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Any way to play Minecraft Bedrock on M series Macs?

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MmkLucario

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As the thread title thread suggests, is there any way to play Minecraft Bedrock without jail breaking my device?

As I remember, there is the unofficial Minecraft launcher but you need to have the Android version, and it may not work as it is an x86 application.

There is also Android emulators, but Bluestacks 4 is not supported for M chips and I have found no news about Bluestacks 5 being on the Mac

There’s PlayCover and Sideloadly but you need a decrypted version of Minecraft, and I don’t want to jail break my device.

There’s also Windows virtual machines. But I don’t know how Minecraft will perform on VMWare Fusion and UTM, as I don’t want to pay for Parallels.

Is there any way to play Minecraft Bedrock on M series Macs? Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
 
MmkLucario said:
There’s also Windows virtual machines. But I don’t know how Minecraft will perform on VMWare Fusion and UTM, as I don’t want to pay for Parallels.
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You'll just have to try the VM route and see if it works. Wineskin is a possible option, though I'm skeptical it would work. There are no other alternatives.

EDIT: you can play it using XBox Game Pass over the Cloud. But that's a sub. Here's a site that walks through all the options to play it on a Mac., including the Cloud option.
macresearch.org

3 Ways to play Minecraft Bedrock + Java Edition on Mac

Minecraft Java and Bedrock can both be played on Mac, but the methods to do so are different and will be explained in the current post.
macresearch.org macresearch.org
 
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Lifeisabeach said:
You'll just have to try the VM route and see if it works. Wineskin is a possible option, though I'm skeptical it would work. There are no other alternatives.

EDIT: you can play it using XBox Game Pass over the Cloud. But that's a sub. Here's a site that walks through all the options to play it on a Mac., including the Cloud option.
macresearch.org

3 Ways to play Minecraft Bedrock + Java Edition on Mac

Minecraft Java and Bedrock can both be played on Mac, but the methods to do so are different and will be explained in the current post.
macresearch.org macresearch.org
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Yeah I suppose the virtual machine is the only option left unless Microsoft ports Bedrock to the Mac. I just hope Minecraft Bedrock doesn’t crash in UTM. Do you need to buy a Windows license to use VMWare Fusion?
 
>Do you need to buy a Windows license to use VMWare Fusion?

You can download a beta version of Windows ARM. There will be a watermark on the lower right hand corner though.
 
JustAnExpat said:
>Do you need to buy a Windows license to use VMWare Fusion?

You can download a beta version of Windows ARM. There will be a watermark on the lower right hand corner though.
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Ok. So kinda like UTM then. I’ll be ok with the watermark.

Does VMWare Fusion utilize the GPU on the Mac?
 
MmkLucario said:
Ok. So kinda like UTM then. I’ll be ok with the watermark.

Does VMWare Fusion utilize the GPU on the Mac?
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I've used UTM and VMware Fusion. Fusion is easily the better performing of the two. I've only tried a few older games and it's a mixed bag. One article shows that DirectX 11 is not currently supported on Apple Silicon... only OpenGL 4.3. This should change over the next several months now that Microsoft is officially endorsing Windows in a VM on Apple Silicon. Parallels is first out the gate, but VMware will catch up.
 
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Lifeisabeach said:
I've used UTM and VMware Fusion. Fusion is easily the better performing of the two. I've only tried a few older games and it's a mixed bag. One article shows that DirectX 11 is not currently supported on Apple Silicon... only OpenGL 4.3. This should change over the next several months now that Microsoft is officially endorsing Windows in a VM on Apple Silicon. Parallels is first out the gate, but VMware will catch up.
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Ok. So VMWare Fusion Player may have more potential in the future, as UTM is an open source project.
 
Also, is there any Big Sur virtual machines that will run on M series Macs?
 
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Has anyone been able to run Minecraft bedrock through PlayCover? I heard reports that SIP needs to be off in order to play it.
 
MmkLucario said:
Has anyone been able to run Minecraft bedrock through PlayCover? I heard reports that SIP needs to be off in order to play it.
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I have played and yes for online playing SIP is must be off in order to sign in to Microsoft account
download minecraft ipa and playcover
select minecraft ipa in play cover
Launch it
and enjoy
 
PRS_2023 said:
I have played and yes for online playing SIP is must be off in order to sign in to Microsoft account
download minecraft ipa and playcover
select minecraft ipa in play cover
Launch it
and enjoy
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and for dont jailbraeking your iphone download ipa from 3rd party sites
like appcake
 
PRS_2023 said:
I have played and yes for online playing SIP is must be off in order to sign in to Microsoft account
download minecraft ipa and playcover
select minecraft ipa in play cover
Launch it
and enjoy
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Anyway you can tell me this in a little more detail?
 
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