Did your younger self pick an immature, embarrassing, or plain weird Minecraft username when you first found the game? You can now smack your younger self with the new ability to change your Minecraft username on February 4th! After an almost 2 year long wait since Mojang first hinted this feature, it has finally arrived. But how will it work you ask? Keep reading! What do I need to do this? Will it cost money? The only thing that is required is a Mojang account. If you currently sign in to Minecraft with an email address, you’re all good! There are no other requirements, and it doesn’t cost any money. It sounds good! Where can I do it? On your Mojang account page. Once the feature is made available you’ll see a “change” link next to your Minecraft name. Can I steal somebody’s name? Can I call myself “Natbyte” too? No. There is already somebody called Natbyte and names are still unique. You can’t have the same name as another player; they will have to change their name for you to be able to take it. 37 days after they change their name, the old one will become available. What about all those unpaid usernames from so many years ago? We will be freeing up all those old unpaid usernames when the new name changing feature is released. Can I change the capitalisation of my name? Yes, you can! Does this mean that I can pick a new name every day? No. After changing your name you have to wait 30 days before you can do it again. What if I change my name and then realise that I don’t like it? Can I change back to my old name? After 30 days, yes. If I ban a player “Jordan59961" and he changes name to "Jordan59962", will he stay banned? Yes. Same for white listed players and oped players. They also keep their inventory, pets, statistics and everything they own on a server. How will this work with mods and plugins? What about my custom stuff on this one modded server? Ask your mod maker/server owner. Mods should be able to support this system easily and most already do, but we aren’t responsible for mods or servers!
Well, i'm going to do 3 things with this: 1. Remove 123 2. Capitalize 3. Change "Green" to another colour/fruit/whatever every month
If you change your username I wonder if it will effect plugins like claimblocks and mcmmo, or mess with ranks and permissions.
Not at all UUID is how we now recognise players, not by your in game user name, this is why I guess its took so long to roll this out, as many systems did rely on nothing but the username as your unique identity, now none do.
I was considering changing my user but I'm pretty comfortable now. It'll take a lot less effort to tell people who I am when I keep it the same rather than changing it...
Lets see ... What the results are. Staff all changing to MCS-Stanky1, MCS-Stanky2 and so on ... Factions with out a faction plugin [MCS]Dzyriq (Im not sure what characters are allowed) Random alt names all the time (Can be confuseing) We can enforce a Namecode with out excluding people called ******Scum**** Tracking notorious rule breakers.
With 4 you can do that but what if the person can't change their name for 30 days because there is a limit would they just get banned till they can change their name? Also will it be hard to keep track of peoples record as they can change their name after getting jailed/banned or will you need keep record of their UUID?
If we change our names, can there be a thread requesting of forum names to be changed too, or would that be too tiring, annoying and complicated?
