Minecraft

Minecraft update 1.21 players are doing all kinds of crazy things with the new Breeze mob

Windie gaming

Minecraft’s new Star Wars DLC will let you build a blocky lightsaber and make a droid friend next month

Hello square

Minecraft update 1.21 focuses on "combat and tinkering" with maze-like Trial Chambers and automatic crafting

Armadillo wins mob vote as player rebellion reaches 500,000 signatories

Minecraft players start "revolution" against Mojang, demanding bigger Minecraft updates

Almost 350,000 people sign petition against annual Mob Vote

Minecraft's 2023 mob vote has its first candidate: the crab

The player vote begins in 10 days

Mojang trailers Minecraft Live 2023 with promise of Minecraft 1.21 update details

Also, this year's mob vote

Minecraft's Trails & Tales update brings the fan-voted sniffer mob and more on June 7th

A two-player mount

Long Covid Mods translate “real-world symptoms" into Elden Ring, Minecraft, and The Witcher 3

In an effort to raise awareness

Minecraft Pringles are a thing, and I'd quite like some

They're Suspicious Stew flavoured

Climb a Brutalist tower in this first-person platformer inspired by Minecraft parkour

Beton Brutal is challenging yet chill

Minecraft is getting an ambitious Dungeons & Dragons crossover

Put down the shovel, pick up the staff

A Minecraft world editor could be coming to Bedrock, leaked footage suggests

Code snippets seem to reference the feature

Minecraft 1.20 now has a name: the Trails & Tales Update

Sniffers inbound

Minecraft 1.20 details new mob, archaeology, and a surprise new biome

A lot to sniffer out

Minecraft briefly went down this morning, other Microsoft services still suffering

It's not just you

One Minecraft player created their own cover of Toto's hit Africa in the game

The composition uses Minecraft’s note and command blocks

The guy who wrote Minecraft's ending says Microsoft doesn't own the copyright

He's put it in the public domain

Relax with these five hour-long soothing scenes in Minecraft

I'm all about the Rainy Swamp

Minecraft Bedrock Edition now has seven more default skins

We thank you for your service, Steve and Alex

Minecraft's next new mob is the sniffer

More than half of votes went to this gentle giant

Minecraft is getting Batman DLC next week, including Gotham and many villains

Holy Blocks!

Minecraft Dungeons’ Fauna Faire update brings four-player co-op to its roguelike mode next week

An enchanting new merchant and a free level are coming too

Minecraft’s 1.20 update brings seven mysterious new player skins in 2023

Happy, Grumpy, Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey, Bashful, and Doc?

You build stuff in Minecraft Legends by strumming your lute and making friends

Out in spring 2023

Minecraft is changing the way voting for new mobs works, and polls open today

24 hours to choose between tuff golem, rascal, or sniffer

Minecraft mods let you disable Mojang's controversial chat reporting

With some limitations

Players say Minecraft: Java Edition update could get them banned from their own servers

Mojang defend update 1.19.1, but players aren’t happy about the new player reporting system

Minecraft won’t allow NFTs and blockchain anytime soon

Developers Mojang aren’t monkeying around about the controversial tech

Minecraft Legends new gameplay trailer has big Dragon Quest Builders energy

A slightly closer look at its action-strategy spin

Minecraft Legends is an "action strategy" spin-off coming in 2023

A collaboration with the makers of Homeworld 3

Minecraft’s Bedrock and Java editions can now be bought together

The 1.19 Wild Update is out today, too

A Jubilee street party in Minecraft is the least worst version of the actual Jubilee, I guess

Metric Martyrs

Frogs are hopping aboard Minecraft in June with The Wild update

Tadpoles too. Aww!

Minecraft 1.19, The Wild Update, inches closer with first pre-release build

Also Mojang have been showing off the new frogs

A Minecraft tournament led to a DDoS attack mostly knocking Andorra offline

DDoS against the country's only ISP to hit Twitch's SquidCraft Games

Nvidia’s Minecraft RTX Winter World is a charming Christmas jaunt for charity

Blocky wonderland is raising funds for Great Ormund Street Hospital

I made an upside down pyramid house in a pretty Minecraft cave

And it's surrounded by Christmassy tundra!

Play therapy prescribes video games to combat anxiety

Gris is the new black

Minecraft Caves & Cliffs Part 2 is finally here

Time to make a hovel in some Lush Caves

Minecraft Caves & Cliffs Part 2 comes out this month

Prettier caverns and taller mountains incoming

Minecraft is now on Xbox Game Pass For PC in both Java and Bedrock forms

Next step, giving all Minecraft PC owners both editions

Minecraft Dungeons adds roguelikelike singleplayer mode this December

It's switching to seasonal updates too

Minecraft's The Wild Update will add excellent frogs after Caves & Cliffs

Plus the Deep Dark biome will be later than expected

Minecraft will soon bundle Java and Bedrock editions together

And they're coming to Xbox Game Pass for PC next month

Minecraft introduces one new mob candidate: the grouchy little Glare

The first potential mob in this weekend's vote

Minecraft Live will let you vote on a new mob this October

I'm just hoping for more Caves and Cliffs info

Send cows to heaven with this Minecraft physics mod

Crumble blocks and tumble livestock

Minecraft is generating incredible caves in the version 1.18 snapshot

The experimental snapshot has a lot to show

Minecraft’s mega performance mod now supports shaders

Lovely shade

Minecraft 1.18's new world generation is now available for testing

Another step towards Caves & Cliffs update part two

The 'holy grail' of lost Minecraft alphas has been found after a decade

A backup on an old USB drive held alpha 1.1.1.

This is probably the most painfully beautiful Minecraft texture pack

Because you're walking on what look like Lego bricks, see

Minecraft's Caves & Cliffs update adds axolotls and goats today

Axolot-'o changes

Minecraft update 1.17 launches axolotls and goats and more next week

Axolotls ahoy!

This Minecraft fan's concept video for a 'River Update' is cool

Come watch their pitch, and how they made it

Minecraft's Caves & Cliffs update is getting split in two

Mojang are delaying some of the big world generation features

Minecraft's latest Caves & Cliffs snapshot is well moist

Positively dripping with moss and vines

Minecraft eye-tracking software makes big accessibility improvements

Special Effect's free software EyeMine got a big update

This mod’s amazing contraptions made me reinstall Minecraft

I even made my own server for it

These stunning Minecraft shaders are making their creator rich

Sonic Ether's Minecraft shaders are a smash hit on Patreon

Get to know glow squids in Minecraft's latest snapshot

They light up your life and your signs

Minecraft Earth is shutting down this summer

Heading to the big mobile phone in the sky

Minecraft adds axolotls in latest Caves & Cliffs snapshot

ADORABLE

Minecraft for Windows 10 now officially supports ray-tracing

Super shiny voxels.

Minecraft's first Caves & Cliffs snapshot adds copper, amethyst, and lots more

Caves & Cliffs excite me

Mojang don't want you to fight the scary Wardens in Minecraft's Caves & Cliffs update

Flight, don't fight

Minecraft Java Edition will require a Microsoft account starting next year

But don't worry, it's not merging with Bedrock

Minecraft is adding lush caves, archaeology, and axolotls

The Caves & Cliffs update

Minecraft fans have discovered the location of the "most iconic image in Minecraft history"

They used multiple supercomputers to scour trillions of world seeds

Cyberpunk 2077 and COD Cold War's new ray tracing trailers make me long for darkness

Plus new ray tracing trailers for Minecraft and Watch Dogs Legions.

You can emote in Minecraft Bedrock Edition now

Crouch no more

Minecraft's Nether Update is out today

Pay it a visit!

Minecraft is donating today's profits to racial justice causes for Juneteenth

Celebrating the end of American slavery

Minecraft's big Nether Update launches on June 23rd

Light your portals

Mojang celebrated Minecraft's 11th birthday with a new name, Mojang Studios

Going up up up into the business skies

This Minecraft map attempts to simulate social distancing during a pandemic

Apple a day keeps the zombies at bay

Minecraft's RTX beta is out today, assuming you've the power to run it

Minecraft's official ray-tracing update launches in beta this week

Glow up

Fall in love with the Minecraft Harry Potter mod, in our gif tour

Yer a wizard, Horace

Minecraft's Nether update will have music by Celeste's composer

Spooky tunes incoming

Get enchanted by this Harry Potter RPG in Minecraft right now

It looks totally magical

Minecraft Dungeons is coming out a little later than planned due to the pandemic

"We wanted to guarantee the health and safety of our teams"

Minecraft mod recreates the Earth to scale - and now it wants players to fill in the gaps

Built my house yet?

A bunch of kids in Japan held their graduation ceremony in Minecraft

The wholesome content we all need right now

The writing of censored journalists has been republished inside Minecraft

An important censorship loophole

Mojang have postponed Minecraft Festival over outbreak fears

Block party

The first snapshot of Minecraft's Nether Update is playable today

The Nether gets an actual glowup

Attend Hogwarts with your chums in this Minecraft mod

Wizard

The Vatican's new Minecraft server is totally on-brand for Jesuits

This priest wants a less "toxic" community

Minecraft's honey can be used to build flying machines

I beelieve I can fly

Minecraft Nether Update to overhaul hell with new biomes and pigpeeps

Go to hell

Here’s the skinny on Minecraft’s new character creator

Craft your face

Over 112 million dirt enthusiasts are playing Minecraft every month

Dig it

The buzz about town is that Minecraft just added bees

Oh, honey

Minecraft gets official ray tracing support for Nvidia RTX cards

Super duper?

Super Duper has gone down the pooper as Minecraft cancels graphics pack

Down a notch

See how Minecraft Earth's mobs could work on the PC

Up a notch

Research shows Minecraft can make you more creative, but it depends

Crafty research

Minecraft: Story Mode downloads might vanish on June 25th

Minecraft: Endergame

Visit Minecraft's theme park map to celebrate its 10th birthday

This is real fancy!

Review: Minecraft Dungeons review

A worthy pick

Review: Premature Evaluation: PixArk

Frankensaurus

How to install Minecraft mods

Want to start modding Minecraft? Here's what you need to know!

Best Minecraft mods

Change Minecraft forever with the best mods for 1.19.3

The best Minecraft shaders for 1.19

Find the best, most performant Minecraft shader pack for you with our list of 1.19 shaders

Minecraft 1.20: Everything we know

Learn everything you need to know about Minecraft 1.20

Minecraft: Can you transfer pet ownership?

Learn whether you can give pets to other players in Minecraft

How to make an End Portal in Minecraft

Learn everything you need to travel to the End in Minecraft

Do you need a Microsoft account to play Minecraft?

What exactly do you need in order to start playing Minecraft?

How to change gamemode in Minecraft

Having trouble switching your game mode in Minecraft? Here's what you need to know

How to fish in Minecraft

Learn about fishing rods, enchantments, types of fish, and more

How to make a Nether Portal in Minecraft

Here's the fastest way to make a Nether Portal in Minecraft

The best Minecraft seeds 1.19

30 of the coolest Minecraft seeds for exploring 1.19 and 1.20

Is Minecraft down?

What to know if you're having trouble accessing Minecraft

Minecraft house ideas

Use these cool Minecraft house designs as inspiration

The best Minecraft servers

Here are the best Minecraft servers for 1.18

Best Minecraft Texture Packs for 1.19

The very best Minecraft Texture Packs for 1.19

Best Minecraft skins

Dress to impress with the best Minecraft skins on offer

How to find Diamonds in Minecraft 1.19

Here are the best places to go mining for Diamonds in Minecraft

Minecraft Allay: What does the Allay do in Minecraft 1.19?

Nobody puts Allay in the corner

Minecraft Enchantments list

A full list of Enchantments available with a Minecraft Enchanting Table

Everything you need to know about Mangrove Swamps in Minecraft

What are you doing in my Mangrove Swamp?

How to find and escape the Warden in Minecraft 1.19

Learn everything we know about the Warden in Minecraft

How to find and breed Frogs in Minecraft 1.19

Learn about the ribbeting new mob that's arrived in Minecraft 1.19

What happened to Fireflies in Minecraft?

Fireflies were originally going to arrive in Minecraft 1.19 - where did they go?

Minecraft 1.19: Everything we know

Here's everything we know so far about The Wild Update, including the release date and new biomes.

7 Minecraft tower ideas to build in 1.18

Use these Minecraft tower ideas to create a stunning skyline

The best Minecraft Bedrock seeds

The very best Minecraft Bedrock seeds out there

The best games like Minecraft from the past ten years

A plethora of games to scratch that same Minecraft itch

How to get Bees in Minecraft

Everything you need to know about Bees in Minecraft

Minecraft height limit

Find out what the new build height in Minecraft is!

How to find Slimes and make a Slime Farm in Minecraft

Learn how to find Slimes and make a Slime Farm in Minecraft

How to find and defeat the Wither in Minecraft

Learn how to spawn and defeat the Wither boss in Minecraft

The best Minecraft Bedrock Texture Packs you can get for free

The very best free Texture Packs for Minecraft Bedrock

How to make Potions in Minecraft

The definitive guide on how to make Minecraft Potions

Minecraft mobs list

Here's the full list of all Minecraft mobs as of 1.18

Everything we know about Dripstone in Minecraft

Learn everything that you need to know about the new Dripstone blocks in Minecraft

8 Minecraft castle ideas to build in 1.17

Take a look at some fantastic castle ideas that you can build in Minecraft

Minecraft 1.18: Caves and Cliffs part 2 details

Here's everything we know about the upcoming Minecraft 1.18 update, including the release date!

Minecraft Axolotls: how to get the Blue Axolotl

Learn how to breed Axolotls and how to get the rare Blue Axolotl

How to make Fireworks in Minecraft

How to make Fireworks of any colour, size, and shape

Minecraft fox taming guide

Here's how to tame a fox in Minecraft

Minecraft horse breeding

Learn how to tame and breed horses, donkeys, and mules

How to get Netherite in Minecraft

Here's how to get Netherite Ingots in Minecraft

Minecraft commands and cheats

Use these Minecraft commands to become invincible, control the weather, and much more

Best Minecraft Banner designs

There are some seriously cool Minecraft Banner designs out there

How to enable RTX ray tracing in Minecraft

Learn more about ray tracing in Minecraft

How to tame a Goat in Minecraft

Here's how to tame a Goat in Minecraft

24 things to build in Minecraft

Let these Minecraft build ideas inspire your next building project

How to make and activate a Beacon in Minecraft

Learn how to make and activate a Beacon in Minecraft

How to make a Book in Minecraft

Here's everything that you need to know to make a Book in Minecraft

How to get Powder Snow in Minecraft 1.17

Here's how to get Powdered Snow easily in Minecraft

How to find a Village in Minecraft

The best method for finding a Minecraft Village

Where to find Copper in Minecraft and what it is used for

Learn how to find Copper in Minecraft and what you can do with it

How to make a Lightning Rod in Minecraft

Here's the Minecraft Lightning Rod recipe, and how the item works

How to make Candles in Minecraft

Here's how to make Minecraft Candles of all colours

Minecraft Amethyst Geodes: how to find Amethyst Shards

Learn how to find, mine, and use Amethyst Shards in Minecraft

The 25 best co-op games on PC to play in 2023

Grab a pal

The joy of playing Minecraft as a walking sim

What a wonderful world

These are your 25 favourite survival games of all time

As voted for by the RPS readership

RPS GOTY Revisited: 2010's Minecraft is the ultimate survival sandbox

Block party

The 30 best survival games on PC in 2023

Promise me that you will never die

The 15 best hacking games on PC

Stick a PIN in it

The 10 best battle royale games to play on PC

Read this before the circle closes

Supporters only: Here are some cool af Minecraft builds that were made this year

The Minecraft building community continues to amaze

RPS Time Capsule: the games worth saving from 2011

We list our favourite games from 2011, and why they deserve to be preserved above everything else

Minecraft Legends is a colourful mix of real-time strategy and snappy building

A brief presentation has us sold

RPS Time Capsule: the games worth saving from 2009

We list our favourite games from 2009, and why they deserve to be preserved above everything else

The best Minecraft performance mods

Building blocks

Let's hear it for copper, Minecraft's best new block

All Copper Are Beautifuls

v1.17 Minecraft is getting even more complicated. However: axolotls.

The incredible sculk

Here are three ways to turn Minecraft into a computer inside your computer

How many sheep is 8GB of RAM?

I visited Minecraft's infinite dimensions and all I got was this lousy rainbow hyperscape

The Quantum Of Sausage

How I nearly died on Minecraft's title screen

Also I think I met the devil.

Minecraft's new Piglin Brute mob is a solid 8/10 brute

A salute to Brutes.

I honestly thought this Minecraft screenshot was just a photo of a laptop

We put a PC in your PC so you can game while you game.

5 Minecraft Dungeons features that should be in Minecraft

I mean, it worked with Illagers

400 people spent a decade building a 1:1 city in Minecraft

♬ We built this city on robust project management standards ♬

The 12 most useful inventions in PC games

One Off The List

Have a grand old time watching loads of scaffolding collapse in Minecraft

clickety-pop, clickety-pop

The 9 tastiest dinners in games

One Off The List

Hands-on preview: Minecraft Dungeons is an unexpected treasure

License to illager

Have you played… Vintage Story?

It's like Minecraft, except it runs properly

The 20 best VR games for PC

VR is here to stay

The 10 best hells in PC games

One Off The List

Beyond the edge of reason on the RPS Minecraft server: a gallery

"It was all starting to feel a bit like the end of a China Miéville novel."

Minecraft archaeology 2: Thomas The Tank Engine's bum

Off the rails

I let the RPS Minecraft server go feral: a gallery

"The mince is hollow, like a scotch egg."

I used blocks from the new Minecraft snapshot to make a fungal horror shrine

Little house on the scary

Feeling low? It’s okay. Join us in our gaming happy places

Let's all take care of each other

When does technology become magic in games?

And those magnets, eh?

The RPS minecraft server has devolved into a hellish Shrek larp

All that glitters is gold

Minecraft RTX is the poster child ray tracing needs, but it's a brute to run

Catching some rays

Game DNA: Making yourself a home

Why every survival game needs wheat

Hounded Out: The adventures of a Minecraft hermit, finale

Not all dogs go to heaven

Hounded Out: The adventures of a Minecraft hermit, part three

Tillage the village

Hounded Out: The adventures of a Minecraft hermit, part two

Going to the dogs

Supporters only: Our secret Minecraft server is a wondrous goblin home

Boutique goblin hotel

Hounded Out: The adventures of a Minecraft hermit, part one

Life's a birch

Game DNA: growing order from chaos

Bottled ants

Have You Played… Minecraft?

Mince raft

Lusting for ruin on Minecraft’s most apocalyptic server

A visit to the shattered wastes of 2b2t

Supporters only: Games for learning a language

Aprender conmigo

Wot we played on our holidays

Return of the not-Mac users

Should kids be taught in schools using Minecraft?

We asked the experts

10 of the most relaxing games on PC

Chill out

Games are best when they ignore you

Gives us the joy of exploring for ourselves

Have You Played… Infiniminer?

Infinicraft

Supporters only: The Calm And Order Of Lego

Plastic Logic

VR Suits Minecraft Down To The Ground, Controls Aside

StevRe

10 Games Run Through The Prisma Photo Filter App

Pretty pictures

How Minecraft Got Better Combat

And how it's improving next

Ridealong: The Ruin Of Minecraft's Most Obscene Server

And those trying to preserve it.

The RPG Scrollbars: Heroes. Don't. Craft.

World Of PUT THOSE TOOLS DOWN!

The Future Of Minecraft's Biggest Servers

The challenge of survival after survival games.

Why Loads Of People Are Playing Trove (& Why I'm Not)

Greed & Self-Loathing In free Minecraftlike MMO

Is Early Access A Good Thing For Players Or Developers?

RPS Chat v0.86

How Has Microsoft Changed Minecraft?

For Better Or Worse

Crafting Mechanics Are Unfit For Purpose

Don’t Recycle

Interview: MinecraftEdu And Digital Citizenship

Block Heads

The Random Element: Scenario Generator

The joy of limitations

Can't Craft, Won't Craft

Settling for less

Hands On With HoloLens And Augmented Reality Minecraft

Mars, Minecraft And Beyond

Diary: Surviving A Minecraft Modpack Crash Landing

Planet of the Japes

Gallery Trip: Tate Worlds' Minecraft Map

Artist's Block

What I Write About When I Write About Games

From The Archive

How To Make Minecraft A Survival Game

Hey Hey

Minecraft Survival Diary: Longing For Home Comforts

Storms a-Comin'

Survival Games Are Important

Into The Wild

Minecraft In 2014: Community And YouTube

Digging With Company

Minecraft In 2014: Your Guide To Servers

Digging Online

Minecraft In 2014: Your Guide To Mods and Modpacks

Digging Deeper

The Living Minecraft

A Celebration Of Mountains

Pay To Play: Notch On Minecraft And Monetisation

Mo Monetisation Mo Problems

Mavis Minecraft Teaches Coding – Part 4

The Cube Route

Mavis Minecraft Teaches Coding – Part 3

30 GOTO 10

Mavis Minecraft Teaches Coding - Part 2

This is like when you'd copy code out of Speccy mags!

Mavis Minecraft Teaches Coding - Part 1

Learn to code the easy-ish way

What I Write About When I Write About Games

Escaping the shackles of simulacra

Games Aren't Best When Things Go Wrong

On cushions, in a playground

A People's History Of The FPS, Part 3: The Postmod

Click, Boom

Future Talk: Notch On Steam, Windows 8, What's Next

The Man Behind The Hat, Pt 2

Beyond Minecraft: Notch On Fame, Pressure, Sequels

The Man Behind The Hat, Pt 1

No End Of The World: MineZ Is Zombie Survival Minecraft

Z-eitgeisty

Patently Ridiculous: Notch vs Barry Bumgardner

Land of the free

Block By Block: Modding Minecraft, Part 3

Knocking your block off

Block By Block: Modding Minecraft, Part 2

a number of options to fiddle with at you leisure

Block By Block: Modding Minecraft, Part 1

Minecraft Mod Menagerie

Idle Musing: The Joy Of Falling Through The Floor

Glitch Me Happy

Is 2011 The Year Of Game World Exploration?

A Good Year For Open Worlds

Mods And Ends: Minecraft's Weeping Angels

Mods And Ends

Soul Survivor: Survivalism Mod For Minecraft

Minecraft Made Hungry