Banned From Minecraft, Crypto Group Says It Will Just Make A Better Game

Enlarge / An example NFT World Token that the NFT Worlds Team says will be playable in their own Clone Minecraft in the future. OpenSea Last Wednesday, Microsoft-owned Mojang announced that NFTs and blockchain technology would no longer be allowed to "integrate" with Minecraft. This was bad news for NFT Worlds, which spent months building an entire crypto-economy on top of a collection of random seeds needed to create specific Minecraft maps.

Now, the team behind NFT Worlds has announced that they will create a new game "based on many of the core mechanics of Minecraft" but will be "completely independent of policy enforcement. Microsoft and Mojang have on Minecraft." NFT Worlds promises its new Minecraft-style game will be built "from the ground up" to be familiar to Minecraft players, but now with "modernization and active development Minecraft has been gone for years."

Don't worry, everything will be fine

The NFT Worlds game itself will always be free, according to the team, and users won't need a credit card to purchase additional content. This content will presumably be purchased instead with the NFT Worlds token, which fell in value over 60% in a week after Mojang's announcement.

At this time, players who own an NFT world issued by NFT Worlds can still use its random seed to play in Minecraft or even host multiplayer sessions on this map, as confirmed a Microsoft spokesperson. Vice. But that doesn't mean much, since the NFT itself never provided exclusive rights to this map, any more than writing "World 1-1" on a piece of paper provides the ownership rights. on the iconic level from Super Mario Bros..

Under Microsoft's new rules, however, the NFT Worlds blockchain will no longer be able to connect to the Minecraft API. This means players can no longer easily make in-game crypto payments denominated in NFT Worlds' $WRLD token, or take advantage of other features encoded using the NFT Worlds API.

Enlarge / Crypto projects built on Minecraft, such as NFT Worlds, have been discontinued by Mojang's decision. NFT Worlds

The NFT Worlds team says they will prioritize "backward compatibility with existing Minecraft server development plugins and practices" in their next clone. This means that creators should "continue to create NFT Worlds content" in addition to Minecraft, the team says, confident that it will work with the new, acclaimed NFT Worlds game each time it launches.

Thanks to Mojang's new EULA, however, any further NFT Worlds-related developments in ...