My friend's 'Minecraft' realm was the community I needed while 2020 slid downward

It was a normal evening in late June when a friend's fateful suggestion landed in our Discord server.

"If I set up a private Minecraft server for Friend Land, would anyone be interested in that?" he asked innocently. The chorus of affirmative responses was quickly followed by a heatedly nerdy discussion about what kind of server and where it should live. 

Should it be on Minecraft Realms, Microsoft's for-pay service that does all the setup and maintenance work for you? Or should we go the more DIY route, which requires technical knowhow to maintain, but also offers more flexibility? 

There were questions about how to handle the server, which version would be best for people who wanted to play on different hardware, and whether or not it made sense to wait for a major graphics update (since released) that's been a long time in the making for Minecraft. Read more...

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