Essential Mod, Multiplayer Without Servers Or Minecraft Spyware?

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In this video i show you how to use Essential to play your singleplayer worlds with your friends! But the question many people seem to have is: Is it safe? Well i talked to Spark Universe, creator of Minecraft Bedrock Add-on's and got some awsners

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Essential Privacy Policy:

Mojang Encryption:

What are stun, turn and ICE?

Footage and Voice Overs by ItsDrowned

Special Thanks to Mathmagician for decompiling the code (before it was public source):

If You've Read This Far Comment Pebble :)

[Sytex]

We need a video about portium and how to forwardium it.

[redstonewizard]

Essential is a really cool mod lol, glad to know it's safe too. (Yes I know it's always iffy online, STAY SAFE EVERYONE)

[beastbomber]

The cosmetic store is probably needed to be able to pay for their own servers and databases that make essential work. I see the store as a way to support them while getting a cool item that doesn't change the game in an unfair way.

[Wonky]

Microtransactions rub me the wrong way too, but it still seems like a pretty decent piece of software otherwise, at least for people who want the simplest way possible to open a server and use fancy cosmetics. For others, there's always e4mc and Customizable Player Models ;)

[scpredmage]

Seeing as COPPA makes it illegal to collect the data of children under 13 without parental consent, and this includes the data needed to do the bare minimum tracking needed for a user account, the friends list feature alone kinda necessitates the "no under-13s" check box, not to mention the cosmetics needing an account to track ownership.

For the record, COPPA is why EVERY website has a 13 years-old age requirement to make a user account.

[ivan_was_taken]

I do have a server, though essential is a no brainer for all my friends because if we want to do anything that is not on the vanilla smp then we are gonna need essential as my pockets only have enough money for one server.

[hobobobo]

I'm really glad you came up with this conclusion, I absolutely adore the essentials mod and would have been heartbroken if I had to stop using it to protect me and my friends privacy

[tinypixiebread]

The P2P connect is literally the best feature any mod could ever give, and again, made by the community

[hosps]

Its crazy how before this video released they made their source code publican available so people can actually see the authenticity of it all

[Quirin.R]

I use the essential mod a lot of the time to play together with friends, sometimes vanilla, sometimes modded, and have done so for probably a year or two, and it works beautifully. I also very much dislike most ingame shops, but Essential is a special Case. The items they sell are purely cosmetic and, except for, if i'm right, a small, green "SALE" text near the wardrobe button, you don''t get nagged to buy stuff, you don't get any popups, and it doesn't dehance (opposite of enhance?! xD) the gameplay in any way, and if you want, you can even switch all cosmetics off freely, hiding everones.
I think, for an ingame Shop, Essential has done it really well, and, even if I don't intend on buying anything in the near future, the stuff there is mostly really high quality and not to bad, so I'm glad that its there, so the devs can at least get some compensation / reward for their good work if people have some spare money.

Conclusion: I like the Essential Mod, and I think it is very much exactly what it says on the box: Essential! *gets hit with tomato*)

[adamantris]

the cosmetics store is really the main reason why i prefer e4mc over essentials. i am also a big fan that only the host needs to install the mod for it to work! so can't wait for the video about that one

[yes.elevens]

It really makes Java into bedrock, cosmetics and a friends list.

[Kicsivazz]

For the free stuff, I believe they are compatible with the emotecraft and you can load your own emotes for sure. I do not think you can get capes and other cosmetics the same way though, but at least you can just download emotes and use them if you wish.

[djazburke]

the cosmetic store is a good thing actually, the mod creators can be earn some money for the work they put in while not requiring people to spend their money to use the mod and the player gets some nifty clothes or whatever

[wxrm]

To be fair, the marketplace is a non-issue. There's nothing wrong with developers making money off a high-quality mod. It'd be a different story if they were locking the mod behind a paywall, but the mod itself is completely free, and the cosmetics are 100% optional. I'm not the biggest fan of it myself, but I can't fault them for it.

[Asumji]

Ok so the whole playing with people is cool and all but what amazes me about essential is all the framework they provide for other mods like Elementa (a framework for all kinds of gui rendering) and Vigilance (an easy-to-use config gui framework) just makes getting into modding a ton easier. Not entirely sure how it is for the broader community but me, being a hypixel skyblock player, can state that basically the entire modding scene here lives off essential which while forcing people to install that mod without much of a use for it makes modding magnitudes easier to enter

[birb]

I will never understand why people get actually angry at a FREE and quite frankly insanely good mod (or game) having a COSMETIC ONLY shop. Like, this can't be easy to run, let alone for entirely free. People seem to be fine paying for a patreon or kickstarter, but can't handle completely OPTIONAL cosmetics in their free to play game (or mod).

Either way, nice video, thanks for taking one for the team and reading the horrors that normally is the TOS.

[catergamer]

perfect timing, i was considering getting essential because me and my friends wanted to play a mod our server host can't and won't support

[Goblin_Hater_]

I don’t even use this for the world hosting, I use it for the messaging and friending features. It’s nice to have a messaging system in game

[TrentLuigi]

Im so glad to have a video that clears this up, I got so much flack for mentioning this mod and defending it.