I know this sounds fucking stupid and it probably us but I’ll ask anyway. Is there any way to pirate an account? Specifically a mc have account, mainly for multiplayer. Any other workarounds can be used for piracy?

Mainly asking cos some of my IRL friends suggested we should play mc and while I have an account I dislike playing on PC and don’t want to sync a personal account to an unsecured device.

Is this whole thing impossible and dumb? Is this the wrong community? I need advice

  • DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyzEnglish
    172·
    6 months ago

    My friend asked me to play minecraft a week or two ago and I tried to go to my old mojang account to find apparently someone else owns minecraft now and I missed the registration window to migrate. I’m annoyed at that, and incensed to find that the game which used to be complete, full-featured foss is now $40 for what-the-fuck-did-they-add-i-dont-care-to-find-out.

    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
      8·
      6 months ago

      I bought it in alpha when the language was that you would have every version of the game forever. I did migrate, but if I hadn’t microsoft wouldn’t give a damn. They certainly haven’t given me access to all the new versions.

    • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      I was annoyed by this as well. Account went poof and I assume they would want me to pay again for Java? Shitty business practice

  • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
    14·
    6 months ago

    Perhaps a bit off topic, but relevant - the open source clone of Minecraft, MineTest, is now more than feature complete, fully multiplayer, has much lower hardware requirements, and has quite a few things that MineCraft lacks. And it’s free.

    https://content.minetest.net/

      • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        You can host on an Android device, yes.

        I would imagine that it might only work well for 2-3 friends, but I haven’t tried it. Hosting is built into the MineTest engine, and it runs much smoother than MineCraft, particularly when hosting on underpowered devices.

        I routinely host 6 friends on my out-of-date laptop (while playing it, myself) and I’ve hosted 2 or 3 friends on my SteamDeck with no issues.

        I run about 30 plugins full time, but you could scale back to fewer plugins, if needed, to tune the game to your available devices.

  • moira@femboys.barEnglish
    10·
    6 months ago

    For minecraft you can just use a offline mode in pretty much every 3rd party launcher, like SKLauncher

    • sleepybisexual@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      I know, I plan to use that android one, polyjav launcher ibthtink it was called.

      The problem is multiplayer

      • moira@femboys.barEnglish
        6·
        6 months ago

        you can play on multiplayer just fine, as long as server have enabled offline-mode

          • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
            8·
            6 months ago

            Basically the server needs to allow you to connect even though you’re not authenticated with microsoft’s online account server. You would do this for instance if the entire multiplayer session was on a LAN with no internet connection. You probably won’t find servers that allow it over the open internet unless they have some other way of vetting who is connecting. So you’ll probably only be able to do it with servers you or your friends personally host.

            • sleepybisexual@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
              2·
              6 months ago

              So basically multiplayer is very limited?

              What about PC java cracks? Are those any better in terms of multiplayer

              • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
                4·
                6 months ago

                They’re the same. Basically you can’t connect to a server unless it allows you to, and most online servers prefer to use the central authentication server so they can enforce bans and whitelists. Apparently there are cracked servers, but honestly the best part of multiplayer is building a shared world with your friends, and it’s super easy to make a server on your home network. You just have to toggle offline mode.

                It is super easy to get java working singleplayer too, because there are so many third party launchers and none of them care if you have an account or not.

                • sleepybisexual@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
                  1·
                  6 months ago

                  Any servers that don’t use the Microsoft stuff?

                  How much power is needed for a server forbme and a few friends

            • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
              21·
              6 months ago

              There are cracked servers online. It’s better to host your own so you have control over mods and settings though. If you have a decent upload speed, just set up a VPN and allow your friends to connect over it so you don’t have to open your server up to the internet. If you can’t host it at home, try to get a 4 core ARM VPS on Oracle free tier, they work great for Minecraft servers.