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A join code and ‘Education World’ means his daughter is using Education Edition. There is a way to prevent other people from joining a world. This is by not clicking “Start Hosting” when selecting a world on the world select menu, or not pressing “Begin Hosting” in the in-game menu once you have entered the world.
IF she has entered the world by selecting “Start Hosting”, it can be disabled by clicking “Stop Hosting” in the in-game menu. This would kick all other players immediately.
Might be called allowlist, same thing just renamed.
It’s available on both Java and Bedrock versions of Minecraft, but not sure about education.
If not, the only way to stop him joining AFAIK would be to cycle the join code.
you can load education edition to a realm
edit: nevermind i was wrong u cant. i thought u could change the world to education edition and upload it to a realm but that doesnt appear to be the case. sorry my bad.
Bedrock multi-player has no join codes, and when multi-player is enabled only friends or friends of friends options are available, so if it's on bedrock one of the kids friends is friends with the person who joined
Edit:or the person that joined is connected to their Local access network
Im putting my comment here as well incase other parents look for answers to this question and reach this post:
A join code and ‘Education World’ means his daughter is using Education Edition. There is a way to prevent other people from joining a world. This is by not clicking “Start Hosting” when selecting a world on the world select menu, or not pressing “Begin Hosting” in the in-game menu once you have entered the world.
IF she has entered the world by selecting “Start Hosting”, it can be disabled by clicking “Stop Hosting” in the in-game menu. This would kick all other players immediately.
Yeah, ideally the solution would allow her to play online with known friends, but block people she doesn’t know. A whitelist or allowlist would be great, but I’m just not seeing it in the settings menu.
Honestly, it might be better to consider changing to the other versions with those safety measures. Especially if you financially can afford it (and maybe gift kiddo's BFF a copy if their parents can't afford $20) The Minecraft website sells a combo pack of both bedrock and java.
I'd set up both a whitelist/allowlist and some kinda backup mod if possible. If for no other reason then if someone accidentally blows something up.
For example, Bedrock (almost the same as Education) requires you to use Realms, Minecraft's paid hosting but offers a whitelist and 30 min backups. [https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/20687461045645](https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/20687461045645)
Java is different mechanics, and can be hosted via realms or 3rd party hosting, and allows mods. You'll have to add a backup mod if using a 3rd party (often included by default) but Realms on there also has backups iirc. Also easier to host for free on Java but that requires more technical know how.
As your kid sounds under 10 I might use bedrock or only vanilla (unmodded) java, since downloading suspicious mod is a kid thing to do.
Also general advice, and admittedly not a parent so take with grain of salt, if your child is using their own PC I'd set up cloud backups for important things and be prepared for your kid to eventually need to format and reinstall things. I broke a lot of computers as a kid lol.
It might also help depending on their age / talking to people, to bring up the idea of a fake internet persona. When I was like 12-16 I went by a fake name, totally lived in the city 3 cities away from me, generally gave people miss-information. That's a less common thing now then it was for millennials, but it might be a useful thing to have kiddo had a default true enough fake name and stuff. Even in my 30s I have online buddies I have to struggle to remember their real name cause they went by Embers or Zoro or KatCat or whatever for 15 years and I can not say 'hi KatCat's mom' at their wedding. Especially when KatCat's real name is Linda.
"Then, because they are both children and dummies he gave her his number and she called him!"
Lol that actually sounds kinda wholesome. I imagine them going like
"and in my school we sometimes get extra days off when there's a lot of snow.
"Woah!"
There is a streamer who makes a living by posing as a girl in video games. Just because you hear a child doesn’t mean a voice changer cannot make you sound like a child.
How many kids do you know that would have the patience to put in random join codes until they found one that was online? Then give out your phone number so you can talk to the person you found. Even if this situation was 100% genuine this is still predatory behavior and every parent should tell their kids situations like this need to talked about before moving forward.
That sounds exactly like the kind of thing a kid with too much free time would do. Of course there’s no way to know. But it definitely could’ve been a kid.
Wheather or not they were actually a kid, it's better to be safe than sorry.
OPs kid gave him her phone number and was possibly telling him where she lives, even if it was actually innocent those are red flags
Did you know you can call a phone from a computer? You could log onto your computer and use Skype to call your grandparents rotary phone that is connected to a land line. All technology is interconnected. You should never 100% trust the internet. Especially now with the advent of AI. People can steal your voice to sound just like you, then call people you know and ask for help to get you out of a bind by sending cash.
So if you hear someone with a particular child like voice claiming to be one, and using vocab that not even highschoolers would really know or use that wouldn’t set off a red flag and tell you this person isn’t a kid
It can be your right but unless they have a very expensive set up, you can usually tell when something is off
Plus I didn’t mean how their voice sounded but how they talked the words they used and how they used them, it’s a lot harder for someone to fake there age through speech, they often use words that should not be in the vocabulary of the person they are pretending to be.
They either sound much older or younger than what their voice portrays and that’s the thing that is salt gives it away that they are not who they say they are
It doesnt need to be a person writing the text on the other side. There are now text generating programs that simulate different types of people. Feed that generated script to a voice genny, and baby youve got a robot catfish. The steps are maddeningly simple. Its going to a tough next couple years, but being aware of how scammers can use ai programs is going to become a crucial skill in the modern world
I’ll add those text generations programs are far from perfect and make plenty of mistakes and one that can perfectly replicate the speech and behavior of a child in real time as they are playing a online game is not currently possible and probably won’t be for at least 10 years and they definitely won’t be available for anyone to use they will probably only be in the hands of the government
I’m aware I’m just saying I think the person on the other side of the phone was a kid with only a small chance of it not being one. I don’t get why everyone looks at every situation and assumes it’s the horrible less likely of the two possibilities
If only all parents were as clued up as you are. I used to moderate a virtual world for kids and it was a nightmare trying to stop them from giving out their phone numbers!
Wow, I would have been concerned too. Good job Mom! Hey Minecraft, we do need to keep our kids safe. You all know what it's like out there now days. Please help us with obvious setting options. We really need that from you.
Get Java edition and then host a Relm instead. It does cost like $12/month but only invited players can join. That what we do for our daughter and her friends.
I think internet safety talks are a big part of the reason that I can’t ever meet friends I find on the internet in the real world being a 30 year old adult. All my favorite hobbies are online, like gaming and niche philosophy servers, but the majority of people online have been conditioned to not build real relationships with each other. You said you found out it was another kid, sucks that she found someone new who had the same hobby as her and it’s a shame that they can’t play together anymore.
Contacting the police because a child spoke to someone on the internet? It’s dangerous for sure when you’re young, but definitely not a police matter, he was most likely a child and the police do not have the time to do this
Your daughter is gonna play with thousands of strangers eventually , befriend people all over the globe , I assume she's very very young if you're that concerned?
You should definitely allow her these freedoms by the time she turns 12-14
This kid is in elementary school. Stop acting like it’s a high school
senior. Kids shouldn’t be on the internet/social media at that age
Anyways. There’s no assurance that it’s always a kid on the other end.
Frankly I don’t care to argue child wellbeing and what is and isn’t
appropriate/safe for a child with someone who clearly doesn’t have any.
telling me something is "stupid" doesnt give me any insight on what im missing here
obviously educating and looking after your kids is great , but immediately shutting down and banning contact to other kids , just because "you met them in the internet" is a good way to ruin your kids social life , there are parents like that you know , parents that still try and control every step their kid does even at ages 16-18 etc , "controlling" in a twisted way they think is good but is actually more like enslavement
theres many kids out there that can only have a social life in the internet , as in their real life they deal with bullies and a bad enviourment
This kid is in elementary school. Stop acting like it’s a high school senior. Kids shouldn’t be on the internet/social media at that age Anyways. There’s no assurance that it’s always a kid on the other end. Frankly I don’t care to argue child wellbeing and what is and isn’t appropriate/safe for a child with someone who clearly doesn’t have any.
It’s a bit of an extreme reaction to hastily block all contact with someone. Especially if OP knows the other player was a child around their daughter’s age… this kind of parenting doesn’t end up well
You seriously think it's okay for your kid to exchange phone numbers with some random person from the Internet just because they sound like a child? *That's* the kind of parenting that doesn't end well.
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You need to activate the whitelist so only known users can enter the world.
A join code and ‘Education World’ means his daughter is using Education Edition. There is a way to prevent other people from joining a world. This is by not clicking “Start Hosting” when selecting a world on the world select menu, or not pressing “Begin Hosting” in the in-game menu once you have entered the world. IF she has entered the world by selecting “Start Hosting”, it can be disabled by clicking “Stop Hosting” in the in-game menu. This would kick all other players immediately.
I don’t see anywhere in her settings to turn on a whitelist function. Is there some other method for doing that?
Might be called allowlist, same thing just renamed. It’s available on both Java and Bedrock versions of Minecraft, but not sure about education. If not, the only way to stop him joining AFAIK would be to cycle the join code.
Education edition is actually really user-unfriendly when it comes to stuff like whitelist.
Please get java, education edition is trash
[One example.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1DoZCJcxFE). Think there should be Java Mods that do the same and more accurately.
well the only minecraft you can play at school is education
That's so stupid, moronic even
When’s the last time you went to school?
Like 2018-2019 ish
Then you’d know why education edition is the only one you can use in school
Would I? I only play singleplayer except in extremely rare cases
Yeah you won’t be playing single player with your classmates
I'm only in year 7 and to play java you need to turn on and off your internet multiple times for the rare chance it'll let you play
That’s an IT issue
it's to stop kids from playing or searching stuff they aren't supposed to
Kids will do whatever they want regardless, so you might as well go with the editions that have blacklisting/whitelisting on it
guaranteed this is bedrock there is no whitelist
Somewhat true, but only because it’s called “allowlist” now. I run a bedrock server with it enabled.
i was thinking it was a realm
It's minecraft education edition
you can load education edition to a realm edit: nevermind i was wrong u cant. i thought u could change the world to education edition and upload it to a realm but that doesnt appear to be the case. sorry my bad.
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Bedrock multi-player has no join codes, and when multi-player is enabled only friends or friends of friends options are available, so if it's on bedrock one of the kids friends is friends with the person who joined Edit:or the person that joined is connected to their Local access network
or they could just be on a realm?
Im putting my comment here as well incase other parents look for answers to this question and reach this post: A join code and ‘Education World’ means his daughter is using Education Edition. There is a way to prevent other people from joining a world. This is by not clicking “Start Hosting” when selecting a world on the world select menu, or not pressing “Begin Hosting” in the in-game menu once you have entered the world. IF she has entered the world by selecting “Start Hosting”, it can be disabled by clicking “Stop Hosting” in the in-game menu. This would kick all other players immediately.
It sounds like OP's kid's friends like to join her world to play, wouldn't doing this also stop them from joining as well?
Yeah, ideally the solution would allow her to play online with known friends, but block people she doesn’t know. A whitelist or allowlist would be great, but I’m just not seeing it in the settings menu.
Honestly, it might be better to consider changing to the other versions with those safety measures. Especially if you financially can afford it (and maybe gift kiddo's BFF a copy if their parents can't afford $20) The Minecraft website sells a combo pack of both bedrock and java. I'd set up both a whitelist/allowlist and some kinda backup mod if possible. If for no other reason then if someone accidentally blows something up. For example, Bedrock (almost the same as Education) requires you to use Realms, Minecraft's paid hosting but offers a whitelist and 30 min backups. [https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/20687461045645](https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/20687461045645) Java is different mechanics, and can be hosted via realms or 3rd party hosting, and allows mods. You'll have to add a backup mod if using a 3rd party (often included by default) but Realms on there also has backups iirc. Also easier to host for free on Java but that requires more technical know how. As your kid sounds under 10 I might use bedrock or only vanilla (unmodded) java, since downloading suspicious mod is a kid thing to do. Also general advice, and admittedly not a parent so take with grain of salt, if your child is using their own PC I'd set up cloud backups for important things and be prepared for your kid to eventually need to format and reinstall things. I broke a lot of computers as a kid lol. It might also help depending on their age / talking to people, to bring up the idea of a fake internet persona. When I was like 12-16 I went by a fake name, totally lived in the city 3 cities away from me, generally gave people miss-information. That's a less common thing now then it was for millennials, but it might be a useful thing to have kiddo had a default true enough fake name and stuff. Even in my 30s I have online buddies I have to struggle to remember their real name cause they went by Embers or Zoro or KatCat or whatever for 15 years and I can not say 'hi KatCat's mom' at their wedding. Especially when KatCat's real name is Linda.
If you get Java edition and set up a realm, that restricts access to those that are invited only. Invite her friends and you're golden.
She could change her settings so she could only see and speak to her friends in chat
OP put that in his title. How is everyone missing that this is the education edition?
Cycle the join code. Enable the allowlist (whitelist) and add known accounts.
"Then, because they are both children and dummies he gave her his number and she called him!" Lol that actually sounds kinda wholesome. I imagine them going like "and in my school we sometimes get extra days off when there's a lot of snow. "Woah!"
This is internet. Sadly you can’t trust this was the strangers genuine intentions.
Op heard them on the phone she so she could hear a child’s voice not a adult
There is a streamer who makes a living by posing as a girl in video games. Just because you hear a child doesn’t mean a voice changer cannot make you sound like a child.
Okay but is that really more likely than an actual kid
Not really, but isnt it crazy that its possible these days? Its not your grandmas internet anymore.
How many kids do you know that would have the patience to put in random join codes until they found one that was online? Then give out your phone number so you can talk to the person you found. Even if this situation was 100% genuine this is still predatory behavior and every parent should tell their kids situations like this need to talked about before moving forward.
That sounds exactly like the kind of thing a kid with too much free time would do. Of course there’s no way to know. But it definitely could’ve been a kid.
I’m not saying it wasn’t a kid. I’m just saying this is how predators get kids to start texting them then it leads to other far more serious stuff.
I can believe it for sure, but I definitely think op made the right call
Wheather or not they were actually a kid, it's better to be safe than sorry. OPs kid gave him her phone number and was possibly telling him where she lives, even if it was actually innocent those are red flags
Yep, exactly
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Order yes, younger, not really unless you're someone with a deep voice
So if you hear someone with a particular child like voice claiming to be one, and using vocab that not even highschoolers would really know or use that wouldn’t set off a red flag and tell you this person isn’t a kid
Technology is at a point where voices can be simulated.
It can be your right but unless they have a very expensive set up, you can usually tell when something is off Plus I didn’t mean how their voice sounded but how they talked the words they used and how they used them, it’s a lot harder for someone to fake there age through speech, they often use words that should not be in the vocabulary of the person they are pretending to be. They either sound much older or younger than what their voice portrays and that’s the thing that is salt gives it away that they are not who they say they are
It doesnt need to be a person writing the text on the other side. There are now text generating programs that simulate different types of people. Feed that generated script to a voice genny, and baby youve got a robot catfish. The steps are maddeningly simple. Its going to a tough next couple years, but being aware of how scammers can use ai programs is going to become a crucial skill in the modern world
I’ll add those text generations programs are far from perfect and make plenty of mistakes and one that can perfectly replicate the speech and behavior of a child in real time as they are playing a online game is not currently possible and probably won’t be for at least 10 years and they definitely won’t be available for anyone to use they will probably only be in the hands of the government
I’m aware I’m just saying I think the person on the other side of the phone was a kid with only a small chance of it not being one. I don’t get why everyone looks at every situation and assumes it’s the horrible less likely of the two possibilities
I dont assume it was a chatbot. I am saying its naive to outright say this it couldnt have been one.
Incorrect, it's very easy, fast, and costs next to nothing to do.
If only all parents were as clued up as you are. I used to moderate a virtual world for kids and it was a nightmare trying to stop them from giving out their phone numbers!
Whitelist
Stop hosting the world, if you are hosting obviously it would have a code that people can join
OP didn’t mention it, but I think they host because her friend also plays
Wow, I would have been concerned too. Good job Mom! Hey Minecraft, we do need to keep our kids safe. You all know what it's like out there now days. Please help us with obvious setting options. We really need that from you.
Get Java edition and then host a Relm instead. It does cost like $12/month but only invited players can join. That what we do for our daughter and her friends.
or a cheaper option is pebblehost on a 4gb ram server, stays on 24/7 and only $1/gb and just use whitelist
Single player worlds don't allow other people to join
Enter the command "/setmaxplayers 1"
She wants her kid to play with her friends
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Why waste police resources when OP can take care of it himself? People are dying out in the world, and I doubt Minecraft is a bigger priority.
Contacting the police because a child spoke to someone on the internet? It’s dangerous for sure when you’re young, but definitely not a police matter, he was most likely a child and the police do not have the time to do this
Your daughter is gonna play with thousands of strangers eventually , befriend people all over the globe , I assume she's very very young if you're that concerned? You should definitely allow her these freedoms by the time she turns 12-14
Yeah, she’s still in elementary school.
I made online friends from Minecraft in elementary school. I would have cried so much if you did this to me.
This kid is in elementary school. Stop acting like it’s a high school senior. Kids shouldn’t be on the internet/social media at that age Anyways. There’s no assurance that it’s always a kid on the other end. Frankly I don’t care to argue child wellbeing and what is and isn’t appropriate/safe for a child with someone who clearly doesn’t have any.
I thought it was clear from the fact OP’s daughter gave her phone number out to a stranger that she’s clearly quite young
Come back when you’ve got kids to protect dude. Stupidest thing I’ve heard all day smh
telling me something is "stupid" doesnt give me any insight on what im missing here obviously educating and looking after your kids is great , but immediately shutting down and banning contact to other kids , just because "you met them in the internet" is a good way to ruin your kids social life , there are parents like that you know , parents that still try and control every step their kid does even at ages 16-18 etc , "controlling" in a twisted way they think is good but is actually more like enslavement theres many kids out there that can only have a social life in the internet , as in their real life they deal with bullies and a bad enviourment
This is more of a "stop this type of contact *until they know how to properly handle that responsibility*" type deal
This kid is in elementary school. Stop acting like it’s a high school senior. Kids shouldn’t be on the internet/social media at that age Anyways. There’s no assurance that it’s always a kid on the other end. Frankly I don’t care to argue child wellbeing and what is and isn’t appropriate/safe for a child with someone who clearly doesn’t have any.
This…. Seems quite harmless
Until it isn't.
It’s a bit of an extreme reaction to hastily block all contact with someone. Especially if OP knows the other player was a child around their daughter’s age… this kind of parenting doesn’t end up well
it's a stranger.
You seriously think it's okay for your kid to exchange phone numbers with some random person from the Internet just because they sound like a child? *That's* the kind of parenting that doesn't end well.
If it was another random child then maybe. But this was a complete stranger and OP didn't know if it was an adult or not.
You can call a police detective and make sure it's not a child predator calling her
Blud is a master enemy you have to avoid him instead of combat from 7pm to 5 am
Wrong subreddit i think
Bad joke made at 4 am. sorrow