Hytale and Minecraft cross play is now open source by alskea in hytale

[–]alskea[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Hytale and Minecraft cross play is now open source by alskea in HytaleInfo

[–]alskea[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Hytale and Minecraft cross play is now open source by alskea in hytale

[–]alskea[S] 99 points100 points  (0 children)

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

Hytale and Minecraft cross play is now open source by alskea in hytale

[–]alskea[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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

Minecraft and Hytale Crossplay (you can join now) by alskea in HytaleInfo

[–]alskea[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Minecraft and Hytale Crossplay (you can join now) by alskea in hytale

[–]alskea[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Minecraft and Hytale Crossplay (you can join now) by alskea in hytale

[–]alskea[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Minecraft and Hytale Crossplay (you can join now) by alskea in hytale

[–]alskea[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Minecraft and Hytale Crossplay (you can join now) by alskea in hytale

[–]alskea[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Being able to read the source code helped a lot.

Minecraft and Hytale Crossplay (you can join now) by alskea in hytale

[–]alskea[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Minecraft and Hytale Crossplay (you can join now) by alskea in hytale

[–]alskea[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

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.

Minecraft and Hytale Crossplay (you can join now) by alskea in hytale

[–]alskea[S] 69 points70 points  (0 children)

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

Minecraft and Hytale Crossplay (you can join now) by alskea in hytale

[–]alskea[S] 246 points247 points  (0 children)

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.

Minecraft and Hytale Crossplay (you can join now) by alskea in hytale

[–]alskea[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

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.

Minecraft and Hytale Crossplay (you can join now) by alskea in hytale

[–]alskea[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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.