Minecraft updates tend to save their release candidates for the end of an update's development ... candidates (Image via Mojang) Thanks to the Minecraft Launcher, you can access Java Edition ...

After releasing quite a few Minecraft 1.18 snapshots and pre-releases, the developers have finally released the first Minecraft 1.18 release candidate ... run Bedrock or Java Edition.

In the final hours leading up to the release, Mojang Studios has launched the Release Candidate 2 snapshot for Minecraft: Java Edition. This snapshot fixes a handful of critical issues discovered ...