[MC-97] Player skins not applied Created: 24/Oct/12  Updated: 09/Feb/13  Resolved: 08/Nov/12

Status: Closed
Project: Minecraft: Java Edition
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: Minecraft 1.4.2
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Bug
Reporter: TheLocehiliosan Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Invalid Votes: 4
Labels: skin, steve

Issue Links:
Duplicate
is duplicated by MC-787 The Skin Comes To Steve Resolved
is duplicated by MC-98 Sometimes, all of the skins are steve... Closed
is duplicated by MC-546 Player Skins often disappear in Multi... Closed
Confirmation Status: Unconfirmed

 Description   

Often players are shown as the standard "steve" skin. I believe this is due to frequent outages with skins.minecraft.net.

Can something be done to fix the fragility of the skin system.



 Comments   
Comment by [Mojang] Nathan Adams [ 26/Oct/12 ]

Not a bug in the game, but our skin servers having difficulty. It is being worked on.

Comment by Mark Repka [ 24/Oct/12 ]

When a player successfully logs in (and the skin server is up) the skin should be cached and used as a fallback if the skin server is down for some reason.

Comment by TheLocehiliosan [ 24/Oct/12 ]

I'm not reporting that the service is down. I'm reporting that it's a bug that the service is frequently down, and that the client doesn't handle the outage gracefully. (I would classify gracefully as using previously found skins)

Comment by Steve [ 24/Oct/12 ]

The Minecraft Skin Service is down. You will need to wait until it's back.
The services statues are on help.mojang.com.

Comment by TheLocehiliosan [ 24/Oct/12 ]

It could also be viewed as a bug that the client doesn't cache the skins it successfully got in the past when it is unable to connect to the skin server.

Comment by TheLocehiliosan [ 24/Oct/12 ]

Apologies. Please direct me to the bug tracking system for the skin server. I'll open the ticket there.

Comment by [Mojang] Grum (Erik Broes) [ 24/Oct/12 ]

Yes, but that is not a bug to the game itself.

Comment by TheLocehiliosan [ 24/Oct/12 ]

I understand the problem, I even mention it within the description. It doesn't mean that the frequent outage isn't a bug that needs to be fixed. It can be a mojang server-side bug causing the frequent outages. Or inadequate capacity, that would also be a defect.

Comment by Steve [ 24/Oct/12 ]

This isn't a bug, look at help.mojang.com. You will see what's the problem.

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