Minecraft:Java Edition guides

Template:For Many major updates for Template:JE are released in multiple minor updates, and each minor update potentially contains a lot of added and changed content. To make it easier to get up to speed with this, these guides have been made to reduce the complexity of the technical information as described by individual update pages.

The tables below list all guides, one for each major update, with on the right a list of the minor releases that are related to that update. Minor releases for which a guide isn't updated yet, are crossed out.

Full Release update guides

These guides describe major versions of Minecraft:Java Edition that have been released or are currently in development.

Guide	Related releases
Chaos Cubed	26.2 Template:Upcoming
Tiny Takeover	26.1 • 26.1.1 • 26.1.2
Minecraft:/Mounts of Mayhem/	1.21.11
Minecraft:/The Copper Age/	1.21.9 • 1.21.10
Minecraft:/Chase the Skies/	1.21.6 • 1.21.7 • 1.21.8
Spring to Life	1.21.5
Minecraft:/The Garden Awakens/	1.21.4
Minecraft:/Bundles of Bravery/	1.21.2 • 1.21.3
Minecraft:/Tricky Trials/	1.21 • 1.21.1
Minecraft:/Armored Paws/	1.20.5 • 1.20.6
Minecraft:/Bats and Pots/	1.20.3 • 1.20.4
Minecraft:/Trails & Tales/	1.20 • 1.20.1 • 1.20.2
Minecraft:/The Wild Update/	1.19 • 1.19.1 • 1.19.2 • 1.19.3 • 1.19.4
Caves & Cliffs: Part II	1.18 • 1.18.1 • 1.18.2
Caves & Cliffs: Part I	1.17 • 1.17.1
Minecraft:/Nether Update/	1.16 • 1.16.1 • 1.16.2 • 1.16.3 • 1.16.4 • 1.16.5
Minecraft:/Buzzy Bees/	1.15 • 1.15.1 • 1.15.2
Minecraft:/Village & Pillage/	1.14 • 1.14.1 • 1.14.2 • 1.14.3 • 1.14.4
Minecraft:/Update Aquatic/	1.13 • 1.13.1 • 1.13.2
Minecraft:/World of Color Update/	1.12 • 1.12.1 • 1.12.2
Minecraft:/Exploration Update/	1.11 • 1.11.1 • 1.11.2
Minecraft:/Frostburn Update/	1.10 • 1.10.1 • 1.10.2
Minecraft:/Combat Update/	1.9 • 1.9.1 • 1.9.2 • 1.9.3 • 1.9.4
Minecraft:/Bountiful Update/	1.8 • 1.8.1 • 1.8.2 • 1.8.3 • 1.8.4 • 1.8.5 • 1.8.6 • 1.8.7 • 1.8.8 • 1.8.9
Minecraft:/The Update that Changed the World/	1.7.2 • 1.7.4 • 1.7.5 • 1.7.6 • 1.7.7 • 1.7.8 • 1.7.9 • 1.7.10
Minecraft:/Horse Update/	1.6.1 • 1.6.2 • 1.6.4
Minecraft:/Redstone Update/	1.5 • 1.5.1 • 1.5.2
Minecraft:/Pretty Scary Update/	1.4.2 • 1.4.4 • 1.4.5 • 1.4.6 • 1.4.7
Minecraft:/1.3 releases/	1.3.1 • 1.3.2
Minecraft:/1.2 releases/	1.2.1 • 1.2.2 • 1.2.3 • 1.2.4 • 1.2.5
Minecraft:/1.1/	1.1
Minecraft:/Adventure Update: Part II/	1.0.0 • 1.0.1

Pre-Release update guides

These guides describe beta, alpha and pre-alpha versions of Java Edition.

Guide	Related releases
Adventure Update: Part I	1.8 • 1.8.1
Minecraft:/Beta 1.7 releases/	1.7 • 1.7_01 • 1.7.2 • 1.7.3
Minecraft:/Beta 1.6 releases/	1.6 • 1.6 Test Build 3 • 1.6.1 • 1.6.2 • 1.6.3 • 1.6.4 • 1.6.5 • 1.6.6
Minecraft:/Beta 1.5 releases/	1.5 • 1.5_01 • 1.5_02
Minecraft:/Beta 1.4 releases/	1.4 • 1.4_01
Minecraft:/Beta 1.3 releases/	1.3 • 1.3_01
Minecraft:/Beta 1.2 releases/	1.2 • 1.2_01 • 1.2_02
Minecraft:/Beta 1.1 releases/	1.1 • 1.1_01 • 1.1_02
Minecraft:/Beta 1.0 releases/	1.0 • 1.0_01 • 1.0.2
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