How To Download & Install Minecraft on MacOS

So you want to get minecraft on your mac and i think that’s absolutely amazing because minecraft honestly runs pretty good on macs even m1 max it runs pretty good on and in this video we’re going to show you exactly how to get it we’re even going to mention what version of

Minecraft unique which is minecraft java edition by the way it’s the only kind of minecraft that’ll work on mac how to get that and then how to download and install it the first thing you want to do is go to the second link down below and that’s

Going to take you here this is our text tutorial on getting minecraft for mac and as you can see it even does have a little process of how to buy minecraft java edition but once you’re here go ahead and click on the green download and minecraft button to be taken off to

The official minecraft download page now obviously it’s pretty self-explanatory you want to go ahead and click download for mac os right here to start downloading go ahead and click allow 100 safe this is the official minecraft download page but before you do that you do need to make sure you have minecraft

Java edition and if you need to purchase it what you want to do is same thing go to the link in the description it’ll take you here still download for mac os here but then what you want to do is come up here at the top hover over games

And click on minecraft that’s going to take you here where you want to click on get minecraft and then finally you’ll want to select where you’re playing it while you’re playing it on a computer and then you’re obviously playing it on mac which means you need to get

Minecraft java edition because you can see this is for windows linux and mac so when you click on that it’s not going to take you here where finally you can click buy minecraft you cannot currently use game pass on mac and so because of that you need to click buy minecraft if

You’re on mac with all that at that point it’s kind of just going through the purchase process so just log into your microsoft account or create one if you don’t have one and sadly you do need to have one in order to get minecraft and then from there you

Just kind of purchase it it’s that simple nevertheless though whenever you finally have minecraft java edition purchased you come here you click the download button which we’ve already done now we can go ahead minimize safari here or whatever browser you use and in our downloads folder we have minecraft.dmg see that minecraft.dmg and

Go ahead and click on it and when you click on it it’s going to open up this where finally to install minecraft just drag and drop it into the applications folder right here in this pop-up you can then close out of this kind of minecraft installer if you will and you can remove

It from your desktop by dragging and dropping from the top right into the trash icon you can even delete minecraft.dmg now we can open up minecraft from our applications folder let’s go ahead and click on finder and then go into applications and then we’ll be able to scroll down and find

Minecraft right there it is double click on it and it’s going to open up the minecraft launcher now if you do get this it’s saying hey you can’t open this because we don’t know who made this well microsoft made it so we’re going to go ahead and click ok it’s going to go

Ahead and allow us to open this up now in my opinion it should allow us to open that up there but it’s not going to what we need to do is go down here and go into settings and then we need to go to security and privacy finally click on

General you might be on this privacy tab here click on general up here at the top and then you will see right here minecraft is blocked from being used because it is not an identified developer you want to go ahead and click open anyway it’s going to go ahead and

Kind of open this warning click open and then hopefully you shouldn’t have to do that again it should just open moving forward now it’s going to go ahead update download install and get the minecraft launcher running it’s going to open up and from there we can log into

Our microsoft account and play minecraft so here we are the minecraft launcher is open click microsoft login and log in to your microsoft account right here so i’m going to do that click next go through the login process and then we’ll play some minecraft so we are now logging in

I’ve just completed the microsoft sign in and there we go we are now in minecraft as you can see on the left-hand side we have minecraft java edition if you’ve purchased minecraft java edition under your xbox or microsoft account there you’re gonna be good it’s going to work you just go

Ahead and click play you can now open up minecraft on mac and enjoy like i said minecraft honestly runs decently well on mac it’s kind of impressed me with how good minecraft does run on mac and we’re gonna have a ton more minecraft for mac tutorials coming so uh be sure to

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Video a thumbs up and check out the videos on your screen right now specifically there is a mac os tutorials playlist on your screen right now where you can see all the other minecraft for mac things you need to know for example how do you uh install resource packs

Shaders packs optifine mods all that stuff is covered on mac os in that playlist so go check it out thanks for watching we’ll see you in the next video