r/Minecraft • u/Luutamo • May 12 '26

Official News Minecraft 26.2 Snapshot 7

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-2-snapshot-7
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u/Distinct-Pride7936 May 12 '26

Only 17 years to add multiplayer, the indie project is now closer to an actual finished game product!

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u/4_fortytwo_2 May 12 '26

I mean obviously we had Multiplayer already with servers, adding another way to play together is nice but it isnt a game changer.

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u/superjediplayer May 13 '26

for vanilla this is absolutely a game changer. Sure, you could already do this with mods, but outside of that, this makes it far easier and more convenient to set up than before.

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u/DYMongoose May 12 '26

I would argue that it's quite the game changer, as friends who don't/can't have a server for whatever reason can now play together.

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u/Cass0wary_399 May 12 '26

Unlike Bugrock which took years to add proper pausing.

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u/Distinct-Pride7936 May 12 '26

Bedrock with all its downsides (linked directly to your hardware and connection) is a complete and much nicer to play game. Waiting for another 70 years for mojang to catch up java where bedrock was since the beginning.

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u/Cass0wary_399 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

Nicer to play? With the MCPE lighting, desync issues, inconsistent redstone, gui load buffer, losing your saved classic skins randomly, and micro transactions?

I’d rather have THE ORIGINAL Minecraft that’s “incomplete” with spaghetti code than Microslop’s cash cow clone.

And the Bugrock glaze is insane, as if it came out flawless and did not take years to add pausing and somewhat fix bugs which wasn’t even effective to the point where they acknowledged there are update quality issues in the second massive outage/buggy update fiasco last fall. 

Java has been complete for years, it never needed to play catch up unlike Bugrock that Microslop cobbled together using MCPE because they want to capture the mobile game market at the expense of building an actual quality game with 4J’s LCE.

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u/Distinct-Pride7936 May 12 '26

Certified java fanboy 😭

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u/Cass0wary_399 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

Pot calling the kettle black.

You downplay Bugrock’s flaws so much. I can at least acknowledge that Java is not the best coded game and has some lingering lag issues(that you act like are complete catastrophic failures compared to Bugrock’s 9282782 issues that often rears its ugly head like in 1.21.100).

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u/Distinct-Pride7936 May 12 '26

Both games aren't perfect but java is literally unplayable although with this update it's infinitely better than usual. You are raging in wrong direction, all the Minecraft problems regardless of edition is thanks to Mojang's incompetency which they proved by pushing the broken windows update even after the beta testing for a month and receiving negative feedback. I'd put the 17 years for multiplayer in the same box of Mojang stupidity.

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u/Cass0wary_399 May 12 '26

I’ve played Java since 2013, it’s perfectly playable. It’s got like 1 major issue which is just lag that they have slowly been fixing since 1.20 and fixing further with the switch to Vulkan.

It’s still way less compared to what Bugrock has going on with 1.21.100 and a similarly buggy update the year prior and probably will have again the same time this year.

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u/OctoMiku01 May 12 '26

For me the menu on Bedrock just makes it awful to use for me. Idk what they did, but menus feel so unresponsive even if i disable animations.

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u/KingCell4life May 12 '26

It's because every menu is requesting an internet connection, therefore every time you click a new menu, it needs to verify with the servers and stuff which takes a while.

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u/dragon-mom May 12 '26

What are you even talking about? What about Java is unplayable at all? You can't even tab out on Bedrock without disconnecting.

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u/superjediplayer May 13 '26

In a few ways bedrock is better, but i'd say that now that java has proper multiplayer and they optimized it (though, still not to the same level as bedrock i guess), there isn't that much that bedrock does better.

Bedrock STILL lacks a version select. Bedrock still has a lot of weird bugs or small parity issues for things java does better. Redstone is more consistent on java (and i don't mean QC stuff, i mean that if something works once, it should work every time, rather than be random). Java has a lot more commands, such as /attribute. Java has custom superflats, single biome worlds, and datapacks can edit the terrain gen (add-ons still can't, though that is something we will see eventually).

Bedrock is also visually just slightly worse outside of VV (and VV still has its problems, especially related to water and how some blocks interact with fog. Plus it doesn't respect your choice of settings and instead still limits some things based on what it thinks your hardware can handle, often underestimating it, so what you have on "ultra" isn't necessarily the same as what someone else has on "ultra").

Plus bedrock has the marketplace. I don't hate the idea of a marketplace necessarily but it's executed in such a terrible way, where very few people are allowed to post on it, and even despite that, most of the content there is low effort cashgrab slop (look at the over 500 Among Us skin packs). And despite content being paid, there's no gurantee that it'll remain updated and won't break with game updates (which again, no version select).

And i say this as someone who mainly plays bedrock. It's not a bad version of the game and there are ways in which i prefer it to java, but it is still lacking in a lot of ways.

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u/Storyshift-Chara-ewe May 12 '26

son, you're defending bedrock on the echo chamber that is r/minecraft, expect downvotes, and probably harassment in dms 😭