Minecraft lan game

Nathan Vore · Apr 3, 2025 at 5:12 AM

No matter what console that i try to use to play on my local area network. It is wanting me to sign up for a nintendo switch online account or xbox live subscription or a ps plus option. The lan option is grayed out behind the multi-player option and everytime you enable the multi-player option it wants me to subscribe. It was not this way a week ago so what has changed. And yes all devices are on the same version and the same network. The only devices that can not join are the consoles. Is there a reason behind this. All my computers phones and tablets can get in the same game still. So is there a reason why the lan games on console are being blocked by a pay wall all of the sudden?

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MateusFontana

Hello, how are you? My name is Mateus. I'm an Independent Advisor and I'll be glad to help you today.

First, welcome to the Xbox community. I believe this is a specific issue with the Minecraft Xbox version as it works normally on your mobile. Anyway, I suggest you read the article below.

https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/44...

- If none of the solutions provided in the above article help to solve the problem, I'm afraid it's something specific to the Xbox Minecraft version, so I suggest you contact game support, they can give you more details on why this is happening. To contact them please use the link below.

https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/requests/new

* Thank you in advance for contacting, I hope this can help you.

Janice V.

Hello and welcome to our community!

We’re excited to have you here and have great conversations! I'd be happy to be of assistance.

I'm sorry to hear about this issue. I understand this may be unexpected, but joining multiplayer games on your Xbox console requires an active subscription. This has been confirmed in this thread.: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/...

Hope this helps. Let me know if you need further assistance.

SwordofWhedon

you would have to contact Minecraft support for information on changes in policy.

Safeer Shaikh

Hello, I am using Windows 11 and I Don't play other games on PC besides Minecraft and like I said before both of us have reinstalled Minecraft, but it still does not work without LAN. However, whenever he comes over, it works just fine with LAN.
My NAT type is Moderate. There weird thing is that a few months ago (Without LAN) everything was just fine.

Thank you,

XBF Eladio M

Hey Christian

Thank you for taking the taking the time to post this on the Xbox Forums. We understand that you are seeking to create a world in Minecraft and connected to it via LAN.

This article should provide for you the necessary information required in order to establish a connection via LAN.

Keep in mind that both devices need to be connected to the same network, you must both have a Microsoft account and you must verify you have

cross-play enabled on your account.

I hope this is of some use to you.

Minecraft lan game