CrazyPhone
Imagine your Minecraft character pulling out a fully functional smartphone, flipping through contacts, snapping a selfie, and sending a photo to a friend across the map. That is exactly what CrazyPhone delivers. This standalone add-on rebuilds the beloved smartphone feature from the CrazyThings mod, but with a completely rewritten storage layer that fixes a critical server-crashing bug. The result is a polished, feature-rich phone that lives entirely in your hand, with no clunky menus bolted onto the vanilla UI and no external camera mod required.
What Makes CrazyPhone Different?
CrazyPhone is not just a cosmetic item. It is a complete communication and photography system built directly into the game. The phone is a physical item your character holds, and every interaction happens through its screen. The original CrazyThings version stored every message from every conversation forever in one massive blob, broadcasting the whole thing to every player on every login. CrazyPhone paginates conversations, caps stored data, and only notifies players who are actually in a conversation when a new message arrives. This makes it far more stable for multiplayer servers.
Contacts, Groups, and Real-Time Messaging
The phone's contact list is a scrollable, recency-sorted list where you can mark favorites and organize friends into groups. Group chats get their own name, icon, and full admin controls for inviting, excluding, and managing members. Messaging is real-time with read badges, timestamp tooltips, and photos sent straight from your album. You can paste a real emoji, type a shortcode like :smile:, or use a classic ASCII emoticon like :) — it converts live as you type. Even your draft replies are saved, so if you get pulled away mid-sentence, your text is still there when you come back.
Native Camera and Selfie Mode
One of the most impressive features is the fully native camera pipeline. Capture, storage, and rendering are all built into CrazyPhone, with zero dependency on external camera mods. There are three ways to take a photo: tap the camera icon inside a conversation, use the home screen's Photo icon for a standalone shot, or simply punch while holding the phone. Your photos appear in a flat, scrollable grid called My Photos, where you can delete them, save them to your inventory, or send them to a conversation.
Saving a photo gives you a physical item you can hold up with both hands, complete with real in-world lighting, or right-click to reopen full-size. Selfie mode is activated by pressing F5 while holding the phone. A selfie stick extends, and you aim with your mouse. Your arm and head visibly pose and track the shot, both for you and for anyone watching. It is a surprisingly immersive touch.
Optional Voice Calls and Voice Messages
If your server also runs Simple Voice Chat, CrazyPhone unlocks a whole new layer of communication. You can make 1:1 and group voice calls with ring notifications, dedicated Incoming Call, Calling, and In Call screens, and auto-hangup if you drop the phone. Voice messages let you record a clip and send it, played back with a live waveform and a 0.5x, 1x, or 2x speed toggle. Audio is only pulled from the server when someone actually hits play, keeping bandwidth usage low.
Mayor Election and Permissions
For community servers, CrazyPhone includes an optional mayor election system. Candidates campaign with posters, players vote in-app with a cooldown, and admins get a full command set to run the entire process. Every feature — calls, voice messages, images, and the mayor election — can be toggled off globally or restricted to specific players and groups with permission nodes. Changes apply live, with no restart needed on NeoForge.
If you are looking for a hassle-free way to get started, the foxygame.net launcher offers a one-click install for CrazyPhone, automatically handling version compatibility and mod loader setup so you can jump straight into the action. The launcher's add-on catalog also keeps CrazyPhone updated, so you never miss a new feature or bug fix.
Compatibility and Installation
CrazyPhone is available for NeoForge and Fabric on Minecraft 1.21.1 and 26.1. It has no hard dependencies, so it runs standalone. Simple Voice Chat is an optional dependency required only for voice calls and voice messages; without it, everything else, including the camera and selfie mode, works perfectly. Some older versions are still buildable from source but no longer receive updates, so check the platform table on GitHub for the full per-version breakdown.
How to Install CrazyPhone
To install, download CrazyPhone from the official source and drop the JAR file into your mods folder. Make sure you have the correct loader and Minecraft version. For a smoother experience, the foxygame.net launcher simplifies the entire process by detecting your game version and offering the right build of CrazyPhone automatically, which is especially helpful when juggling multiple profiles.
Once installed, register a phone number, add contacts, and start texting. The phone is fully localized through lang files, with English and French shipped out of the box. Adding another language is as simple as translating one JSON file. CrazyPhone is a complete, polished communication tool that finally brings the modern world into your blocky adventures.
Whether you are coordinating a build team, running a roleplay server, or just want to send your friend a photo of your latest castle, CrazyPhone for Minecraft delivers a seamless, immersive experience. It is stable, feature-rich, and endlessly customizable. Give it a try and see how much easier life in the Overworld becomes when you have a real smartphone in your pocket.
--- **Update Sep 18, 2026:** Added 20 files for version 26.1.2, 1.21.1 (NeoForge, Fabric).