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MC-207896

Authentication issue while trying to play on servers with a Microsoft account

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Mojang Notice

This issue is likely caused by using illegal or incompatible software, which are known to corrupt your hosts list by redirecting any Mojang authentification server address to their own illicit servers. To fix this, you need to remove any non-official software, then you need to fix your affected hosts file by doing the following:

On Windows

  1. Go to the Start Menu and locate notepad. Right click notepad and select Run as Administrator

  2. Press Ctrl and O on your keyboard, then enter %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts as the "File name" and press "Open"

  3. Remove every line mentioning "Mojang" and hit save (Ctrl+S). (Example: https://imgur.com/qBb9vZA)

On Linux and possibly MacOS

Your user needs to be a sudoer (have administrative privileges), otherwise you need to log as the superuser if you know the password or ask assistance to your system administrator.

  1. Open a terminal application (search for terminal in your application launcher).

  2. Type sudo nano /etc/hosts

  3. Remove any line containing "Mojang" then save the hosts file.

You should now be able to play Minecraft again, please never use any illegal tools or accounts.

It is highly recommended to sign in and change your password.

⚠️ If your hosts file does not contain any line mentioning a Mojang server or you are still experiencing this issue, please contact 💬 Community Support. Please don't post comments here if you don't have any new insights to share, this is not a support forum.

You can also check MCL-5546 for more detailed instructions on how to properly uninstall incompatible software.

 

 

Hi, I recently bought minecraft java edition after december 7th, which was when new players had to log in with microsoft accounts rather than create mojang accounts. I did this but I am missing the following features:

SERVERS - I can't join any multiplayer server. When I try, it shows the error message 'failed to log in: the authentication servers are currently down for maintenance.'

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is duplicated by 689

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Some third party severs may be temporarily closed. Mojang isn’t responsible for the third party stuff.

A number of reports indicate that this may be a problem with authentication for Microsoft accounts.
These reports indicate that they bought the game using a Microsoft account on or after 1 December:
MC-207891 MCL-15904 MC-207615 MC-207907 MC-207945 MC-207994
These reports also possibly bought the game on or after 1 December:
MC-207764 MC-207614
Other such reports created on or after 1 December:
MCL-15800 MC-207463 MC-207431 MC-207693 BDS-10332

Is there anyone who bought the game on or after 1 December and can access servers?

This may not be a bug within Minecraft itself, but it may be a valid issue with the Mojang authentication servers.

I'm experiencing the same issues and its super annoying I'm stuck with alex skin

Also it looks like you have almost the same description as my duplicate issue MC-207891... I'm confused

This issue also seems to be duplicated by MC-208401 and MC-208381, and is related to MC-208400, which also mentions lack of ability to upload a custom skin

Yes, its super annoying, i bought the game yesterday and i am having the same problem, they need to fix it soon because we spent money on this

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After a lot of thinking i figured out the solution : 

  1. go to xbox live

  2. log in 

  3. itll show you java account

  4. go to privacy

  5. change the settings needed to be changed

  6. ENJOY HYPIXEL

This issue is actually often caused by the Microsoft account migration, somewhere in your Microsoft account options you should be able to enable/disable multiplayer. I think it's in privacy settings but I'm not sure. It may also be due to what age you put when creating a Microsoft account because if you are too young it might stop you from playing. One way to get around this is join a Microsoft Family at https://account.microsoft.com/family/. Otherwise, try looking around your Microsoft account settings https://account.microsoft.com/. Other than that, I can't help. Good Luck!

I tried everything listed here but it still didnt work,

I am on MacOS and on the terminal thing, i didnt see mojang at all.

What do I do?

@K-Quat Follow the instructions to contact community support.

Note that since 21w03a (1.18.2 development version), the error message is now "The authentication servers are currently not reachable. Please try again.".

https://github.com/misode/mcmeta/commit/95bc0e38fa3dee1e96c5aec29d865afea09ea6a9#diff-25c052c6e03114e1455b3c90dc957c94ac4d6cf0c922c03afa829ffd855286b4R462

Jasraj Sagoo

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Community Consensus

Very Important

Networking

1.16.4, 20w49a

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