Using the same player when I connect to a local phone server from a different device?

Question

My friend has Minecraft PE v0.14.1 installed on her (Samsung) Android phone, and has a nice world she built, so we decided to play together.

I have Minecraft PE v0.14.1 under Bluestacks, and the same version on my Blackberry Z10 (which emulates Android v4.3, and yes, Minecraft PE works - just a bit slower).

I couldn't connect to her world automatically through LAN, ended up adding her phone wifi IP as a server, reset the router, and everything worked. I named my character "Charlie Brown", and played for some time.

Then we stopped for a while, and I decided I wanted to play through my Z10 this time. I connected, but forgot to change my player name, so I was spawned at the world's spawn point (the same when I began at the emulator). However, as my Charlie Brown character, I had built lots of things, had many items, and was inside my house. So I did not want to have to restart.

But when I changed my player name on the Z10 to "Charlie Brown", I connected and... same thing - it spawned me at the world's spawn point, no items, nothing. It still seems to be treating me as a "new" player.

So, my question is: how do I use the same "player" as I was using on the other "device"? My new player has already slept at a bed inside the house. Interestingly, when we stopped and restarted several times, I found everything still worked when playing from Bluestacks.

I emphasize we're not using a local Minecraft PE server, or anything like that. I just used what the app offers: her phone as the world's server. How do I use the same player as before when connecting from different devices? I also always try and connect to her phone, since she was always the host, and the world we play is located there.

Answer 1

Well, after some time, I figured out how to do it - pretty simple, may I say. So, if you have more than one device that you want to use as clients that connect using the same identity, you need to change the Minecraft PE client ID on the devices you want. This client ID is contained within the clientId.txt file.

Let the "server" alone, you don't need to mess with it for this.

Under Android, clientId.txt is in the /sdcard/games/com.mojang/minecraftpe folder. You just need to open the file on the 2nd device, replace the ID inside by the ID you found on the same file from the 1st device and you're ready to go. Any server, from now on, will recognize both devices as the same player. You can play on a device, leave the world, connect again with the other device and you'll be at the same point (with same items, XP, etc.) where you last left.

It's important to know that you CAN have different names, if you wish. It's the client ID that matters.

Answer 2

I can't give you a 100% complete answer, but as RustyMembers said, your account data (with the user id and everything) is normally to be stored on your phone's internal memory.

If that's the case you'll have to search where your emulator stores the data of Minecraft's local data and copy it over to Bluestacks. I can't give a complete answer as I don't own Minecraft for Android nor do I have experience with any of those emulators.