After bedrock was introduced, I can never join my friends worlds. I can play with them in servers and in editions but I can’t play with them in their and my worlds. The same thing comes up: “Unable to connect to world.”

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Also, I have tried to join my friends thru Microsoft friends but that didn’t work either. When I press on my friends world it puts me thru 15 seconds of “multiplayer game” then it shows a dirt block in the background and in the middle it says “Unable to connect to world”. I can, however join my friends servers and the global servers with mini games and I can play with my friends that way but I can’t play with them in our worlds. It also says a long Jira error code that I cannot fix. I have searched many videos and general searches but none of them work for me.

I have noticed progress. Where it says I’m unable to connect to world, when I press “x”, it starts to say generating world and resources but then the same error code comes up. I can not find the exact error but it has to doing something with a long error code that pops up on the top left screen of the main menu.