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

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

For many players, the main draw to play on Minecraft Java is the ability to change things and host them however they want. These changes alone make up a huge draw for the gameplay. However, when you ...

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 ...

To add friends in Minecraft Java Edition, you first need to download Minecraft 26.2 snapshot 7, since this feature first dropped in that snapshot. If you are reading this at a later date, the feature ...

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 ...

Minecraft Java Edition is finally getting a native Friends List and peer-to-peer multiplayer, letting players join each other’s worlds without setting up a server, Realms, or relying on third-party ...

Want to know how to install Minecraft mods? Modding is one of the very best things about Minecraft, building upon the foundation of Mojang's colossal sandbox to give players a plethora of brand new ...

The Minecraft Chaos Cubed update has just landed on the Java side of the sandbox game, and I'm already eager to see what the wealth of inventive Minecraft creators and modders can do with its ...

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Can you play Minecraft on a 16-year-old iPhone? We test every iPhone from the 3GS to the 16 Pro to find the oldest model that runs Minecraft smoothly. Witness the challenge! Protesters clash at ...

A lot of players eventually think about running their own Minecraft server. It usually starts simple. A few friends want to play together. Someone says, “Why not just host our own world?” So a server ...