I don’t even understand how this could be a debate. It may not be the hardest game, the most challenging, or the most competitive. It’s not the most fun to watch or the most entertaining in short bursts—I can name 20 games that give me more short-term fun than Minecraft. But in the long run, Minecraft is the most entertaining and enjoyable. You can do anything. Even before all the major updates, I remember when I was a kid I would play survival and I was never good; I didn’t build any mega bases or even find lots of diamonds. But just being able to express myself limitlessly was the most freeing thing ever.
I know some people will give their personal favorite game as the "best game ever made," but when you really think about the impact Minecraft has had, it’s clear that it’s the only true contender. Sure, games like Mario, Pac-Man, or Tetris paved the way for how games were made, and for the technology they had back then, those games were great. But Minecraft—even without mods—is just so massive. It has endless possibilities solely in the single-player mode.
And it’s not just nostalgia. This is a very old game now, and even my little brother—who turns 6 in a week—saw Minecraft somehow, I don’t even remember showing him, and he can sink hours into it just exploring how everything works. Honestly, I don’t blame him. This game has more things to do than any other game, and probably even the real world. With everything costing crazy amounts of money nowadays, me asking my mom for the 7 dollars to buy the game when I was a kid was the best purchase I’ve probably ever made in my life.
Now, the gameplay isn’t even the only thing this game has to offer; the soundtrack is the best, most listenable audio to ever be put into a video game. Listening to it now, all I can feel is pure bliss. The calming piano sounds and melodic symphony are something everyone should be able to experience. If I had to play one single game for the rest of eternity, the only game I could even think about choosing is Minecraft. You don’t have to stress yourself if you don’t want to—you can always play in Peaceful. The world is endless, and the things you can do are too. When adding even just one other player to the game, you can 20x the amount of things possible.
I’d love to see what other people think about this topic and hear your thoughts as well, but I think it’s pretty much unanimous to anyone who’s played it before that Minecraft is the greatest game ever made.

Zombie with FULLY ENCHANTED DIAMOND ARMOR with an enchanted iron shovel!!! Apparently this is incredibly rare. He says it's 1/27,000,000 chance of spawning with a 6.38 local difficulty. Is this really a big deal he's very happy about it??

Not sure if i’m asking in the right spot. I (18M) just recently bought my girlfriend (19F) minecraft since she watches all the time on youtube and it’s been one of my main interest my whole life. i can’t think of mods that would make her experience feel like the videos she watches. I play with a LOT consistently but don’t want her overwhelmed or not getting the “minecraft experience “she runs on a decent but not great laptop and i’ve tested vanilla and it runs decently. i have treechopper, appleskin, sodium and that’s about where i stopped. anything else you guys can think of? anything you yourself can’t play without? optimization mods? decent shaders/dynamic lighting mods that won’t blow her laptop? thanks

Disclaimer I am NOT saying that java is worse than bedrock.

I've been playing on bedrock my whole life and only quite recently have access to java. As someone who plays bedrock i would say that java is for some reason duller and gloomier even on brightest settings. Also the lag is unbearable sometimes. I play on a non gaming laptop that can run bedrock decently so the lag is a bit annoying. I always hear about these optimisation tools such as optifine but idk which one i should right now use since im pretty clueless about java. And any other things that i should expect when switching to java? (Aside from the benefits such as "less buggy, better features, etc")

Hii Everyone!

To those reading this - I hope you are doing well! 😄

I'm here just to present a Minecraft Biathlon community & server we have going on. If you never heard of it (which I assume most people didn't haha), Minecraft Biathlon is a community built around racing inspired by the real-life winter sport of Biathlon. We are planning to do a summer season and every weekend in August, players take part in races, compete for points and follow the season schedule to see how they place in the overall ranking by the end of the season. Basically, it's a mix of racing, competition and having just a good time with other people who just enjoy this type of format.

Now just to be clear, just because its Minecraft BIATHLON, it doesn't mean you have to be a fan of the sport or anything! Maybe you like other sports that include racing such as F1, Cycling etc, I think there are overlapping features in terms of adrenaline and fun that will find other fans of other sports enjoy this format. Or maybe you just like Minecraft and you are looking for a unique experience!

Sign-ups are open now with the first official race starting on 31st July being the Sprint competition. Before the sign-ups are closed, there will be also some test-races soon where you can come and get a feel for what this could be like. I plead and urge you (without trying to sound desperate, lol), give it a go, it's worth a shot right? There is a great chance to also meet new people and make new friendships which is also a plus!

So as I said, this is a unique experience based on a unique sport, so even if you're not usually into this kind of thing, it's still worth checking it out. It's open to both old & new players, and if you have any questions about how anything works, either I or another admin can explain everything to you. (Private message or you can use the Q&A feature in the discord - my discord is @ bxrtek)

JUST A NOTE: The community is still predominantly Russian-speaking, but our international community has been growing and we'd really like to expand that even more this season. So, if you're an English speaker (or any language is fine! we have AI to help us translate between ourselves these days 😄 ), don't worry - you're absolutely still welcome here.

I have attached the discord link below along with the google docs which you can see the schedule, points classification (basically the whole database of results of the season). Once you join the discord, there will be a registration link in the server-info channel.

Discord: https://discord.gg/xEKewDqQE
Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j6mvXkvJ84ij6teCt6Eu9iXn8iGCqLs3ECQaEj09vxc/edit?gid=1076597683#gid=1076597683

1st pic is with issue 2nd is without

I just started playing again after a break and updated from 1.21.(11?) to 26.2 and I've encountered a strange problem with my FPS. When I start up the game it runs fine for a bit, but at some point the FPS suddenly tanks. The game reads ~10 FPS but I'm looking at <1 FPS, and the strangest part is; it's not just Minecraft that has this low FPS, my whole computer's FPS tanks to <1 even after I close the game, it sticks around but goes away if I press play on a YouTube video. The only thing not affected by this is my mouse, it moves at normal speed while everything else takes 2-3 seconds per frame. This issue only triggers with Minecraft too, never with any other game or anything else.

It mostly happens when flying around in creative/spectator, though I haven't really done any survival testing. I had a resource pack, but removed it and relaunched the game it still happened. I looked it up and thought it might be world corruption, but created a new world and still had the same problem. I tried updating my graphics driver because it's out of date, but that didn't change anything either. Every time I launch the game and start playing everything runs fine, then maybe 10 minutes later my FPS completely tanks. All I've found so far is that when it starts happening my CPU usage drops from ~10-15% to ~5%. (I don't know my specs, but I can check when I get home).

Update on specs:

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz, GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, Ram: 16 GB

my server

go add server and type this : theonlyelite2.falix.dev

Does anyone else not like how the new versions are named? I prefer 1.X not 26.X. It makes me feel like it’s a new game entirely. When was this changed? Why?

Hello everyone I am BlockNova and recently I joined an SMP where everyone are very hard to win bc they played more than me I need the trainer for the PVP because we will start recoriing at the August it is way too soon than you think so pls someone could you teach me PVP

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Please I feel like there is literally not a single vr Java ​Minecraft server that is like only vivecraft and like immersivemc TvT

Anywya wana play mc java im m16 dont got no one to play with we can do aternos or some modded or servers or smth

Hi! I'm looking for group of friends to play modded java, 11-15 years old (you don't have to send pic or anything voice message will be enough) and also have discord.

I'm not really a "builder" type of player, but browsing Origin Realms made me want to change that. Some of the stuff people put together there is unreal - the scale, the detail, the way everything just works together aesthetically. Kind of demoralizing not gonna lie, but also super inspiring.

Problem is I have no idea where to even start. I can survive, I can redstone a bit, but building anything that looks intentional instead of "default blocky house" feels like a whole different skill tree.

For those who play there - how did you get from "meh builder" to whatever level these builds are at? Any resources, YouTube channels, or just raw hours-put-in advice? Did you start by copying styles you liked, or just experiment a ton?

So I loaded up Minecraft and started playing PVPclub and for some reason I tried clicking in the duel and it didn't work. It doesn't register for some reason then I left and all of my servers had the same selected lit up icon when you press on it