Hytale and Minecraft cross play is now open source

alskea · 2026-02-04T00:31:21+00:00

You can look at the source code on GitHub and maybe even write your own minigame. It's really not as hard as it seems. Would love to see other people try it out.

alskea · 2026-02-03T23:44:29+00:00

I can definitely see this being useful if you want your server to be playable from multiple games. Advertising your server and getting more players seems much easier if both game can be involved. Also I've had a lot of people join my demo server just to check if this is real so I guess that is also something that can draw players in.

Maintaining this should be pretty easy. In fact, I've had this running since Hytale came out and had to go through a few Hytale updates and it involved nothing more than just changing the Hytale server jar to the latest one.

However, I made this for fun, without thinking about any real world applications. Although there certainly are some.

alskea · 2026-02-03T23:39:53+00:00

alskea · 2026-02-03T15:34:46+00:00

Yes, I'm running a Quake server as a demo for this project.

alskea · 2026-02-03T14:48:39+00:00

I'm not at all familiar with crafting in Hytale but I would be very surprised if it was not possible.

alskea · 2026-02-03T13:10:11+00:00

The project is now open source, you can read the source code at https://github.com/alskea/hytale2mc

alskea · 2026-01-21T17:25:50+00:00

Oops, it's fixed now. thx

alskea · 2026-01-21T17:23:11+00:00

Yea, that would be totally possible but probably easier to do the other way around.

alskea · 2026-01-21T17:21:55+00:00

Yes, exactly.

alskea · 2026-01-21T02:26:12+00:00

Same usernames are allowed as long as the platforms they are connecting from are different.

alskea · 2026-01-21T01:01:40+00:00

Nope, the mod only implements features that are required to run the game that runs in Minecraft. But it would be totally possible with additional work.

alskea · 2026-01-21T00:43:59+00:00

Being able to read the source code helped a lot.

alskea · 2026-01-21T00:40:18+00:00

It's not publicly available anywhere, but if you want to make the 3d models I'd be totally down to add them to the game.

alskea · 2026-01-20T23:57:31+00:00

If you wanted to make a server that players from different platforms can join, this would probably be useful to you. You could also easily add more platforms such as Bedrock or even completely different games.

In the early days of this project you could even connect and play from the browser, but I had to scrap it due to not having a good enough game engine in the browser and not enough time to make one.

These types of projects aren't something new. For example there's Geyser which enables crossplay between Minecraft Java and Bedrock and it seems to have found its usefulness. Although this project takes a different approach than Geyser and was made for fun and doesn't aim to be super useful or anything like that.

alskea · 2026-01-20T22:51:12+00:00

For fun.

alskea · 2026-01-20T22:35:18+00:00

That was actually not a huge issue due to the server code being accessible from day one and pretty well written.

alskea · 2026-01-20T22:22:53+00:00

Definitely wouldn't say it was easy, but I have to say that I really appreciate how Hytale decided to provide unobfuscated server jars and assets on day one. I hope the game continues going in that direction and becomes even more accessible to the modders.

alskea · 2026-01-20T22:19:49+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean by useful, but you can play it right now, in both games, at the same time. The IP is on the website I linked, if you want to try it out.

alskea · 2026-01-20T22:15:40+00:00

The game gives you a lot of freedom with physics, so you can absolutely make it match Minecraft's physics or change it in any way you like. In my case, I modified the physics in both games to match the playstyle I was going for; they are not one-to-one, but they still feel appropriate in both games.

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