In 2026, Minecraft players are turning to optimized mod stacks, updated modloaders, and modular shader solutions to achieve higher FPS, smoother gameplay, and faster updates. From Sodium and NeoForge ...

Minecraft server owners in 2026 are no longer forced to choose between high-fidelity visuals and low-ping performance. The newly updated Mizuno's 16 Craft v26.1 and Bountiful Crops v2.2 now offer a ...

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

WorldGuard was used to deny "entry" to a protected area, in which the player had to die in the lava to complete the challenge. WorldGuard works using PlayerMoveEvents and this bypass works by moving ...

Part of Minecraft's charm has always been its simple, blocky, pixelated aesthetic. With more items than ever and some retextures over the years, vanilla Minecraft looks slightly less grassroots than ...

A few weeks ago, a critical vulnerability allowing arbitrary remote code execution on clients and servers (and therefore all connected clients on a server) was discovered in many Minecraft mods. We ...

Minecraft is a simple, block-based world that offers never-ending play. A staggering 204 million people reportedly play the addictive game every month, with obsessed youngsters and grown-ups alike ...

Jack Peachey is a features writer who's worked at Dualshockers and Game Rant. An animation nerd, his favourite games don't have a genre in common as much as they all have pretty pictures. When not ...