So, how does a player join another's private world? They can join friends on Minecraft Pocket Edition and Bedrock, hop on a LAN server (Java), or connect to a realm.

When Minecraft was fully released in 2011, it was met with outstanding critical reception and acclaim. While the game was a massive success, it only offered a single-player gameplay experience.

It was such an obvious oversight that I didn't realise you couldn't share your single-player world over the LAN games until recently. And now I'll never miss it: Mojang have just enabled in a ...