Restrict Minecraft multiple to friends only?

mikez006 · Mar 13, 2020

I have 2 kids that each have their own Xbox account setup so they can play Minecraft.

They want to play with each other and a few friends from school and due to their age I don't want them joining random worlds or servers.

I have "You can join multiplayer games" enable, however this appears to allow them to join any server or world with no restrictions.

Is there any options to restrict this so they can only join worlds/servers from people on their friend list?

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XBF Brad A

Hello Mike,

Thanks for reaching out to the forums. We understand you have question on restrictions. Unfortunately, there isn't a setting like this. You can submit an idea at feedback.xbox.com.
This will reroute you to the ideas page on reddit.

Thanks,

Brad

uhhHHHYESSOHHHH

the only thing is what are the restrictions to join or i mean how do you join someone thats not a friend

and how do you have a active online server on minecraft for the the Xbox 360

Arminator

You're right. If you allow mulitplayer, he can basically play with everyone.

However, you can still restrict him from talking to friends only. Everyone else in the multiplayer match will be silent and unable to talk to your kid.

Also, you can restrict your kid to only see content that others create to friends. So your kid can't see custom emblems or car paintjobs for example. However, that also restricts him to play Minecraft with friends only for example.

So feel free to restrict the personal profile information of your child's account to your liking.

However, the ability to play with friends only is game dependent. For example Fortnite, a game that is popular among kids currently, is a multiplayer game, where 100 players are put on an island. So unless your friend has over 100 friends, it would be difficult
to get him into a game with only his friends.

If it helps, Xbox will try to keep a friend party together.

So your kid can invite their friends to a party (and due to your settings ONLY his friends), and they can then launch a multiplayer game.

Your kid then invites the friends to a private lobby, and only the kid with their friends can play, if the kid keeps the lobby setting to friends only.

JasonSnyder1

Yes. But what about households with multiple XBOXes. There can only be one home XBOX in use with Gamepass or Gold, which means that, with multiple children, they are restricted to using only one of the XBOXes. What is the reasoning behind prohibiting multiple
XBOXes as home XBOXes?

Ice Lynn

I am having the same issue. Exactly as described. My kids want to play Minecraft with their school friends and we've only been able to get games to work if you invite directly from a friends list, which they are unable to have because I can't setup their
privacy restrictions. Very frustrating.

Restrict Minecraft multiple to friends only?