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CalvinLand
Colton's Minecraft world, running on a Mac mini named Calvin

Joining from a console

Nintendo Switch, Xbox and PlayStation. Add one friend, press the left trigger, pick the world. You never touch your Wi-Fi or network settings. Leave everything on your console exactly as it is.

Updated Sat / 2026-08-22 / 5:40 PM CT · v3.0.0

Proven working on a real Nintendo Switch, 2026-08-22 at 5:06 PM CT.

1Add a gateway account as a friend

  1. Open Minecraft and press Play.
  2. Go to the Friends tab, choose Add Friend.
  3. Search for one of these and add it. Adding two is smart, in case one is busy:
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Wait a minute or two. The friend request gets approved automatically. These are gateway accounts that exist to open a server menu; they are not people and they cannot see or touch your worlds.

2Join their world

Once approved, that account shows up as Playing Minecraft with a joinable world. It appears in one of two places:

Press Join and wait for it to load you in.

Nothing showing yet? Back out with B and open the Friends tab again. It usually appears on the second look, or a minute later.

3Press the left trigger, choose Personal Servers

Once you are standing in their world, press and hold the left trigger:

Switch: ZLXbox: LTPlayStation: L2

A menu opens. Choose Personal Servers.

4Type CalvinLand in (first time only)

Add a server and fill in:

Server Name

CalvinLand

Server Address

play.colton.land

Port (already filled in, leave it alone)

19132

Toggle Save on, then confirm.

5Back all the way out. This is the confusing part.

Right after saving, the server is sitting there on screen, but tapping it only offers to edit it. It will not let you join from that screen. That is normal, and it is where everybody gets stuck.

  1. Keep pressing B until you are all the way back out to the menu.
  2. Press the left trigger again (ZL / LT / L2).
  3. Choose Personal Servers. CalvinLand is now the top option.
  4. Select it and press Connect.

It connects you straight into CalvinLand. That is it.

Every time after this: open Minecraft, join that same friend's world, left trigger, Personal Servers, Connect. The saved server rides with your Microsoft account, so it works from any house, any Wi-Fi, with nothing to re-enter.
If something doesn't work
  • The friend never gets approved. Give it a couple of minutes, then add a second account from the list. They approve automatically but not always instantly.
  • They show offline, or there is no world to join. Back out with B, reopen the Friends tab. If it is still empty, fully close Minecraft and reopen it, then try a different account from the list.
  • It only offers to edit the server, not join it. You are on the screen from step 5. Back all the way out to the menu, left trigger again, Personal Servers, then Connect.
  • "Unable to connect to world" when you pick CalvinLand. The menu worked, Colton's house did not answer. Text Colton. Also check the address has no spaces and the port reads 19132.
  • "Nintendo Switch Online membership required" (or Xbox Game Pass Core on Xbox). Console online play needs that membership on the profile you are using.
  • A lock icon, or "online play is restricted." Parental Controls are blocking communicating with others. That is a setting on the console owner's phone.
  • Backup address: if play.colton.land is ever refused, try 23.119.45.137 with the same port 19132. That is Colton's home number and it can change, so keep the name as the main one.
You should never need to change DNS or any other network setting. If a guide online tells you to put numbers into your console's internet settings, you are on the old, harder method. It did not work on this Switch. Use the friend method above.
Colton: what carries to another house

The saved server list lives with the Microsoft account, not with the Wi-Fi. So at your brother-in-law's house the Switch needs nothing new: open Minecraft, join the gateway friend, left trigger, Personal Servers, CalvinLand, Connect.

  • He needs working Wi-Fi on the console and an active Nintendo Switch Online membership on the profile he plays.
  • Whoever holds the Switch is your Bedrock character: same inventory, same spot. Two devices on one Microsoft account cannot be online at once, so joining on your iPad while he plays will bump him.
  • Your Java character (CaptainMustach3) is a separate person in the same world, so you can play from your computer at the same time.
  • The world's address is play.colton.land, and a job on Calvin re-points it every 30 minutes if AT&T changes your home number, so it keeps working untouched.
Changelog
  • 3.0.0 (2026-08-22) Rewritten for all consoles from Colton's own walkthrough of what actually worked: the real gateway gamertags, joining the friend's world first, the left trigger opening Personal Servers, and the back-all-the-way-out step that blocks people right after saving. Says plainly that no network settings get touched.
  • 2.0.0 (2026-08-22) Switched from the DNS method to the friend method after the first real Switch join.
  • 1.0.0 (2026-08-21) First version, built around the DNS method, which never worked on real hardware.

The fix was adding a stranger as a friend and pulling a trigger, which is also roughly how Colton starts most businesses.

Built by Colton Mulligan · world page (crew login): coltonland.com/minecraft