kCraft - minecraft launcher in bash
kCraft - minecraft launcher in bash

GitHub - TUVIMEN/kCraft: kCraft - Minecraft Launcher

The original script was made in 2020 by stnby and was not touched since (you can find link to article about it from the author in my repo). It was extremely simple with 109 lines of code, but required manual use of commands for 6 download stages. Nonetheless it was very useful to me in my highschool days and so i was using it with crude wrapper scripts.
Recently though i made a fork of it, simplifying it's usage and extending it. Now it's as simple as calling kcraft
and choosing the version or calling with version directly e.g. kcraft 1.21.8
.
I managed to make it work with optifine, but i don't know how to automate it's installation without gui (similar case for forge).
It's best use case is to very quickly play vanilla minecraft on new machine ;)