One full week after it first launched, Hypixel founder Simon Collins-Laflamme is reflecting on the journey getting here, and thinks it was absolutely worth it.

Hytale's lengthy development is the stuff of legend at this point, over the course of 10 years, the game went through a sale to Riot Games, a development reboot, a cancellation, and, finally, a revival when Hypixel founder Collins-Laflamme purchased the rights to the game back from Riot Games. And while it's not been without issues – which granted, were very much expected – the Minecraft-inspired RPG has been a hit, already picking up an impressive mod community.

Collins-Laflamme took to Twitter to look back on the game after its first week, saying, "It’s now been 7 days since early access launch and I can confidently say that I have no regrets saving Hytale, it’s been the most challenging but rewarding experience of my life."

He continues by thanking "everyone for the amazing support," while shouting out "the rebuilt Hytale team for trusting me to get this to the finish line in just a few months." Collins-Laflamme explains, "I haven’t been involved with Hytale development for many years and coming back was a big unknown and risk for me, and my family." I fully trusted the people and it just worked. Amazing team, every single one made a big difference."

Obviously, with it being an early access launch, Hytale still has a ways to go before it actually launches, but with a surprisingly drama-free launch, Hypixel seems to be on its way to making the game into something worth the wait.

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Hytale launched into early access just last week, and modders are already starting to do some wild stuff. Well, one modder in particular is worth highlighting – the same person who got Windows 95, Doom, and Hytale itself running in Hytale has now done something that's arguably even more impressive. He's gotten crossplay working between Minecraft and Hytale.

While developer Hypixel's origins lie in running modded Minecraft servers, Hytale is an original game that simply shares Minecraft's block-building sandbox genre. The idea of crossplay between the two games is as absurd as the thought of crossplay between, say, Call of Duty and Battlefield. World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14. Fortnite and PUBG.

Yet iamcxv7, whose social media profiles describe him as a 15-year-old music and programming enthusiast from Bangladesh, has shown off crossplay between Minecraft and Hytale working like the two games were always meant to work together. Clips posted to Twitter show a Minecraft player and Hytale player existing in the same world, watching each other jump around, and seeing blocks placed in one game appear in the other. Time of day is synched between the games. Cross-game text chat is even functional.

How is this apparent magic possible? "It's all just Packet Trickery," iamcxv7 explains on Twitter. "You could say I am running a Minecraft Server in the Hytale JVM which uses the Coordinate System of the Hytale World (As its the same) As well as takes a Snapshot of the Hytale World and reconstructs it and then send it to to the Client via Packets."

Put the emphasis on "trickery" there, since the project in its current state is fairly limited, and iamcxv7 adds in a Reddit post that it's currently "more of a proof of concept" with "no end goal for now." But hey, he also adds that he has "all the time and energy," so who knows what form the mod may eventually take.

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