When {this Is If They Do} Will Custom Armor Skins Return?

iiJiro · Aug 15, 2017

Just curious

Flyingfrogs · Aug 15, 2017

RIP Crunkle No, to much work and they got a lot of hate at the time "Just guessing dont beat on me D:"

Lexwomy · Aug 15, 2017

iiJiro said: ↑

Just curious
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no

captainganon · Aug 15, 2017

Never, mojang shut them down.

Pokextreme · Aug 15, 2017

iiJiro said: ↑

Just curious
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It's unlikely, as it did things mojang didn't like.

Shamos200 · Aug 15, 2017

rip in pizza

arm0r skins

"lag"

iiJiro · Aug 15, 2017

captainganon said: ↑

Never, mojang shut them down.
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Welp thats depressing

AlexisPlay · Aug 15, 2017

EULA (Or just Mojang, not sure) ate them like some biscuits.

MysticAdventurer · Aug 15, 2017

I still don't get my they can't just make mobs drop dyed and retextured leather armor?

Yuno F Gasai · Aug 16, 2017

MysticAdventurer said: ↑

I still don't get my they can't just make mobs drop dyed and retextured leather armor?
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I don't do textures but I don't think this is how it works

Gebis8 · Aug 16, 2017

Salted said: ↑

Well, first of, we can't get you guys passwords in any way, shape or form. Even if we somehow could (it'd be a gigantic shitstorm, as we definitely wouldnt be the first to notice) they most likely wouldn't be in simple plain text unless Mojang/Microsoft doesn't care at all about security.

We also changed the full skin. You can't technically only change a part of a skin. What we did (EVERYTIME you switched to a new uncached armour) is to create a copy of your actual skin, add our armour layer over it (x4 for the full armour set) and save it as one new skin, add it to our skin bots, transfer the bot skin to the player and then finally reload your whole character in game so the skin changes can appear to everyone. We had purchased a bunch of Minecraft account used to hold the temporary players skins (yea, we technically payed mojang for this feature...). Thankfully, unless you are in the low levels, people don't change armour often enough to overload it, we could cache most of it.

Anyway, we remove the feature for a few reasons...

- The main one was Mojang kept blocking our skin requests thinking that we were spamming skin changes for no reason. It wasn't really fun to have your feature randomly getting broken and requiring you to fix it. It was like a slow and endless cat and mouse game. However it's important to know that we never broke the skin change time limit. From Mojang point of view, they saw a few accounts that were changing skins every minute or so. No rules were broken as i'm aware, but clearly Mojang (or some automatic process) didn't like what they saw.
- The new item system allowed us to make new and unique items much faster and easily. After a while, the armour skins were holding us back in terms of speed
- It felt buggy when you weren't expecting it (as we had to reload your character with the dirt screen) and sometimes caused people to lose items

Though, we always knew it was some kind of a risky feature to add, so it wasn't a huge shock when all that happened. Can't really completely blame Mojang for it either, it's their game and servers and it's up to them to decide their rules and draw the line. We had good intentions for it, but imagine if a different server decided to mess with people's skin and force you to donate to see your normal skin. I can see why Mojang wouldn't like that. I wouldn't either.
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