Welcome to Minecraft Bedrock Launcher’s documentation!

Contents:

• Getting started
  • AppImage
  • Flatpak
    • Install / Update System Wide
    • Install / Update User
    • Run
  • Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora repo
    • Debian / Ubuntu
    • Fedora
    • Run
  • macOS
  • Source build
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • Do I need to own Minecraft: Pocket Edition to play?
    • The launcher cannot download the game from:
    • The launcher cannot download and cannot launch the game from:
  • Does it work on Windows 7 / 8?
  • How does it work?
  • Where are my worlds?
  • Can I use resource packs?
  • Why would I want to use this projects server, instead of the official one?
• Troubleshooting
  • Extracting APKs
    • I downloaded a Minecraft APK from the internet and it doesnt work!
    • I copied the Minecraft APK from my phone over to my computer, but it doesnt extract
    • Can somebody give me the APK / extracted files?
  • AppImage
    • AppImage UI to large
  • Controller
    • The player’s view drifts by itself when a controller is plugged in
    • The controller doesn’t work at all or you want to remap your gamepad buttons, analogsticks, dpad and triggers?
  • Game launcher
    • Graphics performance issues (software rendering) - EGLUT: failed to initialize EGL display...
    • Black screen with Mesa 23.1+
    • MSA daemon could not be found
    • No audio / music
    • Updating the launcher
    • MacOS X Catalina
    • Google prevents login This browser or app may not be secure. Try using a different browser
    • File picking doesn’t work or crashes
    • I compiled and/or installed everything, but Minecraft doesn’t start
    • I used the Qt UI (metalauncher) to download the game, but mcpelauncher-client still doesn’t work
    • I run into lagspikes during gameplay
  • Qt launcher UI
    • Running the troubleshooter
    • Could not find the game launcher
    • The launcher crashes when I press Download and Play
    • Clearing the launcher UI data
    • Obtaining the game log
• Building from sources
  • Introduction (read first)
    • Basic prerequirements
    • What to build
    • Updating
    • Uninstalling
  • Compiling MSA (for Xbox Live)
    • Prerequirements
    • Build instructions
    • Installation
  • Compiling the game launcher
    • Prerequirements
    • Build instructions
    • Installation
  • Compiling the Qt UI
    • Prerequirements
    • Build instructions
    • Installation
  • Compiling the server launcher (Outdated as of 2021-07-27)
    • Prerequirements
    • Requirements
    • Build instructions
• Extra
  • Extract utility
    • Usage
    • Build instructions
      • Prerequirements
      • Compiling
  • Dedicated server
    • Server Properties
      • Supported properties
      • Example of a custom server.properties file
  • Advanced
    • Debugging ndk libraries
      • Development Utilities
      • Glcore patch
    • Jni
      • Implement a new jni function
      • Access FakeJni::JString
      • Register a native jni static function
      • Call a native jni instance function from an instance method
      • Call a native jni static function from an instance method
      • Call an arbitary native jni static function from an instance method
      • Call an arbitary native jni static function from anywhere
      • Create a global jni reference of a c++ object
    • Ndk Shims
      • Adding a new libc function to the launcher
      • Loading a stub library with mcpelauncher-linker
• External Links
  • Discord
  • GitHub Repository

About

This project allows you to launch Minecraft: Bedrock Edition (as in the edition w/o the Edition suffix, previously known as Minecraft: Pocket Edition). The launcher supports Linux and OS X.