Latest News About Minecraft: Bedrock Edition

Updated 2026-04-22 05:04

Here’s a quick update on the latest Minecraft: Bedrock Edition news as of now.

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Minecraft: Bedrock Edition (only Minecraft on most platforms and in-game, Minecraft: Play with Friends on Google Play Store, Minecraft: Dream It, Build It on the Apple App Store) refers to the multi-platform versions of Minecraft developed by Mojang Studios, Xbox Game Studios, and SkyBox Labs and based on the Bedrock codebase. The term "Bedrock Edition" originates from the Bedrock codebase, which was created in the C++ programming language to run on platforms that cannot support Java. Code...

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Bedrock Edition version history - Minecraft Wiki

This page is a reverse chronology of all updates released for Bedrock Edition. Bedrock Edition has been in development since August 16, 2011, and was called Minecraft: Pocket Edition at the time. Bedrock Edition was in Alpha until November 18, 2016, when the game was fully released. Upon the release of Bedrock Edition 1.2.0, the "Pocket Edition" subtitle was dropped and the edition was unofficially dubbed "Bedrock Edition". Further updates have been released ever since, the most recent being...

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