Minecraft Officially Launches for Chromebooks

Minecraft: Bedrock Edition is now available for Chromebooks, Google announced on Wednesday, following the launch of an early access version in March. From a report: The official Chromebook release makes the game even more widely available -- and thanks to included crossplay functionality, you can play with your friends on other platforms. You can get the game now on the Play Store for ChromeOS. It costs $19.99 in a bundle that comes with the Android version, but if you already have the Android version, you can upgrade to the Chromebook version for $13. Google says Minecraft on Chromebooks will work with all Chromebooks released "in the last three years," and you can see minimum and recommended specs on a Minecraft support site.

Would love Bedrock for Apple Silicon

[chispito]

My kids still play a fair bit of Minecraft. What is nice about Bedrock is that you can play on just about any platform. Except Mac. I'd love a native port so I could easily jump in on games with them.

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[antdude]

Is that different from the JRE version?

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[chispito]

Yes. Bedrock is standalone and available on many platforms natively. It runs a little better than Java, but is not as moddable. It's the version you can get on your phone or tablet, or gaming console. The cross platform multiplayer is remarkable.

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[antdude]

JRE has also cross platform multiplayer too with computers. :P Bah, no mods? Weak!

Perennial

[muh_freeze_peach]

Is it time for the Perennial release of Minecraft again? Is the next Special Edition of Skyrim soon?

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[drinkypoo]

Not for me since it got too much Microsoft on it. /Eagerly awaiting the next cool exploring+building game that isn't Roblox

Current News

[Barny]

Nice to see you lay down the advertisement and not the news that the Minecraft modding scene just got slammed [prismlauncher.org] with a targeted [reddit.com] security [curseforge.com] attack [hackmd.io].

Sketchy multiplayer

[indytx]

Too bad that Bedrock can't play online with Java players.