Minecraft Bedrock has FINALLY arrived for macOS! Kinda!
Minecraft Bedrock is now available for select Macs! Unfortunately, for the vast majority of Mac users here, unless you just bought a new MacBook Air, Pro, or Mini with the new Apple M1 ARM processor, you won’t be able to play. This only applies to those three Macs. Hopefully Mojang/Microsoft adopts Mac catalyst (which ports iOS apps to Intel CPUs, which is what all older Macs use).
I don’t know if Minecraft is available on the Mac App Store for the new M1 Macs, if not, use this link to load it onto your brand new computer
I find it ironic how Apple would be the company that does the work to port Minecraft, not Microsoft.
Essentially, this means that Minecraft for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and macOS only costs $7 or $6! What a deal!
This is bedrock edition, not java tho, and there are some differences.
wait, does this mean if you own bedrock from the app store, you can play it on mac?
Minecraft isnt showing up in my apps library idk whats going on
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Has anybody actually run iPad MCPE on an M1 Mac?
Yes, I Used Imazing to get the iPad of Minecraft bedrock off my phone and installed onto the m1. however keyboard input dose not work to move, and I am having trouble getting a good controller to use, wondering if you can connect a controller at all :/
As far as I know: no.
But it is now possible! And certainly not because of Mojang/Microsoft!
Edit
I have now, but Apple - under Microsoft’s request - now prevents Minecraft from being side loaded because Microsoft hasn’t officially supported M1 yet
can you get it on the newest mac desktop?
Since then, Apple has effectively blocked side loading any iPhone or iPad app to any Apple Silicon mac. It’s apparently still possible, but requires a jailbroken iPhone to decrypt the iPhone app file (.ipa) and then load it to the Mac.
But yes, in theory, the Mac Mini, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro (13inch lower class) and iMac 24” can run Minecraft Bedrock natively. It’s now up to Mojang to flip that switch.
Apple will most likely be announcing even more devices Monday that should be able to run Minecraft bedrock natively, had Apple never blocked the ability
Any updates? Can anyone confirm this actually works? Planning to get the base M1 soon but I use Bedrock. Not interested in Java.
As of now, the method has been blocked serverside by Apple.
It’s still possible to sideload, but requires jailbreak if an iPhone and then getting the IPA and hacking it with the iPhone and then side loading on macOS with M1. So it’s still possible, but highly impractical
Download the MC .ipa from AppCake and then download https://sideloadly.io/
It is easy and works fine but you cannot use xbox live
I paired a BlackMagic EGPU to my M1 2020 and was able to have the option to install Bootcamp on my m1 with the Download of "Intel Unite ® from the Official Intel site.
It won't be running on your MacBook M1 but rather the EGPU. BlackMagic was made for adding an Intel or to Boost your Intel to older Models or even Models without Intel.
Like the New M1s we wasted our money on.
So as of right now, these computers can still run bedrock right?
Yes. In theory, Minecraft Bedrock can run natively on these machines.
In practice, no.
Apple has effectively blocked side loading Minecraft. You’ll need to have a jailbroken iDevice to decrypt the Minecraft IPA file and then sign it with your own Apple ID to install it onto the machines. All Mojang needs to do is add proper Keyboard and Mouse support and toggle the switch to show on the Mac App Store. Mojang would then only need to do a little more work to bring it to legacy Intel Macs as well
my 2013 macbook pro runs java just fine. Fela.London dont see why it would struggle with bedrock.