mojira.dev
MCPE-236202

Entering a world too soon after launching the game causes a "Skin not allowed" error message to appear

When trying to join my Realm, I receive a pop-up forbidding me from joining which says “Skin not allowed. Your current skin is from a content pack that is not allowed in multiplayer. Change your skin to be able to access this Realm.” The skin I use is not from a content pack; I in fact do not own any content pack skins to my knowledge. The “Close” button on this window does not work, so I am forced to close the whole game. The only way I can use the Realm is to go to the Dressing Room and change my skin to any random thing, which I have to do every time I open the game, even after changing my skin. Windows 11 version.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. With Minecraft open, click Play as soon as possible

  2. Try opening a world

  3. If the result is from Expected results and the procedure is done too slow (>3 seconds if on a PC with SSD), restart the game or reboot the computer

Expected result:

If the skin is not disallowed to play multiplayer by the game, the world should load with multiplayer enabled

Observed result:

You get blocked by “Skin not allowed” pop-up, regardless of the skin / custom character.

Workaround:

  1. Going to the Dressing Room by clicking “Change character / skin”

  2. (Optional) Wait so the skin finishes loading.

  3. Leave the Dressing Room after, there’s no need to switch slots

There’s no more permanent way as there are no “platform_locked“ enabled on either Character Creator items or Marketplace skin packs.

Linked issues

Attachments

Comments 3

Can confirm, on my PC, I can be blocked by the “Skin not allowed” pop-up when I entered a world too soon after the game is started. I was like “huh, I equipped the platform restricted skin as one when I was signed out, that should make sense“. But seeing this report, and so I tried removing all platform restricted skin packs, and yet I can still get blocked by the pop-up when I opened the world too soon after the PC is shut down or rebooted.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. With Minecraft open, click Play as soon as possible

  2. Try opening a world

  3. If the result is from Expected results and the procedure is done too slow (>3 seconds if on a PC with SSD), restart the game or reboot the computer

Expected result: If the skin is not disallowed to play multiplayer by the game, the world should load with multiplayer enabled

Observed result: You get blocked by “Skin not allowed” pop-up, regardless of the skin / custom character.

Workaround:

  1. Cancel the pop-up by pressing “Escape” key or the X button on the pop-up

  2. Wait so the skin finishes loading.

There’s no more permanent way as there are no “platform_locked“ enabled on either Character Creator items or Marketplace skin packs.

Note: This, for now, is not linked to an issue I am having for years with the Super Mario Mash-up Pack on Nintendo Switch, where they are consistently tightening the gates while I begged / wanted them to loosen. And so I cannot reproduce this issue on Nintendo Switch without using skins from the Super Mario Mash-up.

skin not allowed pop up.png

That workaround I tried from above actually doesn’t work, but the next workaround can be done by:

  1. Going to the Dressing Room by clicking “Change character / skin”

  2. (Optional) Wait so the skin finishes loading.

  3. Leave the Dressing Room after, there’s no need to switch slots

Basically it’s like what the reporter has done but without changing skin / character slots in step 3.

This is happening to me with my single player worlds. I'm using the same skin I've used for ages with the options from the vanilla dressing room items. No downloadable cosmetics apart from the twich cape. I dont see whats so inappropriate about it.

It takes a while to boot up minecraft allready. I dont want to wait another 5 minutes waiting on my skin to load. Before this issue, the game just gave me a random default skin if I entered a world before my skin loaded.

Rafael McMillan

(Unassigned)

1563763

Confirmed

Windows

26.0, 26.10.23 Preview, 26.10.24 Preview

Retrieved