No More PolyMC for Steam!
According to sources Lenny, the owner of the polymc program, decided to remove all contributators for the GitHub depository due to a political Mess. Everyone thought he got hacked and I am going to guess it was something he didn’t think to entirely about when he decided to all this. He’s has his reasons, and I will not debate those reasons or even try to comprehend them. I’ve tried PolyMC on my desktop Windows 10 Computer and I get this same error. You can’t even link your account back to polymc, this seems like Microsoft is serious about keeping some of their younger users safe. They blocked the app from being used and now no one can use it anymore. I don’t know how long Microsoft will ban or if there is even a chance to get this game unbanned by Microsoft. Due to that issue we will need to find another game launcher to play on Steam and others platforms. Many people are urging players to go to other launchers and I really can’t blame bloggers from saying this. You just don’t know what is in the code and why the author did what he did. Now my tutorial will not work and we should focus on a new Minecraft launcher.
Other Minecraft launchers on Steam Deck
There are several good launchers on steam deck, if you are using JAVA. You can always get them either through the Discovery App or through Pacman in Console. Here are a few that I have seen that might work just fine with a few tweaks:
- The Official Minecraft Launcher— You Will need to install gnome-keyring with a few strings to keep yoru minecraft creditials from having to be entered everytime it launches.
- ATLauncher — Is best know for me as least with Sky Factory and other mods for a serious good time in Minecraft. It however may not work as well as we hope. I’ve seen comments where this doesn’t work, so only time will tell.
- Minecraft Bedrock Launcher — If you like play the bedrock version this is the luancher for you on Steam or even Arch. I haven’t tested this one out either. It however looks to not be working on arch.
There are several other launchers on Arch but they seemed dubious and I don’t want to recommend them until we get more comments and more people trying them out.
Minecraft Launcher
I will be using the Minecraft official, until I can find a better one and hope I can figure out how to get it to save my profile for offline and online use. I’d hate to have to keep putting in my when I want to use it and have to be online all the time to do it. Other than that, I am not sure what else to try to play Minecraft on Steam. I know I’ll be looking for ways to play Minecraft on Steam again without have to do much hacking or doing anything that might be too difficult. I’ll probably even post a tutorial on how to install a good Minecraft launcher once I find one that will work with my Steam Deck.
What’s your Plans on playing minecraft on steam? Do you know any good ways to do it now? or are you like me just searching for another way to play on the Steam Deck? Let me know your thoughts, I’d love to hear them.
