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My boys love Minecraft and want to be able to play it over the internet with their friends. I believe this is possible by signing into Xbox live which - as far as I can work out - they can do via Minecraft Pocket Edition. They have Pocket Edition on the Apple TV as well as Mum and Dad's iPads/iPhones, so I'm concluding that they don't need an Xbox.
Am I right? Does it cost any money to use Xbox Live? What does "full" Minecraft offer that Pocket Edition doesn't?
I'm sure all these answers are on the internet already, but I trust you STW gamers/parents to come to my rescue with a simple answer 🙂
Microsoft are launching cross platform play so you can play against other people on different devices.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/31/minecrafts-cross-platform-better-together-update-arrives-in-beta/
I think this would mean not needing xbox live unless you were specifically playing it on the xbox. Xbox live is a paid for subscription to enable people with xboxes to play with/against each other on their xbox.
We seem to have Minecraft on everything in my house;
Java - Linux/Windows PC
XBox One
XBox 360
Windows 10
Amazon Kindle/Android
The Windows 10 and Android/Kindle version are the Pocket Edition ones and I can play a game on the network with the kids on their tablets and me on my laptop. We all had to create an XBox Live account each for this. The free account was fine (although I have a Gold account for the XBox One/360).
This works well enough and when the cousins come over with their iPads also running PE they have been able to join the network games as well.
At the moment the XBox One/360 versions can't join in, neither can the Linux/Windows PC versions which are Java based.
Frustratingly all the mods the kids want are for the Linux/Windows PC versions; I was initially confused as on Windows 10 you can run the same Java/PC version or the PE (purchased from the Windows store). For a while if you bough the Java version it also gave you a key for the Windows 10 version.
My lad plays his cousins in another city on iPad. Don't you just create a server?
Don't you just create a server?
I don't really know. That's the problem 😆
My lad is angling after an Xbox so he can play Minecraft remotely with his friends across town. I have no idea whether I - or his friends - need to spend money to make that happen. Hopefully not, but the kind responses above are unfortunately confusing me even more 😕
The kids regularly play within the same Minecraft "world" on our home network, but I don't know if those worlds are available over the internet.
here is a 7 year old manboy called OMGchad with a red flatop explaining it! dear god help us all
^Hmm, not sure I'm happy about 8 year olds swapping IP address and setting up port forwarding. Assumed this would be easier. A lot of waffle about command line software for configuring this too; there is no command line on iOS or Apple TV. Thanks for posting it