So you've been bitten by the mining bug that has already infected millions of others. You've had fun playing on your own and maybe you've opened up your personal, private, one-of-a-kind world to others on your LAN. But you have friends across the country, across the globe even. How do you play a nice, civilized, private game with them, a game where the unwashed masses won't destroy your precious creations? Mojang's official solution is to download their server client, open some ports on the machine you've dedicated as the server, and allow your friends to connect to your machine. But that involves configuring your firewall to allow those incoming and outgoing connections, passing those connections through your router, finding out your external IP address, configuring the server to recognize that IP address, and then trusting your friends enough to connect remotely to your personal machine. It's quite an undertaking, especially for those unfamiliar w...