Because of the deprecation of Mojang/Minecraft accounts and the general distrust in Microsoft's ability to not suspend your account for no reason, our servers run in offline mode with an authentication plugin.
This means you can play the game with any username you want without logging in with a Microsoft account in your launcher, so long as someone else isn't already using that name.
You don't have to install any mods on your client for the authentication side of things to work, in order to be able to see skins of other players you'll need to install a mod though.
You can grab the mod through the <a href="{{url('downloads')}}">downloads</a> page and if you're not sure what to do you can follow the <a href="{{url('guide')}}">guide</a> page!</p>
<p>Through the black magic bestowed upon us by <a href="https://geysermc.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GeyserMC</a> it's possible to play on the server through any of the updated Bedrock versions of Minecraft.</p>
<p>This should allow you to play on the server from a phone, a tablet or a console, provided you also have an account for the original version of the game.</p>
<p>You will need to link your Minecraft and Bedrock accounts, you can do this by connecting to <code>link.geysermc.org</code> in both versions of the game and following the on-screen instructions.</p>
<p>Do note that this only works for servers where both a Java and Bedrock version number is listed!</p>