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.

Have you ever tried cleaning your inventory in Minecraft, only to walk two steps forward and pick everything back up again? That exact frustration has now turned into a full update. For April Fools ...

Minecraft trolled its players with an April Fools update that removes the inventory entirely. Minecraft has been around long enough to know exactly which buttons to press. The inventory has frustrated ...

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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Dany Lepage discusses the architectural ...

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 ...

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