Minecraft on Steam Deck, with gamepad controls (October 22 NEW GUIDE)

Hi friends Liam here it’s time for a new and up-to-date Minecraft Java on Steam deck guide first up you should no longer be using the poly MC launcher due to various issues that I won’t go into here but instead the prism launcher first of all head to desktop mode from the power

Menu after pressing the steam button in desktop mode head to the Discover software Center and search for prism launcher and install it from there once you have it installed open the plasma menu in the bottom left corner search for prism right click it and select add

To steam that just adds a shortcut to it in Steam for gaming mode now when you first open prism launcher it will give you a language selector and a Java version picker you can leave the Java stuff on the defaults unless you actually know what you’re doing the next

Step is to hit the profiles button at the top right go through the process to add your Microsoft account now when the pop-up comes up the link will not open automatically in the browser so just right click it copy it and paste it into your browser manually and then follow

The instructions you will need to copy over a code from the prism launcher pop-up login and then just allow it to proceed give it the permission now in the actual launcher just select add instance and for this guide I’m going to use vanilla with Forge and give it an

Easy to use name once that’s added we’re going to hit the edit button go to mods hit download mods in the corner select curse forge on the left and search for controllable select it hit review and confirm and then let it go through the download from there we can just jump back into

Gaming mode press the steam button to go to our steam library and then find prism in the non-steem section we should also open Steam input and make sure it is set as a normal Gamepad so that controllable can pick it up once you’ve loaded prism you can then hold down the steam button

And use the right thumb pad or thumbstick to move the cursor and actually interact with the launcher now I’m just going to load it up and speed up the loading process so we can ignore that bit just so that we can get to the menu and check controllable is online

And we’re going to completely ignore the broken tagline on the logo there that just keeps flicking through different things bit weird so in the controls options you can click the special Gamepad icon and we can see that controllable is online it is activated and you can see that the config for the

Various buttons is there now after creating a new world you can see in game the controls do work however you might find the helper dialogue in the top right corner won’t go away you can set steam input to Gamepad with mouse trackpad and then use the trackpad for a

Sec to make it go away and now you can just see a brief bit of me going through the menus in Minecraft with Gamepad controls and it all looks pretty good the inputs work as expected and we do have the controller icons on the screen so it’s all looking pretty good that is

A basic setup for Minecraft on Steam Deck with Gamepad controls I do have two more tips here for you though the first is that you can set prism launcher to load up a named instance of Minecraft directly skipping the launcher entirely to do this go to the properties and at

The end of the launch options add Dash L and then the instance name after a space this will make the launcher directly load into that instance without showing at all it’s pretty useful if you’re only using one instance at a time and just doing one playthrough another tip is

That if you are going to keep the launcher to select from a few different instances each time you load you should go into the settings and tick the boxes to make it Auto close when you actually load Minecraft that way you can have all the performance of the steam deck focus

On the game and not have the launcher take up any resources in the background so I hope you found that helpful do let me know what you think in the comments