I am sitting here watching my son and two of his friends battle this thing with no gamer tag. It's destroying everything they made with tnt and fire. How do we stop it????
how is this person allowed to play a game when they are so mean? He completely destroyed everything he tried to keep up with him by throwing water and now he's upset as well as his friends because they have to nothing they put all the weeks into building.
I hope your son has autosave turned off... If so, he can just exit his world without saving. When he goes back into his world, have him set the game to "Invite Only." That way, no one can enter without his first inviting them to join.
Whoever is doing this destroying should be kicked off your friends list and your friends friends list. Have trust players turned off when inviting new people and if someone starts griefing kick them immediately. A back up save to a USB stick is almost necessary if for no other reason than game bugs. If you have auto save off and this stuff starts happening you could just cut the console off to stop it ASAP and give you a chance to change your settings and invite some people back.
And this is why you don't send a friend request to every person you see either here or on the leaderboards. People like that and to a lesser extent me enjoy teaching people that they shouldn't go about befriending total strangers...the hard way.
Keep the game to invite only next time, and go through and remove all of the people on his friends list with the exception of the ones you/he actually know.
(And maybe instead of sitting there watching them in distress at someone wrecking everything, you should shut off the system or at least take control and exit the world without saving so even more damage won't be done.)
Okay I know nothing about the game. I do know he only has xbox live friends that I approve of. They are close friends and family.
He did have auto save off and his stuff was there when he went back on.
I was watching it to try and figure out what was going on. About to turn the system off mid game, I didn't think of that. I just wanted to help his two friends and him.
We now have it on invite only now. Hopefully this fixed it. His sister said if his friends have random people and not just people they know, that someone can come in through them as well. I am not their parent so as far as that goes I can only suggest they remove people that they don't really know.
Yeah he has a couple friends from school on so they are 10. He said the one boy adds whoever he wants because his parents don't care. I won't be letting him play with said boy unless it's on invite only and that boy doesn't invite random people.
Yeah he has a couple friends from school on so they are 10. He said the one boy adds whoever he wants because his parents don't care. I won't be letting him play with said boy unless it's on invite only and that boy doesn't invite random people.
On "Invite Only,' your son's friend cannot invite anyone... only your son can. There is also an option to go friends only (just uncheck the box that enables "friends of friends." These controls, of course, aren't fool proof, but combined with keeping the autosave off and your son saving only when he's sure everything is OK... they do work fairly well at controlling griefing. The loophole is generally that people want to make new friends, so they leave themselves vulnerable. To circumvent this, it's always best to copy a backup of your world onto a USB stick just prior to starting every play session. That way, if the worst happens, you always have a fall back that only costs you whatever work was done in that play session. The backups are also a good idea before accepting any update, since some updates have been known to corrupt the save files (although this has never happened to me personally). Iif a world is really important to me and if I have hours and hours in on a favorite build, I'lI rotate through progressive backups on about 3 USB sticks just to be really safe.
sounds like a monster that is in the game called a creeper if so the only way to avoid it from destroying there world is that he needs to turn the game to peaceful,this is the mob (creeper if this is what that thing you say is then ya its just in the game and nobody attacking them)
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i think we should all use common sense and logic when we answer and ask a question but always stay open minded
just cause science fails to explain something does not mean its real (afterlife,big foot, ghosts etc..) does not mean its fake try to stay opened mined instead of closed
sounds like a monster that is in the game called a creeper if so the only way to avoid it from destroying there world is that he needs to turn the game to peaceful,this is the mob (creeper if this is what that thing you say is then ya its just in the game and nobody attacking them)
...but creepers don't leave brown signs all around that say rude things...
how is this person allowed to play a game when they are so mean? He completely destroyed everything he tried to keep up with him by throwing water and now he's upset as well as his friends because they have to nothing they put all the weeks into building.
Maybe it is a combination of a few things, you might be describing creepers, a very destructive in game MOB/challenge that tends to blow things up... but the brown signs would have been put in place by another player, not an in game MOB/challenge (like the creeper).
If you are new to MC, keep you base areas well illuminated and, it is usually best to keep your distance from creepers... and if you are being chased by one, get it to follow you into the water, they tend to not do damage when they do blow up when they do so in the water. Otherwise, shoot them at a distance with a bow and arrows.
When they get better, they can learn to hunt them with hand held tools or weapons (like the sword), or trick them into fighting with skeletons (by getting them shot by one).
As to abusive players, that was already addressed above.
I think it is possibly a creeper blowing them up but the signs could be your sons friend or who ever your son is playing with. Unless your son shut off the in game gammertag option I don't believe it's possible to hide or not have a gt above your head.
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they say bad things and my son is only 10
how is this person allowed to play a game when they are so mean? He completely destroyed everything he tried to keep up with him by throwing water and now he's upset as well as his friends because they have to nothing they put all the weeks into building.
Keep the game to invite only next time, and go through and remove all of the people on his friends list with the exception of the ones you/he actually know.
(And maybe instead of sitting there watching them in distress at someone wrecking everything, you should shut off the system or at least take control and exit the world without saving so even more damage won't be done.)
Stay fluffy~
He did have auto save off and his stuff was there when he went back on.
I was watching it to try and figure out what was going on. About to turn the system off mid game, I didn't think of that. I just wanted to help his two friends and him.
We now have it on invite only now. Hopefully this fixed it. His sister said if his friends have random people and not just people they know, that someone can come in through them as well. I am not their parent so as far as that goes I can only suggest they remove people that they don't really know.
On "Invite Only,' your son's friend cannot invite anyone... only your son can. There is also an option to go friends only (just uncheck the box that enables "friends of friends." These controls, of course, aren't fool proof, but combined with keeping the autosave off and your son saving only when he's sure everything is OK... they do work fairly well at controlling griefing. The loophole is generally that people want to make new friends, so they leave themselves vulnerable. To circumvent this, it's always best to copy a backup of your world onto a USB stick just prior to starting every play session. That way, if the worst happens, you always have a fall back that only costs you whatever work was done in that play session. The backups are also a good idea before accepting any update, since some updates have been known to corrupt the save files (although this has never happened to me personally). Iif a world is really important to me and if I have hours and hours in on a favorite build, I'lI rotate through progressive backups on about 3 USB sticks just to be really safe.
No, not hence your post, if he's new to minecraft, how would he know that a creeper is?
"good night, good luck" -dying light
i think we should all use common sense and logic when we answer and ask a question but always stay open minded
just cause science fails to explain something does not mean its real (afterlife,big foot, ghosts etc..) does not mean its fake try to stay opened mined instead of closed
...but creepers don't leave brown signs all around that say rude things...
Maybe it is a combination of a few things, you might be describing creepers, a very destructive in game MOB/challenge that tends to blow things up... but the brown signs would have been put in place by another player, not an in game MOB/challenge (like the creeper).
If you are new to MC, keep you base areas well illuminated and, it is usually best to keep your distance from creepers... and if you are being chased by one, get it to follow you into the water, they tend to not do damage when they do blow up when they do so in the water. Otherwise, shoot them at a distance with a bow and arrows.
When they get better, they can learn to hunt them with hand held tools or weapons (like the sword), or trick them into fighting with skeletons (by getting them shot by one).
As to abusive players, that was already addressed above.