How to close a LAN world in Minecraft

Type /unpublish in chat in your singleplayer world to stop sharing it over LAN, so LAN players can no longer join.

unpublish

Stops sharing a singleplayer world over LAN, so LAN players can no longer join.

/unpublish

Examples

/unpublish

Closes the LAN world.

What it does

The counterpart of publish, for worlds opened to LAN. It has no use on a dedicated server.

Good to know

Needs operator permission level 4 (owner), the level op grants by default.

Run it on your server

On a SLASHPLAY server, type it in the Console tab without the leading slash; in game, operators type it in chat with the slash. New to this? Start a Minecraft server first.

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