The launcher has a whole new design: glass panels over a pixel-art sunset, a new sidebar and top bar, and every page rebuilt around it.
New
- A new look everywhere. Home now has tabs for your instance (Overview, Worlds, Multiplayer, Packs, Screenshots, Mods, Console). Servers, Create a server, your server's Players, Settings and Backups, Versions, Patch notes and Settings all follow the new design.
- Make it yours. Pick an accent colour from the swatches or type any colour; the glass and the sky take it on. Glass and Blur sliders set how see-through the panels are, and Reset to defaults puts everything back.
- Settings' Account card shows who you're signed in as, in one place.
- A light look, next to the dark one, in Settings › Appearance.
- Mods page in the new design, with each kind of content in its own tab.
- Command palette: press Ctrl+K (⌘K on macOS) to jump to any page or action.
- Notifications confirm what you just did (opened, copied, created, saved, deleted).
- New instance lists every Nightly, not only the ones you have: pick one and Create installs it.
- Edit an instance to switch it between Horizon, Fabric and Vanilla, or to another Minecraft version or loader. Its folder is never touched, and before you save it lists what won't keep working (mods for another version, worlds a newer version upgrades for good).
- Multiplayer tab: each server shows whether it's online and how many players are on it.
- Screenshots can be blurred on Home, for when you share your screen.
- Windows: a real installer.
horizon-launcher-setup.exeinstalls the launcher for your user, with a Start menu shortcut (and a desktop one if you want) and an uninstaller in Windows' Apps list. Shortcuts now open the launcher on double-click. - For mod makers: native mods get config files that reload (ModConfigEvent), clearer build logs you can copy, a warning when two mods inject at the same place, and a crash in a mod's hook names the mod. Content mods can make signs, choose block shapes, collision and render shape.
Fixed
- Settings that fail to save now tell you and offer to retry.
- The Mods page's Sort by menu works again.
- Copying, renaming or deleting a world no longer gets stuck on its lock.
- Games started from the launcher no longer pick up the launcher's own graphics workarounds.
- Natively built mods start correctly again.
- Modpack imports: progress counts the pack's extra files, and more modpacks port cleanly.
- Proxies: NO_PROXY with IPv6 addresses and hosts starting with "127." work as expected.
- Translations: the launcher now speaks 34 languages. New: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Swedish, Thai, Urdu and Vietnamese; French and Chinese updated.
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