“To be clear, Java and Bedrock will remain separate games with their own distinctive features. If you already own the Java or Bedrock Edition on PC, the Minecraft team said that it may take up to 3 days for the other edition you’ll be getting for free to appear in the Minecraft game launcher. Minecraft Java & Bedrock Edition is priced at $30 and you can purchase it on the official Minecraft website. On PC, the two versions of the game are now sold together, and they also use the same launcher.

Even better, Minecraft gamers who already own either the Java or the Bedrock edition of the game will get the other one for free.įor those unfamiliar, the Minecraft Java Edition is the “legacy” version of the game for Windows, macOS, and Linux, while Bedrock is the cross-platform version of the game that’s available on PC, mobile devices, and consoles. All they ever had to do was switch out which JVM they bundled Minecraft with, but I'm not surprised they kept this really low key - they don't want people noticing how much faster Java with M1 is versus Bedrock on Wintel.Minecraft developer Mojang Studios has released today the new Minecraft Java & Bedrock Edition for PC, which combines the two versions of the game in the same bundle. I will be overjoyed if the new Minecraft Java for M1 will be this good. I've been doing a lot of comparisons with M1 native versions vs Intel, and Minecraft hit the #1 spot, often running a solid 100x faster in the best case, and about 5x faster in the worse case. (It you use the java that's bundled with Macs, you only get about 45 fps.) But mind you, this is at high resolution and a render/simulation distance of the full 32 chunks.

I was shocked to immediately get 500-700 frames per second, just like YouTubers got! But I found this was a peak case - it can drop as low as 60FPS.

Then I used MultiMC with (and this is important) an ARM version of Java that is NOT the one that comes bundled with MacOS. It's a lot like trying to play Minecraft on my 2015 MBP. Running straight x86 Java Minecraft through Rosetta is honestly barely playable - sometimes you can get 20 fps, but you get frequent slowdowns. I have a 16' Macbook Pro with the 10 CPUs and 32 GPU cores.

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