Minecraft News

Find all the latest news related to Minecraft here.

Recent Updates and Snapshots

Any discussion of the most recent update belongs in this section, or recently released Snapshots.

1. → Future Updates

Discussion

General discussion about Minecraft, minecraft development and anything that doesn't fit into the other specific sections.

Suggestions

Suggest and discuss new ideas for Minecraft, new Minecraft game modes and the Minecraft website. Only one suggestion per topic.

Survival Mode

Discuss the Survival Mode here. Pictures, discoveries, buildings, explorations and the lot all goes here

Creative Mode

Minecraft Creative Mode - can be discussed here, post your creations, game ideas and anything else relevant!

1. → Classic - Creative Mode

Seeds

Share and discuss seeds!

Redstone Discussion and Mechanisms

A general redstone section for discussing redstone mechanisms, tutorials and discussing the properties of redstone itself.

1. → Redstone Creations

Minecraft Mods

Post your available Minecraft mods here! If your mod is downloadable it belongs here!

1. → Mods Discussion
2. → WIP Mods
3. → Requests / Ideas For Mods
4. → Modification Development

Maps

Share and discuss your Minecraft maps here!

1. → Maps Discussion

Texture Packs

Changing the look and feel of Minecraft

1. → Texture Discussion

Skins

Show others your skins, request skins and share information on how to create skins.

Minecraft Tools

All 3rd party tools and editors for Minecraft belong here.

Language Packs

Translations of Minecraft in game files

Mapping and Modding Tutorials

Post your mapping and modding tutorials here

MCX360: Discussion

Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition is the Xbox exclusive console port of Minecraft, developed by 4J Studios. The game is available now for 1600 Microsoft Points on the Xbox live arcade!

1. → BUY Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition
2. → MCX360: Photo Share
3. → MCX360: Help & Support

MCX360: Recent & Upcoming Title Updates

Discuss all recent and future Xbox 360 Edition title updates here

MCX360: Suggestions

Suggest and discuss new ideas for Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition.

MCX360: Multiplayer

1. → MCX360: Servers
2. → MCX360: Quick Sessions / Minigames
3. → MCX360: Looking For / Build Help
4. → MCX360: Clans

MCX360: Seeds

Share and discuss Xbox 360 seeds!

MCX360: Creations

Discuss and share your Minecraft: Xbox Edition creations!

MCPE: Discussion

Minecraft pocket edition is the mobile version of Minecraft! Currently available on Android and iOS. All Pocket Edition minecraft discussion belong in this section.

1. → MCPE: Bug Tracker
2. → MCPE: News
3. → MCPE: Support

MCPE: Recent & Upcoming PE Updates

Discuss all recent and future Pocket Edition updates here

MCPE: Suggestions

Suggest and discuss new ideas for Minecraft: Pocket Edition

MCPE: Mapping and Modding

Pocket Edition Mods, Maps and Tools

1. → MCPE: Maps
2. → MCPE: Texture Packs
3. → MCPE: Mods / Tools

MCPE: Multiplayer

1. → MCPE: Servers
2. → MCPE: Quick Sessions / Minigames
3. → MCPE: Looking For / Build Help
4. → MCPE: Clans

MCPE: Seeds

Share and discuss Pocket Edition seeds!

MCPE: Creations

Minecraft: Pi Edition

Minecraft: Pi Edition is a port of Minecraft: Pocket Edition for use on the Raspberry Pi. The release date is to be announced.

PC Servers

1. → Survival Servers
2. → Creative Servers
3. → Objective Servers
4. → Hybrid Servers

Looking For

Looking for a specific server? Request servers to play on, or you can look for staff/builders for your own server!

Minecraft Server Hosting

Offer and request Minecraft server hosting.

1. → Hosting Requests
2. → Other hosts

Clans

Post here for discussions about Minecraft clans. Clan leaders are encouraged to post a topic about their clan here and keep all info and queries about that specific clan in that topic.

Minecraft Realms

Discussion, help and feedback for the new Minecraft Realms platform (currently in private beta).

Unmodified Minecraft Client Support

Support pertaining to an unmodified Minecraft Client. Only post here if you are having a problem with the Vanilla, meaning unmodified, Client.

1. → Tutorials and FAQs

Modded Client Support

Support pertaining to a modified Minecraft Client. If you are having problems modding Minecraft, or you are receiving errors that relate to the mod(s), then post in this section.

1. → Tutorials and FAQs

Server Support

Support for technical problems with servers, please do not post bukkit problems in this section.

1. → Server Administration
2. → Bukkit Server Support
3. → Tutorials and FAQs

Mojang Account / Minecraft.net Support

Support for Mojang websites and Mojang accounts, such as minecraft.net. Please make sure to check help.mojang.com for solutions to common problems and Mojang server statuses.

Xbox Edition Help & Support

Support for the Xbox version of Minecraft

Pocket Edition Support

Support Pertaining to the Pocket Edition of Minecraft. If you are having problems with the Pocket Edition, this is where you should post.

1. → Pocket Edition: Bug Tracker

Legacy Support

This section contains old support topics, and new topics cannot be posted here. If you want to make a new support thread, please make a thread in one of the other sections.

Screenshots

Show off your epic creations. Post your Minecraft screenshots here. Make sure to describe your creation and name the topic after what is displayed. Posts with pics only will be deleted.

Videos

Post your Minecraft videos here. Make sure to name the topic in an informative way and describe your video. Videos without descriptions will be deleted.

1. → Let's Plays
2. → Machinimas
3. → Reviews
4. → Live Streams
5. → Other Videos

Video/Series Help

Need actors or a host for your Minecraft videos? Want advice on how to make your series truly awesome? This is the place.

1. → Let's Plays Help
2. → Live Streams Help
3. → Technical Help
4. → Other Help

Fan Art

Post YOUR OWN Minecraft fan art here. This includes picture art, comics, short stories, poems, music and machinima. (This does not include gameplay videos or screenshots.)

1. → Shops/Requests
2. → Literature
3. → Images
4. → Other Fan Art

Forum Discussion & Info

Discussion and suggestions to the main forum and site, also solutions to any forum problems you may be having.

General Off Topic

Discuss anything off topic and not related to Minecraft.

Politics, Philosophy, News & Society

Discuss topics on politics, philosophy, news items & social issues here. All comments should be kept on-topic. 25 posts required to post here.

General Gaming

Discuss everything from PC Games to Nintendo DS Games. Any games except Minecraft.

Science, Computers & Technology

Discuss anything to do with science, technology, programming etc. here.

1. → Hardware Discussion & Support
2. → Software Discussion & Support

Culture, Media & Arts

Discuss creative works not related to Minecraft. Drawings, prose, poetry, machinima, films, music, and so on, it all goes here.

1. → User Creations & Requests

Forum Games

Count to 100? Rate the above posters avatar? It all goes here!

1. → Forum Roleplaying

MCX360: Screenshots

Show off your Xbox 360 screenshots here

1.1 Update Discussion

Discussion about 1.1, now locked

MCX360: Videos

Xbox 360 videos belong here

Let's Play (and Live Stream)

Post your let's play video series here and announce when you're doing live streams!

1.8 Update Discussion

Discussion about 1.8, now closed

1. → Minecraft 1.8 News!

1.0 Update Discussion

Discussion about 1.0, now locked

Content Packs

Content packs created for existing Minecraft Mods

Custom Server Software

Custom server clients and server mods for Minecraft Creative and Survival servers.

Tutorials

Any Tutorials related to Minecraft Mapping or Modding can be found here.

MCPE: Screenshots

Share and discuss your Minecraft: Pocket Edition screenshots.

Achievements & Stats

Discuss Minecraft Achievements and Stats here.

Arts & Creativity

Share your own creative works, NOT related to Minecraft. Drawings, prose, poetry, machinima, films and so on, it all goes here. Remember that this is intended for serious posts and serious feedback.

Map Showcase and Reviews

For reviewing and showing off maps!

Survival Servers

Classic gameplay, focus on building, surviving, and mining with or against friends!

Minecraft Survival Servers (archive)

Minecon

This section is now closed until Minecon 2013 is announced — see you there! :-)

Q&As

Ask questions of your favourite Minecraft people.

MCPE: Videos

Pocket Edition videos belong here

Starting Up / Looking For Server

Request servers to play on here, or look for staff/players for your fancy server idea here! Existing servers should go to "Beta - Survival Servers" instead if looking for members.

Trash

Unwanted threads saved for later. Abusive or no longer relevant. If needed put them in here for future reference.

1. → Spam
2. → #minecraft IRC

Classic - Survival Mode

Minecraft Classic Survival Mode can still be played here: [url=http://minecraft.net/survivaltest/]http://minecraft.net/survivaltest/[/url] But this is no longer linked to on the main site and the main game is now Minecraft Alpha. Only discuss the old survival version here.

Alpha - Survival Single Player

Discuss the current alpha version of Minecraft here. This section used to be named indev/infdev but infdev has now turned into alpha. [Closed, read only]

Alpha - Survival Multiplayer Discussion

Survival Multiplayer is currently in development, however there is a very early pre-beta released. Use this section to discuss ideas for survival multiplayer, things you have seen and things you have done. [Closed, read only]

Alpha - Survival Multiplayer Support

Survival Multiplayer help and support. For those having issues with the Survival Multiplayer server, or issues playing Survival Multiplayer. [Closed, read only]

Alpha - SMP Servers

Post about your Survival Multiplayer servers here. Create an "Official" topic for your server here! [Closed, read only]

1. → Seeking and Offering

Alpha - Minecraft Halloween Update

Discuss everything related to the Minecraft Halloween Update! This section will be merged with the Survival Section upon release. [Closed, read only]

Alpha - Wish lists

For all those long suggestion threads that were made prior to the suggestion specific rules were added. Or new ones that made by people who misunderstood the rules. Read only.

Alpha - Minecraft Servers

Discuss specific minecraft servers, create a topic for your own servers and allow users to leave comments, unban requests etc. [Closed, read only]

The Skindex (minecraftskins.com)

A place to upload and download skins for your Minecraft character. Currently available at [url=http://minecraftskins.com]http://minecraftskins.com[/url]

Beta - Creative Mode