According to the team, NFT Worlds will continue to be free to download and players won't have to use credit cards to purchase additional content. These content can be purchased with the NFT Worlds token. The token's value dropped by more than 60% in less than a week after Mojang announced it.

For the time being, players that own an NFT world issued by NFT Worlds can still use its random seed to play in Minecraft or even host multiplayer sessions in that map, as a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to Vice. However, that doesn't mean much as the NFT has never granted exclusive rights to that map. In fact, writing "World 1-1", on a piece paper does not give ownership rights to the iconic Super Mario Bros. level.

Under Microsoft's new rules, though, NFT Worlds blockchain will no longer be able to hook into Minecraft's API. This means that players will no longer be able to make in-game crypto payments in NFT Worlds $WRLD token. They can also not take advantage of other features coded with the NFT Worlds API.

The NFT Worlds team says that it will prioritize "backwards compatibility with existing Minecraft server development plugins and practices" in its upcoming clone. That means creators should "continue building NFT Worlds content" on top of Minecraft, the team says, confident that it will work with the new, rebranded NFT Worlds game whenever it launches.

Thanks to Mojang's new EULA, though, any further NFT Worlds-related development in Minecraft can't involve any "blockchain-based functionality, NFT support, or game currency" for the time being. My games And since those were the central features that defined NFT Worlds' value as an add-on, it's unclear what, exactly, NFT Worlds developers will be doing until their new Minecraft alternative is available.