Explore Minecraft 26.2 Pre-Release 3 with Sulfur Cube fixes, Vulkan crash patches, smoother menus, multiplayer cleanup, and Attribute Swapping rollback now.

This Minecraft gameplay video features a boat race where players navigate a custom track. While most participants follow the standard route, one player decides to take an alternate path that initially ...

The first Minecraft 26.2 pre-release is here for Java Edition, but there's some bad news if you've been taking advantage of the sandbox game's new peer-to-peer multiplayer, which was implemented in a ...

After 15 long years of waiting, multiplayer finally received a much-needed upgrade for the Java Edition of Minecraft. Thanks to the handy friends list feature, playing with friends is finally easy to ...

Minecraft Java finally has a multiplayer peer-to-peer feature, allowing you to easily play with your friends on your single-player worlds. This option was in Bedrock Edition for several years, and has ...

Mojang recently released a brand new friends list feature for Minecraft Java Edition. Previously, only Bedrock Edition gave you the option to send friend requests and add friends to the game. This ...

Mojang is currently working on the next major Minecraft content update, Chaos Cubed, and that means public testing is ongoing via the snapshot system. The latest update to the Minecraft Java Edition ...

Minecraft's Java Edition has long been the go-to for PC players, owing to how moddable it is in comparison to its Bedrock counterpart. However, getting a clean multiplayer experience has long ...

You might think that walking on laptops is an example of Mira doing something wrong. She disagrees. And, in any case, we've both learned a lot about how our computers work because of this. Every time ...

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