This is a legacy repository, go to https://github.com/minecraft-linux/mcpelauncher-manifest/wiki

Table of Contents

• Creating a desktop shortcut for non installed builds
• Running mcpelauncher in current working directory (useful for beta builds)
• User data folder
• Changing your skin (if you encounter issues when changing it normally)
• Bypass Xbox Live sign-in
• Backup your worlds manually
• Manually create a .mcworld file
• Import a .mcworld manually
• Import a resource pack manually
• Switch between fullscreen and windowed mode

Creating a desktop shortcut for non installed builds

This can be useful when you don't want to install mcpelauncher-linux in your system.

If you attempt to create a launcher directly to 'mcpelauncher', it will fail to launch but you can create a small script like this:

#!/bin/bash
cd `dirname $0`
./mcpelauncher

in the same directory and call it 'Minecraft' and link to that.

Running mcpelauncher in current working directory (useful for beta builds)

Make a new folder and copy these files and folders there:

• mcpelauncher executable
• libs/ folder from source dir
• assets/ folder that's inside the Minecraft APK
• libminecraftpe.so library; it is under lib/x86/ in the Minecraft APK. Copy this file to the libs/ folder that you copied earlier
• mcpelauncher-icon.png from source dir

Start mcpelauncher by opening a terminal in the current folder and type this: ./mcpelauncher

NOTE: This method also works with server executable; so you can have multiple native servers at once!

User data folder

The user data folder is ~/.local/share/mcpelauncher/

Changing your skin (if you encounter issues when changing it normally)

Changing skins manually requires editing a file. Navigate to the sub-folder ~/.local/share/mcpelauncher/minecraftpe (This won't exist until you've run the launcher at least once.) and put your skin as custom.png in this folder. Now edit options.txt using your favorite editor

Find the lines:

game_skintypefull:Standard_Alex
game_lastcustomskinnew:

and change them to these for the Steve model

game_skintypefull:Standard_Custom
game_lastcustomskinnew:Standard_Custom

or these for the Alex model

game_skintypefull:Standard_CustomSlim
game_lastcustomskinnew:Standard_CustomSlim

Bypass Xbox Live sign-in

There are some reports that people can't close the Xbox Live popup, as the game crashes upon attempting. You can have it not be shown by editing the options.txt file Like this:

game_haseverloggedintoxbl:0
game_haschosennottosignintoxbl:1

(Find the similar lines and alter the numbers.)

Backup your worlds manually

Your worlds are located in ~/.local/share/mcpelauncher/games/com.mojang/minecraftWorlds.

Each world has its own folder but the folder names are random.

However, you can see the world name in the file named levelname.txt inside each folder.

Either zip or copy them elsewhere to create a backup, which you can later restore by replacing the folder with the contents of the zip archive.

Manually create a .mcworld file

Zip the contents of a world folder (not the folder itself) and rename the resulting file as 'yourworldname.mcworld' Now you can share your world with other devices.

Import a .mcworld manually

Rename the extension of the file from .mcworld to .zip, then extract all the files inside the zip to a folder. Move that folder to ~/.local/share/mcpelauncher/games/com.mojang/minecraftWorlds.

Import a resource pack manually

Since it seems that you can't (yet) open mcpacks or zips directly into mcpelauncher, there's a quick workaround for that.

If you have a mcpack, then rename the .mcpack extension to .zip; extract the zip content to a folder; move that folder to ~/.local/share/mcpelauncher/games/com.mojang/resource_packs.

That's all!

Switch between fullscreen and windowed mode

Press F11 to switch fullscreen-windowed mode; you can also use video settings in-game to switch between them.