Increasing Student Conenctions

Jeremy McCowage

August 16, 2020 13:03
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Hey Everyone,

I have several issues, if anyone can assist please do.

I setup Minecraft Classroom Mode and had some students connect but only 30 were able to do so (Joint Class of 93 Students Required.) I tried the command "/setmaxplayers" but it seems the app is hard coded to not allow more then 30 Students. Has anyone been able to modify the game or code to remove this hard cap?

As a work around I created a dedicated Minecraft Server and configured all the the server properties (Set max players to 120). I hosted the server on a VM of Server 2016, set a static server IP and forwarded all the ports I was using so that students could access it. Unfortunately no one could connect using the education edition. I tried the "/connect" command using both the IP and Port number with no success.

So having tried these two things my question remains, how do I host more then 30 students at a time using Minecraft Education?

Cheers.

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Mathew Shohet

November 05, 2018 02:12

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I'm also curious about this. If I setup a VM running Windows 10 is it possible to run different worlds from that one VM using the one IP and different ports for each world for the students to connect to?

Or do I need a separate Windows 10 box for each world?
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Vivek Venkiteswaran

January 24, 2019 09:43

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Hi Jeremy,

Did you find a solution for this, we are having a similar situation. Around 120 Students, not sure how to handle this. Would we need 4 minecraft server, in 4 different Window 10/OS machines, so that different IPs are available to students?

Thank you in advance for any suggestion!!

Cheers
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Mathew Shohet

February 05, 2019 22:28
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Hi Vivek

Yes you will need individual machines to run each Minecraft server/world. Below was the response I received from Minecraft support. The education version does not have the capability to run multiple worlds on one server like normal Minecraft does.

Regards

Mathew

Kyle McMurtry (Minecraft: Education Edition Support)

Nov 5, 2:11 PM PST

Hi Matthew,

Thanks for reaching out. No, there is not a way to have multiple worlds running at the same time, as you cannot have two instances of the application running.

Let me know if this answers your question, Thanks!

Kyle

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