Anyone Played Minecraft On An M1 Mac?

Have you played Minecraft on an M1 Mac?

Hello!

When I read the reviews of the new Macs, particularly the MacBook Pro, I'm very tempted to switch over from my Surface Pro 4 to a Mac. I used to be a Mac user back in the Snow Leopard to Mavericks days, but I switched to Windows in the past few years.

I have a bunch of programs I use which I've seen users say that work perfectly on M1, but does anyone know if Minecraft (Java) is compatible with an M1 Mac? It's one of my favorite games and I don't believe I can replace my computer with one that does not support it. Java is available on ARM however I've never heard of anyone playing Minecraft on an M! Mac yet!

Thanks! (Hopefully I posted this in the right place!)

Highly recommend it. Performance-wise, the M1 Mac will blow your mind. It's just a matter of time until Minecraft is optimized for the M1. You can run both versions until then. Bedrock (because M1's can natively run iOS/iPadOS apps today) and Java (translated in real time running Rosetta 2 which is built in. It's not noticeable).

I tried to side load Minecraft to my M1 Mac, but the mouse and keyboard wouldn't work. How did you side load it?

Yes

Information from the video: Java does not have a native M1 app , therefore it has to use Rosetta 2 Emulation.

he compared the Baseline 7-core GPU MacBook Air to the Baseline 8-core GPU MacBook Pro. The MBP generated the world (same seeds on both) like a second quicker, but the MacBook Air seemed a bit quicker for some reason (he was using the same settings for graphics on both).

This comparison is not perfect. He left vsync running and the FPS is only 60 FPS. It would be interesting to see how high it could go.

iOS, Android and Windows 10 versions of Minecraft all play nicely together, but the PC and Mac versions of Minecraft will not work with the Pocket Edition Realms server. You can still play with your friends on Android and an iOS device.