QuestCraft Makes Minecraft Java Edition Playable On Quest 2

Minecraft VR (opens in new tab) has been available on Oculus headsets since 2016, but Microsoft's official app is based upon the Bedrock version of Minecraft. The Laptop-unique Java edition of Minecraft, which still has a heavy consumer-base, has yet to obtain any official VR treatment.

Step forward QuestCraft, a newly launched mod that permits VR compatibility for Minecraft Java. Announced earlier this week, QuestCraft's reveal was accompanied by a trailer displaying the mod in motion. You possibly can view the video below, nevertheless it allows full head-tracking in Minecraft, and adjusts UI features like menus to be practical in VR, ie, letting you move gadgets round in a pop-up inventory window. It also permits touch controls to a limited diploma. You possibly can move your arms round, however it seems that interactions are primarily button-primarily based.

QuestCraft requires an present model of Minecraft Java to use, acting as a 'wrapper' that launches Minecraft on your quest. It's at the moment in Beta, with efficiency reported as being not nice by VR specialist site UploadVR. On the mod's github web page (opens in new tab), the developers of the mod claim that is "because Minecraft is a very badly optimized game".

You'll be able to obtain QuestCraft via the Github page, which additionally supplies instructions for set up. Truthful word of warning, the installation course of is quite difficult, and requires a 3rd-celebration mod-set up service like SideQuest or QuestToolBox. The Github web page additionally recommends a listing of mods to help enhance performance, reminiscent of Cull Leaves (opens in new tab) and Lithium (opens in new tab)among others.

As for why you'd need a barely janky VR mod for Minecraft Java, moderately than taking part in the official Minecraft VR app, the quick reply is that Minecraft Java helps a variety of mods that either aren't catered for at all by the Bedrock edition, or have to be purchased separately. If Servers wish to play vanilla Minecraft in VR, then the official app is the one to go for. But when you've bought your own Java-primarily based Minecraft server customised with a bunch of mods, or simply don't desire to purchase Minecraft once more, then QuestCraft permits you to step into that world and gawp at it in stereoscopic 3D.