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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    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

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

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        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.

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          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.

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            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.

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

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                  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.