Players can easily play older versions of Minecraft Java Edition (Image via Sportskeeda) The Java Edition is Minecraft's oldest before Mojang released versions for different devices.

It's much more accessible to get older versions of the game on Java. However, older versions are not available there, as the Minecraft Wiki says: ...

There are many choices of what version of Minecraft to get - the free version, the Java versions and the Bedrock edition. But what makes them different?