Mojang announced last year that it was shutting down support for PSVR and PC VR headsets sometime after March 2025. Now, in the latest Bedrock update, the studio has officially dropped VR support, although there are still a few unofficial ways to keep you mining.

According to the Bedrock Edition 1.21.80 patch notes, as of yesterday Mojang has removed access to VR gameplay completely across both PC and PSVR versions, which unfortunately includes both solo and multiplayer.

Still, you can still chug right along fighting creepers with a few unofficial mods that have seen a lot more love than Mojang ever game to the official versions.

One of the best ways to play right now on PC VR headsets is to install the popular Vivecraft mod, which supports Minecraft Java versions 1.7.10, and 1.10 through 1.20.1.

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Vivecraft supports single player, LAN multiplayer, and server multiplayer. While you won’t be able to kick it with your friends across Mojang’s official Minecraft servers—and no cross-play between other Bedrock versions, such as Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, or mobile—it does support Forge mods, which lets you finetune visuals and game modes.

If you’re on Quest, your only real option to play Minecraft has really only ever been by installing the unofficial QuestCraft mod, which packages Vivecraft and Pojlib in a standalone port of Minecraft’s Java edition. Again, like Vivecraft for PC VR, there’s no cross-play between other Bedrock versions.

You can get a recap on both methods courtesy YouTuber ‘Diamond VR’, who takes you through the setup process:

Sadly, PSVR 2 users already know the score. After Mojang announced it was dropping support for the original PSVR, which first saw official VR support in late 2020, it was very doubtful the studio would launch anything for PSVR 2. Small consolation: if you have a VR-ready PC, you can actually hook up your PSVR 2 to a PC and play via Vivecraft. You’ll need Sony’s $60 adapter, or alliteratively the right GPU to plug right in.

While there are gads of Minecraft clones and off-brand block building games out there, we haven’t seen one that’s truly worth recommending over those two mods, which are both free and require only minor fiddling to get running smoothly.

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Scott Hayden
Well before the first modern XR products hit the market, Scott recognized the potential of the technology and set out to understand and document its growth. He has been professionally reporting on the space for nearly a decade as Editor at Road to VR, authoring more than 4,000 articles on the topic. Scott brings that seasoned insight to his reporting from major industry events across the globe.
  • Peter vasseur

    Seems stupid to remove it? Once you have it, unless it cost them money I don’t see why you would remove vr support.

    • flynnstigator

      Agreed. Even if the support costs outweigh any revenue, you never know when VR is going to get its next “Quest 2” and become all the rage again. It’s always cheaper and easier to keep something going than to burn a bridge you might have to rebuild from scratch someday.

  • p_a_t_r_x

    It's a good thing there are alternatives – Survivoid and Discovery to name a few!

  • Lance Powell

    Animal Blocks is my favorite voxel builder and shown as trending on the Meta Store. Have you tried that one? The game play is fairly deep compared to others.

    • Bitrikts

      I really don't think that combination works…

  • NL_VR

    Vivecraft ❤