Are you currently using cracked Minecraft?

Essential Mod is incompatible with pirated versions of Minecraft, as it necessitates Mojang's authentication process. To fully enjoy Essential Mod, we recommend purchasing the game from Minecraft's official site.

Have you previously used cracked Minecraft?

This article gives you instructions on how to fix problems caused by pirated versions of the game.

Hijacked Hosts

Official account, but still can’t connect?

Make sure your PC’s date & time are correct. You can use time.is to check.

Unable to click the multiplayer button?

Are you a part of a Microsoft family group? If so follow the guide below.

Family Group

If not follow the guide below.

Enable Multiplayer on Xbox Account

After enabling multiplayer, changes can take up to 24 hours to apply on Microsoft’s servers. 

Recently changed your username?

If you’ve recently changed your username, you may see a “You are not connected to Essential Network” error. To fix this, simply log out of your launcher and then log back in, this will force the update and resolve the issue.

Issues joining a friend’s world or them joining yours?

When trying to join someone you get an error “No such host is known” (eu.stun.essential.gg or eu.turn.essential.gg or something similar). And when they try to join you, they get an “ICE failed” error.

This usually means there's a network setup issue.

The article below helps you change your DNS server to Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1, which often resolves the problem.

Network Setup Issue

I still can’t connect to Essential Mod, what should I do?

You can check the status of Essential Mod on  status.essential.gg.

If everything looks good on the Essential Mod status and nothing else in the wiki is doing the trick, feel free to ask our support team on Discord for help.

Managing your hosted Minecraft world settings is super easy with Essential Mod. Easily customize your game mode, difficulty, cheats, and more!

Learn how to easily adjust your Minecraft world settings with Essential Mod.

Access world host settings

• Start Hosting your Minecraft world for free
• Open the pause menu
• Press the Host World button again to access the settings

General settings

Game Mode

This will be the default game mode for you and the players joining your hosted Minecraft world.

Difficulty

This will decide the difficulty of your hosted Minecraft world.

Cheats

To enable the use of cheats in-game you need to open your world host settings, and enable the Cheats option. Cheats will only be enabled for players with the OP permission. You can easily give other players OP via the player management panel on this page.

Share Resource Pack

If enabled, your currently equipped Resource Pack will get automatically shared to any players joining your hosted Minecraft world.

Game rules

Here you can manage all vanilla and modded game rules. Using the search (top right) you can also easily filter through them all.

Player management

Manage your invited friends here. You can remove them from your world, or give them access to cheats (if enabled) via OP permissions.

Wondering how to play Minecraft with friends? Joining friends in Minecraft is super easy with Essential Mod. Following these steps works on both Minecraft worlds and Minecraft servers.

Learn about the different ways to join your friends on worlds and servers with Essential Mod.

Join from the social menu

• Receive an invite from your friend
• Open the Social menu
• Select your friend in the Chat tab
• Press the Join Game button in the top right

Join from the multiplayer menu

• Make sure that your friend has Settings > Privacy > Display Current Server enabled
• Receive an invite from your friend
• Open the Multiplayer menu
• Select the Friends tab
• See your friend’s world or server and join

Rejoin a world

Players who have joined a world before can rejoin whenever a session is started. You can do that via the multiplayer menu or the notification you receive.

Invites not showing up

Sometimes invites don’t appear and the Join Game option may be missing. The workaround is to have all players close and restart the game, then the host waits for everyone to finish restarting before loading the world and sending the invites again.

Occasionally, you might run into errors. Below are some issues players have encountered before, along with helpful guides to troubleshoot them.

Account authentication failed error

If you see the error “Something went wrong while trying to authenticate your Microsoft account,” it may be due to an invalid launcher session. To fix this, log out of your launcher completely, close it, then reopen it and log back in before launching the game again.

If the issue persists, you will need to contact  Minecraft Support as account-related issues cannot be resolved on our end.

This issue is most commonly reported by users who have recently purchased Minecraft, previously used Xbox Game Pass, or are using third-party launchers.

Not whitelisted error

Essential Mod uses a whitelist to make sure only friends you've invited can join your hosted world. If someone sees a message saying they’re not whitelisted, it usually means the host (that’s you!) is having trouble connecting to Mojang’s servers. A quick restart of your PC and router often helps sort it out.

Registry remapping failed, mismatched mod channel list, unknown recipe serializer or similar errors

These errors usually mean you don’t have the same mods as the host.
All players will need to have the exact same mods, including the same version of each mod.

Not an Essential user error when adding a friend

You'll need to make sure they've launched the game with the mod and have accepted the terms of service before you can add them. The best way to make sure they've done so is to have them try to add you instead since they'll need to use the mod and accept the terms to add a friend.

Timeout error when adding a friend

If you’re getting a timeout error when adding a friend, try switching it up—ask them to send you a request instead.

ICE failed error

Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) failed just means your game had trouble connecting to your friend’s world. It could be caused by a bunch of things like unstable internet, strict firewall settings, or even a VPN getting in the way so it’s not always super clear what’s causing it.

If it keeps popping up, you can try restarting your PC and router first (that helps more often than you'd think). And if that doesn't do the trick, just reach out to support—we’ll help you figure out what’s going on.

Main menu issues, game freezing, missing text, or glitchy graphics

If you’re experiencing lag, have disappearing items, invisible buttons, missing text on menu boxes, the main menu not loading, weird visuals, or the game freezes (especially on the main menu or when loading a world) and you're using Intel integrated graphics, it's likely a known issue in versions 1.21.5 and up.

Mojang changed how the game handles visuals, and Intel’s drivers aren’t loving it. They are aware about the problem, but there’s no fix yet.

On a laptop with only Intel graphics? For now, the best workaround is playing on an older version. If you're on 1.21.6 or later, try 1.21.5 first. If that doesn’t work, try an even earlier version.

On a desktop? Installing a dedicated AMD or NVIDIA GPU can solve the issue.

Have a GPU but still having issues? The game might be using the wrong one. Please check Make Minecraft use your GPU.

Are you getting a different error or still need help?

You can reach our support team on Discord.