Can you use the same Microsoft account on two devices for Minecraft?

Q: Do you have to buy Minecraft twice for two computers?

Do I Need to Buy Minecraft Again? If you havent played for a while or youve switched devices, you do not have to buy Minecraft again. If you need to download the game again, visit our Download page and follow the instructions for the version you prefer (or all of them, if you want).

Hi Whitewalkerz, I hope you're doing great despite the issue you're experiencing. I am an Independent advisor and I am here to help you in regard to your concern.

You can only sign in on one device at a time but no worries, there is a workaround, on the Xbox console you can share games as well as subscriptions as long as your account is set as Home Xbox.

Here's the plan, you'll have to create a profile for your other kid but once your kid has his/her own account you will log it into your the Xbox, and then the account where the Minecraft was purchased set it as Home Xbox.

1. Sign in to your account (where the game was purchased).

2. Select Profile & system > Settings > General > Personalization, and then select My home Xbox.

3. Check "Make this as My Home Xbox".

After that, sign out and switch to your kid's account on the Xbox.

Make sure that your kid is also added to your family group via https://account.microsoft.com/family as a member so you can manage his/her account privacy settings.

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What Is $PATH on Linux, and How Does It Work?
Listing Your $PATH
Adding a Directory to Your $PATH
Making the Changes Permanent
Setting the Path for Everyone
A Note on Security
Can I use my Microsoft account for Minecraft on multiple devices?
Do you have to buy Minecraft twice for two computers?
How do I play Minecraft with the same Microsoft account?

Unknown devices on my Microsoft account

Hello ,

Could these other devices be from friends that you may have signed in to your Microsoft account on for something?

Either way, you can remove these devices.

*Arrow Microsoft Account - Remove Devices User Accounts Tutorials

Afterwards to be safe, I would recommend to change the password of your Microsoft account, and enable two-step verification if you haven't already.

Change Password of Account in Windows 10 User Accounts Tutorials

Turn On or Off Microsoft Account Two-step Verification User Accounts Tutorials
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Thanks Brink
I get different reactions every time I try to delete a device, but the result is that I cannot remove the devices.
I'll go back to local accounts and delete the Microsoft account.
I changed to Microsoft account because I wanted to use the Continue on PC feature. This feature doesn't work so I think that I'll just forget about it.
Thanks for your interest.

The following products, apps and services are covered by the Microsoft Services Agreement, Minecraft games Minecraft Realms Plus and Minecraft Realms

BY DOWNLOADING OR USING THE APPLICATION, OR ATTEMPTING TO DO ANY OF THESE, YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THEM, YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO AND MUST NOT DOWNLOAD OR USE THE APPLICATION.

If you comply with these Terms, Microsoft grants you the RIGHT TO install and USE ONE COPY of the software per device on a WORLDWIDE basis for use BY ONLY ONE PERSON AT A TIME.

The software is licensed, not sold, and Microsoft reserves all rights to the software This license does not give you any right to, and you may not:

Separate components of the software or Services for use on different devices SINGLE-PLAYER AND MULTI-PLAYER

You may not: lend the software or the Services, unless Microsoft expressly authorizes you to do so;

You may not: transfer the software, any software licenses, or any rights to access or use the Services;

You may lose access to or capabilities of Digital Goods, or have the nature of your access changed if you violate the Terms or these Rules.

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Since The Microsoft Acquisition of Mojang/Minecraft there is no difference between singleplayer and multiplayer on the Microsoft end because you still have to log in to your Microsoft account to load the game and all worlds are technically a server even if it is hosted internally.....

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7 is one of the silent manipulators in the background of your Linux computer. It quietly affects your user experience, but there’s nothing shady about it. We’ll explain what it does, and how you can adjust it.

What Is $PATH on Linux, and How Does It Work?

When you type a command in a terminal window and press Enter, you kick off quite a lot of activity before your command is even executed.

Bash is the default shell on most Linux distributions. It interprets the line of text you entered and identifies the command names intermingled with the parameters, pipes, redirections, and whatever else is there. It then locates the executable binaries for those commands and launches them with the parameters you supplied.

The first step the shell takes to locate the executable is identifying whether a binary is even involved. If the command you use is within the shell itself (a “shell builtin”) no further search is required.

Shell builtins are the easiest to find because they’re integral to the shell. It’s like having them in a toolbelt—they’re always with you.

If you need one of your other tools, though, you have to go rummage in the workshop to find it. Is it on your workbench or a wall hanger? That’s what the

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7 environment variable does. It holds a list of places the shell searches and the order in which they’ll be searched.

If you want to see whether a command is a shell builtin, an alias, a function, or a standalone binary mv /work/unfile, you can use the

type cd

9 command as shown below:

type clear

type cd

This tells us that

echo $PATH

0 is a binary file, and the first one found in the path is located at

echo $PATH

1. You might have more than one version of

echo $PATH

0 installed on your computer, but this is the one the shell will try to use.

Unsurprisingly,

echo $PATH

3 is a shell builtin.

Listing Your $PATH

It’s easy to see what’s in your path. Just type the following to use the

echo $PATH

4 command and print the value held in the

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7 variable:

echo $PATH

The output is a list of colon (

echo $PATH

6) delimited file system locations. The shell searches from left to right through the path, checking each file system location for a matching executable to perform your command.

We can pick our way through the listing to see the file system locations that will be searched, and the order in which they will be searched:

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Something that might not be immediately obvious is the search doesn’t start in the current working directory. Rather, it works its way through the listed directories, and only the listed directories.

If the current working directory isn’t in your path, it won’t be searched. Also, if you have commands stored in directories that aren’t in the path, the shell won’t find them.

To demonstrate this, we created a small program called

which rf

6. When executed,

which rf

6 prints the name of the directory from which it was launched in the terminal window. It’s located in

echo $PATH

8. We also have a newer version in the

which rf

9 directory.

We type the following

rf

0 command to show us which version of our program the shell will find and use:

which rf

The shell reports the version it found is the one in the directory that’s in the path.

We type the following to fire it up:

rf

Version 1.0 of

which rf

6 runs and confirms our expectations were correct. The version found and executed is located in

echo $PATH

To run any other version of

which rf

6 on this computer, we’ll have to use the path to the executable on the command line, as shown below:

./work/rf

Now that we’ve told the shell where to find the version of

which rf

6 we want to run, it uses version 1.1. If we prefer this version, we can copy it into the

echo $PATH

8 directory and overwrite the old one.

Let’s say we’re developing a new version of

which rf

6. We’ll need to run it frequently as we develop and test it, but we don’t want to copy an unreleased development build into the live environment.

Or, perhaps we’ve downloaded a new version of

which rf

6 and want to do some verification testing on it before we make it publicly available.

If we add our work directory to the path, we make the shell find our version. And this change will only affect us—others will still use the version of

which rf

6 in

echo $PATH

8 .

Adding a Directory to Your $PATH

You can use the

./work/rf

0 command to add a directory to the

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7. The directory is then included in the list of file system locations the shell searches. When the shell finds a matching executable, it stops searching, so you want to make sure it searches your directory first, before

echo $PATH

This is easy to do. For our example, we type the following to add our directory to the start of the path so it’s the first location searched:

export PATH=/home/dave/work:$PATH

This command sets

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7 to be equal to the directory we’re adding,

./work/rf

4, and then the entire current path.

The first

./work/rf

5 has no dollar sign (

./work/rf

6). We set the value for

./work/rf

5. The final

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7 has a dollar sign because we’re referencing the contents stored in the

./work/rf

5 variable. Also, note the colon (

echo $PATH

6) between the new directory and the

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7 variable name.

Let’s see what the path looks like now:

echo $PATH

Our

./work/rf

4 directory is added to the start of the path. The colon we provided separates it the rest of the path.

We type the following to verify our version of

which rf

6 is the first one found:

which rf

The proof in the pudding is running

which rf

6, as shown below:

rf

The shell finds Version 1.1 and executes it from

./work/rf

To add our directory to the end of the path, we just move it to the end of the command, like so:

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Making the Changes Permanent

As Beth Brooke-Marciniak said, “Success is fine, but success is fleeting.” The moment you close the terminal window, any changes you’ve made to the

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7 are gone. To make them permanent, you have to put your

./work/rf

0 command in a configuration file.

When you put the

./work/rf

0 command in your

export PATH=/home/dave/work:$PATH

9 file, it sets the path each time you open a terminal window. Unlike

echo $PATH

0 sessions, for which you have to log in, these are called “interactive” sessions.

In the past, you would put the

./work/rf

0 command in your

echo $PATH

2 file to set the path for log in terminal sessions.

However, we found that if we put the

./work/rf

0 command in either the

export PATH=/home/dave/work:$PATH

9 or

echo $PATH

2 files, it correctly set the path for both interactive and log in terminal sessions. Your experience might be different. To handle all eventualities, we’ll show you how to do it in both files.

Use the following command in your

echo $PATH

6 directory to edit the

export PATH=/home/dave/work:$PATH

9 file:

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The

echo $PATH

8 editor opens with the

export PATH=/home/dave/work:$PATH

9 file loaded.

Scroll to the bottom of the file, and then add the following export command we used earlier:

export PATH=/home/dave/work:$PATH

Save the file. Next, either close and reopen the terminal window or use the

which rf

0 command to read the

export PATH=/home/dave/work:$PATH

9 file, as follows:

which rf

Then, type the following

echo $PATH

4 command to check the path:

echo $PATH

This adds the

./work/rf

4 directory to the start of the path.

The process to add the command to the

echo $PATH

2 file is the same. Type the following command:

type cd

The

echo $PATH

8 editor launches with the

echo $PATH

2 file loaded.

Add the

./work/rf

0 command to the bottom of the file, and then save it. Closing and opening a new terminal window is insufficient to force the

echo $PATH

2 file to be reread. For the new settings to take effect, you must log out and back in or use the

which rf

0 command as shown below:

type cd

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Setting the Path for Everyone

To set the path for everyone who uses the system, you can edit the

rf

1 file.

You’ll need to use

rf

2, as follows:

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When the

echo $PATH

8 editor launches, add the export command to the bottom of the file.

Save and close the file. The changes will take effect for others the next time they log in.

A Note on Security

Make sure you don’t accidentally add a leading colon “

echo $PATH

6” to the path, as shown below.

If you do, this will search the current directory first, which introduces a security risk. Say you downloaded an archive file and unzipped it into a directory. You look at the files and see another zipped file. You call unzip once more to extract that archive.

If the first archive contained an executable file called

rf

5 that was a malicious executable, you’d accidentally fire up that one instead of the real

rf

5 executable. This would happen because the shell would look in the current directory first.

So, always be careful when you type your

./work/rf

0 commands. Use

echo $PATH

4 $PATH to review them and make sure they are the way you want them to be.

Can I use my Microsoft account for Minecraft on multiple devices?

Unfortunately, this is not possible. This is because Minecraft is sold and licensed separately on each platform, and transferring licenses is not possible as each platform has their own marketplace.

Do you have to buy Minecraft twice for two computers?

Do I Need to Buy Minecraft Again? If you haven't played for a while or you've switched devices, you do not have to buy Minecraft again. If you need to download the game again, visit our Download page and follow the instructions for the version you prefer (or all of them, if you want).

How do I play Minecraft with the same Microsoft account?

In Minecraft, select Sign in with a Microsoft account. On a different device, open your web browser and navigate to the URL displayed in Minecraft. Enter the code displayed in Minecraft and click Next. Enter the email address, phone number, or Skype username for your Microsoft account and click Next.