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Nov 2025

No notices reported this month

Oct 2025

Essential Network Improvements
  • Completed
    October 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
    Completed
    October 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
    Maintenance has completed successfully.
  • Update
    October 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
    In progress
    October 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM

    The maintenance has been completed and users should be able to connect to the Essential Network. However, users may experience instability when using Essential. We are currently working on a fix for this issue.

  • Update
    October 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
    In progress
    October 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM

    Our maintenance is almost complete, but the Essential network cannot be brought back online due to Microsoft having issues with their infrastructure.

    Microsoft are estimating that their issues will be solved at 23:20 UTC. We will give an update once the Microsoft outage is resolved.

    https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status

  • Update
    October 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
    In progress
    October 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM

    Maintenance is still in progress. We are currently doing final testing before we open the Essential network again.

    Microsoft currently has an outage which is preventing us from doing this final testing, however, so we will update this status page once the Microsoft outage is resolved: https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status

  • Update
    October 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
    In progress
    October 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM

    The maintenance is still in progress, we have extended the downtime by an hour.

  • In progress
    October 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
    In progress
    October 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
    Maintenance is now in progress
  • Planned
    October 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
    Planned
    October 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM

    We will be undergoing scheduled maintenance during this time.

    You will be unable to:

    • Use the Essential chat

    • Join or start hosting worlds

    • Use cosmetics/emotes

    • Upload screenshots via the screenshot manager

World Hosting Issues
  • Resolved
    Resolved
    This incident has been resolved.
  • Investigating
    Investigating

    We've received reports about issues with the TURN servers causing disruptions to the world hosting system. We are currently investigating this incident.

Issues with coin purchases
  • Resolved
    Resolved
    This incident has been resolved.
  • Monitoring
    Monitoring

    Tebex seems to have resolved the issue, we are re-enabling coin purchases and will continue to monitor their behaviour.

  • Identified
    Identified

    Our payment processor, Tebex, is currently having issues with handling payments. Users may not be able to purchase coins at this time.

    For more information, see Tebex's status page.

Increased latency on connections to the Connection Manager
  • Resolved
    Resolved
    This incident has been resolved.
  • Monitoring
    Monitoring

    Many users should be able to see cosmetic and emote updates in real-time. Certain users may still encounter delays when viewing other users' cosmetics and emotes.

  • Identified
    Identified

    We are currently investigating this incident, users may experience delays when viewing other players' cosmetics and emotes.

  • Investigating
    Investigating

    We are currently investigating this incident, users may have issues when connecting to Essential, or attempting to perform tasks like purchasing cosmetics, messaging friends, etc.

Authentication issues for 1.8.9 players
  • Resolved
    Resolved

    Mojang has resolved this incident in the vanilla launcher as of a few hours ago and we're no longer seeing issues with authentication.

  • Identified
    Identified
    We are continuing to work on a fix for this incident.
  • Investigating
    Investigating
    1.8.9 players are unable to authenticate because of Mojang certification issues.

Sep 2025

Networking Issues
  • Resolved
    Resolved
    This incident has been resolved.
  • Identified
    Identified

    Our networking provider is the target of a DDoS attack.

  • Investigating
    Investigating

    We are currently investigating this incident, users may have issues when connecting to Essential, or attempting to perform tasks like purchasing cosmetics, messaging friends, etc.

Screenshot Uploading Disturbance
  • Resolved
    Resolved
    This incident has been resolved.
  • Monitoring
    Monitoring

    The underlying network issue seems to have been resolved and no more errors are being reported.

  • Identified
    Identified

    The media service responsible for handling screenshot uploading and retrieval was having issues which affected the ability to upload and view uploaded screenshots.

Sep 2025 to Nov 2025

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