My kids used to play Minecraft with their friends over LAN with tablets, but we moved. I can set them up with xBox live accounts, but ideally I would like to replicate the single world over LAN where they are playing in a world with just these friends. The goal being to prevent them from interacting with unvetted strangers online. While I could potentially try to setup server, I am the only one in the household that could troubleshoot it, and I don't need the headache of a home server not working when I am not available.
I see there are a lot of similar questions here, but the answers I see are assuming that all players are on a PC, and tend to discuss downloading a popular VPN exe. My kids and their friends are on tablets a mix of iOS and Android.
Thoughts on how to create these limited worlds to play over the internet?
Best Answer
Mojang offers private Minecraft servers for mobile and console Minecraft through the Realms service, which costs a monthly fee (7.99$ U.S.D. as of Jan. 2020). This includes server maintenance.