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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[–] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 2 years 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.

[–] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

[–] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years 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.

[–] IverCoder@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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some talks to migrating all PolyMC Flatpak installations to Prism Launcher, which was achieved by marking PolyMC as outdated on Flathub's repo and marking Prism Launcher as the newer version, which will result in Flatpak clients replacing PolyMC with Prism Launcher while moving data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.

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] IverCoder@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] caron@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 years ago

It's not PolyMC, it's PollyMC 😉

[–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

The second I heard about PollyMC I knew this would happen

[–] IverCoder@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Using this method to bypass the Microsoft account requirement on pure Prism Launcher 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 the latest release 7.2 was behind for an entire month.

[–] moreeni@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years 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?..

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 6 points 2 years 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

[–] moreeni@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years 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?

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 8 points 2 years 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.

[–] IverCoder@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years 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@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] IverCoder@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] IverCoder@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

GregTech intensifies

[–] hell@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] skele_tron@feddit.de 1 points 1 year 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?

[–] IverCoder@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You may have skipped some steps

[–] skele_tron@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] jvrava9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I use UltimMC (MultiMC with cracked support).

[–] Wiener234@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] g8phcon2@teacup.social 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

-Mom! Can we get Minecraft?

-We have Minecraft at home.

Minecraft at home:

[–] fortified_banana@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years 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.

[–] vicfic@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 2 years ago

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

btw, i too use arch.

[–] TheL321@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not libre!

I suggest HMCL launcher

[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://github.com/huanghongxun/HMCL

Check releases tab

[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks

[–] Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

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