Need to get Minecraft working easily on Steam Deck or a standard Linux desktop without a lot fuss? This is a technique you possibly can do it and it makes it straightforward. For this I picked the PolyMC launcher (a fork of MultiMC) available on Flathub, as the current official Minecraft launcher Flatpak does not save your password on Steam Deck and PolyMC in fact offers with modding too.
Here's a latest video guide for you, with text steps beneath:
You will see that this video also on the Steam Deck part of the PolyMC Wiki!
Textual content steps:
- Set up PolyMC from the Uncover Software Centre on Steam Deck, or Flathub directly for desktop Linux Minecraft events servers .
- Launch PolyMC and add your account in the top right corner. It helps each Mojang and Microsoft logins.
- Go into the principle PolyMC Settings, click Minecraft in the left panel and click on the choice to close PolyMC when the sport window opens. In any other case, loading in Recreation Mode / Deck UI on Steam Deck it's going to flicker between the two home windows.
- Ensure in the PolyMC Settings that Java is about to the most recent version, which is required for the most recent Minecraft.
- Click on Add Occasion in the highest left, then decide either regular Minecraft or discover some mods with the built-in search and it installs all the pieces you need for you.
- To be able to launch immediately from Steam: go to the Games menu up the top -> click add a Non-Steam game and then discover PolyMC in the record.
Some YouTube comments steered trying out some optimized modpacks, but actually I didn't see a big sufficient difference in terms of efficiency or power use to make them truly price it on Deck in contrast with vanilla Minecraft when testing on the identical map seed. Controller mods had been additionally recommended, but they're rarely up to date and sometimes only work with particular Minecraft versions so sticking with Steam Input and just adjusting just a few keys is the best choice for that.
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