Minecraft – Can’t play minecraft offline without logging in on blocked network

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I am signed in on minecraft, but whenever I open the launcher it logs me out and I can't log back in again because the sign-in portal is blocked by my network. I can play the game when I turn my internet off (it doesn't sign me out that way), but once signed out I cannot login and play offline. Is there any way I can get around this?

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It sounds like your best bet would be to use a VPN. It would allow you to be accessing a different network virtually and it should let you get around this issue. Or as you mentioned you can just play it solo offline. Networks often times at schools and/or workplace environments will have these network restrictions that basically blows network traffic or access to certain types of content, in this case it would be games.

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Minecraft – standalone free offline version of Minecraft

Since we clarified you're not looking for a pirated version :-) There are three choices:

Minecraft Classic, which is ~~very old~~ no longer available, lacks e.g. redstone and zombies, but is still great if you like simply to sandbox.
The Demo, which is not up-to-date but features redstone and is in survival mode (health bar, swords, spiders...). Any world you create there can however only be modified for 90 minutes
The full version (you have to buy it in this case), have it downloaded by someone else and have them snail-mail you the whole folder %appdata%\.minecraft\.

edit As John commented, the internet-heavy part is the download, so for the third solution you can ask said person use their login, send you their .minecraft (excluding the file lastlogin to keep it legal, and the saves folder isn't necessary either) and then connect to the internet once to login with your own account. If there has been an update meanwhile, you can choose "update later". After the first login, it will work without internet connection

To avoid snail mailing, your friend can also upload the folder to something like dropbox and you can use a download manager. It's only about 50 MB after all.

Or if you do not want to use the Internet to log in, you can use the following command (that goes in your run box) to start Minecraft without logging in (assuming you have the .minecraft files in %APPDATA%

java -Xms512m -Xmx1024m -cp "%APPDATA%\.minecraft\bin\*" -Djava.library.path="%APPDATA%\.minecraft\bin\natives" net.minecraft.client.Minecraft` yourusername

Minecraft – How to play Minecraft offline

The MCPatcher launcher has the capability to launch Minecraft, supposedly to be used to test whether your set of mods work with each other. In the 'Game' tab of the launcher, press "Test Minecraft" to run it in offline mode. Note that you will not have the same inventory as before, your username will be "Player", and you will have the default skin. You can only join offline mode servers that don't already have someone named "Player" logged in.

You can download the latest version of MCPatcher from the Minecraft Forums thread..

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