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Minecraft’s multiplayer Realms servers have been down since its last patch over three days agoMojang “hard at work to restore the service globally”
Mojang “hard at work to restore the service globally”
Image credit:Mojang
Image credit:Mojang
Minecraft’s Realms servers have been down for most of the past four days. Mojang’s official account for reporting service status updates noted that “intermittent failures or slowdowns” began on August 13th, and despite similarly intermittent reports of uptime in the days since, the servers remain inaccessible to most players today.
Realms is a paid subscription service that grants access to a private multiplayer server for Minecraft’s multiplatform Bedrock Edition. It lets between three and 10 players (depending on subscription tier) join the same Minecraft world, with the owner able to install mods from Minecraft’s paid marketplace.
“You may experience intermittent failures or slowdowns connecting to Realms. We are actively working to resolve this,” the Mojang Status accounttweeted on Tuesday.
Within hours, another tweet noted that connectivity issues and latency had since increased again. That brings us up until this morning, around eleven hours ago, when Mojang confirmed they were “still hard at work to restore the service globally.”
I tried to connect a couple of hours ago to my own Realms account and it’s still down for me.
The connection issues seemingly began with the release of Minecraft update 1.21.20, which amended how Realms invite links work, as well as aiming to fix several Realms bugs and Minecraft bugs more generally,as per the patch notes. A second update, 1.21.21 was released the following daysolely to improve “reliability of connecting to Realms.“I guess it didn’t work.
