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0 pointsimmibis10mo ago0 comments

You actually don't have to. You can just install the game and play it. Java Minecraft has no effective anti-piracy checks, which also means it has no effective legal-copy-but-not-using-a-microsoft-account checks. And the auto update URLs have no authorization checks at all. You can go to the root index URL (I don't remember it) and follow a few HATEOAS links to get any version-specific .jar that's available in the official launcher. This is an open secret and they leave it that way on purpose. Most third-party launchers (e.g. PrismLauncher) won't force you to log in before installing the game.

Of course, you should only install the game if you own a license to it. Otherwise that's piracy and it's illegal.

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sneak10mo ago

PrismLauncher does do an account check now, I learned after this comment. But there’s an easy bypass by putting some json into accounts.json and then it works fine.

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sneak10mo ago

PrismLauncher does do an account check now, I learned after this comment. But there’s an easy bypass by putting some json into accounts.json and then it works fine.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse