Microsoft and Mojang are tightening the reins on Minecraft and introducing a new ban system. In the future, anyone who misbehaves on any online server or misbehaves in any other way could be excluded from all multiplayer – including private servers.
At least cancel that die Patchnotes for the pre-release of update 1.19.1, which is scheduled for global deployment on June 28th. In this article we explain how the whole thing works, how the developers want to prevent arbitrariness and how server operators can leave their players a loophole.
If you want to know what else new 1.19, released as »The Wild Update«, has brought to the game, you can find all the information in our overview:
Minecraft 1.19: The Wild
All information about the new update
Forever single player?
If we take a look at the help article that covers how to report other players’ chat messages, we find the exact wording that is confusing many players right now:
Procedure for chat messages:
• A player creates a report, selects the chat messages that violate the Community Guidelines, category, and other details, and submits it.
• The report goes to our team of Minecraft moderators.
• A moderator will review the report and attached supporting documents and take appropriate action (if necessary).
• If an action is taken, the player who violated the rules will have his account suspended for a period of time excluded from playing with others (Online Play). In cases of particular hardship, the measure can also be applied without a time limit.
A two-day older version of the patch notes further clarified the scope of the measures by realms, i.e. the private servers officially rented from Mojang separate from the rest of the multiplayer. So there is no doubt that all online gaming options are really meant here.
At the same time, however, it is also clear that the exclusion imposed by official moderators will in most cases be subject to a time limit. In addition, you can submit your ban for a case-by-case review, provided that the remaining duration exceeds 24 hours and the measure is not older than 1 year.
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That appropriate form reveals that the possible ban periods range from three days to one, two or four weeks and permanent exclusion. The permissible reasons for such a punishment are listed in the quotation Community Guidelines on. They contain the usual clauses on hate speech, harassment, threats and general etiquette.
Meanwhile, a developer studio under Microsoft itself came under criticism for inappropriate behavior. Allegations by former employees indicate bullying, discrimination or worse:
State of Decay
Serious allegations against Undead Labs
How safe are the new bans?
If you send a chat message in Minecraft multiplayer, it will be clearly signed and encrypted by your account and sent to the server. The reporting function therefore relies on hard data and not on potentially manipulable screenshots.
However, this system requires that both the server and the game client are running on version 1.19.1 or higher. This means that if your favorite server is still based on versions 1.17 or 1.18, the change will not affect you at first.
In addition, signing by mod can be easily switched off. Then it is up to the server operators whether they allow players without a signature on the server or automatically exclude them. So while you can avoid the danger of multiplayer bans as a precaution, this will not help you if you have already been banned. In this case you have to be content with the single player mode for the specified time.
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