Minecraft on Mac Install Tutorial 2024: Shaders, mods, Java, Prism Launcher and best FPS

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Quick video on how to setup Minecraft Java for Mac.
00:00 Minecraft runs great on M1, M2 and M3 Macs!
00:32 Prism Launcher
01:37 Java download
03:01 Microsoft account
04:06 Create instance
05:06 Mods and shaders
07:25 In-game mod settings
07:57 Enable shaders
09:32 Resolution change for faster FPS
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[@niconiconicotan]

Finally I successfully installed mods and shaders on mac! Thank you so much for your vid!

[@madcatz3d]

Awesome! Thanks Andrew

[@PaperBag-nd8vn]

thank you for the guide!

[@user-rl1ny4me8o]

Modrinth is super simple to set up and is very intuitive to use. You can install almost any mod and shader into the game in minutes.

[@JamesAlexBarton]

The perfect video! Super helpful!

[@manuelvega.]

You also can enable the option "Reduce resolution on Macos" (or something la that) on the adanace tab on the graphics setting to avoid the retina resolution and get more FPS. This is great for the base M1 also

[@SmokingSheep12]

Thanks dude, I can’t use shaders at first because its laggy af but now it runs better have more than 60 fps bc i change the resolution

[@LUKAS-bb4jc]

@@SmokingSheep12 Where is this option? I can't find it.

[@user-iu4nf4jo9g]

Thank you for your video, which resolved my confusion as a new mod user. The key to getting shaders to work is to install the mod menu. This way, you can modify the shader mod you want to enable in the “Video Settings”. Shader mods are not enabled immediately upon entering the game.

[@cesaraugustoagudelo8461]

Hey Andrew; can you do a tutorial on how to install vita3k on Apple silicon MacBook!!!🙏🙏🙏

[@picklypt]

Btw, because of the JVM's garbage collector, it's best not to use more than 6GB of RAM when using heavy resource packs and shaders. There are a lot of crashes reported because of that.

[@Andytizer]

Thanks great tip I’ll bear that in mind next time :)

[@revod15]

Yeah in addition to that 6GB is enough unless you're running a heavy modpack and if you have more than 16gb just assign 8 but besides that 6GB is enough for most of the modpack/instances and my recommendation is just simply download Fabulously Optimized modpack that is already made for optimization in vanilla mc (uses fabric that is the best for that)

[@wilebaldoalvarez]

I want to said, thanks to your videos I have 2 years using the Prism Launcher, is the best option for Minecraft on Mac. I always play with maximum render distance and all the settings to the max and I play with 160-200 fps always. And 100 with shaders.

[@julo737]

What Mac do you have (Processor, RAM, etc.) ?

[@wilebaldoalvarez]

@@julo737 Mac mini M1 8gb ram.

[@arrtuuuroooo]

thank you

[@vedantbaiswar750]

hey Andrew, I wanted to ask something reg. UE4. I can't play ready or not on Mac m1 as the moltenvk patch is no longer there on GitHub

[@alibuhlaiqa8384]

You should test Helldivers 2 on M3

[@footballnewscr]

Hey Andrew , Can i do all the same in Macbook pro M1. how much FPS i may get ?

[@gerrypeters9120]

You are such a goat

[@TheSpyGorillas]

You can also just get the adrenaline or additive mod packs for performance, or performance and Optifine-like features respectively.

[@jacsthecat7964]

could you explain more?

[@starzenno]

​@@jacsthecat7964 A mod pack is a collection of various mods. Mod-packs like Fabulously Optimised, adrenaline or additive are convenient as they usually have a collection 10-20 mods and you don't have to install them individually.

[@jacsthecat7964]

@@starzenno thx

[@GatoPaint]

now with game porting tool kit 2 released with support for windows ray tracing is there a way to run minecraft RTX on MAc Os ?

[@julo737]

What processor does your Mac have?

[@nicolasgarcia6510]

hey nice video! ive always used your technique to make mc run well on my Mac. im trying to run 1.20.6 but launcher says I need java 21 that java 17 isn't compatible. maybe im doing something wrong? thanks!

[@bengiv]

Then just use Java 21?

[@subaknana]

hi, im stuck at the login microsoft part. the website says succesfully logged in however the prism launcher dosen't detect the account.. is there any way to fix this?

[@ozancepe5506]

Can you do a Tutorial for Starwars Battlefront 2?

[@berun1413]

cool

[@tomkemp9465]

No matter what I do, it just keeps failing to launch the instance, saying it is not compatible with Java. The Java console says it is the latest version but the Launcher doesn’t work

[@tomkemp9465]

I got it working eventually, with a different version of Java

[@EricJohnsonGuru]

There is also the mcpelauncher for bedrock edition to play with your family on consoles.

[@AlfieHinchcliffe]

Is there any way ro stop my Mac overheating ?

[@CoViot]

What apple silicon did u use for the Video?

[@Shteven99]

He used the M1 Max

[@The1Tons]

What is the specs of this computer?

[@Jeannemarre]

Could you try to make helldivers 2 run on a Mac ? I heard it’s complicated because of the easy anti cheat they have

[@oofdian2968]

You can’t play Helldivers2 on Macs. Just cloud gaming service

[@ethanrettke3216]

Do I need to uninstall Minecraft to make this work, I’m having an error code 1 with the mod packs put into Minecraft even though all of the mods are for forge. I can’t make the coding in the terminal for Java 17 if you even need to do that. If someone can answer this that would be amazing. Will Better MC aka Essential Mod work on M1 for 1.20.1 and if anyone has figured it out how did you do it?? Could it be multiple of the same mods messing it up?

[@jacsthecat7964]

i have a desktop Mac M1, but the highest fps I can get is around 80 and when using shaders even on very low mode its less than 20, I bought it in 2021 not sure if it has smth to do with it, its not like its old tho, and yes i disabled the fps limit, any suggestions?

[@arrtuuuroooo]

turn on the option "Reduce resolution on macOS" in Extra of the graphic settings. comes with Sodium Plus or Fabulously Optimized (highly recommended). permits to disable the Retina x2 resolution without visual change and increases FPS a lot.

[@jacsthecat7964]

@@arrtuuuroooo it worked, thx so much

[@ogmoiz]

How did you go from ~100 FPS before enabling shaders, to ~200 after?? Did you miss something?

[@HazarKerem712]

I was about to ask the same thing

[@wilebaldoalvarez]

Sodium and others renders mods increase the fps.

[@gilopaolo]

before he enabled shaders the FPS was capped in the settings, he uncaps it at 8:32, that's why his FPS without shaders at 9:08 is so much higher

[@TamasKiss-yk4st]

At 8:17 he changes the Profile settings from High (default) to low, that increased the fps.

[@casperes0912]

He forgot to show replacing Java with an ARM native JVM

[@tfj1800]

any good options for running a bedrock world in this setup?

[@wilebaldoalvarez]

Bedrock is not compatible with Mac, but I’m thinking we can use if you have the iPhone or iPad version and you share screen to the Mac and connect the keyboard and the mouse. I don’t tested but I thinks is possible.

[@n64billy]

Curseforge is even easier for mod setup

[@chocolee4279]

how can I install optifine with this launcher

[@brandondavis5170]

I accidentally clicked next without installing the desired version of java when prompted. is there any way to install the desired version after I've finished setting up prism?

[@Andytizer]

Yes you can just change the version in settings or for your specific Minecraft instance.

[@thanhminhnguyenthi2585]

Bro i have to buy minecraft?

[@jefgirdler7232]

Prism Launcher is demanding that I create a profile name before launching the game and either telling me that the profile can't be created or telling me the name (which I already had picked) is already in use. Any way around this?

[@damiendas2554]

I have the same problem was there any resolution on this ?

[@RaihanSaputraa]

@@damiendas2554 remove the account and add it again. worked for me

[@Arch-Propagandist-Sage]

Fun fact: you can use offline account in prism launcher and play Minecraft without logging into any accounts but cant access multiplayer.

[@Arlatra]

This video is great. Thank you. However, now I am having an issue I can't figure out how to fix. I followed all your instructions step by step. Minecraft worked when I started it up after finishing the tutorial. I came back later and now, no matter what I try, the game will not start. It keeps saying "Process exited with code 2." Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can play it on my laptop without Prismlauncher.

[@Dmitry_Wolf]

Did you install JDK 17? The latest Minecraft versions seem to support only Java versions from JDK 21. Try to reinstall it and change Java version in the settings of the launcher

[@Arlatra]

@@Dmitry_Wolf Hei, I did do that multiple times. What eventually made the difference was changing the version of the mod installer. It was too new for some of the mods I added. Thanks for taking the time to answer, by the way.

[@Joey-ve9kb]

Is there any way to play EAFC 24 on M1 Pro? Through parallels or crossover? Would be greatly appreciated!

[@edosgherri]

Minecraft now supports java 21

[@deblish]

they just updated it, u know if it's worth reinstalling?

[@jacsthecat7964]

uh well I tried launching it with java 21 and it said it only supports java 17, so maybe Minecraft does, but not prism

[@arrtuuuroooo]

@@jacsthecat7964 it does, but only for Minecraft 1.20.6 and after (but for the moment it's the last one). For 1.20.4 and before you should use Java 17.

[@VELIXYZ]

PolyMC vs PrismLauncher ? 🤔

[@tRaigeki]

Do not install poly, install prism. Poly is a semi-dead project lead by a guy who wanted to own and make hard decisions on the project. The team of prism is the original team of poly after the bad guy forced them to fork it and it became prism. Hope it helps

[@VELIXYZ]

@@tRaigeki I should reinstall it haha. Playing in poly for a months now 😁

[@kunchography3725]

Actually, in my opinion the best way to play Minecraft on your Mac is with PlayCover running the iOS version. It runs at native Mac resolution and the frame rate locks perfectly to the refresh rate of your Mac. It supports controllers. It is Bedrock. It supports everything the iOS version does. It is by far the best way.

[@kekchanbiggestfan]

Bro playing bedrock 🤨

[@kunchography3725]

@@kekchanbiggestfan Who cares. I can play whatever I want. Bedrock has very good cross-platform play and I play with PlayStation players, so piss off.

[@SA64]

Java version works with controller and crossover too

[@toranp.8942]

Seems like a lot of the good shaders are incompatible with macOS because of Apple’s moronic approach to OpenGL

[@jlewis7221]

Some of them were directly written for AMD or Nvidia cards. Complementary shaders looks awesome on Java edition for Mac.

[@toranp.8942]

@@jlewis7221 recently I came across one called Photon which looks amazing, specifically the clouds/atmosphere and lighting effects, but it can’t run with Distant Horizons and can’t run maxed out on standard Minecraft on Mac because of outdated openGL on macOS. There are other ones I wanted to try that specifically state they don’t work on Macs because of macOS. There are great ones for Mac but the exceptional ones tend not to work

[@AidensRealm]

bro got more fps with shaders 💀

[@MrCoords]

There is no way in HELL that I will instal that junk on my Mac. End of story!!

[@A_GodApple]

There is absolutely no reason to get the prism launcher, or any launcher other than the default really. 99% of people will be better off just getting the default launcher and installing sodium and fabric via the default launcher.

[@jlewis7221]

Prism is so slick for managing multiple instances and easily managing mods. Has the default launcher been rewritten to do all that easily?

[@A_GodApple]

@@jlewis7221 yes, there are now options to have different types of MC in vanilla. For example I have 1.20.6, 1.20.1, optifine, and fabric. And you can access the files of each with one button press

[@inhumandescent]

1) Saying Java 21 is needed for the latest build (so I can play with others on same build 1.20.6) 2) Lovely old Micro$oft account saying I don't own it despite owning/paying/giving it! on my profile Lovely jubbly!

[@tomkemp9465]

That’s what I had to install