Minecraft Bedrock Keeps Crashing on PC: 7 Fixes, From Quickest to Last Resort

You join a world, play for a while and the game just disappears, no error at all. Before you reinstall, notice when it closes: that tells you where to start.

Minecraft Bedrock keeps crashing on PC: seven fixes

If Minecraft Bedrock keeps crashing, check three things first: the add-ons in that world, your free memory and your graphics driver. The fixes go from the quickest to the longest, and reinstalling comes last.

In short

When exactly does it crash?

Pay attention to the moment it happens, because each moment points to a different cause. That way you don't waste time on fixes that have nothing to do with your case.

  • When you open it, before the menu: it's an installation problem. Go to Minecraft Bedrock won't open.
  • On the loading screen, at 73% or 80%: it's a known bug in 26.60, and it has its own guide.
  • When you join one world, and only that one: almost certainly an add-on or a texture pack in that world.
  • After playing for a while, in any world: memory, a full disk or the video settings.

Before you touch anything: copy your worlds

None of the first steps delete anything. The last one, reinstalling, can. Make the copy now. It takes a minute, and then you can try everything without fear.

Your worlds are in %APPDATA%\Minecraft Bedrock\Users. Copy the whole Users folder to your desktop. If it doesn't exist, your version is older than 1.21.120 and keeps the worlds in another folder.

Both paths, with pictures, are in where Minecraft Bedrock worlds are saved.

1. Sign out and restart everything

It sounds like the usual advice, but it's the first thing Mojang recommends, and for good reason. The game depends on your account, the Store and the Xbox services, and any of them can get stuck.

  1. Sign out of Minecraft, the Microsoft Store and the Xbox app.
  2. Shut down the computer. Shut it down, don't put it to sleep.
  3. Turn off your router and modem, wait 20 seconds and turn them back on.
  4. Turn on the computer, connect to the internet and open Minecraft with your account.

2. Close the programs you aren't using

If the game holds on for a few minutes and then crashes, it may be running out of memory. Chrome with lots of tabs, a recording program or another game left open can eat it up.

Open Task Manager with Ctrl + Shift + Esc, sort by Memory and close whatever you don't need while you play.

3. Free up disk space

Mojang asks you to make sure the disk has plenty of free space. With a nearly full disk, the game has nowhere to save the world while you play, and that can also make it close.

Look at the C: drive in This PC. If its bar is red, delete old downloads or empty the Recycle Bin before you go on.

4. Remove the add-ons one at a time

If it crashes when you join one world and the others open fine, the culprit is usually in that world. An add-on made for another version of the game is the most common cause.

You don't need to join the world to remove them. Mojang recommends turning them off one at a time, so you know which one it is:

  1. In the world list, click the pencil next to the world that crashes.
  2. Go to Behavior Packs and turn one off.
  3. Try to join the world. If it works, that was the one.
  4. If not, turn it back on and try the next one. Then do the same in Resource Packs.

Once you find the one that fails, look for a version of that add-on made for your version of the game. Don't remove it from the world without your copy: some add-ons leave things inside the world.

5. Lower the video settings

The highest video options need much more memory and processor. Mojang puts it plainly: if the game crashes or lags, adjust the video settings before anything else.

  1. Go to Settings and then Video.
  2. If Vibrant Visuals is on, turn it off and try the regular graphics.
  3. Cut the Render Distance in half.
  4. Play for ten minutes. If it no longer crashes, raise the options a little at a time until you find your PC's limit.

6. Update the game and your graphics driver

An old version of the game or of the driver is among the first causes Mojang lists. You get the driver from the website of whoever made your graphics card: NVIDIA, AMD or Intel.

Don't know which card you have? You can see it in a minute:

  1. Press Windows + R, type dxdiag and press Enter.
  2. Open the Display tab. The card's name is at the top, next to its manufacturer.

Both steps, with the exact Microsoft Store buttons, are in the guide for when it won't open, in fixes 3 and 4.

7. If nothing worked: reinstall, with your worlds safe

It's the last step because it takes the longest. With your copy of the Users folder made, uninstall the game from Windows Settings, restart and install it again from the Microsoft Store.

Whatever you bought on the Marketplace stays on your account: it downloads again when you sign in. If a world is missing, copy the Users folder back to where it was.

What if it crashes on your phone?

Almost the same steps work as on PC. Mojang adds one that is only for phones: don't play while it's charging, because the phone heats up and performs worse.

  1. Unplug the charger and close the apps left open in the background.
  2. Make sure the phone has free space. If it's almost full, delete videos or apps you don't use.
  3. Update the game from Google Play or the App Store.
  4. If it crashes in only one world, remove the add-ons one at a time, just like in step 4.

Frequently asked questions

Why does it crash in one world and not in the others?

Because what fails is in that world: almost always an add-on or a texture pack. Remove them one at a time from the world's pencil, as in step 4.

Does it close at 73% while loading?

That's something else: a known bug in version 26.60. It has its own guide.

Do I have to reinstall to fix it?

Hardly ever. Reinstalling is the last step, and only after copying the Users folder. The six steps before it don't delete anything.

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Sources

  • Steps 1 to 7 and the phone advice: Minecraft Help, «Fix Crashes and Lag Issues in Minecraft», read on November 10, 2026.
  • The world folders and the 1.21.120 change: we checked them on a Windows 10 PC with Bedrock 26.60 on October 30, 2026, for the guide on where worlds are saved.
  • We did not reproduce a crash on our PC: the steps come from the official guide, not from a test of ours.