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Lodestone Launcher
A fast Minecraft launcher with modpacks, mods, shaders and resource packs from Modrinth built in. Join a friend's server in one click
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Free and open source 109k+ downloads
From your first world to your own server.
Lodestone makes free, open source tools for playing and hosting Minecraft with your friends.
Lodestone Connect
Play together. No port forwarding.
An invite link is all you need to get your friends onto your server.
Oh yea, we also sync all the mods too.
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Share your server
Share you server directly in Lodestone Host with a link without port forwarding
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Your friend opens it
Lodestone Launcher sets up an instance that syncs all your server's mods.
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They start the game
The launcher connects straight to your computer and joins.
Your computers connect directly, end-to-end encrypted..
What we make
Serve
Lodestone Host
Why pay for server hosting when you already have a powerful gaming PC? Run your servers on it and share them with friends, without port forwarding.
Questions
- Does Lodestone see our play sessions or data?
- No. Everything including servers and worlds stay on your computers. When your friends join, our service helps the two computers find each other and hand the rest of directly between your machines - we don't do anything beyond that!
- Are all of these completely free?
- Yes. Every Lodestone app is free and open source, and always will be: no subscriptions, no paid tier, no ads. The code is on GitHub under the AGPL-3.0.