So, I stopped playing Minecraft when m$ acquired them. I refused to make a ms account. I had already bought the game twice under Mojang.

So, fuck Microsoft. How are you guys playing Mc with friends? Id like to load up my old (7 ish years) world again and play like the good times before ms ruined it all.

Am I stuck with mineclone?

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    In addition to what everyone else said, if you are hosting a server, authlib-injector is a thing that switches the auth server from Mojang to something else, meaning that there is actual verification of identity beyond just username.

    Multiyggdrasil is a fork of that that lets you use both Mojang and another auth server for maximum compatibility and security with friends.

    As someone who has run an offline mode server, it’s a question of when, not if, you get griefed

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      I never heard of multiyggdrasil, I’ll check that out! I just use prismlauncher, with a microsoft account :(

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      Noted. Appreciate it. Im gonna have to read up more on security. In the old days I didnt really have anything, just moderatd it, and was pretty much fine. But now I dont even know if you can have ports open etc or if that’s old school. I have a vpn but no one else I know does.

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    You can allow unverified accounts onto your server if you run java edition. Nobody will have their account skins but who cares. This will allow people to connect and play without purchasing the game. Idk how you get one of these copies though

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      Im not sure either. Wayy too much shady shit out there since its a kids game and super easy to trick a dumb kid into downloading malware lol

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        You can restrict access to just your friend’s public IPs easy with ufw, use the launchers others mentioned and I am sure it will be fine. Or just use regular Prism and be Steve.

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        Just go for open source launchers, Elyprism is a cracked launcher and allow skins using a 3rd party service

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    21 hours ago

    ShatteredPrism, it’s a fork of Prism Launcher that don’t give a shit about the rules.

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    I highly recommend freesmlauncher, it’s a fork of prism launcher that doesn’t make you sign in.

    You can then set up a Java server and in server.properties, set “online-mode” to false, that makes it so unverified accounts can join.

    The only thing to note is that no skins will be present if you do this. There might be a mod that helps, but idk

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    I miss the experience I had with my old minecraft games from time to time but I’m on Luanti now and no longer at Microsoft’s mercy.

    It’s never the same going back to an old place anyway.

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      True.

      Problem is convincing my friend to move since hes obsessed with mc java. I try explaining its an exact clone but theyd rather I just buy the game but I refuse to give em another cent.

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    23 hours ago

    Have you been keeping tabs on the mineclone projects these past few years? Mineclonia and voxelibre are both excellent Foss alternatives. Most people would struggle to be able to identify MCLA with a MC texture pack as any different from real deal.

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    I’ve read that there are some 3rd party launchers that will let you bypass the account requirement for solo play. I haven’t dug into it to figure out which one(s) though.

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      There are many, notably: -ElyPrism -PrismLauncher cracked

      AVOID at any cost Tlauncher, it’s a malware

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    I have a ligit account I play with.

    However, you can play in offline mode using Prism Launcher. Doesn’t require a Microsoft account. If you put up a personal Minecraft server, you can disable account checking. I’ve never tried it though.

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    I just use legacy launcher https://llaun.ch/en it have banner ofc if u are from EU or USA So here direct links which work

    It have integration with Ely.by which implement oauth authorization and allowing to play Minecraft lan version higher than 1.7.10 without Ely.by it not possible ,it will fail encryption communication checks

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    How are you guys playing Mc with friends?

    I just made a microsoft account. the only thing it does is log into minecraft, so they can have fun trying to scrape whatever information they want out of that.

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      You’d still have to pay for the game though.

      They wont give my my game since I never “moved” from mojang (i wasn’t playing pc games for like 5 years, didnt even know m$ had ruined it until I found out I couldn’t log in)

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      There is a mod to remove analytics and shit, i don’t remember the name, maybe debugify?