Unlike the previous options it doesn’t have “proximity chat”. It works better if you’re interacting with a smallish group of people, who can all hear each other and participate in a single conversation.
Fortunately, Minecraft also has an excellent modding community:
Minecraft does not have proximity chat. There is a mod you can download that provides it, but the Minecraft Mod Scene is a wild west of hacky downloads that I think only make sense to inflict on your friends if they’re a particular kind of nerd who’s excited by that. (Normal minecraft is “pretty accessible, apart from costing money”, but I think modded Minecraft is basically a dealbreaker for inviting newcomers)
I found some videogames that had proximity chat built in, but they were more expensive (more like $60). That’s a bigger ask than I’d make of people I invited to a party. Since the whole point of proximity chat is to enable large freeform parties here, I didn’t investigate them further.
The problem is that proximity chat is most useful for parties of 30ish people, and I think it’s a much harder sell to get friends to A) download minecraft, B) get a mod installed. (I finally got into modded Minecraft last week to test out this sort of thing, and while it was worth it for me, I wouldn’t recommend it for people that aren’t already into Minecraft for it’s own sake)
That said, if you know of a simple one-click-install launcher that bundles minecraft with Mumble, I’d be into that. (It felt more reasonable of me to ask friends to download WesterosCraft, which had a simple installer, than to get some of the other mods I’ve used)
Fortunately, Minecraft also has an excellent modding community:
Proximal chat: https://github.com/magneticflux-/fabric-mumblelink-mod
VR Support: http://www.vivecraft.org/
Yup, noted later on:
The problem is that proximity chat is most useful for parties of 30ish people, and I think it’s a much harder sell to get friends to A) download minecraft, B) get a mod installed. (I finally got into modded Minecraft last week to test out this sort of thing, and while it was worth it for me, I wouldn’t recommend it for people that aren’t already into Minecraft for it’s own sake)
That said, if you know of a simple one-click-install launcher that bundles minecraft with Mumble, I’d be into that. (It felt more reasonable of me to ask friends to download WesterosCraft, which had a simple installer, than to get some of the other mods I’ve used)
This is a good reminder that I should just check out ViveCraft.