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(Availability) Bedrock engine on Mac & Linux

Hey there! We're a Mac & Linux household, and we love the Java edition, and run our own server. But we'd also really like to enjoy the cross-platform play of the Bedrock engine. I'm sure it would also be really nice for you all not to have to maintain the Java codebase as well.

Or -- at least add cross-platform play to the Java Edition.

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• June 01, 2018 01:52
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  Han29Wild commented

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  • June 26, 2020 14:21
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  Would really love a bedrock edition for Mac because I play with my friends on a realm and I can't always play with the pocket edition on my phone. It's pretty hard to control with fingers on the screen.

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  SmirkVG commented

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  • July 01, 2020 01:46
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  With the announcement of Project Catalyst which provides numerous tools to allow iOS-built apps to be easily recompiled to run on macOS, I think this availability request is worth talking about again. Now's the perfect time to look into porting the Bedrock engine to macOS, which is becoming more and more like iOS, and iOS already supports the game. Additionally, after Apple transitions all their notebook and desktop products to their own Silicon chips, there will be no excuse for not having a port; those chips literally run iOS apps natively! If the concern is over Microsoft wanting exclusive ownership, well, that just doesn't make sense. There's a whole market out there asking for a macOS port, and with the tools mentioned above, a port should be far from difficult. Hell, there was a version available for Apple's TV for some time, but not macOS? The Education Edition is available for Mac and runs on the Bedrock engine, but the base game isn't available? It just doesn't make sense.

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  Ultrabot2007434 commented

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  • July 03, 2020 16:17
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  Pls make this

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  ViridityGolf174 commented

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  • July 08, 2020 23:01
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  please!!!!!!!!!!!!! i want this sooo bad!

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  AarishSqueak commented

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  • July 14, 2020 13:22
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  So this is kind of delayed but you could always use windows 10 bootcamp for mac, but that problem will also be fixed if you don't want to because apple stated that in Q3/Q4 of 2020 they will release an arm base mac. arm is the same cpu base used in apple phones and apple stated that you will be able to run all ios and iPadOS apps on there unless the dev agrees to pay a monthy fee to  keep there app of the app store. it doesn't look like mojang would opt out especially because the play store version of minecraft is available on chromebooks with keyboard and mouse support.

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  Evan Nayee commented

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  • July 16, 2020 20:07
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  Bedrock should come to Mac OS, especially now because of Apple Silicon. I don't feel that it needs to come to Linux at the same time (Mac should be priority).

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  Evan Nayee commented

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  • July 16, 2020 20:54
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  I also want to point out that Education Edition which is available on Macs (Current Intel ones not just future Apple Silicon) is Bedrock based so this seems to be arbitrary and not a tech issue.

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  Felix Zhang commented

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  • July 19, 2020 17:14
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  This is the suggestion with the second most votes, however the first and the third most voted ones are getting under review, seriously?!?!?

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  Evan Nayee commented

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  • July 19, 2020 21:45
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  Chrome OS would be a nice touch as well since Education Edition is already available there.

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  Ali “Foxtrot” Rizwan commented

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  • July 20, 2020 18:13
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  Yeah just make it part of the App Store

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  Yonatan Dafna commented

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  • July 21, 2020 07:04
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  Especially with Macs getting ARM-based chips, and Mojang already have Minecraftt working on iOS, making it for macOS is just copy, paste, and remove some buttons. It would be the same even without Apple silicon, but with it it's much easier - in fact it will be automatically available in the Mac app store if Mojang doesn't specifically set an option.

   

  For Linux - It's another thing. We have the Minecraft Bedrock Linux launcher, which just emulates Android (lol). Minecraft Bedrock is in C++, so I don't understand why it's so DIFFICULT to just make it for macOS/Linux!

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  • July 22, 2020 22:10
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  If I could ask anything of Minecraft developers, it would be this. Bedrock needs to be available on Mac. All of my friends play on Bedrock, and I am stuck with only Java on my MacBook Air. Mac users should be able to choose between Java or Bedrock, like on windows 10. The other option would be to allow cross play between Java and Bedrock, but since each version has exclusive features, it probably wouldn’t work for cross play. When the “Better Together” update was added, it shouldn’t have excluded Macs.

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  • July 22, 2020 22:17
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  this is good but whats the point of having java then

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  Ari RERA 43 commented

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  • July 25, 2020 07:24
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  As a now Windows player (previously on a Mac) I would have appreciated to be able to play with all my friends who don’t know the difference between java and bedrock editions. Bedrock can also perform much better and would likely be welcome to people using MacOS because it’s just not for gaming. Many family computers are macs too and Microsoft would hit another huge demographic of families and students.

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  • August 01, 2020 05:31
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  Raspberry pi edition shows it is possible because the OS is based off of Linux and we have education edition on Mac.

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  • August 03, 2020 14:59
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  This would be huge, I anticipate that the reasons for not having bedrock on mac are varied, but it would be great to be able to run bedrock on MacOS. 

  Hopefully Big Sur will lead to forced compatibility, since you can just play the iOS version on MacOS, but still, would be great to actually have access to a bedrock made for MacOS.