Minecraft – Multiplayer miles away

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My friend and I really want to play minecraft together on the pc while we live in different towns half the time and barely get to see each other is there any way we could play multiplayer other than with a server?

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Minecraft Realms is a paid service that you can connect with other users. It's like owning a server, but Mojang manages all the background processes and keeps it running. You may not be able to use plugins, but it will provide a platform that both of you can use.
Some existing servers with large plotworlds allow you free reign over terrain, and you don't have to do any work to keep them up. They still count as servers, but they may be open enough for you to consider.
LAN connections will work in lieu of a server if you're close enough to share a wifi router.

Why not use a server though?

Other people do the work of keeping them up, they're free, you and your friend can be far away from each other, and you can edit your builds while the other person is offline. They require minimum maintenance, but still connect you.

This answer assumes that your server is using Essentials and its `/home` command.

Unfortunately, there is no way you can display your homes in-game. Not even with the /home command without arguments (that lists just the names all your homes). As you said, the only way to 'export' them to teleport to them all and write the coordinates down.

However, if you do have access to the server's files, you can find them in your user data folder under <Server Directory>/plugins/Essentials/userdata/<Your UUID or username in offline mode>.yml in the following format:

homes:
  <name you use in /home [name]>:
    world: <world name>
    x: <x coord>
    y: <y coord>
    z: <z coord>
    yaw: <yaw>
    pitch: <pitch>

As for a client-side script, that does that: I do not know of any.

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Why not use a server though?

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This answer assumes that your server is using Essentials and its /home command.

This answer assumes that your server is using Essentials and its `/home` command.