There's one big caveat with this: because displayed skins are managed by the Minecraft content servers any non-authenticated player will always appear as a default skin to other players. But it's a decent way for a family to cheaply allow siblings or friends to quickly put together a Minecraft LAN party without dropping hundreds of dollars on premium licenses.Īs we mentioned early on in the tutorial, there is a unnecessary but fun step some players may wish to undertake: adding in a custom skin for the secondary player. It does, however, have one shortcoming: every player will have the identical default 'Steve' skin when viewed by the other players.

The tweak won't allow you all to play online, and it won't give the other users legitimate access to the Minecraft authentication or skin servers. As long as there is one user with a premium account you can effectively 'clone' that user and tweak the secondary users' profiles to allow additional players to join local games.

If, however, your goal is to just have all your kids (or friends) playing together on local area network (LAN) at your house, you do not need multiple paid premium accounts to do so.

Minecraft servers authenticate each login and each user needs to have a unique and valid Minecraft ID. If you want your children to be able to play online so they can access various Minecraft communities and servers, and they want to play online at the same time, then they will each need a separate premium Minecraft account (which currently retails for $27).

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