Minecraft servers come in many different sizes and types, but sometimes players need a little help getting one started and keeping it running smoothly. While you can host a server on your own hardware ...

Part of Minecraft's charm has always been its simple, blocky, pixelated aesthetic. With more items than ever and some retextures over the years, vanilla Minecraft looks slightly less grassroots than ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

As the name implies, lag machines' main purpose in Minecraft is to create lag and slow down multiplayer servers and games. They can be built by players in-game. Unsurprisingly, it is the machine of ...

Mojang admits the Caves and Cliffs update's new world generation tech was so much of a monumental task, the studio swore off yearly updates. Speaking at a GDC 2026 Minecraft panel (attended by and ...