Over the years we have had numerous emails and requests to support this and now with the help of a third-party developer, we do support it. Here at the studios, we recognise that there is a need for people to design their own custom launchers which will then allow their teams, players and community to see news, updates and log straight into their server when they are ready to play. Developed by Mojang ( now Microsoft) it still excels in being one of the top 5 most played games online globally. This literally just changes your display name, so if anybody else is wondering, it can not be used to pirate the game or anything like that.Minecraft is one of the world’s most popular online multiplayer games ever produced. This will only work on singleplayer and servers with offline mode on, not LAN or online servers. Once the game has started you're free to reconnect to your internet, and you should have the name you chose. You need to keep your internet disconnected until you click 'Play offline' on the launcher, otherwise it will connect and realise your username is wrong. Edit your name to whatever you want to change your name to and then save it and open up the launcher.īecause your internet is disconnected it will only let you play on offline mode. The very last part before the } }} should show 'displayName': and then your name in quotation marks. minecraft folder should be a file called launcher_profiles.json ( 1.16.4+: launcher_accounts.json) open it up with any text editor.

Yep it is, although a bit more of a hassle than it used to be.įirst, disconnect your internet and go to your.

Minecraft custom name launcher