To cut down on the recent abuse from web-chat spam, I have activated needing permission to use it, players now have to be Cadet rank or above and have logged in at least once to PirateCraft from the current IP.

So if you want to talk to people in-game and are already Cadet; from a location you have not logged into PirateCraft before, you can do one of two things.

1. Log into PirateCraft from that new IP, this will be added to your account.
2. Or if you cannot play minecraft (School/Work/Public) You can paste your IP in this forum thread and I will add it to your username manually.
   To find out your locations current public IP Google “whats my ip“, Google will tell you this at the top of the page with:
   Your public IP address is

Also be aware of recent changes to the live map’s claims being hidden by default.