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

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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.