With some Filemanagers you should be able to run it with double click, similar to running a. After downloading simply open terminal, chmod +x MinecraftBedrockLauncher-x8664.0.0.661.AppImage and run it. These include MacBook Air, Mini or Pro with the updated Apple M1 ARM. Prebuilt AppImage binary’s for linux x8664, x86, armv7 hardfloat and armv8 are currently available here. All they ever had to do was switch out which JVM they bundled Minecraft with, but I'm not surprised they kept this really low key - they don't want people noticing how much faster Java with M1 is versus Bedrock on Wintel. So, is Minecraft Bedrock on Mac Minecraft Bedrock is available on a few select Macs.

I will be overjoyed if the new Minecraft Java for M1 will be this good. I've been doing a lot of comparisons with M1 native versions vs Intel, and Minecraft hit the #1 spot, often running a solid 100x faster in the best case, and about 5x faster in the worse case. (It you use the java that's bundled with Macs, you only get about 45 fps.) But mind you, this is at high resolution and a render/simulation distance of the full 32 chunks. I was shocked to immediately get 500-700 frames per second, just like YouTubers got! But I found this was a peak case - it can drop as low as 60FPS. Then I used MultiMC with (and this is important) an ARM version of Java that is NOT the one that comes bundled with MacOS. It's a lot like trying to play Minecraft on my 2015 MBP. Running straight x86 Java Minecraft through Rosetta is honestly barely playable - sometimes you can get 20 fps, but you get frequent slowdowns. I have a 16' Macbook Pro with the 10 CPUs and 32 GPU cores.

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