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Today, I'll get Minecraft Java Edition working on the Steam Deck. Thanks for watching! » ridge.com/antvenom - Check out Ridge before Dec 22nd!... or after... I'm not your dad... unless? (AD)
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11 mins since uploaded and already 2k dang nice keep up the good work I was actually thinking about getting a steam deck and this actually helped me a lot with my decision
Fun fact about shortcuts in Steam: The name of shortcuts will determine which community configs you get to see. naming it "Minecraft" will show a list of community configs. naming it "Minecraft: Java Edition" will show another list of community configs. I don't recommend changing the shortcut name after making a controller config. The config will still be there under the old name.
That seems highly archaic
@@GrimlandCS not really. You cant detect much with just a shortcut.
I was so surprised to see dolphin have A BUNCH of shortcuts just from this
@@GrimlandCS it’s surprising steam supports config sharing for non steam games at all! This is about as good as we could expect for an non steam game.
@@maboesanman yeah it was really helpful for openrct2 It has some pretty good layouts, though I changed the one I used to have some different functions I used more and added a turbo click which is actually really helpful for stuff like adding lots of track or path pieces
My dream of having Minecraft this good on Switch will sadly probably never come to be
Elytra flight on switch is god awful. If you set the fps to 20 and render distance to 10 and turn off EVERYTHING(fancy leaves/bobbing/render clouds...) It kind of works.
well thats mostly just an issue of bedrock edition and we all know what that situation is Edit: apparently this got picked up differently; i was referring to the "openess" of Java, with mods, custom launchers and customizability Edit 2: Why do so many still not get I'm not referring to the performance on switch
@@PrivateLZG no it isn't it work just fine on my 3 year old budget phone 🙄 but not any of of the consoles 🤷♂️ idk why
@@dungeontnt its because they didnt give enough of a shit to optimize it for switch
@@dungeontnt cuz bedrock edition was made original for phones not for consoles which is why all console bedrock editions suck
As a Linux gamer, it's been amazing to see how PC gamers have embraced the steam deck. The steam deck has lead to a massive improvement in Linux gaming across the board and I can now play 90% of my games on Linux. I do still have a windows 10 partition for the games that simply don't run, or don't run well, but the deck has pushed a lot of Devs and / the community to fix these issues
Ive never used linux before I got the deck and I like it more than I thought, still alot to learn deff not like windows
Really goes to show how lazy developers can be, as Valve has shown that support can be added without major changes.
@@TheLPCGAMING most people working on Linux gaming through the years have been volunteers. Only recently with valve moving in have any paid developers actually been working on it which has been responsible for massive improvements.
You are so ridiculous. Steam Deck never made advancements to Linux gaming, it did Linux community themselves. And now someone praises the company which did nothing but used results of hard work.
@@charlieking7600 this is just wrong. Valve is investing big bucks into Linux gaming because windows is an existential threat to their business model. If Microsoft ever got their shit together with Xbox / Windows integration they could kick valve off their turf so Linux is valve's backup plan. As a consequence, valve has made significant contributions to Linux gaming and the Linux desktop as a whole.
Heads up, you can actually pass arguments ("-l " in Steam's launch options) to Prism to tell it "hey I wanna launch this instance" So you could have a separate shortcut in Steam for EVERY instance you have!
For anyone else running into issues: 1. The -l is an lowercase L, for "launch" 2. If you renamed it, make sure to use the original name. (You can find it out if you mouseover the instance for a second, and it will show the Instance-ID at the end. For example for me it was 1.19.3) 3. you don't need brackets, -l 1.19.3 is fine 4. You can go into the Prism settings -> Minecraft and at the bottom you can check both "Miscellaneous" settings if you don't wanna see the prism launcher when starting this instance.
If you create a shortcut for instances in desktop mode, you can add them as non-steam games to launch straight into them.
2:40 The entirety of the steam deck is running on linux. SteamOS is what you call a distribution of Linux. The desktop environment you are reffering to is KDE Plasma. The "gaming mode" is basically just steam big screen mode.
You forgot to put "I use arch btw" at the end.
@@veco311 steak deck uses arch linux so in a way every steam deck user is a linux user
@@timecubed yes I forgot. Omg that means that in a few months most of arch users will be like 10y old kids
The desktop environment is called "Plasma" and is developed by KDE. The "gaming mode" is not realy the big picture mode, it's more like a desktop environment based on it since the plasma session doesn't seem to run while using it. oh and yes, I uSe ArCh BtW.
@@veco311 I wonder how many kids are actually getting this, since it does kinda work for a diverse range of people, but mainly struck me as a dream handheld PC that's an absolute tinkering paradise
Finally a form of "pocket edition" I would actually consider playing
whats wrong with you? ARE YOU SAYING YOU DONT WANT TO SPEND ALL YOUR MONEY ON MINECOINS!!?!
@@AltraHapi There are MUCH worse things in Pocket Edition than the optional marketplace, but ok
Oh my god a person who has common sense! What a sight to behold.
I mean playing bedrock on phone is always fun
@@IAm-zo1bo I just never got good with touch controls, and modding for free is just non-existent. It's not exactly bad, but its not what I look for in Minecraft
My biggest concern about this is like playing Minecraft on a console with a console controller after I play this game with a keyboard and mouse for years now, but the MidnightControl and the Steamdeck basic input methods look different and therefore promising for a PC gamer/user. Very well workaround Ant, thank you!
It has always been known that Minecraft runs DRASTICALLY faster under Linux, and here it pays dividends.
Adding on to the gyro part, the sticks are touch sensitive and often in configurations I see that used as the gyro activation, so that's always an option.
I'm not a fan of the sticks activating gyro, but that's certainly a valid option.
I would also suggest swapping over the "Gamepad with Joystick Trackpad" controller preset in Steam over to "Gamepad with Mouse Trackpad" and then specifically setting the click action of the right trackpad to mouse left button down. That way you never have to fiddle with the touchscreen. You can also make it so gyro activates only on trigger pull down.
@@AntVenom its much more useful if your using flickstick aiming style. Not as useful in minecraft but can normalize the differences between controller players and M+KB in FPS games
@@AntVenom Yeah, I feel like I'd want it to activate gyro only when you're NOT touching the sticks
@@GrimlandCS I think that might be what they meant
Hi ant! I was chatting with you in a housing parkour the other day when you were playing on the steam deck - its fun to see this video now (impressive turn around). I hope people in the chat of that lobby saw my message trying to push people to your content haha. I was planning on reiterating in the lobby how much I appreciate your content before I logged off for the night but, instead I'll hope you see it here. You were a massive part of my childhood, and still are a part of me now! Being able to interact with you, even if it was only limited, brought me a lot of childish joy. So, thank you. I hope 2022 has been as kind to you as it has to me.
👍👍 Appreciate that you came back to leave a comment! Good to see ya!
@@AntVenomaww well this chat is wholesome.
could you tell he wasn't playing with what he was used to?
@@vibaj16 maybe after this video xD
Been playing Minecraft on the Deck since May, and it's been such a fantastic experience! It does kind of suck though how Controllable's mod creator doesn't seem interested in officially supporting it for the Deck, but it does work. Not great though however. But hey Midnight Controls is fantastic! Surprised you never mapped the right track pad to mouse movement, it makes menu navigation a breeze.
What I think would be the best would be a mod that adds integration with steam input itself When playing half life 2 and looking at the default control setup you can see that rather than binding stuff to virtual buttons and such you directly bind things to actions (eg. use, primary fire)
I can’t seem to find midnight controls anywhere
didn't mrcrayfish added steamdeck compatibility in his controllable mod recently?
there is a mod called "controlify" that comes with the modpack Fabulously Optimized(which i do recommend, as it comes with everything you'll need). Though i can't test how well it works with the steam deck since i live in a country where the steam deck is way too expensive
@@braelenslifeHave you looked at Modrinth and CurseForge?
Glad to see some steam deck content, impressive that it runs shaders so well!
Happy to see the steam deck gaining popularity, been looking at steam deck news since before it was out to the public and i had to wait nearly a year to get one and so far i have been literally using it as my main desktop... taking it around town every once in a while.
Can you play Garry’s Mod on it?
@@iamarizonaball2642 yes though it's slightly unstable on certain servers.
The steam deck is shaping up to be the best gaming console ever
It's interesting that in order to make the best console you just need to give it all features of full-fledged PC, so it's like jailbreaked out of the box
@@akeem2983 Honestly this is how it should be with all consoles. Just give everyone access.
@@chitan1362Some people dont like that, some people prefer to just to turn on a console open up a game and start playing.
@@ArabicLearning-sf4if Nothing says that can't be done while also allowing people to do whatever they want with their purchase.
@@ArabicLearning-sf4iflike what the steam deck lets you do? turn it on and immediately get into a game or switch to desktop mode and mess arounf
The fact that you can play modded Minecraft with your friends while on the go already makes the Steam Deck one of most versatile gaming platforms.
With gyro controls and back grip buttons, minecraft on Steam Deck is the most viable 'console edition' I've ever played. It's absolutely beautiful.
Wish 4J could make a Minecraft: Steam Deck Edition
@@cqllel5186 Hey as long as I don't need to pay yet another version of the game I'm fine with it! They could also include controler support to Java Edition as well and it would make everyone's life easier, but somehow I highly doubt it will be the case
@@Wolphie Built on controller suppprt would be nice, but Java has so many keys and bindings. LB + RB to swap items in hands, the select button to open F3 menu maybe, etc. You'll still need a keyboard for other things
As a steam deck and Linux fanatic, this video is well researched and I'm very happy with it. One thing I'd change is clarifying that gaming mode is also running the same version of Linux, the only change is the frontend. Other than that, amazing video.
Man, I just got my steam deck today. This video came out at the right time.
It's honestly amazing to see Minecraft Java being played on a console, let alone this smoothly. The Steam Deck is truly revolutionary. Awesome video as always!
its the most pc like console ive ever seen. it is such a valve thing to do, create a console that is more like a pc than anything else. minecraft java edition has supported linux for years, so it makes sense that it works so well.
Steam deck is the best blend of PC and console atm
i had a flashback of like 10 years ago and i just spent like half an hour trying to find the video/videos,it was your ant farm survival series. im gonna rewatch it
steam deck minecraft works so flawlessly! cool to see you cover it. (prism launcher ftw)
until drama happens and we have to move AGAIN like with multimc->polymc and polymc->prism :tf:
@@aprilnya what was wrong with multimc?
@@aprilnya There was also ManyMC for Mac users before poly
@@zigg7958 The main problem with MultiMC is that the owner is not interested in creating packages like flatpaks (valid), doesn't want to support platforms like M1 Mac (also valid) and doesn't want non-official builds using his servers for metadata (still valid). Again, all of that is valid, but it explains why people typically don't recommend the OG project.
@@GSBarlev nah it ain't valid
Finally, a stable alternative to switch edition
Its not a good one tho since its a couple hundred more dollars I would rather much get a decent laptop than a steam deck
@@raptorzeraora2632 a laptop is nowhere near as portable as a handheld.
@@iaminyourballs windows is so bad i'll die if i am within 1000 miles of bill gates am i right
@@TheLastBeanBender well, Bill Gates got ousted as a pedophile some time this year or last year
@@raptorzeraora2632 lol the switch oled has a simular price to the steamdeck
Thanks for speeding over the more complicated part 😊
Can’t wait for this. Definitely one of the things I’m looking forward to coming from being an exclusively Nintendo kid playing with shaders on my handheld is going to be glorious.
I grew up with legacy edition (Xbox 360), so when I tried Minecraft on steam deck it almost felt natural for me to use a controller.
Correction - both modes use linux. Game mode is just basically in a version of Steam Big Picture mode and desktop mode is outside of that, dealing with the desktop environment.
Yeah it's a app that launches at start-up
Gaming mode isn't really just a big picture of steam. It's a separate desktop environment with a custom window manager that easily allows to use gamescope(thing that upscales games). When you're switching to the gaming mode, you are basically replacing steam de with kde plasma, which is a popular desktop environment for desktops
Hey man thanks for the single player commands tutorial. It helped me a lot 8 years ago!
Normally I don't really go out of my way to like these type of videos but you answered all the questions I had in my head and did it in a concise way thank you.
This video will never be outdated, as it's not a console you're jailbreaking, you are just installing Minecraft
The mods might change though
The launcher might also change
@@angelpuzzle idk, multimc, polymc, even if they were hijacked they still work, if something happens to prism it might still probably work
I'm very pleasantly surprised of how much research you did to actually give up to date informations, good job !
2:46 One small correction is discover comes with KDE, which is the desktop environment SteamOS is using, not with the operating system itself. Anyways great video 👍.
Thanks for the video. I remember trying Minecraft months back on my Deck, but it wasn't all that spectacular. Seeing this, I can clearly see where I went wrong, so I'll definitely be giving it another shot in the future. Honestly, the fact that the Deck can run Minecraft shaders anywhere above 40 FPS is mad impressive for the kind of hardware it is, even if it isn't practical.
Hey thanks for sharing this homie! I was wondering how to get this done on my Steam Deck! 👍
He dosent know you let it go 😭😭
bro rly said homie 💀
Minecraft splash screen: "Not on Steam!" 2023: "It is now"
Minecraft (Prism Launcher) was literally the first non-Steam game I downloaded; I've been using it with MidngihtControlls, Iris shaders (Complementary Reimagined), inventory Tabs, and I've been checking out ItemSwapper, my controls are set up to use a Trackpad Virtual menu for the Hotbar, the up D-pad for WI Zoom, I use R4 for MouseTweaks item sorting, and L4 to toggle hold sneak on and off. I use my mod pack based on Fabulously Optimised, and with shaders, I get 40-50 fps and without, I definitely get more than 60 if I don't cap it.
And then: he disappeared.
For anyone trying to get this to work on 1.20 Midnight controls and controllable are not available yet for this version. Instead you will need to make sure that you renamed the Prism Launcher to Minecraft: Java Edition and then hit the steam button while in the game, go to controller settings, and change the layout to a community layout ( I used the second one). This will get you 99% of the way but I personally had to make some further adjustments to the controller layout. I disabled gyro, and made the shoulder buttons (which are mapped to the scroll wheel) only activate on press down that way it does not scroll through the hotbar too quickly. Game runs amazing on the switch with Complimentary Unbound shaders and I managed 60 fps on average and dips only went to 40 fps. Also the game might not start out with the max quality, to fix this jut change the video settings to fullscreen inside of minecraft
I tried to do it but at the last step it said to make your profile but it stayed that it couldn’t create the profile,is there a way I can fix this?😅
Thanks to YT reccing this vid at end of one of your others, I now have Prism Launcher able to play my modpacks on my SteamDeck with a custom set of binds that work for me!
Antvenom youve been my favorite youtuber ever. I grew up watching you and ill never forget all the joy your videos gave me thank you!
Wow! I was always a bit sceptical about the Steam Deck but wanted to have one because it's a popular device with Linux on it out-of-the box. With this video I now know that I certainly want one. I hope I can get me one soon, it sounds like a lot of fun playing Minecraft on a handheld with acceptable framerates! (my best PC struggles when I do anything in Minecraft except standing in one spot)
Steamdeck is a must have device, the emulation, the customization of it are impeccable, the closest device to it can rival it will cost you around $1.5k. If your PC can do it, steamdeck can do it basically.
@@Apple_Beshy yeah this thing is like a godsend idek how it's possible for it to be so good, I don't usually shill for shit but man I really want one of these it would be an amazing device to have like it sounds like a blast lol
Update: My PC's graphics card died after ten or so years of working because it had to be "cooled" with the hot air that already cooled the processor... The PC is an Alienware X51, a terribly constructed computer.
It's nice to see the KDE Plasma desktop environment embraced by the Steam Deck.
This is INCREDIBLE! Great job!
Its been 6 months will you come back antVenom your videos gave me nostalgia and you going away gives me a double nostalgia effect
2:39 Both modes use linux because that's the operating system. I think you were talking about the user interface. Game mode uses the Steam Deck UI and Desktop mode uses KDE Plasma as the desktop environment.
Mod Suggestions, Corrections, & Notes! (Expand the comment) Heyo! I wanted to make a comment where I could write down certain notes to augment this video into the future. Notes below. Mod / Program Suggestions: » GDLauncher - A launcher that I wish had seen prior to making this video. Check it out! Corrections: » 3:18 - Use of the word "hijack" was a mistake. As far as I've now heard the lead for PolyMC and the current Prism devs had a falling out over subjective disagreements, and I heard potential rumors that I really should not have mentioned in this video. I mentioned it in the interest of viewer safety, but it's a claim I should have looked into more deeply before choosing to ultimately write the note that I did.
As someone who got to witness the post-fight mess. You have nothing to apologize for. Facts are PolyMC lead dev is hostile to the Rainbow People. Prism hard forked immediately and within hours it was like "nothing ever happened" but now they're called Prism. The updates that have come out for Prism and the support is absolutely fantastic. As far as we're concerned PolyMC is unalived and should stay that way.
You might say what he did was hijacking, despite him being the owner of the codebase, he locked out all other contributors and "froze" the source repository so no one could do anything but watch
@@PanoptesDreams i also saw what happened and oh my god that was such a huge mess lennymclennington literally killed the project so quickly. he couldve just put everyones differences aside and allowed the project to continue but he really had to let out his hatred and destroy the project
They did not just have a falling out, the owner of the PolyMC project removed and banned all the other developers without warning or reason. He removed the project's code of conduct with a commit titled “Reclaim PolyMC from the leftoids” afterwards they continued to ban anyone with trans flags from the polyMC discord server. Hijack might not have been the right word but it was definitly a hostile takeover. Lenny (the guy that banned everyone else) was not even an active developer and all the actual active developers forked the project into Prism Launcher. Also PolyMC is currently breaking CurseForge's TOS by using an API key that they are not supposed to use.
Are you still alive?
Thank you so much for this, I got a gorgeous shader and the physics mod and it's made it as beautiful as I've always wanted
Jesus youtube brought me back its been YEARS seens I've seen an AntVenom video. Glad to see you're still going on youtube!
I knew you can install Minecraft on the steam deck, Because in the steam deck you have Linux and Minecraft is on Linux, but I didn’t know about the further steps Good video like always
Minecraft isn't on Linux, java is on everything including Linux. Because as the programmers say java is "write once, debug everywhere" ;) Fr tho java runs great on Linux, windoze not so much.
@@SuperTort0ise so, minecraft java on a smart tv is possible. right?
@@MrTypho Technically, but I have yet to see anyone actually taking the work and root their TV.
@@SuperTort0ise technically, but Minecraft depends on some native code (mostly windowing/input/OpenGL bindings) that need to be compiled for each target platform. You don't need to think about that normally because the java version just ships with the binaries for windows, macos and Linux.
I was very impressed with your Steam Deck when I handled it. I use steam controller for java mc and it feels similar.
this is honestly so cool good job man!
Thanks!
wow I don't think I've seen an ant venom video since like 2013, the steam deck has really brought me back to my roots lmao
Antvenom where are you
If you are going to play just one modpack, you can set it so it won't launch Prism at all and straight up go into Minecraft! Or just make multiple entries for each modpack you want. I personally don't know how to set it up exactly on the Deck, but I saw one of the Prism devs @Scrumplex comment here so if you want, you can ask him for help and maybe make a new pinned comment or quick additional video to show it!
If you want to do this, in the steam entry, where it says Target just add "-l [name]" after prismlauncher. eg. if your profile on Prism Launcher is called Fabric, you would add "-l Fabric". So the full text in the target field would be something like "prismlauncher -l Fabric" Also that's an L not an i
@@rileyn2983wait why is it an L that makes no sense
@@backwardsface3046 "L" as in add "-l [name]" not "-I [name]"
l@@backwardsface3046 I know this is pretty old, but the answer can be found by running prismlauncher --help L is for (L)aunch you could also put it as "prismlauncher --launch Fabric"
This was pretty useful in 2024. I saw this video over a year ago, but steam deck wasn't available at the time here (Norway), got mine yesterday and used this guide, got it running pretty easily.
This man just did the impossible, bring Java to what technally is a console ( The Controls and stuff ), And A Mobile Device. Bounds have been broken.
I actually use midnight controls and steam input as I found there were quite a bit of things that midnight couldn’t do alone. Ps steam input can bind multiple things to one button and more with mode shifting, I highly recommend doing a deep dive on steam input as if you wanted to spend the time you could do a million things with it.
I love that the steam deck is subtly bringing more ppl to linux
Such a cool video, Ant! I really enjoyed it :)
i want from my tv to my phone just to comment this bro but you did such a good job explaining everything and even giving the file location if you wanna import those maps cuz honestly i would have gotten lost there if i were to be that person who would try this if they could. 10/10
will watch again eventually
This video helped me a lot but not in the way you think. I use Linux as my daily operating system and used PolyMC to play Minecraft. I was real bummed when I heard that PolyMC was hijacked which meant I couldn't use it safely. Now that I know of the prism launcher I can play Minecraft mutch easier now. Thanks Ant!
PolyMC WAS NOT hijacked. Everyone who tells that either lies or was misleaden by those lies. PolyMC owner booted off the team bunch of idiots for trying to bring politics in, not more nor less
Just some information, the Steam Deck runs Linux in every "mode", that being the game mode or desktop mode, the only difference between the two is that game mode uses a custom interface made by valve and desktop mode uses KDE, both are linux under the hood, you are not switching operating systems when switching modes
Thank you sir! This video was really useful and detailed! Good job!
Using the fabulously optimized modpack is probably the way to go for this. Also, you can create a shortcut for the specific instance of Minecraft you want to run, letting you skip the launcher.
For anyone saying he is dead check the community tab he posted there just a month ago
What does it say? Many people are on mobile so can’t see community posts.
@@emilelesaffre he sharing a video about world detecting anomaly with math and redstone
@@emilelesaffre What? All mobile versions have community posts
I just wanted to say that I've had my steam deak for a couple of months now, and one of the first things I did was try and get minecraft on the steam deck. The first launcher I found and used was polyMC. It was great until the executives went nuts. Now I use GDLauncher. Great app, I can download popular mod packs from Curse forge and FTB both in the launcher. Sometimes, some mods can't be downloaded because mod creators opt out of modpacks, or something I don't really understand that part, but when you have those mods, GDLauncher will automatically download those mods via the browser. It will get them all without you touching it. In fact, it recommended you don't touch it while it's doing that 😅. I highly recommend checking them out as well!
Thanks ant this helped
Holy hell the things i need to do to play Minecraft with my daughter. I bought her a steam deck OLED for her birthday and purchased both Minecraft games from Steam... not realizing they arent what we had played together previously. Now to jump through all these hoops! I appriciate this video man. I'm taking it slow to get this up and running for her.
ant will find a way to run minecraft on anything. can't wait to see "I Ran Minecraft On A Ti-84" in my recommended in a month
While you can't exactly run Minecraft on a calculator, you absolutely can play it! Someone made a program called calc2key (it might only work for the ti-84+CE, I'm not entirely sure) which will cast your screen to the calculator and allow mouse and keyboard control from the calculator itself.
@@A2ne that's utterly insane hahaha
Some people don’t realize that the steam deck has *everything*
i just wanted to come here and say i love ur thugpro stuff and couldn’t believe it was u, someome i used to watch so much as a kid right after my thug1-2-thaw phase :) also think i saw u in main lobby for a literal split second yesterday 🤣🤣
Just got re-excited about my steam deck arriving soon
As a Linux User, I really like what valve does with the Steam Deck, since they are making Linux mainstream and showing that Gaming on Linux is possible. (If you play games that don't Natively support Linux that aren't Steam Deck Verified, you might need to do some tweaking, but otherwise, it just works, in most cases).
Gaming on Linux was always possible, but Valve made it so great that you can actually prefer Linux over Windows specifically for gaming
@@akeem2983 Agreed, Gaming on Linux is thanks to Valve amazing, we don't have to tweak that much anymore (at least for most Steam Games without anticheat).
@@TheDigitalDragon I love the amount of asterisks we have to use like: gaming on Linux is great!* It really just works** you can play so many games*** * If you want to play old windoze games not so much ** Sometimes things just break *** Unless drm/anticheat And so on... but hey it's better than nothing and getting better every day.
@@SuperTort0ise You can use RetroArch, DosBox or Emulation station though.
@@prototry that's another asterisk Also emulation not translation so not really running on Linux but Linux running it. The stuff I'm talking about is 2000-2008 and it's hell on windows too, just try to play og deadspace without patches, a lotta games work (generally not just Linux) but games back then are rough.
I don't have a Steam Deck, but I'm really glad I watched this video and learned about Prism. I've been using the official CurseForge launcher, and all the ads and popups really make it feel like adware and make me super uncomfy. After installing Prism and seeing that it not only allows you to install packs from CurseForge but also Technic and other places, it's definitely my go-to now. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
Wtf I knew I recolonized that voice. I haven't watched your videos since I was like 12 or so. Glad to see you're still making content all these years later.
Hey ant i got a steam deck recently and this video is very helpful thank you!
I bought my steamdeck exclusively because it could run Minecraft, since that game is what I mainly play as someone who doesn't game much. I can say it's extremely weird watching you play the game using the joysticks, when using the touchpads to control movement and mouse is so much easier. Other than that, I've been playing Minecraft basically daily for several months now, and it's been a fantastic time. Highly recommend from me!
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How much does minecraft cost?
@@ir9262 like $30 good thing i already own it
Gyroscope aiming is extremely underrated, I don’t understand why it isn’t an option in the mainstream shooters when it’s basically the answer to the aim assist debate.
Not to mention fortnite.. ( even though I am) I use gyro aiming in that game.
Because I dislike it
@@boom5732 Cool, but that doesn’t explain why it’s not an option in most modern shooters.
Glad you’re still around. It’s cool you adopted the ant theme, i always thought you were eventually going back to Ant1venom
This guy was my childhood and he still makes high quality videos
i bought a 256GB Steam Deck about a month back and i can say its probably one of the best purchases i've ever made. it's basically just a hand-held PC. i have a few choice words for Valve when it comes to how they handle updating some of their most popular games that still make them tons of money 15 years later (it's been 7 years since TF2's last major content update despite the player count peaking earlier this year) but i think they're doing great work in the hardware department first with the Index and now the Steam Deck, and the work they've done for gaming on Linux has honestly been nothing short of monumental. if anyone is thinking about getting into PC gaming, honestly just get a Steam Deck and a Steam Deck Docking Station. even the cheapest Steam Deck option performs about as good as more expensive gaming set ups, and there's the added benefit of hand-held mode.
You don’t need midnight controls if you use a community controller setup. Works great!
It’s really cool to see Ant still doing videos. I appreciate the fact he ever lost his touch.
Waw thanks man I need to step up my game Minecraft survival hardcore roles 🤗
Amazing video !
Thanks!
@@AntVenom Great videos, dude!
5:33 you can bind multiple buttons to one button in steam input you just have to add an extra command with the gear icon
Oh oops! I guess I hadn’t understood Steam controls that deeply yet. It’s truly complicated, but in a good way.
@@AntVenom steam input is like a deep lake if you don't know how to swim you'll in for a bad time but once you learn its amazing.
@@AntVenom AWESOME Content!
I will always enjoy this man's content
bro i remember ur songs bro 8 years ago nostalgia damn
Now go try some radial menus, they’re so great in Minecraft. I have both trackpads set up as separate radial menus, with the right one doubling as a mouse in menus, so nice.
I definitely gotta give that a try.
@@AntVenom You probably 300% should!
don't have a steam deck but i wondered if it would be a pain to run minecraft on it or not. i use a linux PC so i figured it would basically be the same setup, save for controller configuration.
thankyou i just went and got minecraft so i can enjoy it once again and mow me happy
Daaang. The Steam deck looks great with minecraft. I plan on getting it eventually but this makes me wanna get it more now! :D
It's been 4 months and he hasn't upload a video. Edit: 6 months?
Just get the Fabulously optimized modpack on modrinth and turn on controller mode in the settings of modrinth and you're good to go
I didn't know ant played osrs. What a video to find this information out on
something important to note is that the trackpad is *really* really useful for stuff like mods that don't work with midnight controls i use litematica quite a bit, and as such i need the right trackpad to emulate mouse controls, so i just set it to do just that, and it works a treat if i want more precise aiming without using gyro. and btw it would've been helpful if you told us what shaders were used, but i personally use sildur's vibrant shaders lite and it works pretty alright
The important thing you shouldn't forget is that Steam Deck runs Linux, so you can do anything that you can do with a normal Linux PC. You can play non-Steam games like Minecraft: Java Edition if it has native Linux support. You can play non-Steam games like League of Legends even if it doesn't have native Linux support by Proton. You can install and use any app that has Linux support (Discord, Spotify, etc.) You can install and use game stores other than Steam itself like Epic, Rockstar Launcher, etc. by Lutris You can plug a monitor, a keyboard and a mouse and use it as a normal PC. You can tell people "I use Arch btw" Hell, you can even turn your Deck into a fucking server. And most importantly, you can brick your Deck by deleting the fucking kernel.
SteamOS, although Arch-based, is an immutable distro tho, meaning by default it's really hard to remove core system packages. Apps on Desktop Mode are handled through Flatpak, which containerises them so they don't mess with the system. Probably for the best, since casual users won't break their system installing dodgy packages, and advanced users can probably just install another distro if they want that control.
Cerous question where did you go I have been watching you since my childhood and seeing you go like this is sad
Thank you so much. I really wondered what happened to PolyMC. Will try it out tomorrow.
Hey, Great video, got up and running with little work. One thing to mention is that you need the Fabric API as well. I had errors saying that 0.71 + was not installed after installing the API, it worked great :)