While browsing YouTube this evening, I randomly got recommended this video, and I got curious. As someone who has always preferred the Bedrock Edition of Minecraft, even something like 8 years ago when that position was almost unheard of, I like seeing reasons explaining the superiority of Bedrock well laid out in a big compilation. Since this specific list is not presented in written form anywhere, though, I figured I’d transcribe and comment it myself.
So, here are 100 Reasons You Should Play Minecraft Bedrock Edition, instead of the Java one, according to EvidentP. The video is from 2024, a year ago, which means that some minor things could have changed since then, but in general everything holds up.
- The Hive: a really nice server, made for Bedrock Edition specifically and well-polished.
- Hive’s Top Snow: on The Hive, it’s possible to place Snow on top of air to create a trap, where other players can fall trough.
- Hive’s Fake Ladder Trap: ladders can be placed on the opposite side of the block, making them a trap for unsuspecting players to fall into a void below.
- Hive’s Ladder Bridge: ladders can be placed to create a walkable bridge, which can be collapsed in one go, making it a trap.
- Hive’s Custom Servers, ideal for content creators to hang out with fans.
- Leads On Boats: boats can be leashed, meaning they can move with you, thus making it easier to transport mobs using them.
- Bonemealing Sugarcane: sugarcane can be grown instantly using bone meal.
- Underwater Redstone: redstone-related blocks, like repeaters (but not redstone dust), can be placed under water.
- Underwater Buttons: buttons and tripwires can be placed under water, allowing redstone circuits to be activated even down there.
- Longer Reach
- Baby Squids
- Baby Dolphins
- Snowy Leaves
- Finding The Stronghold is easier, since they always spawn under a village.
- Pearl At The Dragon: an Ender Pearl can be used on the Ender Dragon, making it easier to beat (takes less damage / requires less hits).
- Frozen Dragon: due to a glitch, placing a lava block with a specific construction at a certain moment during one of the Ender Dragon’s animation makes it freeze in place, stopping it from flying away.
- Ticking Area: a feature to define areas in which redstone and command blocks run even when the chunks aren’t loaded.
- Allow/Deny Blocks
- Border Blocks
- Portal Glitch
- Dye Cauldron Water: water in cauldrons can be mixed with dye, and the newly dyed water used to dye items.
- Tipped Arrows
- /camera
- Render Distance can be set a lot higher than on Java, up to 76 chunks, and performance stays good despite the fact.
- Multiplayer is easier
- Multiplayer is Free
- Realms
- Play Minecraft Anywhere
- MCPE is Cheap: on mobile, it costs just €7.99.
- Cross Platform Compatibility
- Cross Platform Controls
- /setmaxplayers
- Player Permissions
- World Creation Menu
- Achievement Menu
- Achievement Progress
- Quick Commands
- Player List
- Settings Menu
- Jump Bridging
- Icy Bridging
- Double Bridging
- Andromeda Bridging
- Down Bridging
- Stacking Cakes: cakes are stackable items, unlike on Java for some reason.
- Baby Zombies Ride Stuff
- Punching Enchant Tables
- Less Grass is put in place by world generation.
- Pistons Pull Chests
- While Burning Alive, you can set fire to other things, for example campfires.
- Fire Aspect
- Fire Snowballs
- Dispenser Trident: dispensers can shoot tridents, just like they have always been able to do with arrows.
- Creative Gliding is absent.
- Shearing Dyed Sheep: when shearing dyed sheeps, some pixels of wool are still visible on their bodies, allowing for them to be recognized by color even before they regrow.
- Minecart Boats: minecarts can work as boats, floating and going forward if on water with soul sand below.
- Bool & Quill shows 2 pages at once on screen, instead of just 1.
- Armor Stands Have Arms
- VR Reach: when playing in the built-in VR mode, taking steps forward in real life makes your reach higher than normal, giving you an advantage in PvP.
- Full Keyboard Gameplay, without mouse, is optionally available.
- Dyed Shulkers: to obtain dyed shulker boxes, or just to flex committing animal abuse, shulkers can be dyed alive.
- /playanimation
- Air Sand
- Boats Are Short: boats can be rode under an half-block gap.
- Big Salmon: Salmons on Bedrock can all have varying sizes, unlike on Java where they are all the same.
- RTX shaders are built-in and officially supported (given compatible hardware).
- Coordinates can be shown on screen with a clean overlay, without the need to abuse an ugly debug menu.
- Geyser, a bridge allowing connecting to Java servers from a Bedrock client, is available.
- Little Dude In The Corner
- SOME Maps Are Good
- Collab Maps
- Server Collab Events
- Search Filters
- Marketplace Giftcards
- Free Stuff
- Mob Vote Map
- Free Capes
- Funny Emotes
- Old Purchases Carry Over
- Texture Packs Are Better
- Custom UI
- Custom Menus
- Custom Models
- Make Your Own Skin
- Achievements Give You Stuff
- Quirky Skins
- Featured Servers
- Servers Are Better
- Server Description
- PvP is the classic one from before Minecraft Java 1.9, which is universally considered the better version.
- Free Alt Accounts
- Bedrock Runs Better
- Importing Things Is Easy
- Exporting Things Is Easy
- Preview Version
- Experiments
- Education Edition
- Education Edition Items
- Secret Bedrock Items: the Minecraft Bedrock code includes a lot of secret items and buggy blocks still left in from the early alpha MCPE days.
- It’s Better… it seems like he couldn’t come up with a 100th reason and had to say this, lol.
