Hytale & Minecraft Now Crossplay Compatible Thanks To 15-Year-Old Modder
Here's a minute of gameplay footage.
While Hytale started as a Minecraft mod, it's an original game with a similar block-building sandbox vibe. It finally launched last week without Steam support, and already, a 15-year-old modder named iamcxv7 has pulled off something incredible, getting Minecraft and Hytale to work together, almost like they were designed to be compatible from the start.
You can see footage of a Minecraft player and a Hytale player in the same world together, interacting with each other while the time of day and text chat stay synced between them:
"It's all just Packet Trickery. You could say I am running a Minecraft server in the Hytale JVM, which uses the Coordinate System of the Hytale world (as it's the same) As well as takes a snapshot of the Hytale world and reconstructs it, and then sends it to the Client via Packets," explained the modder.
Given that Hytale is only about a week old, this is very impressive. As iamcxv7 mentioned on Reddit, there's currently no end goal, it's more of a proof of concept. The developer plans to continue updating the project, so who knows what it could evolve into?
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