How to install and play Minecraft X Games (Minecraft inside RDR2, PEAK, Ready or Not, Cyberpunk 2077 and GTA V)

Minecraft X Games is a set of prototype mods that put Minecraft inside other games: RedCraft (Red Dead Redemption 2), PeakCraft (PEAK), ReadyCraft (Ready or Not), CyberCraft (Cyberpunk 2077) and GTACraft (GTA V). There’s one release per game on Keel62155/Minecraft-X-Games. This guide follows RedCraft 3.0.0, PeakCraft 1.0.0, ReadyCraft 1.0.0, CyberCraft 2.0.0 and GTACraft 2.0.0. New to mods? Read Start here first.

The project calls these prototypes and says to expect rough edges. CyberCraft has been played on one PC. GTACraft and ReadyCraft are early builds with very little play time.

1. What you need

• The game you want to mod, your own PC copy. Each one has its own extra requirements; see the table in section 4.
• A Microsoft account that owns Minecraft: Java Edition. Bedrock alone isn’t enough.
• SkyCraft’s Minecraft. Every mod here uses the Minecraft that SkyCraft sets up. It isn’t included in these zips. You don’t need Skyrim.
• About 1 GB of free disk for Minecraft, Java and the launcher.
• A save where you can walk around freely.

2. Set up SkyCraft’s Minecraft (once)

The mods look for a Prism Launcher copy with a ready-made SkyCraft instance in %LOCALAPPDATA%\SkyCraft\Prism. If you already play SkyCraft in Skyrim, you have it: skip to step 4 below.

1. Download SkyCraft-0.1.2.zip from SkyCraft’s releases.
2. Open it and go into SKSE → Plugins → SkyCraft. Open the SkyCraft-Minecraft.zip inside. You’ll see a Prism folder, a defaults folder and bundle-version.txt.
3. Type %LOCALAPPDATA% in a File Explorer address bar, make a folder called SkyCraft there, and drag those three things into it. Then copy prismlauncher.cfg from defaults into Prism.
4. Start prismlauncher.exe in the Prism folder. If Windows warns you, click More info → Run anyway.
5. Account button (top right) → Manage Accounts → Add Microsoft, and sign in.
6. Select the SkyCraft instance and click Launch. The first time it downloads Minecraft and Java (about 700 MB).
7. When the title screen appears, close Minecraft and the launcher. You don’t need to make a world.

Check it worked: %LOCALAPPDATA%\SkyCraft\Prism\instances\SkyCraft should open in File Explorer. The full walkthrough is SkyCraft-Minecraft-SETUP.md.

3. Install a game mod

1. Download that game’s zip from the Releases page.
2. Each zip has the mod, a README for that game, and a second zip with the source. Follow that README; the table below sums up the ones published as separate SETUP.md files.
3. Run only one at a time. They all drive the same Minecraft, so two games at once, or one of these next to SkyCraft in Skyrim, will fight over it.

4. Per-game setup

Two notes from the setup files:

• ReShade (CyberCraft and GTACraft) must be the build marked with full add-on support. Pick DirectX 10/11/12 and untick all effect packages; the mod brings its own. Without ReShade it still works, but blocks draw on top of everything.
• Stay offline. GTACraft’s args.txt turns BattlEye off, so it’s story mode only. ReadyCraft is single player only. The project says to keep all of these out of online modes that don’t allow mods.

5. First launch

1. Start the game as usual and load a save (story mode or Singleplayer).
2. Get on foot, out of cars and cutscenes. Minecraft starts by itself in the background, hidden. It can take about half a minute, and the first start is slowest.
3. When Minecraft’s hotbar appears at the bottom of the screen, it has taken over.

In Ready or Not, walk to the briefing desk and press F to choose a mission, as usual.

6. Controls

These are shared by ReadyCraft, CyberCraft and GTACraft:

Extra keys per game:

• ReadyCraft: F is the game’s use key (doors, cuffs, evidence, missions). Hold Left Alt to be the officer for a moment.
• CyberCraft: the game gets none of your keys while Minecraft has V. Press F10 to talk, shop, answer the phone or drive. Home opens ReShade.
• GTACraft: 7, 8, 9 pull out your best handgun, rifle or machine gun, and shotgun or sniper; left click fires. F7 turns a gun a quarter turn if it points the wrong way. Hold Left Alt to talk, pick things up or get in a car.

RedCraft and PeakCraft controls are in the README inside their zips.

7. Known problems / fixes

• The hotbar never appears: make sure you’re on foot in a loaded level, press F10 once in case it’s off, and check %LOCALAPPDATA%\SkyCraft\Prism exists and that you launched the SkyCraft instance once by hand.
• Picture flickers: turn off DLSS or FSR Frame Generation.
• Blocks show through walls and people (CyberCraft, GTACraft): ReShade is missing or is the standard build. If it’s installed, press Home and check the mod’s effect and the Generic Depth add-on.
• ReadyCraft crashes about half a minute in: the launch option is missing or mistyped.
• Crashes after a game update: ReadyCraft and CyberCraft are built for one game version, and Script Hook V and RED4ext need updates after patches. Remove the mod until a new release.
• Minecraft stays running after you quit: give it half a minute, then end javaw.exe and prismlauncher.exe in Task Manager.
• Known gaps: in CyberCraft nobody can hurt you and vehicles ignore TNT. In ReadyCraft doors aren’t solid, blocks draw on top of everything, people walk through blocks and your team can’t be hurt.
• Your own Fabric mods go in %LOCALAPPDATA%\SkyCraft\Prism\instances\SkyCraft\.minecraft\mods. One with a missing requirement stops Minecraft starting and breaks every mod here.

8. Uninstall

• ReadyCraft: delete version.dll and ReadyCraft.dll, and clear the Steam launch option.
• CyberCraft: delete red4ext\plugins\CyberCraft and bin\x64\reshade-shaders\Shaders\CyberCraft.fx.
• GTACraft: delete GTACraft.asi and reshade-shaders\Shaders\GTACraft.fx. To play GTA Online again, also remove Script Hook V’s four files.
• RedCraft and PeakCraft: see the README in their zips.
• SkyCraft’s Minecraft: delete %LOCALAPPDATA%\SkyCraft. That removes the launcher, this Minecraft and its saves.