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419 points alex_medvedev | 2 comments | 15 Oct 24 09:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.445s | source
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dartos ◴[15 Oct 24 19:52 UTC] No.41852437[source]▶
Just waiting for Minecraft to be so reverse engineered as to be its own protocol with multiple server and client implementations that just work.
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str3wer ◴[15 Oct 24 20:29 UTC] No.41852773[source]▶
it already is, the entire protocol is reverse engineered, there are tools to automatically deobfuscate the code and there is already a full reimplementation of minecraft that also supports servers
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INTPenis ◴[15 Oct 24 21:06 UTC] No.41853124[source]▶
Does that mean there are open source clients that can connect to servers without a microsoft account?
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beeboobaa3 ◴[15 Oct 24 21:50 UTC] No.41853474[source]▶
the client has to authenticate with a central server and present a ticket to the server it wants to connect to. otherwise clients could impersonate each other easily.
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1. justusthane ◴[16 Oct 24 00:43 UTC] No.41854574[source]▶
There are server mods that remove this requirement though.
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2. beeboobaa3 ◴[16 Oct 24 12:44 UTC] No.41858423[source]▶
sure, iirc it used to even just be a setting? online-mode=false

most servers leave it enabled because preventing player impersonation is pretty important so people can't just easily grief each other. some piracy servers implemented their own auth on top.