Minecraft Bedrock 26.20, releasing today, introduces a native Party System to Minecraft, in Beta status.

Currently, support and integration between The Hive and the native Minecraft parties is very basic: you’ll be able to see and follow the party leader into The Hive, but without features such as game and hub auto-switching. If your region is different than that of the party leader, you’ll connect to your own region, not that of the leader.

We intend to support basic auto creation of Hive parties based on your game party in the near future, which will enable server-side party auto follow.

As the game party system expands in future Minecraft game updates, we’ll fully integrate with the system for the best experience. For now, we suggest utilizing the Hive (server-side) party system to access all features.