The launcher installs and updates the game — no need to grab these archives by hand. You need your own Minecraft: Java Edition.
Binaries removed (licence cleanup, see #6741); tags and source remain.
New
- Render thread ahead of the workers on macOS and Windows (RD 32 long frames) (#1179)
- Chunk packets get 1 ms a frame on a client of a server (RD 32 frame spikes) (#1181)
- Live player count: an anonymous "I'm playing" ping and "N playing now" in the launcher (#1185)
- LAN guests: the lectern and the cartography table (#868) (#1188, fixes #868)
- Linux: the game's workers go behind its render and server threads (RD 32 long frames) (#1192)
This is a nightly build: launchers on the Nightly channel (Settings, Updates) install it now; Stable gets it in the next daily update if it holds up.
Install or update it from the Horizon launcher: it installs new versions by itself. New here? Get the launcher at https://playhorizon.dev. You need your own copy of Minecraft: Java Edition.
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