Minecraft creator, Markus 'Notch' Persson, has spoken out against the Electronic Software Association for claiming that private servers are "illegal." ...

The ESA has made the head-scratching claim that private Minecraft servers are "illegal" and considered a form of "piracy" in ...

In a recent legal hearing, a representative of the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) made the claim that community servers such as those found in Minecraft and Call of Duty are “illegal.” The ...

The Chaos Cubed update has officially landed in Minecraft Java Edition, and it is one of the finest content drops Mojang has delivered in years. From a brand-new underground biome packed with bubbling ...

Minecraft/Fabric target: 26.1.2 Fabric Loader >= project loader_version Fabric API matching 26.1.2 Java 25 This branch is intentionally kept separate from the 1.21.8-1.21.11 modern jar and any legacy ...

On February 18, 2026, Mojang released a blogpost explaining that it is still working hard on getting Vibrant Visuals to Java Edition. Since Bedrock Edition received the new graphical upgrade in 2025, ...

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 ...

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

Minecraft Java Edition is replacing OpenGL with Vulkan as its graphics API. Vulkan is going to enable better performance, better graphics, and a solid backbone for the Vibrant Visuals. Moreover, it ...

Work continues for the Vibrant Visuals update to come to Minecraft Java, and as part of that they're switching the rendering from OpenGL to Vulkan. Announced today (February 18th) by Mojang developers ...

When launching Minecraft (Java Edition), you may get OpenGL Error 65543 and the game won’t start. This happens when Minecraft can’t create the OpenGL graphics ...