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Why Are There Two Separate Minecraft Modding Communities?

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Modification is an excellent way to get started with programming and game design, and a Minecraft coding summer camp is a way to learn many foundational skills in a really interesting and fun way.

One aspect of modding in Minecraft that can be quite confusing, however, is the fact that there are two versions of the game available, known as Minecraft Java and Minecraft Bedrock.

These two versions of the game, despite being available through the same launcher on PC, look very similar and play very similar, are fundamentally very different games and are modded in different ways with very different limits.

The first version of the game, known as Minecraft Java, is by far the most popular version of the game to mod even though it can sometimes be complicated to make adjustments to the game.

The reason for this is that, because Minecraft’s code has been reverse-engineered and almost everything is known about how the game works at this point, modders can make almost anything they want in the game and adjust so many different elements of how the world works and how it generates.

There are thousands of mods that make fundamental changes to Minecraft, including adding complex systems such as engineering, botany and almost any school of magic that you can think of, alongside different blocks, generated cities and mechanics.

By contrast, Minecraft Bedrock, which is the primary Windows version of the game as well as the game ported to most game consoles, is far easier to mod but limits exactly what you can do with the game.

Because Bedrock Edition was designed several years after Minecraft became one of the most successful games in history in no small part due to the popularity of some mods, it has support for mods built into the game itself.

Rather than relying on external launchers and complex version control, Bedrock Edition allows mods to be turned on and off via the main menu. However, this comes with far more limitations compared to the Java version.