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.
Fixed
- Furnaces: look up the cooking recipe in an index, without cloning it (#1204)
- Faster Perlin volumes and climate search, same results (#1206)
- Faster feature decoration: region grid, ore column fast path, lazy biome cache (#1207)
- Perlin noise without libm floor or int-to-float conversions, same values (#1208)
- Keep the pointer locked on macOS in first person (#1225, fixes #1224)
- Reuse aquifer neighborhoods to speed up Overworld generation (#1229)
- Prepare with Minecraft's own Java 25 when no JDK is installed (#1214, fixes #1217)
- Load saved chunks 10% faster by retaining packed list palettes (#1223)
Thanks to @pirut, @rdbtCVS.
This is an alpha build: launchers on the Alpha 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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