What versions of Minecraft are available for Windows 10, and what are their differences?
Solution 1:
There are 2 versions of minecraft, Bedrock and Java. They each have pros and cons. Bedrock edition is the same version you have on your mobile device, so I don't need to tell you about that, the differences are minimal between platforms, however java is very different from bedrock. There are some key differences I will list.
- You cannot play java servers with bedrock edition and cannot play bedrock servers with java edition. However some servers are both bedrock and java however a bedrock player and java player still cant play together.
- Java edition has the ability to play any version of minecraft ever released, bedrock can only play the latest
- Bedrock and java have two very different combat systems.
- Java edition has more customizability due to the fact that it is much easier to mod the game.
- Java edition has no marketplace, meaning almost all maps, resource packs and other downloadable community made content is free
- Skins dont cost money on Java edition
- There are no emotes with java edition (though you can install mods to add them)
- there is no skin creator in java edition
- There is a debug menu that shows details about the game like your coordinates in java edition
- Java edition and bedrock edition have different command structures for some commands and bedrock edition has much less support for nbt changing commands
- Java edition is by default less optimized, however many mods like sodium and optifine optimize it very well
That's pretty much all I could think of, feel free to edit this if I got something wrong.