Joining a friend's game

Hello Adam,

We thank you for bringing this inquiry to our forums community, and understand that this concerns an inability to join your friend within a game on your Xbox One console.

What occurs when you do attempt to join your friend? If there is an error, which error appears?

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of the console, but if the problem persists, try doing a
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My son and his 2 friends are trying to play Minecraft together by joining the same world. My son is hosting on his android-device, and have sent a invitation to each of his friends.

We have tried the following:

Case 1: "Friend 1" gets the invite, and joins the game. "Friend 2" gets the invite, at tries to join the game, but gets a time-out.

Case 2: "Friend 2" gets the invite, and joins the game. "Friend 1" gets the invite, at tries to join the game, but gets a time-out.

Case 3: "Friend 1" creates a game, and "Friend 2" joins and can play. My son tries to join but gets a time-out.

The maximum player-limit is 10, and they are 3 players in total.

What can be the problem, when both of his friends can join individually to my sons game, but when they try to join the same game one of them gets a time-out?

Try to make a party on the Xbox app and then launch the game, one will join a session and in the pause menu instead of the invite friends option it will be changed to join friend's Gamertag, selecting it will join your friend's session

I can’t join my friends party or join there game

I've encountered a similar problem...friends not being able to join one of my two maps (getting the you're not friends message), but can join another. I can join their games too.

Seems to be some quirkiness in xbox-one friends.