x-minecraft-launcher

Visit the official site to download the app!

If you have winget, you can use winget to install

winget install CI010.XMinecraftLauncher

HomeBrew installation also available via tap

brew tap voxelum/xmcl
brew install --cask voxelum/xmcl/xmcl
sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/X\ Minecraft\ Launcher.app

On Linux, XMCL is also available on Flathub:

flatpak install flathub app.xmcl.voxelum

Features

• 📥 Download & auto complete. Support download Minecraft, Forge, Fabric, Quilt, OptiFine, JVM from official or third party mirrors.
• ⚡️ Download Fast. Reuse socket via HTTP/HTTPS agents, and download the files in parts concurrently.
• 💻 Cross platform. The launcher is based on Electron, and supports 🗔 Windows 10/11, 🍎 MacOS, and 🐧 Linux.
• 📚 Multi-Instancing. Users can create multiple instances to isolate the different versions, mods and launch settings.
• 🗂 Manage all resources. Use (hard/symbolic) links to install resources in instances, keep your disk usage optimal. No copies of mods everywhere! 😆
• 🔥 Built-in support of CurseForge, Modrinth. You can download resources inside the launcher.
• 📦 Support import/export CurseForge & Modrinth modpacks with compliance!
• 🔒 Support multiple account systems. Built-in Microsoft login and Mojang Yggdrasil API. It also has builtin support of ely.by and littleskin.cn. You can also add third-party authentication servers!
• 🔗 Peer to peer connection between users. You can play multiplayer over LAN even you are not in same physical LAN!
• 🔑 Code sign & modern packaging. Under Windows, you can use appx and appinstaller to install the app. You won’t receive blocking messages from your browser or see SmartScreen errors anymore! 😎

Core Libraries

This repository also includes the Minecraft Launcher Core (@xmcl/* packages) — a set of npm packages providing useful functions to build a Minecraft launcher. API Documentation

Package	Description	Version
@xmcl/core	Launch Minecraft
@xmcl/installer	Install Minecraft, Forge, Fabric, Quilt, OptiFine, JVM
@xmcl/user	User authentication and skin
@xmcl/mod-parser	Parse Forge/LiteLoader/Fabric mods
@xmcl/curseforge	CurseForge API
@xmcl/modrinth	Modrinth API
@xmcl/nbt	Parse NBT
@xmcl/game-data	Load level data or servers.dat
@xmcl/resourcepack	Parse resource packs
@xmcl/gamesetting	Parse game settings
@xmcl/client	Minecraft client network utilities
@xmcl/model	Display player/block models
@xmcl/text-component	Parse Minecraft text components
@xmcl/forge-site-parser	Parse Forge website
@xmcl/file-transfer	High-performance file downloads
@xmcl/nat-api	UPnP and NAT-PMP port mapping
@xmcl/system	FS middleware for browser/Node
@xmcl/unzip	yauzl unzip wrapper
@xmcl/semver	Fabric semver format
@xmcl/bytebuffer	ByteBuffer implementation

Contribute

For general developer, see Contributing

For i18n localization developer, please follow Getting Started with Localization

LICENSE

MIT

Sponsorship

	Free code signing on Windows provided by SignPath.io, certificate by SignPath Foundation
	Deno Deploy, XMCL leverage its hassle-free platform for serverless JavaScript applications. Provided by Deno
	Best Asian CDN, Edge, and Secure Solutions - Tencent EdgeOne,CDN acceleration and security protection for this project are sponsored by Tencent EdgeOne.

Sponsor (AFDIAN)

Credits & Acknowledgments

🌍 Community & Localization

BANSAFAn/Baneronetwo Community support and moderation

Marmur2020 Complete Ukrainian language translation

vanja-san Russian language support

📦 Package Maintainers

VolodiaKraplich AUR (Arch User Repository) package maintenance

0xc0000142 winget package maintenance

🛠️ Development Contributors

lukechu10 & HoldYourWaffle Launcher core development

laolarou726 Launcher design and UI/UX

💙 Special Thanks

A heartfelt thank you to these individuals for their support and contributions:

Yricky · Jin · LG · Phoebe · Sumeng Wang · Luca · Charles Tang

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