If you’re a Mac user and want to play that blocky sandbox game everyone knows, you’re not alone. But if you’ve tried ...

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Minecraft players struggle to play Java Edition with the new Launcher causing log-in difficulties and long download times.

Java default launcher The Java Edition launcher page (Image via Sportskeeda) The default Java launcher is arguably one of the best options for playing Mojang's sandbox game.

Thanks to Minecraft: Java Edition's new launcher, however, reverting to alpha and beta versions is incredibly intuitive.

However, it can be helpful at times to use groovyc to compile Groovy code into .class files and then execute those .class files via the normal Java launcher (java).

Minecraft is coming to Game Pass for PC as the Minecraft: PC Bundle which includes both the Java and Bedrock Editions.

The Java version of Minecraft has (by modern standards) a relatively small quantity of allocated RAM, and without you giving it access to more through the launcher, it can't go beyond that.