Typically, when players want to play Minecraft on their mobile devices, they have to do so through a version of the game that runs on the Bedrock Edition codebase.

Minecraft: Education Edition, a powerful and fun tool used by educators all over the world, is now available for Android and iOS devices alongside a major content update.

Over the years, many different versions have been released for the game. The four most popular ones are Java Edition, Bedrock Edition, Education Edition, and a spin-off, Minecraft Dungeons.

Minecraft: Java Edition is the renamed version of Mojang's original sandbox building game. It was simply called Minecraft until it was renamed to add Java Edition in 2017.

After some places to explore in the Windows 10 Edition? Check out our list of the best Minecraft PE seeds. Of course user-created content like this has been available for the Java version - or OG ...