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any particular reason you're on bedrock instead of java? don't you get both versions when you buy the game? i bought mine when java was the only version and i think they gave me bedrock for free when that came out. or is it because of the lack of crossplay? just curious

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That’s a fair question. You’re right about the crossplay part. Kids have consoles, which only support Bedrock. So if I want to play with them, then I need to play Bedrock too.

Which is a pity because, like yourself, I first played the Java edition too.

As an aside, I think Bedrock is the only version that supports VR. I don’t play VR Minecraft often, but sometimes it’s fun. Albeit only for about 15 minutes, then the motion sickness kicks in (curiously it’s the only VR game I’ve played that does give me motion sickness)

My kids play minecraft Java on a raspberry pi and I set up a server running GeyserMC so their friends on tablets could play with them. I'm still deeply annoyed that MS seems to want to kill off Java though.

If you do, have a look at CoreProtect and whitelisting the users you want to be able to play.

The kids already have Nintendo Switches. A raspberry pi wouldn’t be practical and they’d never want to use it when everything else is on the Switch.

We also have our own Microsoft servers. It’s pretty easy to set up a Bedrock server. Though most of the time the kids just host their own on their Switch.

CoreProtect isn’t really needed because they know not to visit public servers and ransoms can’t join our private servers even if they wanted to.

i've got possible good news for you then, there's a project that adds a translation layer between the two server protocols[0]. it has some limitations dealing with the different quirks and features that differ between both games[1], but it looks like everything else works fine. you could try that out if you find it to be a better option than wrangling with windows updates

as for VR, there's a third party mod for java[2], i tried it a couple years back and it felt pretty smooth, had no issues with it, but i don't have a point of reference to compare it to bedrock VR because i never tried it

[0] https://github.com/GeyserMC/Geyser

[1] https://geysermc.org/wiki/geyser/current-limitations/

[2] https://www.vivecraft.org/

That is interesting news. I’ll take a look.

Thank you for sharing.

I tried bedrock cause I heard it was written in C++, but it somehow ended up running worse than the Java version. Weird lag spikes and constant glitches. (Also the UI is written in JavaScript?)

Then when I ran a Windows 10 debloater, it deleted Bedrock because it was a PWA, and it turns out Bedrock stores the world files inside the application folder, so the world got deleted too.

So yeah I switched back to regular Minecraft.

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