Will Minecraft wii u battle modes become online?

[RealHuntersStudi]

I used to play wii u everyday just to play minecraft battle mode

[Joshua8600PNID]

It already is online, but is just limited to Friends Only.

So you need to have others registered on your Wii U friend List to be able to play Minigames with them.

[RealHuntersStudi]

is there a reason why friends only for battle mode???

[GuestDreemurr]

Vulnerabilities, Minecraft LCE (the version of minecraft that was ported to wii u) has a RCE vulnerability which makes it unsafe for public lobbies, thus friends is the only viable solution to this without entirely cutting them off.

[GamersInternatio]

There’s no evidence the Wii U version has an RCE vulnerability afaik

[Joshua8600PNID]

Jon wrote a very long detailed explanation, but here is the relevant part about Friends-Only for Minecraft in general:

@PN_Jon

With Minecraft, we have chosen to keep the game as friends-only since it is unique in the sense that cheaters doing harm during a session can have long standing impacts on players. Someone using speed cheats or something in Mario Kart is only annoying for that session, and has no real impact on future sessions. With Minecraft it is trivial for a bad actor to ruin a world and lose someone hours, days, years of work they’ve put into it, which has a much larger, long lasting, impact on players

cc @GuestDreemurr if you want more info about the potential exploits (which there does not seem to be much evidence for now; it seems we were misinformed in the past), I would recommend reading the entire thing.