and part of what you are learning in here is how to be a person online.
What ends it
Bullying, hate speech, threats, intimidation or harassment, in any form, in chat or in voice. Those are not warnings-and-second-chances territory: access ends, and we tell the parent why. Anything that goes further than that goes wherever it needs to go.