What is Vanilla Unlocked Together

Ever wanted to play Minecraft with your friends, but they don't have Java Edition?

Vanilla Unlocked Together is a modpack designed to allow Bedrock and Java players to play together on the same server, and enjoy the best mods Minecraft has to offer. Like the name suggests, you can play together, crossplay!

Play with your friends across all platforms!

• Java 🖥️
• Windows 10 💻
• Playstation 🎮
• Xbox ❎
• Mobile 📱
• Switch 🍄

Experience Java Mods on Bedrock!

• Beautiful biomes 🌎
• More structures 🏰
• Improvements to the Nether AND the End 🌌 (WIP)
• Advancements/Achievements that reward you (you actually get items!) 🏆

All of this is balanced and designed around keeping the original Minecraft "feel", while surprising you and keeping you excited for what you'll find next

Java players using this modpack to play with their Bedrock buddies get some perks too

• Client-side Optimizations ⚡
• Environment/Atmosphere Enhancements 🌿
• Improved Animations 🏃
• Shaders 🕯️
• UI Improvements 🎨
• In-game Voice Chat 🎤

Significant upgrades to the Java client-side experience will be coming over the next few weeks

What can I do in Vanilla Unlocked Together?

Explore!

Exploration is key in this modpack. You will be rewarded greatly for going out and exploring all the new biomes and structures.

Collect!

Acheivements in this modpack often give some sort of reward for completing them. Things like XP, unique trophies to hang on the wall, or even rare items to help you along your journey!

Fight!

Rare mobs have a chance to spawn "powered up". The higher tier they are, the better loot they will drop. They even might drop enchantments at higher level than is usually obtainable! (Think Unbreaking IV)

Hosting a server

If you want a simple, fast, and affordable server check out BisectHosting. Within a few clicks you and all you friends can be playing together, regardless of platform! If you enter promo code PROXI at checkout, you'll get 25% off. You can try it for a month, and if for some reason you don't like it, you can cancel the renewal with no penalties or fees.

Or, if you're a bit tech-savvy, you have a good computer, and you're looking to selfhost a server for you and your friends, you can get some help from me by joining the Discord server! Speaking of...

Join the Discord server!

If you're having issues with something or have a suggestion to make, the Discord server is a great place to do it! You can also share your Minecraft build screenshots, send your best memes, talk with the community, and keep up to date with the latest and greatest information about what I'm working on for Minecraft.

Disclaimer:

This pack is very much in its early stages. Features are extremely subject to change. I'm going to be actively playing it over the next few weeks with a group of playtesters. Their feedback, as well as my own thoughts on the gameplay, will effect the most immediate changes and improvements that will be implemented.

TLDR: Things may be removed from the pack. Stuff probably won't break when updating, but if it does, I'll do my best to note it in the changelogs and in my Discord server.

Known Issues:

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• The world generation can look a bit wacky sometimes. It comes with the territory of having several things that add new structures and biomes. It will improve over time, but it will always be an ongoing project to streamline it.
• When using Actions&Stuff resource pack on Bedrock Edition, some mob head blocks will be animated.
• On Java Edition, some entities like armor stands don't have lighting applied to them
• When joining a server on Java Edition, occasionally you may get a message saying "Internal Exception: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "net.minecraft.class_11980.method_744470" because "$$2" is null". You can ignore it and just try to join the server again. I'll get around to fixing this soon. There's currently more important things to fix.
• Some enchantments that are only supposed to be obtained by killing the Ender Dragon can be obtained from general chest loot. This will be hard/time consuming to fix as I have to track down which structures don't filter their loot tables properly
• Occasionally on Java Edition seemingly random blocks will not display until rerendered.
• When leaving a singleplayer world you just created on Java Edition you won't be able to see your world in the worlds list until you restart the game

Backstory about this pack:

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I've actually been working on a pack for quite some time now called Vanilla Unlocked, which was designed for 1.21.4 Java only. A large modpack with hundreds of mods and lots of custom intercompatibility. But I've been working on it for over 6 months now as getting it to the quality I feel comfortable releasing is extremely time consuming. Having hundreds of mods work well together requires extensive programming making custom mods and datapacks. There is also a lot of research that I've put into making the pack run well, even on lower-end computers. Minecraft really slows down when many things are added to world generation likenew biomes and structures. But my friends have been wanting to play Minecraft and some of them only have Bedrock edition. So I decided to take what I've learned after all these months and apply it to somewhat of an offshoot of the project, which is what you see here. Vanilla Unlocked Crossplay uses all the configuration I've worked on, everything I've learned about what can and cannot be done server-side, niche couple thousand download gems of mods of seen, my own mods I've written to improve the game, and so much more I can't even describe to make the best experience I possibly can. I worked on my last public modpack for about a year straight to make it the best possible experience, then I worked on Vanilla Unlocked for another 6 months as an improvement to that in every way. And now I'm taking all that hard work and putting it into this, with a commitment to keep it up-to-date and add new features as much as possible.