Minecraft meets Hytale — a community mod is already making cross-play look possible with shared worlds, synced animations, and cross-game chat

Hytale has barely been out for a week, yet it has already secured enough funding to support development for the next two years and attracted more than 2.8 million players. Alongside that momentum, the game is already showcasing an impressive modding scene, with over 1,900 mods listed on CurseForge.

Even so, one modder has taken things further than many would have expected at such an early stage in Hytale’s lifecycle.

X (formerly Twitter) user @iamcxv711 has managed to get Minecraft Bedrock, Pocket, and Java editions running in the same instance as Hytale. The result is players across two different games sharing a single world, complete with cross-game chat, synchronised animations, and even working fluid simulations.

Minecraft pushed beyond its limits

I remember running my own Minecraft server for an online community, back when cross-play between Bedrock and Java editions was only just becoming viable. It was far from perfect and came with plenty of limitations, but it was still an impressive achievement driven entirely by the community.

Fast forward a few years, and the idea has evolved even further. Minecraft and Hytale are now playable together, at least in an early and experimental way. It is still very much early days, but the technical leap is difficult to ignore.

Hytale’s success is particularly notable given its unusual development journey. The game was originally acquired by Riot Games, later cancelled, and eventually reacquired by its original creators before finally being released.

Despite that turbulent path, Hytale is now live and performing exceptionally well.

This is not the first time Minecraft has crossed paths with another game, either. Roblox, which attracts more than 300 million monthly active users, has previously been linked with Minecraft through a project called Mineplay. Developed by Willem Development, the mod allowed players from both games to build together in a shared space, showing just how far community-driven experimentation can go.

Other impressive Hytale mods

Hytale is already shaping up to be something special. Just a week after entering early access, it has received its first update, and the modding community is wasting no time pushing the game far beyond expectations.

We have already covered projects like Doom running inside Hytale. Now we have what I’d consider even further beyond that, which includes a functional Windows 95 environment usable within Hytale.

Perhaps even one step above that we even have Minecraft running inside Hytale, and even Hytale running inside of Hytale, which raises the simple question about the platform’s potential. What cannot run in Hytale?

It is particularly impressive that all of this has been achieved by @iamcxv711, with the exception of Doom running in Minecraft, which was created by modder tr7zw. Both deserve serious kudos for what they've been able to do in such a short amount of time.

With modders moving this quickly, how do you feel about Hytale’s early access modding support so far? Let us know by commenting or taking part in our poll:

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