Troy F

I have just moved myself and my son over to Java edition and have the same issue as above on 1.17.1

I was able to access LAN easily on Bedrock even my 4yo could do it. 

But we are not able to see our world's in the LAN list. 

We can use IP/Port Direct Connection, but this is not viable for my son and daughter to do by themselves. 

Thank you all for your help.  This has been an unusually useful and informative thread.  I had misunderstood the version number thinking that 1.16.100 was older than 1.16.40 (ie. 1 00 instead of 4 0).  I now understand that the older version was on my wife's phone.  She updated that and now we are back online.  Still lots of glitches, quirks and frustrations, but the most important bit has been accomplished.  Now, the only thing I have to do is negotiate with my 8-year-old son to get him to be willing to let me permanently delete the worlds he has on my profile.  He's leaning toward accepting a package of candy in exchange. 🙂

Holy hell this software is crap.  Excuse the language.  Finally went the distance and wiped everything.  Downloaded Minecraft again.  It started up nice and quick.  But now, when I try to connect to another remote player (which is the whole point of what I'm trying to do), it says "Could not connect:  Outdated server!".  I tried updating but it says I have the most current version.  I don't know what version I had before, but the version showing now is 1.16.100.  I'm trying to connect to my wife who is using an android phone and I think hers says 1.16.40.  I don't know if that is the problem, but it wasn't a problem before.  So I wiped everything only to solve the slowness and to lock myself out of everything.  I'm sorry if it seems rude, but I really wish I could have a direct stern talk with a Majong devloper right about now.  BTW, I am a computer programmer and I would hang my head in shame if this kind of problem went on for this long with no action. 

I haven't done the whole cloud thing before.  So, I want to be sure I understand.  You say that I won't be able to play in my worlds for a while.  Would I not be able to play them from the cloud once it is re-installed?  I'm not terribly concerned about the existing worlds (although my son might be).  But I've already re-installed Minecraft with no luck.  Is there something special that I need to do a full re-install and get rid of any existing data? 

Shouldn't a clean re-install fix it then?  Presumably, it would be a completely new, install with new data, right?  Or if not, there should be some way of achieving that.  Even if it means a hard reset of the device itself.  I'm willing to resort to that if I had some reassurances that it would be worthwhile.  But I really don't want to lose some of my saved data on a couple of other games.

For me, its about 2 or 3 minutes of a black screen followed by the red Majong screen with a progress bar stuck at about 1/3 for (I didn't time it) 10 to 20 minutes until it finally starts moving.  Once it starts moving, it loads in less than a minute after that.  This entire process has been like this for a couple of months.  Since the 1.16 update I think.  But it used to be about 2 minutes total.  That was irritating.  But it is now just too much of a time commitment to even play it.  I had a bunch of worlds that my son had created so I deleted all but a few of those,  I deleted all but a couple of extensions/templates and I even copied the data to an SD card, then started it without the SD card which prompted me to re-install, which I did.  STILL the same thing.  I'm not short of space on my system.  The only other things I have on my system have been there since I got Minecraft and they all run fine.  But just to be thorough, I deleted a bunch of downloaded games and data that I no longer need.  Still nothing.  I have no idea what else I can possibly try.

Well, this is very disappointing.  I have been having this problem which has been getting progressively worse for the past couple of months.  Today, it is to the point of taking 20 minutes to start the game so I decided enough is enough and searched for an answer.  Now I see a bunch of people have the problem and have had it for several months.  This should have an answer by now.  Dontcha think?