It hasn't always been this way, but hosting a Minecraft server has gotten much easier than it used to be, and this remains the same for Minecraft 1.18.

Minecraft server operators are among the most-vulnerable to Log4j and should patch immediately.

To make sure you don't have to suffer the indignity of fighting things yourself, we've got some suggestions for the best Minecraft XP farms for 1.18 on both Bedrock and Java versions of the game.

Players hosting their own game servers in Minecraft: Java Edition still need to install the 1.18.1 patch update to protect their server, but may have to take additional steps to patch the ...