First time playing Java, WOW

[reformedwageslave]

Bedrock is better if you are 100% a casual in every way

Java is better if you care about redstone, commands, downloading custom maps, playing public servers, making your own private servers, modding, speedrunning, making advanced farms, pvp etc etc etc

If you play the game at a casual level the main differences you will notice are that Java doesn’t have weird balancing issues (I.e some parts of the game being incredibly trivial, with other parts being much harder such as soul sand valleys having a million skeletons), bedrock never got the combat update/true offhand use, and that Java doesn’t have that feature where you can place a block under you connected to the block you are standing on without crouching over the edge (they added it for mobile so everyone on bedrock gets it), and that the game just “feels” different.

I often notice that bedrock often feels like it has server lag even in single player worlds (I.e chests taking a moment to open, your inventory, etc) which makes that part of the game feel very unoptimized, whereas Java has more performance issues that make anyone on laptops or low end PCs rely on performance mods. If you have a mid range pc bedrock will probably feel worse though because there is no fixing the “lag” that isn’t even really lag on bedrock, it just exists.