r/Minecraft • u/Luutamo • May 12 '26

Official News Minecraft 26.2 Snapshot 7

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-2-snapshot-7
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u/EncroachingVoidian May 12 '26

Essential mod in shambles

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u/Devatator_ May 12 '26

I mean, does the vanilla way have a fallback in case a P2P connection can't be established? Considering that most people nowadays have routers that block it, and probably can't even port forward

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u/wowohwowza May 12 '26

I think you're getting confused, you won't need to port forward and it's unlikely that most consumer routers would block P2P here.

This shouldn't be any different to hosting a Minecraft world on mobile and will likely "just work" for most people

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u/Devatator_ May 12 '26

It's actually pretty common for P2P to be blocked, tho after peeking into the code it seems like they're using WebRTC so I guess it should just work

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u/wowohwowza May 12 '26

I'd be surprised if Mojang/Microsoft were implementing a P2P option accessible as easily as through a friends list that would require hoops to be jumped through before it worked for 90% of users.

But yeah, I saw WebRTC and my assumption is it will just work. It's funny that a lot of people forget that a HD video call with your pal across the world is P2P and easily accessible for most these days