How do I buy Minecraft Add-ons on an android tablet?

October 6, 2024 9:05 AM

I successfully installed Minecraft on my son's tablet. Now he wants to use his allowance to buy add-ons. OK, I am willing to facilitate this transaction but we can't figure out how. I assume at some point we will be directed the play store and I will be asked to enter my password, but this never happens. When he clicks the add-on it asks him to buy coins. When he clicks the coin package he can afford, nothing happens. This is where I was expecting it would go to the play store or something and I would have to enter my password to authorize (due to family link running on the tablet).
posted by If only I had a penguin... to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

I think Minecraft parental controls are handled separately from e.g. family link, and this support page appears to confirm that.

Do you perhaps have a rarely-used Microsoft account that's set as the parent for his Minecraft account?
posted by demi-octopus at 1:20 PM on October 6, 2024

In your google family link app, under controls -> content restrictions -> google play, there's a setting for "Require Approval For" - check that is set to something other than "Never".

I don't think the microsoft account parental controls would stop you buying something purchases on Android, but it is worth making/signing into one before buying something as the purchases will then transfer over to minecraft bedrock on PC or other OS.
posted by samj at 3:40 AM on October 7, 2024