Controlling Who Can Visit Your SMP

Start with World Visits

In Friends, right-click a friend and enable World Visits to let that person visit your world. They control access to their own world separately. Being friends is not a two-way access grant.

For the normal Friends visit flow, the owner should be online and the world should be ready.

World Visits grants one selected friend permission to visit your SMP.

Invite for a session

While on your own SMP, /invite <username> sends an online player a direct invitation. The recipient uses the clickable accept or decline action. Invitations expire, so send a fresh one if the original is no longer valid.

Check other restrictions

World Settings → Players & Access contains available whitelist and related controls. A visit permission does not mean every Minecraft access restriction is disabled. Read those controls before enabling a whitelist.

If someone cannot enter, check permissions, owner presence, world readiness, client version and any whitelist. Remove access deliberately when a session or friendship changes. See the friends guide for the full menu flow.

The Players and Access category in World Settings.