Minecraft Realms Down and Still Having Connectivity Issues This Aug. 16 Despite Patch Roll Out and Announcement

Just yesterday, Mojang announced that the Minecraft Realms issue plaguing players for days now has since been resolved. The developer even released a patch just for Realms stability. Well, it seems despite the client update and even the announcement, Minecraft Realms is still down for some people this August 16, and yes, those that manage to connect are experiencing connectivity issues as well.

Minecraft Realms Down With Connection Issues This August 16:

Update: Mojang has just acknowledged the server issues for today.

After yesterday’s announcement that the Realms service was healthy again, we saw connectivity issues and latency increase. We have continued working around the clock to mitigate the issue, and are doing everything we can to get your Realms back up and running.-DK

— Mojang Status (@MojangStatus) August 16, 2024

The latest announcement from Mojang has been 14 hours ago since this article went up, where they mention that the Realms service is back up and running globally:

The Realms service is back up and running globally. It has been running healthy for more than the last hour. You should be able to see, manage, and play on your Realms again. Thank you again for patience as we worked through the issues. -DK

— Mojang Status (@MojangStatus) August 15, 2024

However, the tweet has since been given an update via a “Community Note” from various Twitter users have tagged it, and mentioned,” While some users may be able to access the Realms service, very many users are still unable to as shown by the replies, as well as services like Downdetector.”

While there might be less people running into connectivity issues with Minecraft Realms, there are still issues reporting about it according to not only Downdetector, but even the official Realms subreddit have reported on progress lost and other issues as recent as the last hour.

One Reddit use advises people to not log off if you can help it, so you won’t have issues connecting again, which isn’t really something a lot of people can follow. Another Reddit user has shared their support chat conversation where  the customer service rep admitted that there are still issues with the Realms servers.

Note that just yesterday, a client-side update was released (Bedrock 1.21.21) which had the sole purpose of improving the reliability of the Realms servers. Clearly, whatever was done was not enough. Perhaps Mojang needs to rollback the version of it? Or perhaps release another patch? Once we know more about the situation or if Mojang announces anything, we’ll add the info in the article.

In other Minecraft news, Mojang also released a hefty patch for the Preview version of the game which you can read about here.

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