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Where to get Minecraft for Arch Linux from? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year 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] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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] 1 points 1 year ago

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.