Essential Mod incident
Issues with connecting to the Essential network
Essential Mod experienced a minor incident on July 16, 2026, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- resolved Jul 16, 2026, 08:30 AM UTC
Type: Incident Duration: 30 minutes Affected Components: Authentication Jul 16, 08:30:00 GMT+0 - Monitoring - Mojang's authentication servers are having a partial outage at the moment. Users may take longer than normal to connect to the Essential network, or may not be able to connect at all. We are actively monitoring the situation, and will update this status page when the incident is resolved. Due to us having no control over Mojang's authentication servers, we cannot apply a fix for this issue. Jul 16, 08:52:24 GMT+0 - Monitoring - Mojang's authentication servers appear to be operational again. This status page entry will be resolved by 09:00 UTC if they do not regress again. Jul 16, 09:00:01 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved.