My friend can’t join my world on Nintendo switch Minecraft?

Squidish03 · Jun 19, 2024

We both have Nintendo switch online subs, and also Microsoft accounts. But for some reason it won’t connect. We’ve tried restarting both switches, changed internets, tried hotspots, unfriending and refriending each other, signing out and back in to our Microsoft accounts, creating new worlds in hopes that they would connect, pretty much everything barring deleting Minecraft and re-adding it (because we don’t want to lose our other worlds), but nothing works. We’ve played once before on the world we are trying to access, so I know it works, but in that instance we were still on different WiFi’s so I’m not sure what has changed. We were in the same place, but I know that isn’t a requirement for joining worlds so idk. We’ve been working at this for days and scouring the internet for answers so if anyone has any info I’d greatly appreciate it!

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Matthew Lau1

I can’t join online friends on Minecraft Nintendo switch

Gerardo CG

Hi there Squidish03, my name is Gerardo, and I'm an Xbox player. I'll be happy to assist you with any questions or concerns you may have.

If you are experiencing issues with the Nintendo Switch version of Minecraft, please contact the game developers (Mojang) as they are responsible for managing and ensuring proper functioning of the game on that specific device.

You can reach out to them by using the following link:

https://help.minecraft.net/hc/requests/new

I appreciate your understanding and I wish you good luck!

Kind regards,
Gerardo.

XBF Eladio M

Hey guys

Thank you for taking the time to post this on the Xbox Forums. We understand that you are currently unable to join any of your Friends on Minecraft.

Even though you may have an Open NAT type, there still could be certain network configurations that could be preventing you from joining your friends, especially if you are using something like a community network.

You might have to perform port forwarding on your router in order for you to be able to open up the ports necessary for Xbox Live to work as effectively as possible.

I will provide the
networks ports used by Xbox Live here for your convenience:

Port 88 (UDP)
Port 3074 (UDP and TCP)
Port 53 (UDP and TCP)
Port 80 (TCP)
Port 500 (UDP)
Port 3544 (UDP)
Port 4500 (UDP)

You can find out how to port forward by visiting the
port forward website, additionally, remember that you have to have a static IP address on both your console and your network in order for this to work.

Give this a try and let us know if this works for you!

Gooni3zGaming

Thanks for sharing this, this is definitely the best coarse of action for anyone dealing with NAT issues.

This maybe hard for some people to get there heads around but there are some great videos on youtube to run you through the process!

MerSauta

It might be the college internet due to their firewall and not letting some ports through. I had a friend with the same problem with connecting to Xbox Live, then later he found out that his college was blocking all ports for Xbox Live and was out
of luck. But in your case, It sounds like the ports for Minecraft is being blocked?

Try these as well with the ports posted above:

Minecraft - Xbox One

UDP:1935, 3478-3480

My friend can’t join my world on Nintendo switch Minecraft?