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Casey Liss Apr 10, 2024

The hurdles I'm jumping through to get Declan to be able to play on a Minecraft server that I'm hosting, using his Switch, are truly asinine.

This is user-hostile from top to bottom, inside and out.

And all this started because he put HOURS into building something locally on his switch that just ✨disappeared ✨.

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Casey Liss Apr 10, 2024

1) He needs a Nintendo Switch Online account to do so
2) *I* have a Nintendo Switch Online account, and am trying to convert to a family plan, but Nintendo's website refuses to let me.
3) He **also** needs an Xbox account, despite us never having owned an Xbox
4) The Switch edition of Minecraft doesn't allow you to enter arbitrary IPs, so at the very least I need to add a DNS record to pihole and at the most I may need an entire faux server that masquerades as a real one

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John Siracusa Apr 10, 2024

@caseyliss You’d better hope he doesn’t start asking you to install mods.

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ziplyne

@siracusa @caseyliss Bedrock edition (all the versions except Java (which is only available on desktop)) can’t be modded except for the official add-ons from the in-game store. Java edition mods have become surprisingly user-friendly (compared to Forge at least) using Fabric (fabricmc.net) as the loader and Modrinth (modrinth.com) as the place to download mods from.