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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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] nkk@programming.dev 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

PrismLauncher-Cracked lets you play without Ely.by as well, just pick a username and press play

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think you can use elyprism to play without an ely.by account too, i used to do that

[–] nkk@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You might be right, I've never used ElyPrism and I didn't see anything about offline accounts without ely.by but I might've missed something or they just didn't include it in their README

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

You can do it with prismlauncher and just hit cancel every time it prompts you to enter your Mojang account

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[–] guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

Ill try this!

[–] oeuf@slrpnk.net 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 21 points 2 weeks ago

it's definitely not an exact clone, they're very different. movement, graphics, terrain constraints and the sorts of mods people make differ drastically.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Well...they are different, also you will not find cool mods like: Create, Farmer delight, ars novoue etc etc

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fucking hate this shit. Like pulling people off discord.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah exactly

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

I like no rules

[–] m33@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty much, Luanti it is

[–] SmokeyDope@piefed.social 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I havr them all!! Trouble is convincing others haha

We would also like to play some of our old maps, i am guessing we could convert them?

[–] SmokeyDope@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes theres absolutely tools to convert mc worlds to minetest/luanti worlds. using these tools probably requires some willingness to run terminal based shell commands though.

https://github.com/minetest-tools/mcimport

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

I dont mind that at all. Thanks,

[–] thax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

This post motivated me to check in on minetest and its various games. I fired up a mineclonia world. First time I've played a minecraft-like game in some years, and I'm happy to report that it's quite good, especially with controls mapped to my steam controller.

I think I might even start hosting a persistent server.

Also, fuck Microsoft. I had tried to transfer my Mojang account back in the day only to be met with various obscure errors. Never managed to get it to work.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Awesome! Id be down to play sometime :) just pm me

[–] BillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 17 points 2 weeks ago

There are many, notably: -ElyPrism -PrismLauncher cracked

AVOID at any cost Tlauncher, it's a malware

[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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)

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder if you can sue 'em, if you are in europe

[–] bier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

Are you by any chance an American?

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There was two years of free migration. Maybe check your email.

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

Windows : https://dl.llaun.ch/legacy/installer
Mac os : https://dl.llaun.ch/legacy/dmg
Ubuntu/debian : https://dl.llaun.ch/legacy/deb
Generic java :https://dl.llaun.ch/legacy/bootstrap
Source code of project : https://github.com/LegacyLauncher/archive
wiki of project : https://docs.llaun.ch/

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

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

I use Prism Launcher offline mode since I only play singleplayer.

[–] milk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.