Anyone Played Minecraft On An M1 Mac

Have you ever played Minecraft on an M1 Mac

Hi there!

The reviews of the latest Macs, specifically the MacBook Pro, make me desire to upgrade my Surface Pro 4 to a Mac. I was a Mac user during the Snow Leopard to Mavericks days. However I switched to Windows in the past few years.

I have a bunch of software I use that people say work fine on M1 however does anyone know if Minecraft (Java) works on an M1 Mac? It's my most played game and I don't believe I could replace my computer with one that does not support it. Java is available on ARM, but I've never heard of anyone playing Minecraft on an M! Mac at this point! Yurock

Thanks! (I hope that I put it in the right place!)

Highly recommend it. The M1 Mac will blow your surface off the board performance wise. It's just a matter of time before Minecraft is optimized for the M1. You can run both versions until then. Bedrock (because M1's 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 keyboard and mouse wouldn't work. How did you side load it, sir?

Yes

information from the video: Java is not a native M1 app, so it has to use Rosetta 2 emulation.

he was comparing the Baseline 7-core GPU MacBook Air to the Baseline 8-core GPU MacBook Pro. The MBP created the world (same seeds on both) about a second faster, but the MacBook Air seemed a bit more responsive for some reason (he was using the same settings for graphics on both).

The problem with this comparison is that he kept vsync on, so the FPS is capped at 60 FPS. It would have been interesting find out how high it could really go

The iOS, Android, and Windows 10 Minecraft versions all are compatible. However, the Pocket Edition Realms server will not allow for the PC and Mac versions to play each one another. Rock It Like A Hurricane You can still play with your friends on Android and an iOS device.