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Quote from gahockey3»

I recently updated to Minecraft 1.7.9, and I immediately had an issue.

I couldn't see any skins!
I tweeted at @MojangSupport and I stated: "Me and my friends were playing together, and I could see my skin but no one else."

They said back, "I am sorry, but I cannot assist you on this."

So I just went back to playing, and not seeing anyone's custom skins.

After a little while I was talking about it and we all concluded that I should try downgrading from 1.7.9, because it had worked right before I had updated.

So I downgraded all the way to 1.7.4, and I logged back in to the server I was previously on. I could see skins again!

I tweeted at @MojangSupport to tell them how I resolved, and they said, "I am glad it got resolved and sorry for the inconvenience I will look into it later."

So if you are having a problem seeing other people skins, and you are on 1.7.9; I recommend you downgrade to the last one it worked in. That is what worked for me and everyone else I was playing with.

I hope this helps anyone else that is having this bizarre bug. Have fun playing guys, and please reply and tell me if this fixed it for you!


EDIT: In some testing me and my friends have done; we have found that it is not a bug. Servers that are not updated to 1.7.9 do not communicate properly to the Skin Servers, and we assume that is because they have started integration for the new skin models in 1.8. I do not, however, understand why downgrading to below 1.7.9 fixes this problem. It is a very weird solution, but it is a solution.

Okay, thank you I will try this suggestion.

Honestly, I don't know what to do... but the person whos in-charge for that stuffs twitter is @Mollstam so yeah. Hopefully it will be fixed by when I get home

Thanks for reading...


~GreenDragonNip (friend changes the username often v-v)