I need Xbox live gold to play ONLINE minecraft but I have Xbox live?

"Looks like you need to renew gold" is a message that appears when your Xbox Live Gold subscription has expired or is about to expire. Minecraft Bedrock Edition requires an active Xbox Live Gold subscription to play online multiplayer with other players.

To continue playing Minecraft bedrock on your PC, you will need to renew your Xbox Live Gold subscription. You can do this by visiting the Xbox website or using the Xbox app on your PC. Once you have renewed your subscription, sign in to your Xbox Live account within the Minecraft game to enable online multiplayer and remove the renewal prompt.

Hello,

This may possibly be because you have settings that restrict this, especially on child accounts, if that applies to you. To change this, you must find the "Allow to join multiplayer games" in account privacy settings, and set this to allow. This also maybe that you need Xbox Live Gold, as you need Xbox Live Gold to play any games online that aren't free. E.g. free games like Fortnite and Roblox are online games, but both free to play meaning you don't need Xbox Live Gold to play them. But you need Xbox Live Gold to play online on games that you have to pay to download, e.g. Minecraft.

I hope this helped,

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Yes, Minecraft is an online multiplayer game so if he's playing on an Xbox console, he needs to have Xbox Live Gold or Game Pass Ultimate.

Id like to play Minecraft with my son and his friends online. Do I need a second Xbox Live Gold subscription to do this?

To play online you need Xbox live GOLD. If you have the free account or the Xbox live silver account then you can't play online. So I'm sorry but you're going to have to pay for Xbox live Gold in order to play online. I hope this helped!