Hytale and Minecraft Get Crossplay Capability Thanks to Intrepid Modder
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Key Points:
- A 15-year-old modder, iamcxv7, has developed a mod enabling crossplay between Hytale and Minecraft, allowing players from both games to interact, build, chat, and fight together despite their different game engines.
- The mod works by running a Minecraft server within Hytale's Java Virtual Machine (JVM), synchronizing world coordinates and sending game data packets between the two games, though it remains unstable and incomplete.
- Hypixel Studios co-founder Simon Collins-Laflamme described saving Hytale after Riot Games dropped it as a challenging but rewarding experience, with the game already financially supporting two more years of development.
- Hypixel is actively working on updates, with Update 2 scheduled for release soon,
