Royal Tippetts

Right there with you guys. IF it makes sense for you to do so, particularly for those of you playing with your kids, I've finally just switched to the Windows 10 version. It's at near parity feature wise (which doesn't sound like it's a big deal in this case anyway) and avoids this issue entirely, not to mention you already own it by having purchased the Java version. I'd give it a shot if you haven't recently. Sounds like the cross platform play will be getting even better than it is as well.

Preemptive obligatory statement from mods and helpers: "This isn't a forum or chat room, its a bug tracker that notifies 149 people and us"

Response: Yes we know, and thank you for your efforts, but the people who have voted for this and are watching it are doing so because they'd like a solution already! By the time anyone gets here we've exhausted the forums and found those solutions inadequate. Please use your time advocating for a real fix to this issue as well stated by others before me. There have already been several proposed solutions based directly on the code for the game, what else are we waiting for here?

Hey Tiya tehJak, Fabian is actually correct that this is unrelated, but didn't really explain why. What you found was that when your program (in this case Minecraft) isn't allowed to access the internet it can't download files like your personalized skin. The issue here is that people on other computers can't see the hosts skin, even though they all have access to the internet and the host can see it just fine. What you have described is a pretty standard firewall issue and not a bug, where the issue long overdue to be fixed here is an issue with the coding of the game itself.

Still very much a bug. This has been an issue for a very long time, could we at least get an update on this please? The inability to even pick the gender of our default character, followed by that being the only thing that shows up, is kind of a big deal.