The next Minecraft update release date should fall around early March 2026. Mojang has promised four updates a year, and since Mounts of Mayhem was released in early December, we'd estimate that the ...

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What are the best Minecraft shaders? With shaders, you can instantly level up the look of your Minecraft world, even without an expensive graphics card. But with so many downloadable mods for the ...

How do you test the latest Minecraft features? These snapshots are the very first iteration of Minecraft updates and are a way for Mojang to test out bug fixes, technical changes, and even new blocks, ...

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