How to join Minecraft Bedrock servers on PS5

Minecraft on PlayStation 5 has the same Servers tab as every console: a few featured partner servers, and no way to add an address. A PS5 can still join any Bedrock server through a LAN world on your home Wi-Fi. Here is how, and what PlayStation asks of you first.

Before you start: the PlayStation checks

• PlayStation Plus. Online play in Minecraft on PlayStation needs an active PlayStation Plus membership.
• A Microsoft account in Minecraft. PlayStation players sign in to a Microsoft account from the game's menu once; servers need it.
• Online play allowed. On a child account, a parent's PlayStation Family Management settings can block online play. See parental controls.

Join a server from your PS5 with Warpling

1. Put your phone on the same Wi-Fi as the PS5.
2. Open Warpling and choose a server: type its address and port, pick a saved one, or browse the list.
3. Tap Start. Your phone now shows a LAN world.
4. On the PS5, open Minecraft, choose Play, then the Friends tab, and join the LAN world.
5. The game moves you on to the server. After that the phone is out of the way.

Is the PS5 different from the PS4?

Not where it counts. We test Warpling on a PS4; the PS5 runs the same Bedrock game with the same Play screen and Friends tab, so the steps above are the same. If your PS5 does not list the world when a PS4 or Xbox on the same Wi-Fi does, tell us, with your PS5's game version.

PS5 trouble

• No world on the Friends tab. The phone and the PS5 are not on the same network, the network keeps devices apart, or the phone has a VPN on. The eight LAN fixes go through each.
• The world is there, but joining fails. Check the game version. When a server is on a different version from your console, open More options in Warpling and set Advertised version; Not showing up? suggests the right one.
• Sent back to the menu. The server refused the console: PlayStation Plus, the Microsoft sign-in, a full server, or a version the server does not take yet.

The server list

Want somewhere to go? Our console server list has addresses we checked online, with a link that opens each one in Warpling.