{"id":111774,"date":"2020-04-18T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/04\/minecraft_dungeons_wont_let_you_team_up_with_random_players_online"},"modified":"2020-04-18T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T02:45:00","slug":"minecraft-dungeons-wont-let-you-team-up-with-random-players-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/18\/minecraft-dungeons-wont-let-you-team-up-with-random-players-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft Dungeons Won&#8217;t Let You Team Up With Random Players Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2397e9b8ac3e3\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2397e9b8ac3e3\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2397e9b8ac3e3\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/minecraft_dungeons\">Minecraft Dungeons<\/a><\/strong> arrives on the Switch and multiple other platforms next month. It&#8217;s inspired by classic dungeon crawlers and allows you to fight hordes of nasty mobs by yourself, or team up with three other players online or locally. According to the game&#8217;s <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/help.minecraft.net\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360041345271-Minecraft-Dungeons-FAQ\">official FAQ<\/a>, though, you <em>won&#8217;t<\/em> be able to form a party with a random group of players online.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>WILL THERE BE ONLINE MATCHMAKING?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No. Minecraft Dungeons is designed to be played together with your friends \u2013 either on a comfy couch or in a comfy online session.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Your online friends will also have to be playing the game on the same system, as the FAQ further states how cross-platform multiplayer won&#8217;t be available at launch. The good news is the developer is &#8220;looking forward&#8221; to enabling cross-platform play for free, in a future update. Here&#8217;s hoping it also considers adding in online matchmaking in an update later down the line.<\/p>\n<p><em>Will you still be trying out this game on release now that you know all of this? Leave a comment down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Minecraft Dungeons arrives on the Switch and multiple other platforms next month. It&#8217;s inspired by classic dungeon crawlers and allows you to fight hordes of nasty mobs by yourself, or team up with three other players online or locally. According to the game&#8217;s official FAQ, though, you won&#8217;t be able to form a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}