Social

This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition.

 

Minecraft has several social features for connecting people with aspects from the game. Using the Xbox network, players can add online friends, play together, and share user data.

When a player is signed in with a Microsoft account in-game, their Minecraft profile is synchronized with their Xbox profile. Most profile data generated in-game is visible in the Xbox profile, and vice versa. Unlike Java Edition, the player's "Minecraft account" is the same as the player's Xbox account, instead of a separate username within the Microsoft account. The game can also be played without a Microsoft account, but all online features and achievements are inaccessible.

The Xbox account determines the gamertag of the user shown in-game, which can be different from their Java Edition username. The functionality of this gamertag is identical, it is the player's name visible for other players and required for certain commands selecting the player. The gamertag can be changed one time for free on the Xbox profile.

The Xbox profile has various social features and collects data from all games, social networks, and accounts connected to the profile. All instances of Minecraft can be purchased and managed, including all Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Preview versions for platforms, Minecraft Dungeons (plus DLC), Minecraft Legends, and the Minecraft Launcher. Minecraft for Windows is available for free for members of the "family group", when their Xbox accounts are connected to an Xbox account owning Minecraft. Other features in the Xbox profile include managing the Game Pass (which includes Minecraft), managing Xbox consoles, online status, activity feed, and tracking Minecraft profile data. Using a friends system, players can search and see any Xbox profile and add players as friends or follow them, allowing access to (group) chats, voice calls, and in-game social features.

On Windows computers, the Xbox Game Bar can be opened at any time (even in-game) with ⊞ Windows + G. Acting as an overlay, certain widgets from the Xbox app can be opened, including social features, screenshot and screen recording features, and device controls. The Xbox Game Bar also controls notifications including achievements and multiplayer invites. On Xbox consoles, most features from the Xbox Game Bar can be used in-game.

Features from the Xbox network can be customized in the Xbox privacy settings, which notably affect the player's online experience in Minecraft. Depending on the date of birth connected to the player's Microsoft account, these options may be locked and can only be edited from parental accounts. Parental accounts can also edit the privacy settings from other Xbox accounts connected to the "family group". Settings that affect Minecraft include visibility of profiles, friend and follower lists, online status, real name (if assigned), allowing friend requests/following, telemetry data, multiplayer, and profanity filtering. Most privacy settings can be changed to make them fully private, only visible for friends, or visible for anyone.

On PlayStation consoles, the player's account is connected to the PlayStation Network instead of the Xbox network.​^{[more information needed]} While this offers mostly the same functionality as the Xbox network, profile data is collected separately and a different set of friends can be used. Unique features from the PlayStation Network are tracking and the rewards system of trophies instead of achievements, and the Marketplace is replaced by a "Store" connected to the PlayStation Store. The content and functionality is the same as the Marketplace, but packs are sold separately with tokens.

Most features from the Xbox network are visible in-game, plus some additional functionality.

On the right side of the Inbox button on the main menu and from any player button in other menus, the profile screen can be opened. A player's profile button shows the Xbox gamertag, an auto-generated skin face, and the online status. The online status can be either online (with a green dot), "Away" (orange dot), or offline, and activity in Minecraft games is shown below the name, such as "Playing Minecraft Dungeons", "In the Menus", and "Playing on a Realm - Creative Mode". On the profile screen, the player's real name can also be shown. In Minecraft Preview, a render of the currently selected skin is visible on the profile page.

Achievements can be accessed from the profile screen. For each achievement, the progress, gamerscore, requirements, and rewards are shown and can be expanded. The profile tracks all achievement progress, and general progress including percentage, rewards, and gamerscore. Achievement progress can also be viewed in the Xbox profile and is stored per game, meaning that achievements can be obtained multiple times for each platform version of Minecraft. Redeemed achievement rewards are available on devices where the achievement has not been completed. The gamerscore is added to the general gamerscore in the Xbox profile, merged with gamerscore awarded from other games.

On PlayStation, the player earns trophies instead of achievements and gamerscore is not tracked, but rewards can still be obtained.

The game tracks four statistics on the Xbox profile, separated for each platform. These include the total amount of time played (in a world or server), the total amount of blocks broken, all mobs killed, and the total distance traveled.

Lists of friends and followers can be opened from the profile screen which are synchronized to the Xbox profile.

When signed in, the player can take screenshots in-game from the pause menu or with a hotkey. Up to 100 are stored locally on the device and are not synchronized with the Xbox profile, but they are stored separately for each signed in player and can only be viewed from the profile screen. In the screenshot gallery, all screenshots can be managed and viewed, shared externally, or set it as a world thumbnail.

Up to 5 screenshots can be added to the showcase gallery, and one can be selected as featured screenshot. These screenshots are uploaded to the Xbox profile and visible for anyone with access to the profile, both in Minecraft and the Xbox app. The featured screenshot shows on the left side of the profile page, which defaults to a set of internal screenshots.

Depending on the privacy settings, the profile page is (partially) visible for any other user in-game and in the Xbox app, and the player can view profiles from any other player using the player search feature or social drawer. For profiles of other players, the showcase gallery and featured screenshot can be seen, the gamerscore and achievement progress (but not individual achievements), the friends list, and statistics. The statistics can be compared to the player's own statistics, represented by blue and orange bars depicting the distribution of progress.

The Social drawer, accessible from the Play screen and the pause menu, provides access to other players profiles and usage of the Xbox friends system. Through the "Search for players" menu, any player can be searched with their gamertag. The screen also shows recommended friends (followers, friends of friends, and previous friends), and players recently played with but not friends. It also allows to search for players using a QR code or share link containing the gamertag.

Any profile found in-game can be added as friend, which makes the player show on the social drawer and the friends list. At this point, the friend is considered added, and the player who added them shows as follower for the friend. The friend can then add the player as well to make the friendship mutual, considered friends. Friends and followers are visible in the Xbox app and for other players. Friends can be removed at any time, leaving the friend as follower if the friendship was mutual.

In the United Kingdom, players can only use the chat if all players in the world are mutual friends.

Friends can be marked as favorite to pin them to the top of all friend lists. Favorite friends show a heart-shaped online status icon. A player can be removed from favorites at any time.

Players can be blocked or muted. Blocking a player removes them from both the friends list and followers list and prevents them from appearing on any social feature again. Muting makes the player unable to join multiplayer worlds or send invites through the social network. Both actions can be undone from the profile screen.

Through the social network, players can join each other's multiplayer worlds. When players are mutual friends and not muted, all worlds with multiplayer enabled for friends in the edit world screen show as multiplayer worlds on the Play screen. A player can also be joined in the social drawer or from their profile screen. Multiplayer can be extended to friends of friends, which enables the option for joining a game from a player's profile in a friend's friends list.

A mutual friend's game can also be joined when they are playing in a server^[verify] or Realm. The latter requires access to the Realm, and also shows on the worlds tab of the Play screen.

In a world, Realm, or server, friends can be invited to join, where the friendship does not need to be mutual. This will send a notification from the Xbox app, and allows the player to join the world. Multiplayer game can be limited to invited players only. On a Realm, only members can be invited. The owner of the Realm can invite (non-mutual) friends at any time to the Realm, which will send an invite message to the player's Inbox.

While in a world, active players can be found and managed in the social drawer in the pause menu. The host can change player permissions, or kick the player. Players on Realms can also be banned, to prevent them from re-joining using invite links.

Members of a Realm server have access to Realms Stories, which allows players to view activity data, members, and story posts. Screenshots can be uploaded to Realms Stories, which is connected to a "Club" within the Xbox network, making all uploaded screenshots available for all members in the Xbox profile.

Other features from multiplayer games, including multiplayer settings, the chat, and other interactions are managed on the multiplayer world or server outside the social features.

This section describes content that is currently in development for Bedrock Edition.

 

This content has appeared in development versions for Bedrock Edition, but the full update adding it has not been released yet.

Parties are groups of online players that can automatically join any world the owner is in. From the "Party" tab in the Social drawer, any party can be created or joined. A party can be created as an "Open" or "Invite only" party. Open parties are visible for any friends in the "Joinable parties" section, while invite only parties requires the leader to send an invite to join a party. Invites can be sent to online friends (not mutual) or players recently played with, and can be resent at any time. In the Party settings, the right to invite players can be extended to members of the party, allowing more people to join.

A party can have up to 15 members. When the leader joins a multiplayer world, all members of the party automatically join the world in a few seconds. Members are not required to join the world and can re-join at any other time. The leader can also join the world of a friend to move the party to that world; it is not required that the leader hosts the world. The leader can transfer the leadership to other members in the party.

The "Social" button shows player faces of the first four members of a joined party. The online status icon changes to blue for members of a party, and the leader has an additional icon.

Players can be reported to Mojang Studios staff in their profile screen. Additionally, the options for a screenshot in a player's showcase gallery and a post in Realms Stories allow to report content. For the latter, the report will be sent to Xbox Enforcement instead of Mojang Studios.

Option	In-game description
	Please let us know where the incident took place. This will help us in researching your case. Chat message Player Name or Gamertag Available in the profile screen while playing multiplayer: Chat message Player skin Gameplay In-game creations Player Name or Gamertag
	If someone is in immediate danger, call local emergency services. Don't wait. I want to report them Hate speech Harassment or bullying Self harm or suicide Sexually inappropriate Threat of Harm to Others Unsporting behavior Cheating Impersonation Drugs or alcohol Child sexual exploitation or abuse Terrorism or violent extremism Non-Consensual intimate imagery
	You are about to report this person. Please add a comment describing what happened.
	This information is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge
	Submits the report. This button is grayed out unless the checkbox above has been checked off.
	Returns to the player's profile screen.

Bedrock Edition
1.19.50			Preview 1.19.40.22				Report screen in player's profiles has been updated to match Ore UI.
1.20.60			Preview 1.20.60.21				The Friends tab in the Play screen has been updated to match Ore UI, available in Preview only.
1.20.80			Preview 1.20.80.23				Search for players screen has been updated to match Ore UI.
1.21.0			Preview 1.21.0.20				Profile screen has been updated to match Ore UI.
1.21.60							"Friends" tab in Play screen is released to the public and no longer in Preview only.
1.21.70			Preview 1.21.70.23				The Report Bad Behavior screen in player's profiles has been updated with more input fields.
							"Report" screen has been renamed to "Report Bad Behavior" screen.
			release				The Friends drawer is now accessible from the main menu, Profile screen, Create new world screen, Edit world screen, and the pause menu.
?			?				The Friends drawer is no longer accessible for other menus than the Play screen.
1.21.90			?				Added options related to parties to options.txt.
?			?				Friends can now be listed as favorite.
Preview 1.21.110.25							"Friends" tab has been renamed to "Social" tab, available in Preview only.
							The Social drawer has been added to the pause menu replacing the player list, available in Preview only.
1.21.111			?				partyVisibility option has been removed, likely being replaced by a server-side option.
?			?				The Xbox profile icon has been replaced by an auto-generated skin face in-game.
1.21.120							"Friends" tab has been renamed to "Social" tab, no longer in Preview only.
							The Social drawer in the pause menu is released to the public and no longer in Preview only.
Preview 26.0.25							Added parties, which can be created from the social drawer.
							The social drawer is now organized into tabs for people, world, and party.
							The "Social" button now displays skin faces of the first four members of the party, or a default icon.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
26.10			Preview 26.10.21				The social drawer can now be opened in-game by pressing F4 by default.

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  The "Search for players" screen. The QR code with the gamertag should appear on the left.
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  The Friends screen.
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  The Followers screen.
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  The "Stats" tab of the profile screen.
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  The Friends screen of a different player.
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  The "Stats" tab of a different player.
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  The Stat comparison.
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  The Report Bad Behavior screen when reporting a screenshot.
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  The Party tab, when the player has received an invite, and a friend's party is available.
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  The "Party" tab in the main menu.
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  The Party settings.

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  Report screen from ? to 1.19.40.22 for Preview and 1.19.50 for full release.
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  Report bad behavior screen from 1.19.40.22 to 1.21.70.23 for Preview and 1.21.70 for full release onwards.
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  The Friends tab when it was available on the main menu.
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  The old Friends tab on the Play screen.
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  The Social tab in the pause menu, before the redesign in 1.21.120.

Issues relating to "Social", "Party", "Friends", or "Profile" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• Server
• Realms Stories
• Chat
• Emotes
• Ore UI