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.

1. The Hive: a really nice server, made for Bedrock Edition specifically and well-polished.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Hive's Ladder Bridge: ladders can be placed to create a walkable bridge, which can be collapsed in one go, making it a trap.

5. Hive's Custom Servers, ideal for content creators to hang out with fans.

6. Leads On Boats: boats can be leashed, meaning they can move with you, thus making it easier to transport mobs using them.

7. Bonemealing Sugarcane: sugarcane can be grown instantly using bone meal.

8. Underwater Redstone: redstone-related blocks, like repeaters (but not redstone dust), can be placed under water.

9. Underwater Buttons: buttons and tripwires can be placed under water, allowing redstone circuits to be activated even down there.

10. Longer Reach

11. Baby Squids

12. Baby Dolphins

13. Snowy Leaves

14. Finding The Stronghold is easier, since they always spawn under a village.

15. 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).

16. 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.

17. Ticking Area: a feature to define areas in which redstone and command blocks run even when the chunks aren't loaded.

18. Allow/Deny Blocks

19. Border Blocks

20. Portal Glitch

21. Dye Cauldron Water: water in cauldrons can be mixed with dye, and the newly dyed water used to dye items.

22. Tipped Arrows

23. /camera

24. Render Distance can be set a lot higher than on Java, up to 76 chunks, and performance stays good despite the fact.

25. Multiplayer is easier

26. Multiplayer is Free

27. Realms

28. Play Minecraft Anywhere

29. MCPE is Cheap: on mobile, it costs just €7.99.

30. Cross Platform Compatibility

31. Cross Platform Controls

32. /setmaxplayers

33. Player Permissions

34. World Creation Menu

35. Achievement Menu

36. Achievement Progress

37. Quick Commands

38. Player List

39. Settings Menu

40. Jump Bridging

41. Icy Bridging

42. Double Bridging

43. Andromeda Bridging

44. Down Bridging

45. Stacking Cakes: cakes are stackable items, unlike on Java for some reason.

46. Baby Zombies Ride Stuff

47. Punching Enchant Tables

48. Less Grass is put in place by world generation.

49. Pistons Pull Chests

50. While Burning Alive, you can set fire to other things, for example campfires.

51. Fire Aspect

52. Fire Snowballs

53. Dispenser Trident: dispensers can shoot tridents, just like they have always been able to do with arrows.

54. Creative Gliding is absent.

55. 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.

56. Minecart Boats: minecarts can work as boats, floating and going forward if on water with soul sand below.

57. Bool & Quill shows 2 pages at once on screen, instead of just 1.

58. Armor Stands Have Arms

59. 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.

60. Full Keyboard Gameplay, without mouse, is optionally available.

61. Dyed Shulkers: to obtain dyed shulker boxes, or just to flex committing animal abuse, shulkers can be dyed alive.

62. /playanimation

63. Air Sand

64. Boats Are Short: boats can be rode under an half-block gap.

65. Big Salmon: Salmons on Bedrock can all have varying sizes, unlike on Java where they are all the same.

66. RTX shaders are built-in and officially supported (given compatible hardware).

67. Coordinates can be shown on screen with a clean overlay, without the need to abuse an ugly debug menu.

68. Geyser, a bridge allowing connecting to Java servers from a Bedrock client, is available.

69. Little Dude In The Corner

70. SOME Maps Are Good

71. Collab Maps

72. Server Collab Events

73. Search Filters

74. Marketplace Giftcards

75. Free Stuff

76. Mob Vote Map

77. Free Capes

78. Funny Emotes

79. Old Purchases Carry Over

80. Texture Packs Are Better

81. Custom UI

82. Custom Menus

83. Custom Models

84. Make Your Own Skin

85. Achievements Give You Stuff

86. Quirky Skins

87. Featured Servers

88. Servers Are Better

89. Server Description

90. PvP is the classic one from before Minecraft Java 1.9, which is universally considered the better version.

91. Free Alt Accounts

92. Bedrock Runs Better

93. Importing Things Is Easy

94. Exporting Things Is Easy

95. Preview Version

96. Experiments

97. Education Edition

98. Education Edition Items

99. 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.

100. It's Better... it seems like he couldn't come up with a 100th reason and had to say this, lol.