Can Minecraft Be Played By Two Players Locally On The Same Account? ?

So you want to play Minecraft with your family, but you only have one account. You won’t be able to play online, but with a few tweaks to the configuration files, you should all be able to play over the network together at home with no extra accounts necessary.

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Why Would I Want To Do This?

It’s a point of confusion among many parents purchasing Minecraft for their kids: does every child need a separate Minecraft account? The answer depends entirely on what you want your kids to do with Minecraft and what their goals are.

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If you want your children to be able to play online so they can access various Minecraft communities and servers, and they want to play online at the same time, then they will each need a separate premium Minecraft account (which currently retails for $27). Minecraft servers authenticate each login and each user needs to have a unique and valid Minecraft ID.

If, however, your goal is to just have all your kids (or friends) playing together on local area network (LAN) at your house, you do not need multiple paid premium accounts to do so. As long as there is one user with a premium account you can effectively “clone” that user and tweak the secondary users’ profiles to allow additional players to join local games.

The tweak won’t allow you all to play online, and it won’t give the other users legitimate access to the Minecraft authentication or skin servers. This isn’t a crack or piracy exploit. It does, however, have one shortcoming: every player will have the identical default “Steve” skin when viewed by the other players. But it’s a decent way for a family to cheaply allow siblings or friends to quickly put together a Minecraft LAN party without dropping hundreds of dollars on premium licenses.

All that said, if you do find that your family is getting serious use out of Minecraft and the “clone” client you made for the younger kids is popular, we’d encourage you to buy a full account. Not only will your child have the ability to play on the thousands of awesome Minecraft servers out there and get custom skins for their player character, you’ll also be supporting the development of the game. Even though 99% of my family’s Minecraft play is done in-house on our LAN, for example, everyone in my family has their own account.

For readers ready to dig right in, let’s take a look at how to get multiple clients running on the LAN with very little effort. For new Minecraft players or parents who might be feeling a little overwhelmed already, let us recommend checking out The Parents’ Guide to Minecraft for a great introduction to the game and what it is all about and, for a more in-depth look, the multi-part Geek School series covering beginner and advanced Minecraft play.

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What You’ll Need

If you’re reading this guide, you likely have everything you need on hand. But let’s take a moment to clearly outline what is required before we jump into the how-to stage.

First, you’ll need at least one premium Minecraft account. You will need to log into this premium account at least one time on each computer you intend to play Minecraft with, in order for the premium account to download the necessary assets.

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Second, you’ll need one computer for each additional player. The Minecraft player profile on this machine will be semi-permanently altered to allow you to play on the local network with a non-conflicting username. (None of your world saves or other game data will be deleted or at risk of deletion, mind you, but you’ll need to reverse the process if you want to log in with your regular account again.)

Finally, if you want to make local changes to the skins of the secondary players (which will allow them to see their unique skins but, because of Minecraft skin authentication, won’t effect how others see them) you’ll need to create a simple resource pack. This last step is completely optional and unless you have a player who really wants a custom skin (that, again, only they will be able to see) you can skip it. We’ll walk you through this process in the last section of the tutorial.

How to Configure the Secondary Clients

All the configuration changes you need to make will be on the secondary computers. At no point will you need to make any changes to the primary Minecraft computer (the machine that the original account holder plays on), so go ahead and sit down at one of your secondary machines for the rest of the tutorial.

Before we jump into the configuration changes, let’s show you what happens if you attempt to log in without making the necessary configuration changes. If the secondary player logs into the the open LAN game of the primary player (while using the primary player’s account that is) they’ll see this error message:

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Minecraft essentially says “Wait. You can’t be John. John already exists!” and that’s the end of it. Even though local LAN games do not fully authenticate through the Minecraft servers like the official (and third party servers) do, the local game still respects the fact that there shouldn’t be two identical players in the same game. If it did allow two identical players to join the game, after all, the results would be disastrous as important things like on-character inventory and Ender Chest inventories are linked to the player’s username in the world save file.

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In order to circumvent the name check and avoid the errors that come with two players having the same name, we need to–you guessed it–give the secondary player a new name. To do so we need to make a simple edit to one of the Minecraft configuration files.