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being able to change your display name

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  • Gavin Hards

    YA!!! That would be fun!!! 

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  • max minecraft

    i hope so

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  • Aleece Landis
    Bug Zapper Beacon of Knowledge Super Star

    That would actually be something to take up with the school since the display names in education edition are linked to your school microsoft 365 for education account.

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  • Debbie Alexander
    Moderator Beacon of Knowledge Super Star

    Perhaps Tsuki Tsuki is suggesting an in-game change from the command line. It would be fun, and teachers would want to monitor/approve this, but I can see how it could be not only fun but useful!

    For example, if you were playing a mystery game where each player was unknown to the others, this would be a necessary. Or if you are in a world and progressing through the world as an historical figure, you could change your username to that person. Intriguing!

     

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  • Aleece Landis
    Bug Zapper Beacon of Knowledge Super Star

    Well I suppose it might be possible to change the setting to NOT show nametags and then perhaps you could use the scoreboard to show one of the score objectives on all players with that score but you would only be able to display one score there and I'm not certain if the score would show when the nametags are not showing?

    Hum, Now I was looking at stuff in one of my worlds with an NBT editor the other day and I think there is actually a way in there to NOT show nametags.  This would not be possible in a strictly vanilla world mind you.  And It might be possible to go in and change what would be displayed in that world.  But I don't really know enough about using the NBT editor to really know how to go about that.  This is definitely something not directly supported by minecraft of any flavor though I'm sure some of the savy tech teacher could do it.

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  • Debbie Alexander
    Moderator Beacon of Knowledge Super Star

    Your display name would include things like when you use a command and your command displays in the world chat, people see your display name there. It also includes things like when people are teleporting others to themselves. It's used throughout the game. So it's a lot more broad. It would be like having an alias in the game.

    So this could be a feature that someone could be requesting for the game that would be added to Minecraft in an update.

    But maybe I am completely misunderstanding what they want.

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  • Aleece Landis
    Bug Zapper Beacon of Knowledge Super Star

    So this could be a feature that someone could be requesting for the game that would be added to Minecraft in an update.

    Good point, this is in the Feature wishlist section.  I was getting too caught up in trying to help in a more immediate sense.

    But the point about a savy tech teacher being able to set up a behavior pack still stands.  I don't know if a behavior pack would be able to change display names, but you can certainly make nametags invisible using it for hide and seek or other games.

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