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Minecraft Bedrock for Linux (feddit.nl)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello, I am trying to install Minecraft Bedrock on Arch Linux to play cross-platform multiplayer with my friends. I have heard about the mcpelauncher but that requires to have Minecraft from Play Store, and I already have bought Java and Bedrock for PC. Can I do anything to actually play Minecraft Bedrock on Linux?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly no, the PC Bedrock version is very much Windows only. Your only options are to either use the Bedrock Launcher which as you know already requires the android version, or if your goal is to play with friends to use Waterfall MC. Its a server mod that allows both Java and Bedrock players to join the same world

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just want to add that the reason Bedrock can't work on Linux is because you can only get it through the Microsoft Store and, as far as I know, there is no way, and there will probably never be a way, to get games from there on Linux

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Before bedrock released they said they were working on Mac and Linux builds as well buy probably can't release them because of politics.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting. I didn't know this. Hypothetically would there be a way to install it on Windows and transfer it to a Linux distro? I feel like they likely have their own DRM similar to GFWL or Steam and I don't know how challenging it would be to get around.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah everything installed via the Microsoft store is encrypted and won't run outside the little sandbox it lives in. Hopefully someday someone figures it out but it looks unlikely anytime soon

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is this why Wine cannot use UWPs?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Correct, its not that it wouldn't be able to run, the DRM on it is just so restrictive

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I once looked at a free UWP and that was just a zip archive, if I recall correctly. Definitely nothing hard to implement.

But the restrictive DRM would need to be cracked.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

You can do one thing and buy it for Android and then run it under either mcpelauncher or waydroid. Sure paying for the thing multiple times sucks but welcome to multi-platform propriety software. At least I only payed for it once for the whole family.