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. Below, are the results for various Macs.Your mileage obviously may vary. I don’t impose on any specific limitations for this version of Minecraft, but it is better to have a stronger PowerPC computer. This is basically a port of Minecraft 1.8.9 to Java 5. I’ll provide some links to sites I stumbled into, share some screenshots, and briefly discuss my thoughts on my experience running this on my own computers. In this article, we will instead be discussing version 1.8.9.
Minecraft PowerPC edition is optimized for PowerPC Macs as well, and is worthy of checking out on it’s own. There is a different version of Minecraft called “Minecraft PowerPC Edition”, which is not reflected in this article, as it uses a different version of Minecraft. I’m not entirely sure if I saw it the first time on Reddit, or if I Googled it, nor where exactly I had downloaded my copy of Minecraft 1.8.9 for PowerPC, it’s been a year or so.
I had stumbled upon this sometime in 2022, and wanted to give it a shot on my Power Mac G5 DP 2.0. Minecraft 1.8.9 was released December 9th 2015, adding several features and new textures over 1.5.2. The release date of 1.5.2 is May 2nd 2013, around the same time retina MacBook Pros just started shipping. Officially, Minecraft 1.5.2 was the last version playable on any PowerPC Mac, as it was the last version playable on Java 5.
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