Macerun is a Minecraft 1.16.5 server rewritten in C.

Minecraft’s latest Bedrock Preview lets players try out sulfur caves, springs, and new blocks, while Java Edition players get a chaotic April Fools snapshot.

It’s April Fools’ Day 2026, and that means it’s once again time to comb through another round of the best jokes and pranks the gaming industry has to offer.

When you want to pause Minecraft Java Edition, you usually press escape, which takes you to the standard pause menu with buttons to get into settings, resume the game, save and exit, etc. While this ...

This is the dream, right? A game designer and coder, working completely alone and outside of a commercial context, hits on a concept that sets the world alight. It becomes a culture-saturating ...

Five years ago, Minecraft ventured out into a different genre. Known for its world building, the Minecraft series attempted to dive into dungeon crawling with 2021's Minecraft Dungeons. Mojang had so ...

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In today’s retail world, too much inventory is as risky as carrying too little. One U.S. grocery chain, operating a hub-and-spoke distribution model, held 57 days of supply for dry food. Inventory ...

After more than 16 years, Minecraft: Java Edition is finally moving away from the aging OpenGL graphics system and upgrading to Vulkan, a modern multi-threaded rendering API. The change, announced by ...

Looking ahead: The first official visual upgrade in Minecraft's 16-year history was released last June for Bedrock Edition players. However, the original Java version has a long road ahead of it ...

Minecraft is entering a new era in 2026. With the launch of Minecraft Java 26.1, Mojang is not just releasing another content patch — it’s introducing a new yearly versioning system and laying down ...

Minecraft Java snapshots will now use a new version numbering system starting with Minecraft 26.1. The latest snapshot also brings a balanced villager trading system and a revamped lighting system. A ...