Minecraft Bedrock Edition is rapidly growing in popularity, much more so than its Java Edition counterpart.

The two editions of Minecraft do have important differences. These are all the things you should consider when deciding between Minecraft Bedrock and Java.

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The Java Edition runs on the Anvil format, which has refinements and improvements over the previously-used Region. Meanwhile, Bedrock uses a fast key-value storage library written at Google, LevelDB.

My son plays Minecraft Java, because he plays competitively and likes the bigger servers and additional mods that are available.

Bedrock edition is currently a little behind the Java edition when it comes to beta features, but it does have the new Minecraft goats that you can spawn with eggs in creative mode, and there is ...