So, i have a conundrum. I want to play minecraft, but I am absolutely seething at having to log in to my Microsoft account. I’ve owned Minecraft for over 10 years, but I’ve grown to despise Microsoft. I want an offline DRM-free Minecraft experience, and I’ve found versions of Prism launcher that support cracked game data, but I have no idea where to download cracked Minecraft. It’s like it doesn’t even exist. I’m tech savvy enough to download whatever game I want from the internet… except Minecraft??? Where is Minecraft?!

I’m also willing to simply download legitimate versions through my account one last time and then use a tool to crack them, but I can’t find a way of doing that either. I beseech you, Lemmy users, how can I play Minecraft with my girlfriend without Michaelsoft being involved?

Huh, it seems like I need a picture???

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 hours ago

    This is probably one of the best ones out there, it’s based on a fork of Prism which has authlib support and FTB modpack support, and also has the Microsoft account DRM removed so you can use it without a valid Microsoft account.

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    Pollymc / Ely fork of prismmc for modded or vanilla Java for bedrock you can search on YouTube personally I used a DLL crack before abandoning bedrock I can’t find the original video but this one probably is good I would run it through virustotal before running it https://www.mediafire.com/folder/s8u115a659ebw/FlixdzUnlocker

    https://youtu.be/BYppCgRUlT8

    Seems dodgy I know but I didn’t get my password or data leaked so I think it is good. And read the pinned comment before installing anything (if you want the crack to stay accross updates).

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    Java is easy, Bedrock is almost impossible.

    For Java, there are plenty of cracked launchers. Just find one that is a jar file and make sure you have OpenJRE installed. I think I was using SKLauncher.

    For Bedrock, your only real option is finding the cracked launcher AppImage that has the ability to use .apk files. The hard part is that if you’re on an x86 platform (anything desktop that’s not using Apple’s M-Series or Qualcomm’s chips), you need an x86 apk, and the x86 apks from TLauncher will not work, I tried. You could scour the internet and find 1.8, and 1.14 (Village and Pillage) x86 apks, but they’re super old at this point. In the end, I gave up and paid £6 (UK), for Minecraft on the Google Play Store, so I can play Bedrock. It’s probably the only digital game purchase I’ve ever made.

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    Side note: if you want to run a dedicated server and play on it with a cracked version (or just an offline mode or while MS services are down) edit the server.properties file and set online-mode=false from true. (Then restart the server if it was online)

    This wipes everyone’s inventories if there was already progress, so have everyone put their items in a chest before doing this. If you use modded, have everyone unclaim their chunks or any other username-bound items like teleporters with permission systems.

    All of this can be redone, reclaimed, re-bound after the change happens. This effectively changes your in-game identities on a server from a Microsoft one to an offline one. This also makes it possible to evade username-based bans.

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    I couldn’t ever get into Minecraft. Build craft yeah and other more in depth versions. One if the major things that turned me off the most was watching youtube. Before anything could be built but after watching people sink their life to make a flying plane or something insanely detailed. I don’t even want to try.

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      12 hours ago

      Them fascists russians, they send dmca letters to any criticism of tlauncher

      Tlauncher is poop nose

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    15 hours ago

    Maybe not helpful but have you looked into vintage story instead?

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      4 hours ago

      That’s a harsh and brutal game let’s say, much more fun imo.

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      15 hours ago

      By default PRISM doesn’t allow you to add offline account without login a MS account that own the Java Edition. But you can edit a file in order to bypass this restriction. The Ely fork of PRISM doesn’t have that restriction.

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    12 hours ago

    Theres one Minecraft version on IA. Its an old one but its very portable, so you can play it on your school without much hassle (assuming your school installed java 8 lol).