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Where to get Minecraft for Arch Linux from? (feddit.de)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Arrrr my fellow pirates. Since I'm very unexperienced with the seas I ask for you guys, where can I get Minecraft from for Arch Linux. It's not because I'm not willing to pay 20€ but because Microsoft is a giant bitch and I'm not willing to put money in their mouth(especially after they changed their privacy policy).

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago (4 children)

PollyMC is a Prism Launcher fork but with "offline mode" and works perfectly on my opinion. I recommend downloading the flatpak version as the appimage asks you for certain versions of Java that are easy to install but sometimes gets a little complicated.

And yes, Micro$hit can eat shit. I personally bought Minecraft but on the day I was forced to migrate my Mojang account to a Micro$oft account with the threat that "If I don't do it I'll lose access to my game" I delete my Mojang account and use PollyMC since.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

PolyMC had some drama a while ago with a hostile takeover by a dev. The other original devs forked it and are now continuing the development at Prism launcher

edit: whoops! i made an error reading and didnt notice the two l's

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Not PolyMC, PollyMC. Two different projects, PollyMC is now based on Prism

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Yes, that’s why I mentioned that it’s based on Prism Launcher. I wonder who still use PolyMC.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

A friend of mine still used PolyMC since they didn't hear about the drama. Now they know and switched to Prism Launcher.

It's the same with people still using MultiMC, since many people just don't know Prism Launcher has more active development. Or they don't care.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There were some talks to migrating all PolyMC Flatpak installations to Prism Launcher, which was achieved by marking PolyMC as outdated on Flathub's repo and marking Prism Launcher as the newer version, which will result in Flatpak clients replacing PolyMC with Prism Launcher while moving data over. The only thing users would notice is that the icon and name on the apps list changed, since all worlds and instances would stay in place.

Unfortunately I think they didn't continue with this decision.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use it because I don't want to break something while switching it to a different client; and it still gets updates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

You can literally paste your PolyMC files to Prism Launcher and it will work perfectly

[–] caron 7 points 10 months ago

It's not PolyMC, it's PollyMC 😉

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The second I heard about PollyMC I knew this would happen

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Using this method to bypass the Microsoft account requirement is better than relying on a downstream project, IMO. Especially since PollyMC's releases are lagging behind Prism Launcher (which is expected for downstream projects), and their last release was behind for an entire month.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Since it is hosted on GitHub, I assume I should search for the binary elsewhere. Or does it automatically download it from somewhere?..

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The binary is in the releases (e.g. Flatpak version), I guess you'll have to update manually though, since they don't have a Flatpak repository of their own that you can add

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean the binary, y'know, the game one. They can't be seriously allowed to distribute this on Github, can they?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That you get through the launcher, of course it's not hosted on GitHub, you can download several different versions of Minecraft from it, there's no trouble with that.

I never wondered how they get them exactly, but I think it might be a direct download from the official sources and then some patches applied after the fact to "crack" it (do note I could be totally off on this one).

You also get mod support with it, I instantly got the gamepad mod for example and it's all been working flawlessly, though the documentation could use some work, it was quite confusing to me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As far as I know, Minecraft itself is avaliable for download publicly, you don't even need to patch it to play. You just need to supply it some fake account data and tell it to work offline.

No official servers support, of course, but that's about it.

The funny thing is, this mechanism came from Mojang, and at this point they can't even do anything about it. If they stop providing downloads without an account or implement some anti-piracy features, people will just use the latest official version and mod it. And it may be not even the latest one, there are tons of players on 1.7.10 and 1.12.2, just because modders love them.

Sure, they can try and push their Bedrock version... But nobody is playing on that piece of crap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sure, they can try and push their Bedrock version... But nobody is playing on that piece of crap.

As somebody who plays Minecraft very often on my phone, I can say Bedrock Edition would've been a very good platform if they just didn't aggressively push their Marketplace BS.

[–] LiveLM 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The fact that Bedrock is not available on MacOS and Linux irks me to no end.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It isn’t hard to run bedrock on linux. I belive there is a bedrock launcher on flathub.

[–] LiveLM 2 points 10 months ago

That's not a proper Bedrock port however, it's the Android version with some patches on top. It requires you to own Minecraft on the Play Store in order to use it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

This is one of the best solutions in my opinion. Being able to use Multiple instances with separate .minecraft folders is super handy, especially for mods or playing on older versions.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

The best solution would be to install Prism Launcher from Flathub. This method is better than relying on downstream projects like PollyMC which may have delayed updates and be abandoned anytime: To avoid having to sign in to Microsoft spyware to play, do the following, credits to this guide:

First, open Prism Launcher, then close it. This is to ensure that the account data has been initialized.

Second, run this command on the terminal:

echo '{"accounts": [{"entitlement": {"canPlayMinecraft": true,"ownsMinecraft": true},"type": "Offline"}],"formatVersion": 3}' > ~/.var/app/org.prismlauncher.PrismLauncher/data/PrismLauncher/accounts.json

Third, open Prism Launcher, press the account button on the top right, create an offline account, and set it as the default account by pressing the Set as Default button on the right side of the list. After this, delete the No Profile account by pressing its entry on the list and selecting Delete on the right side of the list.

Done! You can now play Minecraft without the Microsoft account BS.

~~Note that I do not support piracy, but I cannot tell you to buy Minecraft first before doing this because I don't want to be a hypocrite.~~ lmao i didn't notice what community i'm on lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

PollyMC ironically has more features now. Prism removed FTB packs. Polly kept them :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

GregTech intensifies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I might be too late but anyway to get skins in it as well? I do see a skin object.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I know im necroposting, but i had no luch with the latest prism launcher, is there something that im missing ? It complains that i cannot add a offline account before i log in with microsoft one?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You may have skipped some steps

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Found it, i have had a flatpak version installed but used a wrong command, it works now

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I use UltimMC (MultiMC with cracked support).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Same for me works like a charm and keeps everything in one folder.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I know this isn't the question you asked, but have you tried playing Minetest game?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

-Mom! Can we get Minecraft?

-We have Minecraft at home.

Minecraft at home:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

The Mineclone2 game for Minetest is pretty solid, and it's got most of what Minecraft has, it seems. My son and I play it pretty often.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I like SKLauncher, and it just works for me. I did have to create an account on their website to use custom skins, though, so keep that in mind. If you want to play Bedrock, there is a patched Minecraft Bedrock Launcher which allows you to import an x86 apk to get MC Bedrock working. It's a very messy process. The Launcher (AppImage) can be hard to find, and the x86 apk is even more difficult to find. The latest I could find is 1.14, so I wouldn't bother with Bedrock. If you want Minecraft, use a cracked Launcher with Linux support like SKLauncher or others.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

There is a launcher called salwyrr which has Linux support. Iv tried it and it worked for me.

btw, i too use arch.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

In my experience, the best cracked launcher is UltimMC, it's MultiMC but with cracked accounts support.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

SK launcher. Is a Java app meaning it runs on any desktop OS that has Java installed

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not libre!

I suggest HMCL launcher

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can't find much about it, sounds like its for android?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

So many good suggestions, very happy to see all the people here ❤️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

PollyMC. https://github.com/fn2006/PollyMC/.