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My skin and other peoples skins show up fine until I go through a portal/die/teleport at all. After that everyone(myself included) shows up as the default steve skin. This issue happens in multiplayer ONLY and on every server i've tried(around 15). The problem is not fixed until I completely restart minecraft. In single player my skin never shows up as the default. I've tried completely deleting the .minecraft folder and starting over from scratch and using no texture packs. Using latest version of Minecraft and of course 0 mods installed(not even optifine).