v1.0.0-798

Links for linux flatpak or macOS can be found on our wiki https://mcpelauncher.readthedocs.io.

Caution

• You need to own Minecraft on the google play store and login with your google account to use this launcher
• Only Systems with OpenGL ES 3.0 GPU's e.g. intel integrated GPU first sold in 2012 (those from 2011 might work as well) or later can run versions after Minecraft 1.20.15

Download link for intel or amd based 64bit systems ( known as amd64, intel64 and x86_64 e.g. most PC's or Laptops )

Download link for arm based 64bit systems ( known as arm64 and aarch64 e.g. raspberry Pi3 or later, pinephone or pinebook )

• run uname -a to know which system you are using
• once downloaded the launcher shows you banner if an update is available
  • no need to download the whole file again
  • usually small updates with less than 5MB
  • you can update it externally with appimageupdate or appimagelauncher
  • the check for updates can be disabled in settings

Not available Features you may miss

• Xbox live friend joining
  • usually times out or crashs the game in both directions
  • consider using the offical server software https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock
    • connect all by ip as external server
• Xbox live login
  • a lot of devices seem to get error code "drowned" without beeing asked for login
    • error code "drowned" has more meanings like you closed the webview window without sign in or you pressed signin too early
  • sometimes it helps to select a timezone used by developers of this launcher like Europe/Berlin or using a fixed UTC timezone without any Region/City

Changelog

Removed (proprietary) fmod binaries, using the fmod for android instead bundled with the game

1.21.30 fmod fixes

WIP Mod list

Minecraft Trial and ChromeOS UI Support

A lot of minor changes

v0.15.2-796

Links for linux flatpak or macOS can be found on our wiki https://mcpelauncher.readthedocs.io.

Caution

• You need to own Minecraft on the google play store and login with your google account to use this launcher
• Only Systems with OpenGL ES 3.0 GPU's e.g. intel integrated GPU first sold in 2012 (those from 2011 might work as well) or later can run versions after Minecraft 1.20.15

Download link for intel or amd based 64bit systems ( known as amd64, intel64 and x86_64 e.g. most PC's or Laptops )

Download link for arm based 64bit systems ( known as arm64 and aarch64 e.g. raspberry Pi3 or later, pinephone or pinebook )

• run uname -a to know which system you are using
• once downloaded the launcher shows you banner if an update is available
  • no need to download the whole file again
  • usually small updates with less than 5MB
  • you can update it externally with appimageupdate or appimagelauncher
  • the check for updates can be disabled in settings

Not available Features you may miss

• Xbox live friend joining
  • usually times out or crashs the game in both directions
  • consider using the offical server software https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock
    • connect all by ip as external server
• Xbox live login
  • a lot of devices seem to get error code "drowned" without beeing asked for login
    • error code "drowned" has more meanings like you closed the webview window without sign in or you pressed signin too early
  • sometimes it helps to select a timezone used by developers of this launcher like Europe/Berlin or using a fixed UTC timezone without any Region/City

Changelog

Fixed ipv6 webrtc multiplayer problems by GameParrot

Custom Scaling of the menubar

Alt no longer focuses the menuabar by default, you would need to enable it yourself

v0.15.0-795: Release v0.15.0 via Buildbot (#29)

You need to own Minecraft on the google play store and login with your google account to use this launcher
Links for linux flatpak or macOS can be found on our wiki https://mcpelauncher.readthedocs.io.

Download link for intel or amd based 64bit systems ( known as amd64, intel64 and x86_64 e.g. most PC's or Laptops )

Download link for arm based 64bit systems ( known as arm64 and aarch64 e.g. raspberry Pi3 or later, pinephone or pinebook )

• run uname -a to know which system you are using
• once downloaded the launcher shows you banner if an update is available
  • no need to download the whole file again
  • usually small updates with less than 5MB
  • you can update it externally with appimageupdate or appimagelauncher
  • the check for updates can be disabled in settings

Not available Features you may miss

• Xbox live friend joining
  • usually times out or crashs the game in both directions
  • consider using the offical server software https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock
    • connect all by ip as external server
• Xbox live login
  • a lot of devices seem to get error code "drowned" without beeing asked for login
    • error code "drowned" has more meanings like you closed the webview window without sign in or you pressed signin too early
  • sometimes it helps to select a timezone used by developers of this launcher like Europe/Berlin or using a fixed UTC timezone without any Region/City

Changelog

New UI rewritten by devendrn, backported to qt5 and modified by christopherhx

Developer Settings mode are deprecated again for regular User, because they have been misused to break the Launcher without knowing it

webrtc patch from macOS now partially applied to linux

The gamelog window moved to sidebar

You can now encrypt your google credentials, to opt in logout and login again in settings

v0.14.2-792: Release v0.14.2 via Buildbot (#28)

You need to own Minecraft on the google play store and login with your google account to use this launcher
Links for linux flatpak or macOS can be found on our wiki https://mcpelauncher.readthedocs.io.

Download link for intel or amd based 64bit systems ( known as amd64, intel64 and x86_64 e.g. most PC's or Laptops )

Download link for arm based 64bit systems ( known as arm64 and aarch64 e.g. raspberry Pi3 or later, pinephone or pinebook )

• run uname -a to know which system you are using
• once downloaded the launcher shows you banner if an update is available
  • no need to download the whole file again
  • usually small updates with less than 5MB
  • you can update it externally with appimageupdate or appimagelauncher
  • the check for updates can be disabled in settings

Not available Features you may miss

• Xbox live friend joining
  • usually times out or crashs the game in both directions
  • consider using the offical server software https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock
    • connect all by ip as external server
• Xbox live login
  • a lot of devices seem to get error code "drowned" without beeing asked for login
    • error code "drowned" has more meanings like you closed the webview window without sign in
  • there is no resolution for those getting this error
  • programs that rewrite http requests sent by this launcher could also cause this problem
    • all xbox http requests are signed by an ecdsa key
    • the second request using the token for sisu auth are always rejected by Xbox Live Servers with http code 403 Forbidden
  • this problem is not reproducable for developers

Changelog

Revert changes to fix Xbox Login with Timezone Dublin in Winter Time, it causes Problems in several Timezones

Includes a lot of patches for freebsd support

Update flatpak runtime to 6.7

menubar enabled again on Intel and Google Drivers

v0.14.1-790: Release v0.14.1 via Buildbot (#27)

You need to own Minecraft on the google play store and login with your google account to use this launcher
Links for linux flatpak or macOS can be found on our wiki https://mcpelauncher.readthedocs.io.

Download link for intel or amd based 64bit systems ( known as amd64, intel64 and x86_64 e.g. most PC's or Laptops )

Download link for arm based 64bit systems ( known as arm64 and aarch64 e.g. raspberry Pi3 or later, pinephone or pinebook )

• run uname -a to know which system you are using
• once downloaded the launcher shows you banner if an update is available
  • no need to download the whole file again
  • usually small updates with less than 5MB
  • you can update it externally with appimageupdate or appimagelauncher
  • the check for updates can be disabled in settings

Not available Features you may miss

• Xbox live friend joining
  • usually times out or crashs the game in both directions
  • consider using the offical server software https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock
    • connect all by ip as external server
• Xbox live login
  • a lot of devices seem to get error code "drowned" without beeing asked for login
    • error code "drowned" has more meanings like you closed the webview window without sign in
  • there is no resolution for those getting this error
  • programs that rewrite http requests sent by this launcher could also cause this problem
    • all xbox http requests are signed by an ecdsa key
    • the second request using the token for sisu auth are always rejected by Xbox Live Servers with http code 403 Forbidden
  • this problem is not reproducable for developers

Changelog

Disabled all features of menubar due to amd radeon driver problems

v0.14.0-788: Release v0.14.0 via Buildbot (#26)

You need to own Minecraft on the google play store and login with your google account to use this launcher
Links for linux flatpak or macOS can be found on our wiki https://mcpelauncher.readthedocs.io.

Download link for intel or amd based 64bit systems ( known as amd64, intel64 and x86_64 e.g. most PC's or Laptops )

Download link for arm based 64bit systems ( known as arm64 and aarch64 e.g. raspberry Pi3 or later, pinephone or pinebook )

• run uname -a to know which system you are using
• once downloaded the launcher shows you banner if an update is available
  • no need to download the whole file again
  • usually small updates with less than 5MB
  • you can update it externally with appimageupdate or appimagelauncher
  • the check for updates can be disabled in settings

Not available Features you may miss

• Xbox live friend joining
  • usually times out or crashs the game in both directions
  • consider using the offical server software https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock
    • connect all by ip as external server
• Xbox live login
  • a lot of devices seem to get error code "drowned" without beeing asked for login
    • error code "drowned" has more meanings like you closed the webview window without sign in
  • there is no resolution for those getting this error
  • programs that rewrite http requests sent by this launcher could also cause this problem
    • all xbox http requests are signed by an ecdsa key
    • the second request using the token for sisu auth are always rejected by Xbox Live Servers with http code 403 Forbidden
  • this problem is not reproducable for developers

Changelog

Fixup localtime function of Europe/Dublin glibc incompatibility with android

Fix loading android elf files using gnu hash

Added a menubar using imgui

Toogle fullscreen via the menubar

Change fullscreen resolution in flatpak/macOS releases

Ability to show an fps hud via the menubar

View opengl renderer/launcher version via menubar

Unblocked 1.20.71.01

v0.13.0-786: Release v0.13.0 via Buildbot (#25)

You need to own Minecraft on the google play store and login with your google account to use this launcher
Links for linux flatpak or macOS can be found on our wiki https://mcpelauncher.readthedocs.io.

Download link for intel or amd based 64bit systems ( known as amd64, intel64 and x86_64 e.g. most PC's or Laptops )

Download link for arm based 64bit systems ( known as arm64 and aarch64 e.g. raspberry Pi3 or later, pinephone or pinebook )

• run uname -a to know which system you are using
• once downloaded the launcher shows you banner if an update is available
  • no need to download the whole file again
  • usually small updates with less than 5MB
  • you can update it externally with appimageupdate or appimagelauncher
  • the check for updates can be disabled in settings

Not available Features you may miss

• Xbox live friend joining
  • usually times out or crashs the game in both directions
  • consider using the offical server software https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock
    • connect all by ip as external server
• Xbox live login
  • a lot of devices seem to get error code "drowned" without beeing asked for login
    • error code "drowned" has more meanings like you closed the webview window without sign in
  • there is no resolution for those getting this error
    • try to change your timezone to a different one and back like Europe/London, Europe/Dublin is broken
  • programs that rewrite http requests sent by this launcher could also cause this problem
    • all xbox http requests are signed by an ecdsa key
    • the second request using the token for sisu auth are always rejected by Xbox Live Servers with http code 403 Forbidden
  • this problem is not reproducable for developers

Changelog

Xbox http client fixes for 1.20.60 by GameParrot

1.20.60 has been added to the allowed list of this update

Fix loading mods using libGLESv2.so as dependency like fps hud mod on macOS

Refactor Xbox Authentication Library support code

Experimental SDL3 GameWindow backend avalailable for building the launcher

Caution 1.20.70.21 (beta) seem to no longer work on macOS/arm64, macOS/x86_64 is still working on macOS 10.14

mcpelauncher-manifest-glfw packages for fedora should now prefer wayland over xwayland

Backport Manual Login to qt5 builds of the launcher

v0.12.1-763: Release/v0.12.1 (#23)

You need to own Minecraft on the google play store and login with your google account to use this launcher
Links for linux flatpak or macOS can be found on our wiki https://mcpelauncher.readthedocs.io.

Download link for intel or amd based 64bit systems ( known as amd64, intel64 and x86_64 e.g. most PC's or Laptops )

Download link for arm based 64bit systems ( known as arm64 and aarch64 e.g. raspberry Pi3 or later, pinephone or pinebook )

• run uname -a to know which system you are using
• once downloaded the launcher shows you banner if an update is available
  • no need to download the whole file again
  • usually small updates with less than 5MB
  • you can update it externally with appimageupdate or appimagelauncher
  • the check for updates can be disabled in settings

Changelog

Fix fake AAsset loader to work with 1.20.50.21 (ChristopherHX)

AInputQueue mouse input for breaking changes in 1.20.50.22 (GameParrot)

Build bookworm based AppImages (ChristopherHX)

Fix xbox live ssl problems in arm64 debs (ChristopherHX)

v0.11.4-721

You need to own Minecraft on the google play store and login with your google account to use this launcher
Links for linux flatpak or macOS can be found on our wiki https://mcpelauncher.readthedocs.io.

Download link for intel or amd based 64bit systems ( known as amd64, intel64 and x86_64 e.g. most PC's or Laptops )

Download link for arm based 64bit systems ( known as arm64 and aarch64 e.g. raspberry Pi3 or later, pinephone or pinebook )

• run uname -a to know which system you are using
• once downloaded the launcher shows you banner if an update is available
  • no need to download the whole file again
  • usually small updates with less than 5MB
  • you can update it externally with appimageupdate or appimagelauncher
  • the check for updates can be disabled in settings

Changelog

apple m-series macs are unable to use intel builds of the game, due to the macOS 14 update you have to switch to arm64, which may need manual changes to profiles and older versions of the game may no longer work at all

apple m-series macs should now be enrolled to the experimental native arm64 game client you may have to disable all dev options you might have been using

Fixed stabilty issues of text input changes of the previous update

v0.11.3-720: Release v0.11.3 via Buildbot (#21)

You need to own Minecraft on the google play store and login with your google account to use this launcher
Links for linux flatpak or macOS can be found on our wiki https://mcpelauncher.readthedocs.io.

Download link for intel or amd based 64bit systems ( known as amd64, intel64 and x86_64 e.g. most PC's or Laptops )

Download link for arm based 64bit systems ( known as arm64 and aarch64 e.g. raspberry Pi3 or later, pinephone or pinebook )

• run uname -a to know which system you are using
• once downloaded the launcher shows you banner if an update is available
  • no need to download the whole file again
  • usually small updates with less than 5MB
  • you can update it externally with appimageupdate or appimagelauncher
  • the check for updates can be disabled in settings

Changelog

Sorry I do not remember what has changed