Arctic Launcher 0.3.0

What's new#

Arctic Client (in game)#

• Motion blur and item physics (dropped items lie flat and tumble as they fall), on 26.1–26.3 and 1.8.9–1.12.2. Both are in Mods → Visual.
• 1.8.9–1.12.2 catch up: the minimap, duels and switching accounts in game.
• 3D cosmetics on every version (1.8.9 to 26.3), with a soft shine on sculpted pieces. New: 20 sculpted cosmetics, 2 HD animated capes, 50 skins and an arms slot.
• HUD: new widgets take your HUD style; Arrows and Held show just the item; the Compass pointer color can be changed; World time and Entities have proper icons.
• Servers that ask whether you use Arctic or Polarium (like BotPvP) now get an answer.
• Offline accounts can be added from the in-game Account page.
• Looks (skins, capes, cosmetics, emotes) are now chosen in the launcher only; the emote wheel stays in game.

Launcher#

• Windows search finds the launcher: it adds itself to the Start menu.
• Feedback: suggest a feature or report a bug from the launcher, with cleaned-up logs if you like.
• Instances can keep their own settings instead of sharing them with your other instances.
• Modpacks: a Modpacks banner on the Instances page, drag-and-drop .mrpack install, and .zip packs with a Modrinth index install too.
• Discover → Partners: servers hosted with Flash Hosting.
• Import lets you pick exactly what to bring in from another launcher.
• Styles: Classic is a black theme now, and the new Vanilla style keeps Minecraft's own menus.

Faster starts#

The game reaches the title screen several seconds sooner: only the Fabric API parts in use are loaded, classes are loaded ahead on other cores, the game's own classes aren't re-verified, files aren't re-checked on every start, and the loading screen fades out faster.

Fixed#

• Copying screenshots to the clipboard works again.
• 26.3 no longer crashes at startup, and joining servers no longer fails with a "Network Protocol Error".
• Each launcher page keeps its own scroll position.
• Polarium copied for the wrong Minecraft generation no longer stops the game from starting.

Download#

Windows: arctic-launcher-windows-x64.exe · macOS: arctic-launcher-macos.zip · Linux: arctic-launcher-linux-x64. The Windows files are signed (Open Source Developer Leyla Barlak, Certum).

SHA-256#

Check a download: Get-FileHash <file> (PowerShell) or sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt (Linux).

Full Changelog: https://github.com/brksfrb/arctic-launcher/compare/v0.2.2...v0.3.0 (opens in a new tab)