How to Play Minecraft For Free on PC, Mac, PS5, and Xbox Minecraft is a phenomenon that continues to take the world by storm even 12 years after its full release.

Technically, yes — you can run a Minecraft server on Mac. Download the server jar from Mojang, run it with a Java command, port-forward your router, and hope your internet doesn’t choke.

"Minecraft" offers cross-platform play for both versions of the game — Bedrock and Java — but you can only play with users who own the same version.