MCL-23466New Launcher Icon is for a Legacy Account which I Have Never Had
I have a scary, white creeper face as my new launcher icon and my understanding that is for Legacy accounts, i.e. those who had a Minecraft account before 2012 or those who never paid for their Minecraft game. Neither is me. I created my Minecraft account sometime in 2017 or late 2016 and I remember fervently paying that $26 with joy, although I am not sure if I can prove it at this point. I migrated my account to Microsoft and click on the user name to launch the game. Thus far, I have not been able to locate the date my Minecraft account was created and I understand that is not an easy task. Is there any way you can possibly get to the bottom of this and turn my creeper green without me losing my worlds? Please let me know if this is the wrong place for this inquiry.
My game was updated to 1.20 today June 7, 2023. Previous inquiries to this site shows I always use the current version of Minecraft.
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New Launcher Icon is for a Legacy Account which I Have Never Had
I have a scary, white creeper face as my new launcher icon and my understanding that is for Legacy accounts, i.e. those who had a Minecraft account before 2012 or those who never paid for their Minecraft game. Neither is me. I created my Minecraft account sometime in 2017 or late 2016 and I remember fervently paying that $26 with joy, although I am not sure if I can prove it at this point. I migrated my account to Microsoft and click on the user name to launch the game. Thus far, I have not been able to locate the date my Minecraft account was created and I understand that is not an easy task. Is there any way you can possibly get to the bottom of this and turn my creeper green without me losing my worlds? Please let me know if this is the wrong place for this inquiry.
My game was updated to 1.20 today June 7, 2023. Previous inquiries to this site shows I always use the current version of Minecraft.
Environment
Windows 10, PC
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I also have the white Creeper on macOS 13.4. However, I reinstalled the launcher and am back to the "legacy" less-vibrant grass block, as described in the icon update press release https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/our-icons-are-changing.
As a quick note to @Magne, so they don't keep worrying, the launcher icon is white because you may be using the legacy launcher; it does not reflect your account status. Also, you're not at risk of losing your worlds. Since I'm also experiencing this without using the legacy launcher (which, to my knowledge, doesn't exist on macOS), this is likely a harmless bug on Mojang's end.
Thank you, Caden for the hopeful words. I hope I will find the courage in a day or so to uninstall and reinstall the launcher but that scares me more than the white creeper. More than anything else, I would love to see that little grass block (vibrant or not) back on my taskbar and my worlds intact, of course. You have cheered me no small amount.
The white creeper icon appeared the night before the 1.20 update when I received notice that the launcher update had failed. Somewhere in the launcher logs I saw a reference to unexpected change to stable versions. I don't know if that is when I got the Legacy launcher. Attached see launcher version from the current Launcher. How should I proceed to make sure I get the updated version? Uninstall it and reload it from the Microsoft store?