If you’re playing on your own, Minecraft is one of those games that is mercifully not reliant on their server status. However, many people like playing with friends, and that’s where those servers being available becomes an issue again. We won’t be covering peer to peer server issues, as that’s a whole other ball park.
Source | Daily Express
There as different types of Minecraft servers. But for the basic servers, such as the servers that you’d be playing on with friends on console, they go through official servers that can be tracked online. If you are struggling to connect to a server, it is worth checking to see if your Minecraft is up to date. The console editions of Minecraft are also known as Bedrock Edition. Running the game in C++, as a result, they can’t connect to any PC servers using Java and Minecraft mods.
If your game and console are up to date but you can’t connect, its likely a server issue.
Minecraft is usually quite good about letting you know about servers going down for official maintenance. They do this by putting it in the game’s banner when on the menu screen. If you’re wondering about an easy way on how to check Minecraft server status, the official X/Twitter for Minecraft is a good bet. It occasionally updates players on dates for maintenance, as well as being a great hub to find out what updates are coming in patches.
Sometimes it is actually the best Minecraft servers that are actually down. But in some instances its on the user end or server incompatibility. For some of the most popular Minecraft servers, they can go down individually, as they’re not centralized to Minecraft’s servers itself.
Individual servers such as Hypixel have their own infrastructure, but occasionally goes down for maintenance or due to interference. Those servers are for Java players though, so if servers are up and you can’t connect, check and see if you’re on Bedrock edition.
The reverse is true for some servers such as HyperLands, which are Bedrock edition multiplayer servers.
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