“You may experience intermittent failures or slowdowns connecting to Realms.
We are actively working to resolve this,” the Mojang Status accounttweeted on Tuesday.
Players in the replies disagreed, with hundreds noting that they were still unable to play.

It has been running healthy for more than the last hour.
You should be able to see, manage, and play on your Realms again.
Thank you again for patience as we worked through the issues."
Within hours, another tweet noted that connectivity issues and latency had since increased again.
A second update, 1.21.21 was released the following daysolely to improve “reliability of connecting to Realms.
“I guess it didn’t work.