Have you ever played Minecraft on an M1 Mac? Hi there! The reviews of the new Macs, specifically the MacBook Pro, make me desire to upgrade my Surface Pro 4 to a Mac. I was a Mac user during the Snow Leopard to Mavericks days. However, I switched to Windows a few decades ago. I have a lot of software I use that I've heard users say that work perfectly on M1, but do you know whether Minecraft (Java) is compatible with an M1 Mac? It's among my favorite games, and I don't think I could replace my PC with a machine that doesn't run my favorite game. Java is available for ARM, but I've never heard of anyone playing Minecraft on an M! Mac! Thanks! (Hopefully I put this post in the correct location!) It is highly recommended. The M1 Mac will blow your surface out of the water performance-wise. It's only a matter of time before Minecraft is optimized for the M1. As of now you'll be able to run both versions. Minecraft Servers (because M1's are able to natively run apps for iOS and iPadOS) as well as Java (translated real-time running Rosetta 2 that is built into. You won't even notice the difference. I have side loaded Minecraft to my M1 Mac but keyboard and mouse don't work. How did you side load it, sir? yes Information from the video: Java does not have an native M1 application, so it has to make use of Rosetta 2 Emulation. he compared the Baseline 7-core GPU MacBook Air to the Baseline 8-core GPU MacBook Pro. The MBP generated the world (same seeds on both) at a speed of a second, but the MacBook Air seemed a bit quicker for some reason (he used the same graphics settings on both). This comparison is not perfect. He left vsync running which means that the FPS is limited to 60 FPS. It would've been interesting to find out how high it could really go. iOS, Android and Windows 10 versions of Minecraft all play nicely together, whereas the PC and Mac versions of Minecraft are not compatible with the Pocket Edition Realms server. In other words, if you have an iOS device, and your friends are all playing on Android, you can still play together.