Mojang is thinking about custom servers for Minecraft Xbox One

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Mojang is thinking about adding support for player-owned, customisable servers to Minecraft Xbox One, the developer's Daniel Kaplan has told OXM. This would allow players to set up their own online worlds, which invited players could then explore in their absence. The developer says it has yet to put any concrete plans in motion, however.

"On the Xbox servers?" Kaplan began, "We are looking into different solutions, however we don't know when it will work. A lot of people would enjoy that and we have got a lot of questions about it. It would be similar to what we're doing on the PC."



It's possible that the game will allow players to store their worlds on Microsoft's Azure servers (aka, the Xbox Live cloud), but there are obvious difficulties. Minecraft save files soak up more and more storage space as players explore and more terrain is generated - supporting such growth remotely would presumably be a challenge, with thousands of players involved.

If Mojang itself were to offer the servers, there's also the question of how this would sit alongside an Xbox Gold subscription. The developer's Minecraft Realms service is available for a monthly fee. Still, remote world storage remains one of our most-wanted features for the game, which will go on sale this month. If you had a server of your very own, what would you do with it?

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Source: http://www.totalxbox.com/79968/mojang-is-thinking-about-custom-servers-for-minecraft-xbox-one/

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-SkillzPosted:

That would be a pretty good addition

OmG_Its_TobyPosted:

they should make it for xbox 360 too

YokePosted:

Ooooh This would be awesome. Hopefully they can make it happen.

SnotPosted:

If they go ahead with this and manage to make it work it would be amazing.

PryzelPosted:

Great idea, hope it is added.

DragonPosted:

I think this would be a great idea. It would also help the PC players come to the console version, with the except of modifications.

SagePosted:

A-10 Why not just have one simple survival server for each region and have it so there isnt any map limits of how far you can travel, no limit of how many players there can be in, and have a set of rules. One server and one massive party. And then if you want privacy you can go ahead and build your own private server for your friends that's from your own console.


This would require alot of "server power" so to speak a server supporting that many would have to be massive

ReconPosted:

Why not just have one simple survival server for each region and have it so there isnt any map limits of how far you can travel, no limit of how many players there can be in, and have a set of rules. One server and one massive party. And then if you want privacy you can go ahead and build your own private server for your friends that's from your own console.

ObiwonPosted:

Really not see how they would have issues implementing this support seeing all the saves will most likely be on the cloud from the start....

ItalianPosted:

If Battlefield can do it with their servers (knowing when EA always has bad servers) then I believe MC can easily do it.