If your child is anything like mine, theyve spent several thousand hours of quarantine time playing Minecraft.

Minecraft is like a virtual playground where kids can play together, but no diseases can spread.

If youre playing Minecraft on a console, a phone or a tablet, youre playing Bedrock.

A Parent’s Guide to Playing Minecraft With Your Kids

If youre playing on macOS, youre almost certainly playing the Java edition.

If youre playing it on a PC with Windows 10, you could be playing either version.

Java players never need another subscription to play online.

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Here we go:

1.

Click Create New World.

Click Create on Realms.

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Choose between a 10-player realm and a two-player realm

7.

Step four: Invite their friends

To invite friends on your same console:

1.

Hit Play on Minecrafts menu screen.

  1. tap the pencil icon next to your newly created realms name.

Select your people from your consoles friend list to join your server.

To invite friends on other consoles:

  1. verify your parental controls allow cross-platform connections.

  2. poke the pencil icon next to your newly created world in Realms.

Copy the unique URL and send it off to friends through email, text or carrier pigeon.

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