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Minecraft Username Changes - Will it Mess up Server Bans?

Published Dec 8th, 2013, 12/8/13 10:29 pm
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sycoinc's Avatar sycoinc
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I have seen this asked everywhere lately since the announcement of 'code placed in in preparation for username changes'

Looking through console on my server when i noticed a user trying to connect that was banned... it came up like this (###### = Username + IP hidden but shows in console )

Player [21:15:00 INFO]: GameProfile{id='daae81f5fc364f9e8080037b2e529add', name='#########'} (/###.###.###.###:#####) disconnected (§cYou are banned from this server! Reason: §eImmature children do not belong on this server)


What i take it from this the GameProfile is a unique code assigned to EACH user in minecraft. The name= " ##### " section shows the actual username they tried to login with... From my understanding and hoping is that if we can change usernames Paid or Not Paid the only thing that would change is the name= ' ## ' section meaning all previous bans on a server under a specific username would still stand.

I hope I am correct in this assumption if anyone has more info they would like to add please do.

**note this person was banned for constant cussing, abusing other players and trolling before you go off at the ban reason**
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NightFallHD
• 06/16/2016 8:43 am
• Level 1 : New Miner
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Bans officially go by UUID, because I was banned from Mineplex quite some time ago and I have since been through 4 different names, and i'm still banned
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Tappy
• 01/21/2015 2:06 pm
• Level 7 : Apprentice Network
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The username is not based with their account. When 1.8 everyone was assigned a unique UUID, so if you change the name they player will still be banned as it will ban the UUID not the name.
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sycoinc
• 01/22/2015 5:28 am
• Level 57 : Grandmaster Programmer
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uuid's were actually put in 1.7 but username changes be feb 15th
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The_original_one
• 09/13/2014 8:31 pm
• Level 8 : Apprentice Architect
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no it does it by IP
and username once it has been changed but there is still a flaw...
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sycoinc
• 09/13/2014 10:51 pm
• Level 57 : Grandmaster Programmer
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the uuid is linked to the payers account so once name changes come up it will note if they have changed their username toa ccomidate on bans and such (this is a dummed down simple version as i didnt want to write technical)
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The_original_one
• 09/14/2014 12:04 pm
• Level 8 : Apprentice Architect
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what you just saw was a kink in da camera
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canopenertrooper
• 04/09/2014 5:46 pm
• Level 17 : Journeyman Network
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I've waited 2 years for this change. Thank you Mojang.
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bejames14
• 03/19/2014 12:27 pm
• Level 16 : Journeyman Ninja
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It would only effect the server bans if you use a username ban. But if you do a UUID ban or an IP ban it doesn't really effect it, unless that person connects to a different IP.

-bejames14
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sycoinc
• 03/19/2014 6:44 pm
• Level 57 : Grandmaster Programmer
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yeah seems from further research in the months after this, if they logged in anywhere with their username it logs it against their uuid, so that issue is solved for the most part also as links both
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zbee
• 12/09/2013 9:39 pm
• Level 23 : Expert Nerd
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Mojang will manage to make this go smoothly. Likely they will implement an alias system where a user technically has two usernames, the old and the new, that way they can continue to have a ban active on every user.
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