What's new.

Who you see in game

• Choose whose pets and capes you see: everyone's, only your friends', or only your own. Settings › Friends › In game, and it changes while you play.
• Your own pet and cape always show.

Safer capes

• Every cape put up is checked before other players can see it. Capes that break the rules aren't shared.
• Report a cape in game: look at the player and press K twice (you can change the key in Controls). It disappears for you right away, and you can show reported capes again from Settings › Friends.

Ranks

• See what a rank looks like on you before you get it: your own card in its banner, frame and name style, and everything it comes with.
• Your subscriptions are in Settings › Account › Supporter, with when they renew. Cancel in two clicks, and undo it if you change your mind. You keep the rank until the paid month ends.
• The first 100 players get the Pioneer rank, free. MC² tells you when you're one of them.

Fixes

• Switching accounts now switches your Cubes and friends straight away.
• The crown sits on top of a helmet instead of inside it.

Installing

• Open MC² from Downloads and it offers to put itself in Applications, with one click.
• MC² now downloads as a disk image: drag it into Applications and you're done.

Cubes

• Levels are gone. Everything in the Locker is bought with Cubes, so anything is yours once you have enough.
• Nothing is lost: everything you had already unlocked through levels is still yours.

Signed and notarized

• MC² is now signed and notarized by Apple. It opens straight away on any Mac, with no "unidentified developer" warning.

Playing offline

• Your pet, cape, wearables, trail and name style show in game even when you are offline.
• Your own skin stays on when you play offline.
• Pressing Play while offline no longer waits up to ten minutes before the game starts.

Fixes

• Settings, keybinds and configs copied from Windows are read correctly.

Fixes

• Other players' animated capes no longer look zoomed in or low resolution.
• A friend's cape updates when they change it, without restarting your game.

Fixes

• Other MC² players' animated capes now animate on your screen, not just on theirs.
• Animated capes are sent to other players at full detail. Put your cape on again once after updating so your friends get the sharper version.

Fixes for playing with friends

• A friend's cape shows even if it arrives after you first see them, and even when you are not wearing a cape yourself.
• Pets no longer take minutes to appear when the connection hiccups while you join a server.
• With more than one account on the same Mac, each game shows your other accounts' real capes.

Pets

• Wear a pet from the new Pet tab in the Locker and it follows you in game: 24 small versions of real Minecraft mobs, from a Mini Dragon built on the real Ender Dragon model to a wolf pup, fox kit, axolotl, allay, snifflet, mini creeper and mini warden.
• Pets keep up however fast you go, through sprinting, long falls and elytra flight. Land pets put on elytra of their own and fly beside you.
• Look at a pet and it stays put and looks back. Pets sit, stroll, hop, look around and do tricks of their own.
• Press U (rebind it in Controls) to tell your pet to stay, and again to call it back.
• Other MC² players see your pet.

Your look, in game

• Your name style shows in game: on your name tag, in the tab list and on your name in chat. Gradients and animated styles included.
• Changes in the Locker reach a running game straight away: skins, capes, pets and name styles. No rejoining.
• Crowns stay on your head while gliding, swimming and crawling.

The Locker

• App look sets everything at once: the app's colours, its icon in the Dock and menu bar, and your game's loading screen.
• Skins and capes live in the Locker now.
• 22 new still banners, the cheapest things in the shop.
• 15 new animated capes for everyone, free: Molten, Northern Lights, Shooting Star, Enchanted, End Portal, Tide, Cherry Fall, Redstone Clock, Geode, Thunderhead, Sculk Pulse, Daybreak, Nether Portal, Campfire and Galaxy.

Fixes

• MC² uses far less CPU and memory while it sits idle or in the background.
• Your custom loading screen shows even with mods that change the loading screen, such as Flashback.
• Friends stay connected more reliably.

See the pets

Cubes and the Locker

• Play and earn Cubes. Every minute you actually play earns one, and every level unlocks something to wear: frames, banners, name colours, profile effects, themes, accent colours, app icons and loading screens.
• Open the new Locker to put them on. Friends see your look in their friends list and in chat.
• Only real play counts: the game has to be in front and you have to be playing.
• Play a little every day to build a streak for bonus Cubes.

Plugins, rebuilt

• Every plugin in Browse is reviewed before it is listed, and MC² checks that you get exactly the files that were reviewed.
• Plugins ask before they get anything. You see what a plugin wants and choose Allow.
• A stuck plugin can no longer freeze MC². It shows Not responding with a Disable button.
• Plugins can add cards to the Play screen, tabs to a pack's page, items to menus, badges in the sidebar and their own settings page.
• New My plugins tab for making your own, and a Credits page in Settings.

Remote Play pairing

• Your phone pairs with MC² using a 6-digit code instead of connecting openly.

Fixes

• Games no longer quit on their own about 18 seconds after launch.
• Safer imports: packs, worlds and plugins can no longer write outside their own folders.

Servers

• Every server shows its own icon, its MOTD in its real colours and a live player count.
• Servers that publish their address through DNS, like hypixel.net, are now found.
• Drag servers to reorder them, and rename them.
• Each server shows which pack joins it, and you can pick a different one.

Playing

• Play another: start a second, third or fourth copy of a pack while it is already running, as yourself or another account.
• Games keep running when MC² closes. Reopen it and they show up again, still counting playtime.

Updates

• MC² checks for updates, downloads them in the background and relaunches into the new version in one click.
• After an update, What's new shows you what changed.

Also new

• Set up AI to build a pack from a description and to explain crashes in the Crash Doctor.