If you have come across the Exit Code 1 error on Minecraft that causes the game to crash when loading it, here's what you can do to fix it.

In this troubleshooting article, we’ll show you the effective ways on how to fix your Minecraft launcher if it refuses run for whatever reason. How to fix Minecraft launcher won’t load issue?

To this end, Mojang Studios has released Minecraft: Java Edition 1.18.1 Release Candidate 2 to test a fix for world chunks occasionally not loading.