[BLOG] Mojang put a date on name-changes: Feb 4th

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[BLOG] Mojang put a date on name-changes: Feb 4th

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Today on their site's blog Mojang announced that something Minecraft players have been waiting for is soon about to make its way to the game!



... No, it's not the Mod API. It's the ability to change your in-game name!



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The change is due to be rolled out on February 4th and as long as you already have a Mojang account it's free to do. The option to change the name will be a little link on the Mojang account page with the 'change' option next to your current in-game name.



You can only grab unused names though, and once you change your name you can't do it again for another 30 days. But no worries if you want to change back, names previously in use are held for 37 days before they become up for grabs so as long as you're on the ball you won't lose your username if you regret the change. Mojang are also freeing up old unpaid account names for use, so if you have one now's the time to go and buy it!



The system gives each account an identifier that's separate from the display name so if a user's been banned for a server they'll stay banned, as well as accounts retaining inventories and other things across name changes. Mojang hope that the system will be simple enough for mod users to encode with for their own mods.



Mojang blog "Announcing Minecraft name changes": [x]
Yes that's Minecraft-me in my av. Done by Reiu who is damn talented!
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