Important warning for users of the PolyMC mod launcher: Shut down *right now* and don't use it again unless you know exactly what you're doing!

• PlaceholderMC

  24 1,999 10.0 C++

  Discontinued A custom launcher for Minecraft that allows you to easily manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once (Fork of MultiMC) [Moved to: https://github.com/PrismLauncher/PrismLauncher]

  

May want to add to this that the original PolyMC devs have moved development over to https://github.com/PlaceholderMC/PlaceholderMC and are trying to regain control over the various polymc distributions (i.e. Flatpak and AUR)

• PolyMC

  202 1,741 6.8 C++

  A custom launcher for Minecraft that allows you to easily manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once (Fork of MultiMC)

  

I wouldn't call them main contributor, according to GH they only added 1000~ lines and deleted 1200~. Compared to someone like Scrumplex which contributed 18k++ 16k--, Lenny's quite far to be considered even the project lead. He just happened to own the repository

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• PrismLauncher

  228 4,833 9.8 C++

  A custom launcher for Minecraft that allows you to easily manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once (Fork of MultiMC)

  

The recommendation that i've seen is the people that used to work on PolyMC moved and took the good parts of it and made it into PrismLauncher

• Launcher

  315 4,114 6.5 C++

  A custom launcher for Minecraft that allows you to easily manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once

  

Which other launchers could I use instead? – The shunted devs have established PlaceholderMC as a temporary official replacement. There's also ATLauncher, GDLauncher, and PolyMC itself was a fork of MultiMC.

• GDLauncher

  188 1,162 -19.3 JavaScript

  GDLauncher is a simple, yet powerful Minecraft custom launcher with a strong focus on the user experience

  

Which other launchers could I use instead? – The shunted devs have established PlaceholderMC as a temporary official replacement. There's also ATLauncher, GDLauncher, and PolyMC itself was a fork of MultiMC.

• PrismLauncher

  6 2,027 9.9 C++

  Discontinued A custom launcher for Minecraft that allows you to easily manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once (Fork of MultiMC) [Moved to: https://github.com/PrismLauncher/PrismLauncher] (by PlaceholderMC)

  

It's completely unrelated to PolyMC, but the safe fork from PolyMC's last "safe" code state is being worked on under the name "Prism Launcher" (initially called "PlaceholderMC").

Suggest a related project