Realms service should now be restored for all players! We apologize for the disruption in Realms service and appreciate your patience while we worked on a solution. -DK
We are still hard at work to bring Realms back online for all players. As of now roughly 70% of players should have access. As part of this work we have had to block traffic to Realms on 1.21.20 on all platforms other than Switch (until Switch gets the hotfix). -DK
Thank you for your patience during the Realms outage. If you were affected, please keep an eye on your inbox in-game; we’re sending something your way. We appreciate your understanding, and we are grateful that you are part of our community. - jp
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
The Realms team is still hard at work to restore the service globally. We appreciate your continued patience as we are doing everything we can to get you all playing on Realms again.-DK
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
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