Minecraft’s multiplayer Realms servers have been down since its final patch over three days in the past

Minecraft‘s Realms servers have been down for many of the previous 4 days. Mojang’s official account for reporting service standing updates famous that “intermittent failures or slowdowns” started on August thirteenth, and regardless of equally intermittent studies of uptime within the days since, the servers stay inaccessible to most gamers at the moment.

Realms is a paid subscription service that grants entry to a non-public multiplayer server for Minecraft’s multiplatform Bedrock Version. It lets between three and 10 gamers (relying on subscription tier) be part of the identical Minecraft world, with the proprietor capable of set up mods from Minecraft’s paid market.

“It’s possible you’ll expertise intermittent failures or slowdowns connecting to Realms. We’re actively working to resolve this,” the Mojang Standing account tweeted on Tuesday.

By Wednesday, the service was mentioned to be “up and working”, albeit with some latency points, based on the official account. Gamers within the replies disagreed, with a whole bunch noting that they have been nonetheless unable to play. There have been additional statements that the group was persevering with to work on the problems till yesterday, when Realms was declared to be “again up and working globally. It has been working wholesome for greater than the final hour. You need to have the ability to see, handle, and play in your Realms once more. Thanks once more for endurance as we labored by way of the problems.”

Inside hours, one other tweet famous that connectivity points and latency had since elevated once more. That brings us up till this morning, round eleven hours in the past, when Mojang confirmed they have been “nonetheless laborious at work to revive the service globally.”

I attempted to attach a few hours in the past to my very own Realms account and it is nonetheless down for me.

The connection points seemingly started with the discharge of Minecraft replace 1.21.20, which amended how Realms invite hyperlinks work, in addition to aiming to repair a number of Realms bugs and Minecraft bugs extra usually, as per the patch notes. A second replace, 1.21.21 was launched the next day solely to enhance “reliability of connecting to Realms.” I assume it did not work.

Minecraft is a real marvel, however the infrastructure that surrounds the Bedrock version typically feels prefer it’s held collectively by sticky tape and greed. I hate each second I’ve to spend managing my Realms account, and but it is a value I am keen to pay so I can play Minecraft cross-platform with my child. I am much less keen to pay the value of £6.69 a month for a Realms server that does not work for days at a time, nonetheless.