
Put your imagination and limitless resources to work with Creative Mode. Light up your world with candles to show what a savvy potholer and master mountaineer you are! Discover lush cave and dripstone cave biomes.

Scale craggy mountains, unearth elaborate caves and mine large ore veins. Play in creative mode with unlimited resources or mine deep into the world in survival mode, crafting weapons and armour to fend off the dangerous mobs. Now you can enjoy twice the mining and twice the crafting – with more Minecrafters than ever.Įxplore randomly generated worlds and build amazing things from the simplest of homes to the grandest of castles. Cross-play with any Minecrafter by simply switching to the edition your friends have. Minecraft: Java & Bedrock Edition gives you access to both games in one purchase and one unified launcher, making it easier than ever to go from one edition to the other. Minecraft: Java Edition and Bedrock Edition are now a package deal for Windows. Minecraft Java Edition players can only cross-play with people on the same version, which is relegated to PC, Mac, and Linux.īeginning June 7, PC players who want to switch between playing with others on Java or Bedrock just need to launch the respective version from the launcher, which should ease some headaches and altogether smoothen the process of getting into Minecraft on its original system.For players *not* using Windows 10 or Windows 11, please go to /download to get the launcher for your operating system and access to your game.įor more information on how to use the Minecraft Launcher, check out. This version of the game is what players on console or mobile are playing, and touts cross-play between all Bedrock Edition-compatible devices. The Java edition, which was the original Minecraft release, is seen by some as the superior offering on PC for its larger servers and offering of modes, but due to it being coded on Java, this version is also largely incompatible with the dozens of platforms Minecraft has been ported to since then.įor this reason, Mojang developed the Bedrock Edition, which is by and large the standard version that most Minecraft players probably play these days.

Until now, PC players have had to weigh out which version of Minecraft to get and the debate largely comes down to personal preferences. Now Playing: The Secrets of Minecraft VillagersĪdditionally, all PC players who own either version will be upgraded to the new bundle free of charge within a few days of the change going live. By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's
