Minecraft is down for everyone – authentication servers appear to be the culprit

Minecraft went down for players worldwide around 12:30 AM PT on June 1, with reports flooding Downdetector almost immediately. The outage hits both the official Minecraft Launcher and third-party launchers like Prism and CurseForge.

Two error messages greet anyone trying to launch the game: "Oh no! Something went wrong, and we couldn't connect to the Minecraft services" and "We were unable to verify what products you own." Both point squarely at the authentication servers being offline, which means logins are failing and Realms, multiplayer servers, and co-op sessions are all affected.

The last major outage of this scale hit in October 2025, when a global Microsoft Azure disruption knocked out Minecraft authentication and Xbox Live together. Widespread Minecraft downtime is genuinely uncommon, which makes this one notable.

Mojang Support hasn't posted anything on X at the time of writing. The situation is still developing.