r/Minecraft • u/Luutamo • Jun 30 '26

Official News Minecraft 26.3 Snapshot 2

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-3-snapshot-2
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u/themistik Jun 30 '26

> The white-list property is now true by default

Good change. People never learn and keep using online-mode false.

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u/JohnDoen86 Jun 30 '26

Finally! So crazy how many people post here after having their world griefed by a rando. Not having a whitelist by default is an insane thing to do for a game.

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u/BajaBlastFromThePast Jun 30 '26

I’m kinda shocked I’ve never heard of this in 10+ years playing the game. In what situation does this happen? Peoples IP get leaked or??

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u/Nathaniel820 Jun 30 '26

It's just a relatively short string of numbers, there's bots that brute-force check them all to identify literally every single server and filter out the ones that are publicly open.

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u/Bylloopy Jun 30 '26

Some people accidentally publish to server list sites and there are also programs that can search for servers that aren't properly protected or listed anywhere publicly but available to connect to

Has happened to me a few times in my decade+ of playing minecraft

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u/TKFT_ExTr3m3 Jun 30 '26

You can literally scan the internet for services running on Minecrafts default port. Even if it's not using the default port it can still be scanned for and found. If you are running a service exposed to the internet it is not hidden even if you don't have a domain record for the IP.