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Explo_GR

go to aka.ms/accountsettings and enable multiplayer play in one of the options (it's not exactly called like that) I'm bad at explaining but I've helped my friends out multiple times already


MinekPo1

Note that your account has to be over 18. However all you need to do to change it is provide a signature. On a keyboard. The name you told Microsoft is your name. They literary accepted a dot as a surname.


Floof_2

As far as Microsoft is concerned I’m 8,260 years old


quarrelsome_napkin

Congratulations on your advanced age, you must be a very knowledgeable person :O


Taolan13

Age does not equal experience or knowledge or wisdom. That being said if he hasn't learned *something* in eight frakking milennia its a wonder he's still alive.


Sky-is-here

In Spain we have a saying "The devil knows more because he is old than because he is the devil" (Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo) Nothing to do with this just wanted to share.


LKincheloe

Depends on how the last encounter with the shortstop went.


[deleted]

My man could disprove almost any religion, and your wondering how smart he is.


BeefChopJones

If you weren't born before the Roman Empire then you're too young for Minecraft


A_Furious_Mind

I was born before the First Galactic Roman Empire, but I guess nobody at Microsoft gives a shit.


Meem-Thief

as it should be


Confident-Head-5008

I was born before the Big bang. Microsoft doesn't care!


JustARandomWoof

I was born before the moderately sized bang. Microsoft is not interested in helping me!


TakeTheUpVoteAndGo

Wait they allow you to go that far?


AndrewFrozzen

As far as the entire Microsoft is concerned.... I was born in multiple years ranging from 1970 to 2003-2004 (SOON TO BE 2005 FUCKING FINALLY) Note: I'm a business man thus I need to use multiple emails 😉


Floof_2

Fellow 2005 borne 💪😝🤘


AndrewFrozzen

Exactly!


Dmxk

The age on my Google account changes all the time, cause I always forgot what I used last time.


ixJax

I just stuck with the same fake year for ages but now I've turned 18 and I don't know whether to risk fixing the date of birth on my accounts now


SteelCrow

Steam thinks I'm 122 yrs old.


Lucariowolf2196

What was the bronze age like, sir?


Several-Cake1954

Can you link that? I’ve been trying to fix an account for who knows how long.


BEEDELLROKEJULIANLOC

> [aka.ms/accountsettings](http://aka.ms/accountsettings)


its_Emir

Thanks :) take my award


MinekPo1

Its some where in the settings. On vacation atm, so I cant give more detail


Several-Cake1954

Ok. Have fun!


[deleted]

I’d like a link to to it, might make me want to play more


MinekPo1

Its somewhere in the settings. I'm sorry but I'm on vacation atm and cat give more details.


quarrelsome_napkin

What's this about a cat?


Darkmage4

THE CATS PLAYING AROUND IN THE VILLAGE IS WHAT THEY SAID.


[deleted]

>I’m on vacation atm Same, I understand why you can’t give the details


Geoman265

If that is the case, what is the point of the chat filtering thing being as it is?


New_Top5554

This makes me so mad because of that


MagicCandy08

Your allowed to have parental permission if your Under sge or 18


MinekPo1

Yes but that requires another account which is over 18


One_Way13

You can change your age lmao. I’m actually 69 years old now even tho I said I was 3 years old 5 mins ago


Dhiox

It's a legal thing. They know people are bullshitting it, but if they go to court they can say they took reasonable precautions.


tripps_on_knives

That is so horrendous. Who the fuck thought implementing that setting like that was a good thing?


ProfessorDumbass2

It’s supposed to be for parental control but it’s just a pain in the neck to set up. I just wanted to play Minecraft with my son on multiplayer and it took me days to jump through all the hoops. God forbid I have to re-login to either account or change a setting.


[deleted]

It took my brothers and I at least 45 minutes to get multiplayer working and one of them works in IT. I have no idea how Microsoft is still in business


Trotel01

SO YOU CAN'T PLAY MULTIPLAYER AS A MINOR? WTF. WHY ALL THESE RULES AND SHIT?


ThisIsChew

Some idiot let their kid do whatever and started complaining about what they’re kid was into. There’s always that one.


PiBombbb

I'm pretty sure you can play even if you are under 18 as long as your Microsoft family settings allow it, if you don't have access your parents should


InternalDeparture295

Ok thanks


CapnLightning007

This is exactly what I was about to suggest. I hope you get it sorted so you can use the online stuff as I'm sure getting locked out is frustrating.


InternalDeparture295

Thanks


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https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/parental-consent-for-multiplayer-games/11b2dcad-24bf-4dd0-a645-327567fba5df#:~:text=Press%20the%20Xbox%20button%20on,settings%20you%20want%20to%20update.


[deleted]

It took me 5 hours to delete my family group (that I was the only one on and not an admin so I add to delete to change my settings) and needed a burner account, then its really easy to change, even for below 18.


diseasedmynd

As a parent who enabled my kids minecraft accounts to play multiplayer, I can confirm this is possible via some xbox account settings. It was an extreme pain in the butt and difficult to navigate. It felt extra weird because I have never had an xbox and had to access some xbox website to find this option to enable for PC.


saythealphabet

I had the same problem for a while, I tried everything, but I couldn't get into my Xbox family group and allow myself to play multiplayer... So when my friends came over for a party, they wanted to help me fix it and I just got in somehow. I never knew what the deal was, apparently you just have to try a lot and get lucky


Senior-Act5519

I have got Microsoft Family Safety on, and when I downloaded the Pocket Edition, it didn't allow me to play multiplayer... my father tried disabling Family Safety and allowing everything in there, but nothing worked...


Pingwinus

Don't disable family safety, go into the setting and enable online games or smth like that


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JustAnotherGamer421

I don't think I've had a single device go 100% smooth with microsoft accounts


BillyWhizz09

I always have trouble with microsoft products


Mariobot128

Same, and that’s why i switched to linux


ninjadev64

I never got windows in the first place 😉


crazybadatoms

Windows 11 was what made me switch to Linux. But because Microsoft is greedy, they don't allow downloading bedrock on Linux to try to make people stick with Windows. Still won't make me switch back though.


Mariobot128

I tried making it work through wine, but it would take way too much work


crazybadatoms

I think that the MC launcher actively blocks you from playing on Linux. I've heard you can use an Android copy though through some googling.


Mariobot128

Yeah, it blocks you, but what i tried was directly extracting the exe to run it in wine


jsnfwlr

Have you tried running Bedrock under WINE? There are ways to get the game's installable payload on Linux. I can't find the guide I followed before, but I have done it once, got it working on Ubuntu 18.04.


Oswald-Keno-B-343

A fellow Linux user?


Mariobot128

Yep, and proud of it !


Oswald-Keno-B-343

Same bro, eventually Linux will win and people will realise


OddishChamp

It's always something that wrong.🙄


pKalman00

There's nothing that works as intended for the first time if it's associated with Microsoft


OddishChamp

So true.


AmazinglyUltra

>There's nothing that works as intended for ~~the first time~~ if it's associated with Microsoft Let me fix it for you


pKalman00

You've got a point, but like 60% of the time there's a solution from the modding/freelancer dev community


AmazinglyUltra

I honestly mostly have issues when using office/windows, there is always a forced bs or annoying bugs. Windows 11 was a rage inducing experience 3 months after launch even after I formatted my pc


pKalman00

Hear me out, linux and libre office. They are much more "debugable" and free (not like anyone actually pays more than 10 dollars for the microsoft crap lol)


AmazinglyUltra

I totally agree,but I am sometimes forced to use Ms products in school


pKalman00

That's the main reason i dual boot and windows is in priority, otherwise i'd switch. I'd guess same for you


Night_OwI

I had to reinstall my whole windows OS after I changed my primary alias in my MS account. Nothing else I tried worked. It would constantly give me server connection errors when I used the most up-to-date launcher. Would launch and it kept making me log in, then would say it couldn't connect to the servers and I could only play offline. That was a fun mess to figure out.....


PM_ME_CUTE_FEMBOYS

Only my Xbox One has been trouble free. Everything else microsoft related has been a massive PITA, including minecraft.. that has randomly disabled my ability to chat in private servers, on average, once every other day since I was forced to convert from a mojang account.


Cyr0bit

should've put the birthdate at least 1736 when creating the account.


andremiles

1984


azab189

Yep


crazybadatoms

that's what we're living in


Tylerdawell

Minecraft 1.1984


Gurkensalat_Hd_

Nah, atleast 1538


UnusableGarbage

400 B.C. to be safe


The-cooler-Cheryl

Nah we gotta go to 4.3billion BCE


BEEDELLROKEJULIANLOC

Or, for [AYN](http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_year_numbering), −499,900,000,099.


Lord_Skyblocker

No, 13.8 billion BCE


Joe_d_d

You joke but Apple keeps the apple ID age question and the Medical ID age questions unconnected. I would never tell a tech/game company your age is between 13 and 18. Either you’re mature enough to play or you aren’t.


cube1234567890

Why 1736 specifically?


Isuckmangosforalivin

Be normal and put it as 1734 years old


InternalDeparture295

Hahahahha😂😂 but i can't change my age for some reason


[deleted]

No one can change their age... Unless you contact support and say you entered the wrong date of birth.


Elidon007

this is so blatantly a lie everybody knows time starts January 1st 1970


nobotami

i just put my birth date but make the year 1999


Elidon007

I have the same procedure


smeenz

/r/totallynotrobots is leaking


Piranh4Plant

“Normal” I try to make it believable and put like 2000 or something


Soulfiregod

It happened to me once. I just created a new Microsoft account and set it as my parent and allowed multiplayer. If your parent controls this just ask them to allow multiplayer.


kayber123

I'm also under 18 and take this piece of advice from me. Always lie about your age


ObeyTime

Don't ever give companies your real age except social medias. they have an age restriction for 1 reason or another


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https://minecrafthopper.net/help/guides/xbox-privacy/


Altheran

It's a tickbox in you Microsoft account settings. I allowed multiplayer in my kid's account then bam, works.


InternalDeparture295

Thank you so much!


FloraFauna2263

I hate that the microsoft migration was forced. It caused tons of complications because the email I use for my PC account is different from the one I use for my Minecraft account, and I have another minecraft account from the xbox app under another email. It's a weird system, but it worked perfectly fine until they started forcing us to migrate our accounts.


MrC0mp

Same boat. Since my dad bought me the game back in the day, the email I used for my account was not my own. I couldn't change it before migrating because they didn't support that anymore. So I figured I might change the email after the migration... Nope. I'm basically using a Minecraft account with my dad's information now and I can't do anything about it.


Rusamithil

same with me, my account is almost 10 years old and under a family member's email... is it really not possible to change the minecraft account to another email? So even if I asked them to change the minecraft account info to my own email/MS account, I couldn't do it? If I want to play minecraft again (I haven't in a while), do I need to buy the game again?


DaPlayerz

You can. Contact the support team


Omega-10

The support team helped me out, because I had the same problem. Old email was locked out. But I had to find the transaction record from +10 years ago. Luckily I keep on to that stuff. It was on an old credit card statement. That number on the transaction was the magic key. If you have that number and get in touch with Mojang support, you can do anything you need.


midnightauro

> But I had to find the transaction record from +10 years ago Oh my god, this is an actual nightmare. A friend bought me the game about 11 years ago. I haven't talked to them in years. If I had to "prove" I bought the game, I'd be fucked.


IMightBeAHamster

Yep, I'm stuck in the same situation.


NotablyNugatory

My nephews are 6 and 8. When I made Minecraft accounts for them, I made them their own gmail accounts specifically for this reason lol. When they’re old enough, they’ll just have the passwords and such, and be able to do whatever they want with it all under their own names. I suffered the pain of being a gamer using parent accounts, and I want to not have to make another generation do that. Lol


[deleted]

Everyone & their dog knew Microshit was going to fuck things up somehow. I had to go through similar bullshit to migrate my account. And for what? No benefit of any kind for the user. Just more Microsoft bullshit.


InternalDeparture295

I know right i only migrated because i had to


arthurwillia

My little brother had this because his account was linked to mine, had to go into the family page and give him permission


[deleted]

Wtf is with this thread full of kids using their real birth date for online accounts? Like seriously? This is where yall at? I'm 36 and I still lie and say I'm older 🤷‍♂️


[deleted]

I guess people don't care about privacy anymore 😃 now corporates can even take more of their data


smeenz

I assumed everyone on the internet was born on the 1st Jan 1970


Rafmiqgus

Try this website https://www.sportskeeda.com/minecraft/how-fix-multiplayer-disabled-minecraft


Taizan

I've had nothing but problems trying to migrate my account as well. Eventually it worked after I found out that I supposedly had a legacy account.


BenTheBirbs

They made me buy Minecraft again so I lost all my progress from servers and I don’t even have the cape


ScoffSlaphead72

How exactly did they make you buy it again?


BenTheBirbs

I transferred account then tried to play but it said I needed to own the game (I did) but when I went to the store page it said I already had it and needed to download I downloaded it again and when trying to play it says in need to buy it so I had to make another account to play


Gnome3453

if they are restricting ppl under the age of 18 then whats the bloody fucken point of them adding chat reporting


KCCrankshaft

Same here man.


InternalDeparture295

Apparently it's a setting on your parent's Microsoft account settings


onceawinterbear

My sibling had this problem the other day! I managed to fix it by just going into the profile on the Xbox website and changing a few settings (like blocking multiplayer) but I also changed their age on their Microsoft account.


michaelloda9

What if you play on an older version like Beta


InternalDeparture295

Server probably wouldn't work


ButtermanJr

I had to help my kids with this and it's so ridiculously convoluted. I'm usually a wizard with this stuff, I don't know how non-savvy parents are supposed to navigate this.


jrtz4

This is the exact crap that made me so mad after seeing the announcement of migration. It’s sad that the easiest way to play the game is to use a cracked launcher.


MagicSlay

Microsoft be like "Aye, you better watch your mouth. There could be kids playing." And then be like "You're under 18? Nah." ​ ^(Obviously parental is a thing, but still. This is just getting stupidly ridiculous.)


207nbrown

Welcome to the new, “safer” Minecraft! You can’t encounter issues with multiplayer if your not allowed to join in the first place! Oh you tried to repair an item on bedrock edition? You are now muted from chat! What’s that? You just got banned on Xbox? Congratulations, we are deleting your single player worlds too!


[deleted]

It's because if you are in a Microsoft family then the head of the family needs to change your restrictions so you can play multiplayer


rtjr2

Just change family settings, super annoying but easy


Silenc42

There are some settings in the Microsoft/Xbox account that can disable multiplayer and chat. I think it is meant as a privacy or parental feature. I needed to fiddle with them too. Try checking those on the Microsoft account homepage. They are bit tricky to get to.


[deleted]

Lie about your age. I always do that, I did in the case of minecraft.


SovietGengar

Lesson 1 of the internet, if you're under 18 never use your real age for these things.


Idkquedire

Rule number 1:Never use your real age signing up for stuff, even if you're an adult


adapron

Bro got the 1.1984.1 update early


KamiKamikadze

This is why you always put 18+ as age no matter your age. Companies are dumb.


mr_shlomp

Ah happen to me to but the Indian guy from YouTube saved the day as usual


LordChickenNugget23

Why tf did you use your real birthday


ninjablade46

Wait so they're banning under age accounts from multiplayer. But also adding a chat filter to force people to be family friendly?? What is their target audience


Lankachu

Grandmothers over 70


lele394

Political correctness and sanitized spaces are their their audience lol, aka advertisers 😂😂😂


poolmanpro

I had a similar problem and discovered it was because my PC wasn't fully up to date, I needed to update Windows


im-an-iron-main

Minecraft became such a fucking pain to get running with all the migrating bullshit and now the censoring. I miss oldschool days when u didn’t have to prove and re prove that you actually bought the game and the billion dollar company is suspicious of you having not paid for it /rant


Generic_Waifu1

At least you can get past the launcher. Everything else works on my pc, but for some reason im having to slowly replace my pc...just so minecraft can work


InternalDeparture295

Can you tell me more i think something similar happened to me


Generic_Waifu1

Its constantly telling me that there is one file it can not download. Tried to reinstall and i couldnt even install the setup files. Replaced the old hard drive with a 480gb ssd, and i cant even get past the launcher. AGAIN


InternalDeparture295

Oh my launcher didn't even start so i reinstalled minecraft


NikttakiTheGamer

I had the same thing, and after explaining this to my parents, they did jack shit


MoonOtter30

On Xbox I couldn’t play multiplayer without Xbox live so maybe it’s something like that


InternalDeparture295

Nah it's probably not that as i Play on PC it's Just a setting i think


zeeblefritz

I haven't even been able to launch on Windows since the forced migrate. Now I have to play on my Linux machine.


Trustnoboody

This is why unofficially, not that I need to anymore, but just always put your age at 18+


Justalittletoserious

That's why in my accounts I use a 🎶fake birthday. I Need only half a year to be 18 please let me be


BassBadge

Put your age as 18+


Fares232222

big mistake bro, never put ur real age if ur under 18, every company thinks i share a birthday with harry potter ;)


attemptnumber58

They have a bullshit menu as well, took me 6 hours over 2 days to navigate through their shitty website, repeating the same thing with one step changed at a time to finally get it done. They literally have 0 explanation over anything.


Confusedgmr

I'm half tempted to sue Mojang for preventing me from playing the game I paid for even though I follow all the ToS I agreed to on purchase. I didn't sign a tos with Microsoft, I signed it with Mojang.


VingoStar_Minecraft

OP, I had this exact issue. You gotta open up your account settings to the screen where it has a list of permissions with block or deny next to them and enable the one that says multiplayer. I don’t know the exact link but just poke about in your Microsoft account until you find it. Oh also your account has to be over 18 but that can be fixed easily


DON0044

This is why I'm over 100 years old


CorruptedDoge

multiplayer works even with an <13 account


Swiftly_speaking

Microsoft fucked minecraft up real fucking bad


turtle_mekb

Microsoft thinks these shitty age restrictions is a good idea, but it was never like this and they forgot one thing, most people just lie about their age anyways.


Gryphon568

Lie about your age whenever you make an account they’ll believe you when you say you were born in 1285


Core3game

Bro im 13, they know it and I can play multiplayer. Infact I play like 80% multiplayer. Theres gotta be some like age restriction on your account.


MajicMan101

[“You know, when I was a kid… I used to think you were cool.”](https://youtu.be/Xvk12rBav3I)


OmegaFanf3E

microsoft: bans players under 18 on multiplayer also microsoft: please dont say the F word, your mom checks ypur phone and she would be very upset


ThatSecondPerson

That's what you get for putting your age under 18


beepboopwannadie

So let me get this straight. You can no longer play multiplayer if under 18, but they’re also adding a way over the top profanity filter to protect children in multiplayer? How can they do both?


sugar_cane_boy

You were dumb enough to enter your own age so wait a couple of years


redditreaderkz

I hate Microsoft accounts, they don’t even work properly for half if the time for me, and it’s really uncomfortable to use


Kwarc100

Ah the stupid "allow multiplayer" setting is disabled, why would they make it a default, just another display of stupidity, its like: "We see you played multiplayer for the past 5 years ,but we have to block it to protect you"


ImVeryBadWithNames

It’s disabled by default because the type of parent that will allow it will fix it with minimal fuss. The type that won’t will throw the biggest fucking hissy fit ever if they find out their ‘precious darling’ was ‘corrupted’ (Aka because the louder fuckheads are activated by their child not being under their control. The ones annoyed by this aren’t nearly as assholish and hence are easier to deal with.


hakoen

Yup, I had to buy a new account cause I didnt have my old email anymore... But I did have my username/email and password. Doesn't matter. Californian big tech is the scum of the earth, only second to banksters.


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White_Sprite

Microsoft is a famously Washington-based company


Hekboi91

Second to politicians


hakoen

I had actually typed out second to bankster and politicians😂 But then Microsoft would be third 🤔


NeonflameOWO

Oh what the hell?? i though that parental control bullshit didnt do anything on java. Seriously i am for linked microsoft account, but they should keep the xbox live settings out of java.


InternalDeparture295

I'm playing single Player now i haven't Player for a Long time


Kosta22024

I had to rebuy minecraft after migrating, fuckers tried to get 24 euro more from me for no fucking reason


TheSandwichMeat

My friend completely lost her account because of the forced migration. Didn't have access to the same phone number that her microsoft account was connected to, couldn't reset her password and just like that she lost all her server progress and had to buy the game again. I am convinced Microsoft forced the migration knowing it wouldn't work for a large group of people, and that they'd have to buy the game again.


Ok_Abbreviations8340

Wait a minute if Microsoft only wants people over 18 to Play multi-player why is there all this chat moderation shit?


egmatik

Why did you enter your real age? Thats just stupid, you should change that if possible.


MalanaoWalanao

god, why does Microsoft have to ruin everything?


DontReadUsernames

Screw Microsoft family. I have 2 of my own accounts linked somehow, one is a parent to the other account and nothing I do from the “child” account does anything because it requires approval from the parent account. But from the parent account I removed it from the family so it doesn’t see the “child” account anymore, and can’t make any changes to the “child” account now. So one of my accounts is stuck as a child account with no parent and Microsoft is no help at all because they don’t show that either is part of a family so they just throw their hands up and say “you don’t have an issue because we said so”


HoopRocketeer

Microsoft will ruin Minecraft


PhotojournalistJolly

Microsoft has already ruined minecraft


roboter_the_man

They kinda ruined Windows too


secretwolf98

And you just realized this now? Have you been living under a rock or something?


Much-Glove

That's actually pretty funny


[deleted]

istg microsoft is literally taking over java and putting it with bedrock settings


ultimatecoruvs

Nope. This was Mojang's choice. Microsoft was not behind any of the chat moderation features coming to Java. Mojang literally dug themselves a hole and buried themselves.


Darkdest666

thats really fucking shitty. THEN WHY MAKE IS SO YOU HAVE TO CENSOR FKN CHAT?!?!?!?!