README_en.md

✨ Feature List

Basic Features

• Manage and install Minecraft instances
• Independent Minecraft instance settings
• Manage Minecraft instance mods and saves
• Support for launching all versions of Minecraft
• Multi-threaded parallel completion of game dependency resources
• Automatically find installed Java runtime
• Quick game launch via Windows taskbar
• Customize launcher appearance (including various backgrounds and theme colors)
• Get official Minecraft news

Authentication Methods

• Microsoft authentication
• Yggdrasil authentication (external authentication)
• Offline authentication

Loader Support

• Support for installing Neoforge \ Forge loader
• Support for installing Fabric loader
• Support for installing OptiFine loader
• Support for installing Quilt loader

⚠️ LiteLoader loader is not supported

Third-party Resources

• Support for downloading resources from CurseForge
• Support for downloading resources from Modrinth
• Support for Bmcl Api third-party mirror download
• Support for getting mod description translations from MCIM

Preview Channel Features

• Support for launcher application auto-update
• Some versions support loading plugins ¹

✈️ Installation

Install from Microsoft Store

Install from Preview Channel

Go to the FluentLauncher.Preview.Installer repository and download the FluentLauncher.UniversalInstaller setup wizard from the Release section

We no longer recommend manually installing msixbundle packages or using the deprecated FluentLauncher.PreviewChannel.PackageInstaller to manually install update packages, but you can still find instructions here

💬 Getting Help

You can join these communities to seek help:

If you are certain that the issue you are experiencing is a Bug, or you want to propose a new feature, please submit an Issue.

🔧 Development and Contribution

Branch	Development Status	Information
main	Currently under long-term maintenance and updates.
legacy/old-uwp-edition	This version is no longer maintained, kept for archival purposes only.

Main Contributors

@ natsurainko — Launch core, launcher feature implementation; launcher UI design
@ gaviny82 — Launch core, launcher architecture design
@ xingxing2008 — Launcher release, backend service maintenance

And other contributors and testers

You can also see all developers who participated in this project in the Contributors section.

If you want to contribute to this project, please refer to the Development Documentation

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License, see LICENSE for details

Acknowledgements

First of all, thanks to all contributors for their joint efforts

• Thanks to bangbang93 for providing the Minecraft download mirror service, if you want to support them, you can sponsor Bmcl Api
• Thanks to mcim for providing mod translation information from Modrinth and Curseforge
• Thanks to Cloudflare CDN for providing cloud services

Footnotes

1. Not all preview versions support the plugin loader. To determine if a preview version supports the loader, check if there is a "enableLoadExtensions": true property in its release ↩

2. Please refer to Windows 10 Version Information ↩