soafen – play minecraft bedrock on linux! ~ Minecraft Bedrock Launcher showcase

Hey everybody, my name is soafen minecraft bedrock, then  it’s got things we don’t like, like the  microtransaction-filled marketplace,   but it’s also got cool things like the  excellent performance and cross-compatibility.  you can play across android, ios, windows  10, nintendo switch, ps4, ps5, xbox one,  

Xbox series, but what about linux i hear you say! well today, i’m going to be showcasing a method of   playing minecraft bedrock edition on linux using  a little tool called minecraft bedrock launcher.  some prerequesites include requiring a 64-bit  based linux install, and you need to own  

Minecraft on android on a google play account  to do this. so minecraft bedrock launcher is   essentially a launcher that lets you play  your android copy of minecraft bedrock,   and everything works, from keyboard and mouse  controls to playing online. you can install  

Minecraft bedrock launcher on any distro that  supports appimages or flatpaks. now flatpaks   are sort of a package distribution platform that  works on many many modern linux distros like here.   and appimages are just sort of a single package  that has all the dependencies built-in, but  

Doesn’t quite integrate too well with things like  the launcher but you can have a desktop shortcut   and whatnot. in today’s example i’m using ubuntu  so let’s stick to the flatpak. so as you can see   on flatpak.org it’s telling us how to install  flatpak on ubuntu. let’s open up a terminal,  

And run sudo apt install  flatpak. and put in our password,   and now we’re installing flatpak. so it is  a little not nice installing another package   distribution platform but it is what it is.  now we’re going to add the flathub repository,   and finally we need to reboot the system.  

So for all these videos on my channel  that will require linux, i’m going to   use different distros just to showcase different  distributions of linux and how they’re not scary,   and here we are on ubuntu 21.04. alright,  finally, let’s get installing mc bedrock launcher,   so sudo flatpak install from the  flathub, io.mrarm.mcpelauncher,  

And put in our password… great looks like we’ve  found it, let’s go ahead and hit yes on that,   now okay it looks like it wants to install  some components of kde which is quite   big in storage requirements. so instead of  doing that, i’m going to back out and opt for  

The AppImage. so let’s click here on the guide,  and i’ll leave this link in the description.   and let’s go for the latest one here, for  x86_64bit. now appimages are really simple.   think of them as portable programs but you don’t  even have to extract them like you do on windows.  

So here we are in the downloads  folder, right? i’m going to cut this,   and we’re going to go up one level to my home  directory, let’s make an appimages folder,   and i’m going to paste it in here, and just  rename it to minecraft bedrock launcher! and  

Then to actually make it executable we right-click  here, hit properties, and ‘allow executing file as   program’, but depending on different linux  distros and different file managers, it may   or may not be there, so a more universal way of  doing it is just going here into the terminal,  

Going into the appimages folder and sudo chmod   +x ./Minecraft. so we’re literally  granting this permission to be executable   and that should be it, we can just  double-click on it here and it should run,   now it doesn’t exactly like the scaling  here so i’m going to make it bigger.  

Alright and it says welcome to the new minecraft  linux launcher update and we’ll hit continue, sign   in with google, again it looks a little messed up  because of the scaling but don’t worry about it.   okay, i am logged in now, and we’ll agree  to the google play scary terms of service  

That i don’t really want to talk about. and  we’ll click download here. so by default it   should download the latest version of the game,  which is at time of recording, i believe, 1.7.10.   and just like that, we are running minecraft  bedrock. it is pretty amazing how simple this  

Program is. and we can maximise it and log in  here, and let’s just do a new sample world,   creative, online play is not rated,  even though we’re playing singleplayer,   and there we- oh! and there we are,   it’s running perfectly fine although mouse input  is not working because this is a virtual machine,  

And i’m using vmware player which  doesn’t let you change the mouse input to   relative mouse input, so yeah. but this is  essentially the android version of the game,   meaning it has the android limitations.  like the gui is really big by default,  

The blocks highlight when you hover over them  instead of outlining, there’s no music, but these   are all things that can be fixed. like, let’s say,  go into the pause menu here, go into settings,   so let’s make the gui smaller  by going into video here,  

And gui scale modifier down here. and turn  it down to negative 3. ui profile, classic,   that affects things like the crafting ui  and whatnot, fov we’ll bump that up to 90   and we’ll go to outline selection,  and in fact i’m pretty sure in here  

There is a full keyboard gameplay option so  even though i’m in a virtual machine here,   i don’t actually need to worry because there  are look controls. and there we go i’m playing   with keyboard only. no mouse, because this is a  virtual machine. it’s pretty cool that minecraft  

Has all these accessibility options, though i  do wish java edition had controller support.   okay, now that we’re logged in, i’m just going  to prove that the online works real quick,   so let’s jump into mineplex, i don’t know who  plays these servers but in actuality what you  

Would use this for is playing with your bedrock  friends, like- oh i forgot i can’t use the mouse  but yeah what you could genuinely use this  for is playing with your switch friends,   or ps4, you know, your console friends, your phone  friends from the comfort of linux! which i think  

Is really neat. now, the technicalities are this  is not like a vm, this is not anything like wine,   this is essentially just the 64-bit  copy of the android version of the game,   running on linux thanks to this launcher that,  from my understanding, it either brings back  

Some libraries or it, does some translations… it does something that it needs to do to get   this game running on linux and it’s very  small overhead, which is pretty sweet!  now to enter fullscreen, i bet you can do alt f11,  yes you can! on most window managers or desktop  

Environments, you can just press alt+f11  to go fullscreen, but it does seem to be   lagging out here, remember this is a vm so… i’ve never had that happen on actual hardware   but there you go! you can play minecraft  bedrock on linux without compromise!  

Which i think is astounding, as long as you have  the android version of the game, which honestly,   it’s not even that expensive compared to the  desktop ones, compared to like the windows 10 one. 

Like if we go to minecraft here on the google play  store, exactly it’s 7 euro, 49, that ain’t a lot!   but there we go, that is minecraft bedrock  running on linux, pretty cool, pretty neat.   but there we are, that is how to play minecraft  bedrock edition on linux. if this tutorial helped  

You out please feel free to hit like, if you  ran into any issues, leave comments below, i’ll   try and help you, and if you’d like to see more  from me, please do consider pressing subscribe!   alright, that’s it, thanks for watching everybody! [subtitles   by soafen, 2021-10-13]