mcpelauncher

An unstable unofficial launcher for the Android version of Minecraft: Bedrock Edition on linux and macOS.

UI

The User Interface to login, download and manage Versions can be found here

System Requirements

Warning

Once the new OpenGL ES 3.1 system requirement for "Vibrant Visuals" aka "Deferred Technical Preview" of 31. March 2025 no longer allow the game to start using classic "Fancy" Graphics on OpenGL ES 3.0 the macOS port Minecraft updates are going to be on hold

Operating System	Architecture	Requirements	Minecraft Versions
linux glibc	x86	Intel or Amd CPU with SSSE3 Instruction Set and OpenGL ES 2.0 or newer.	1.13.0 - 1.20.20
linux glibc	x86	Intel or Amd CPU with SSSE3 Instruction Set and OpenGL ES 3.0 or newer.	1.13.0 - 1.21.73
macOS 10.10 - 10.14	x86	Intel or Amd CPU with SSSE3 Instruction Set.	1.13.0 - 1.16.1X
linux glibc	x86_64	Intel or Amd CPU with SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, POPCNT Instruction Sets and OpenGL ES 2.0 or newer.	1.13.0 - 1.20.20
linux glibc	x86_64	Intel or Amd CPU with SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, POPCNT Instruction Sets and OpenGL ES 3.0 or newer.	1.13.0 - 1.21.73
macOS 10.10 - latest	x86_64	Intel or Amd CPU with SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2 and POPCNT Instruction Sets. Rosetta 2 worked in macOS 11 and 12, but no longer in macOS 13	1.13.0 - 1.21.73
linux glibc	arm32	armv7 CPU, pulseaudio and OpenGL ES 2.0 or newer	1.13.0 - 1.18.10
linux glibc	arm64	armv7 CPU, pulseaudio and OpenGL ES 3.0 or newer	1.13.0 - 1.21.73
linux glibc	arm64	armv8 CPU, pulseaudio and OpenGL ES 2.0 or newer	1.13.0 - 1.20.20
linux glibc	arm64	armv8 CPU, pulseaudio and OpenGL ES 3.0 or newer	1.13.0 - 1.21.73
macOS 11.0 - latest	arm64	apple m series CPU (Experimental, modding limitations)	1.19.70 - 1.21.73

Versions 1.20.30+ will not have hardware rendering on older hardware (GLES 3.0 is now required)

Read Issue #933 to force software rendering to be able to run them anyway

For mesa3d this would be defining LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE to 1 of the launcher process. Alternatively you can replace your libEGl drivers with https://github.com/google/angle/ and tell it to use the swiftshader backend.

Important Minecraft Version specific Bugs

Minecraft Version	Bug Description
1.13.0 - 1.16.1X	Xbox login doesn't work. It is working in previous Versions of this Launcher.
1.16.20 - latest	No sound for macOS x86 launcher without compiling yourself with pulseaudio
1.16.210 - 1.17.4X	Crafting is broken on x86 and x86_64 based devices
1.16.210 - 1.17.4X	Textures are off by one on x86 and x86_64 based devices, enable texture patch in profile settings to mitigate this Bug
1.16.210 - 1.17.4X	World Corruption while next to water
1.18.30 - latest	The armv7 port might not work correctly
1.19.50 - latest	You cannot sprint while diagonal strafing on Intel cpu (see MCPE-170810)
all	You are unable to receive Xbox live game invites
all	You may be unable to join worlds hosted by this launcher using Xbox live friends joining

Wiki

Please check our wiki https://minecraft-linux.github.io for information about compiling or installing this launcher. The old wiki of readthedocs is obsolete.

Nightly Prebuilds

AppImage (Deprecated) and DMG Files Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora Packages (ca. 1-24h delay) flatpak install flathub-beta io.mrarm.mcpelauncher (ca. 1-24h delay)