Minecraft is one of the most popular video games of all times, joining the likes of Mario and Tetris. Developed by Mojang Studios and released in November of 2011, Minecraft has millions of players to date.
All thanks to the endless procedurally generated 2D world, you never run out of space or resources to collect. However, in the last few days, players have encountered several bugs and glitches.
Just few days ago, players complained about boats disappearing when they get off while others said they were getting ‘Internal Exception: java.io.ioexception’ error
And as if that isn’t enough, players are now saying that they are unable to connect to the game servers. Many reported that the Minecraft servers are down at the moment on Downdetector.com.
While some say that they are getting a ” We could not validate your access, please try to login again.” message, others say they are getting an authentication error.
Players tried restarting the game but it is not helping. You can clearly see the surge in number of reports in the last few hours on Downdetector in the image below.
Here are what some of the complainants have to say.
Can’t login
When I try to login on the site, it says ” We could not validate your access, please try to login again.”, but it doesn’t work. Are the servers down or something?
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hey @MojangSupport are the servers having issues? im trying to play modded minecraft on aserver but i got told auth servers are in maintenance and now get a forcibly closed error but my other friends (not in the same country as me) can play fine
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Thankfully, Mojang Status has shed some light on the matter and confirmed the fact that Minecraft servers are currently down for maintenance.
We are running an update behind the scenes which is impacting some of our services for Minecraft: Java Edition. Multiplayer is affected. – Ined
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However, they did not share any timeline on when the servers will be back up and running. From the looks of it, it seems Minecraft players will have to wait a few more hours before they are able to connect.
We hope Mojang Studios warns Minecraft players before taking the game offline so they can complete their activities before the servers go off.
Nevertheless, we will be keeping an eye out on the issue and updating this space as and when required, so stay tuned.
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