
Most stores have their own compliance requirements and subject the incoming edition to a series of certification tests before making it available for download. Target platform builds are created individually, then transmitted to the platform's app store. This allows the codebase to host not only the current version but all past versions, the standalone Bedrock Dedicated Server (BDS) versions, and several Beta versions simultaneously with no conflicts. The codebase resides within a software system that manages the pieces of code and tracks their evolution. This common core of functionality is called the "Bedrock Engine".

Code was added to accommodate differences in the target platforms for such facilities as networking and storage access, though around 90% of the code is used on every platform. The term "Bedrock Edition" comes from the Bedrock codebase, which was created in the C++ programming language to run on platforms that cannot support Java. Minecraft: Bedrock Edition (officially just Minecraft) refers to the multi-platform versions of Minecraft developed by Mojang Studios, Xbox Game Studios, and SkyBox Labs and based on the Bedrock codebase.

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