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# Getting Started With Your Bedrock Server

### Logging In

Once you have completed your payment and finalized your order, you will receive a separate email with details on how to create your account for our control panel at [panel.stratanode.net](panel.stratanode.net).

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/968338e1f0a9a800/1_9e7xg.png)

Click the **Setup Your Account** button to create a password and begin using your server.

### Getting Your Server IP

Once logged in, you will see your server IP on the homepage.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/968338e1f0a9a800/2_184ksum.png)

### Starting Your Server

On the Console page, press the Start button to begin using your server.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/968338e1f0a9a800/3_1qmcuxr.png)

Make sure to accept the End User License Agreement (EULA) after starting the server.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/968338e1f0a9a800/4_iht7l2.png)

### Connecting to Your Server

1. Copy your server IP from the homepage of the control panel.

2. In Minecraft, add a new server with that IP, and give it any name you prefer.

||| Your port is the numbers after the ":". For example, in the above photo, it is 25566.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/968338e1f0a9a800/applicationframehostk44asvswmx_14qs5gn.png)

3. Click on Done, and you have successfully added the connection to your server.
