Craft, create, and explore alone, or with friends on mobile devices or Windows 10. Play in creative mode with unlimited resources or mine deep into the world in survival mode, crafting weapons and armor to fend off the dangerous mobs. (It also requires one of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX graphics cards, of course.Explore randomly generated worlds and build amazing things from the simplest of homes to the grandest of castles. To opt into the RTX version of the game, you just need to make a selection in the in-game menu. Once you have your free copy and are officially keyed into the Windows 10 version of the game, you’ll be able to join the Minecraft with RTX beta for the best-looking blocks you’ve ever seen. PDT on April 20 after that, you’ll have to buy the Windows 10 Edition, which costs $26.99, on its own. If you own the Java version of Minecraft, log in to your Mojang account, and you should see a “claim your free copy” button underneath the Minecraft entry in “My Games.” The promotion ends at 11:59 p.m.

Redeeming your free Minecraft copy is easy - as long as you remember your Mojang login from a thousand years ago.

Microsoft has long offered a free upgrade to the Windows 10 Edition, and anyone who bought the Java Edition before Oct. While the Java Edition of Minecraft is sticking around for now, it seems clear that the future of the game lies in the Bedrock Edition, which features cross-platform play across computers, consoles, and mobile devices. Microsoft acquired Minecraft developer Mojang in 2014, and launched the Windows 10 beta of the game the following year. Players who own the original Java version of Minecraft have until the end of the day on Monday to claim a free copy of the Windows 10 version of the game. With Minecraft’s new ray-traced visual overhaul now live in beta, Microsoft’s offer for a free upgrade of the game is coming to a close.

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