This has been driving me crazy lately and it is regarding dedicated servers and playing on one via Xbox. I’m hoping for at least an explanation, preferably an official one.

As it stands, it would seem that you can’t join a dedicated server on an Xbox. Yes, you can via LAN but for all intents and purposes this is no different than “Host/Join” on the same network.

So I really just wanna get this straight. On Bedrock. The version of Minecraft that is supposed to bring everyone “together”. You literally cannot play together???

You cannot host a server and join via Xbox. The button is not there! To join a server from outside the network is not allowed within Bedrock on Xbox. You cannot play together!

In 2023, within the amazing Xbox ecosystem, where one can turn off their game, get up, go to their PC in the other room, and resume playing the same game with the same save right where they left off, then go to the bedroom and repeat the process on a second Xbox, you cannot do this on Bedrock. On Minecraft. That Microsoft owns.

You not only will have purchased separate versions (PC, Phone, Xbox), but then can’t even go between the versions and sync your worlds (Xbox to Xbox being the exception) and pick up and play where you left off between devices. Unless of course you have a Realm. Or, normally/logically/whatever host a dedicated server. Which you can’t even join from Xbox versions. The very same platform from which this ecosystem of parity blossomed from. The idea of “together” behind Bedrock itself!!!

There does in fact exist a complete stop. A barrier. A failure of this idea and system. You cannot join a dedicated server on an Xbox!!! You can’t! Is this for real??? I just need answers. Closure. Anything.

I am well aware there are workarounds, and do please tell me about them, but that is not my main point. My point being there is a problem with the cross-play functionality that completely undermines the whole idea/point of the very version of Minecraft I’ve bought multiple times just to try to be able to play whenever and wherever. Wtf.