@cpages, thanks for your PR! By analyzing the history of the files in this pull request, we identified @ryantm, @nathan7 and @edolstra to be potential reviewers.

Cool. I'll try to take a look at this this weekend. Let's get the icon working before merging this!

I also get the "Illegal Instruction" error. Also, they've updated Minecraft_staging.tar.gz in-place and the new has is currently: 06yx7rcq4yl5ds2ccav8rqg6kv6dfy4zbgifzvgpf8cqn1rk3a0a

Error:

ryantm@laptop1 ~/p/nixpkgs (minecraft)$ minecraft
/nix/store/42yhvsr19z9rx3cgflja25gyjzk6syf6-minecraft-2.0.759/share/minecraft/.launcher-wrapped: unrecognized option '--type=zygote'
/nix/store/42yhvsr19z9rx3cgflja25gyjzk6syf6-minecraft-2.0.759/share/minecraft/.launcher-wrapped: unrecognized option '--no-sandbox'
/nix/store/42yhvsr19z9rx3cgflja25gyjzk6syf6-minecraft-2.0.759/share/minecraft/.launcher-wrapped: unrecognized option '--lang=en-US'
Illegal instruction
ryantm@laptop1 ~/p/nixpkgs (minecraft)$ /proc/self/exe: unrecognized option '--type=gpu-process'
/proc/self/exe: unrecognized option '--no-sandbox'
/proc/self/exe: unrecognized option '--window-depth=24'

Here is the AUR package for inspiration: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=minecraft-launcher

(triage) Is this still being looked after?

The current installer still works, so let's just close it and I'll try to retake this if needed

@cpages, I tried these changes with the latest version of the new launcher (with a few tweaks since there is no .sh file anymore) and I think I'm getting the same illegal instruction error.

The workaround of using the old launcher doesn't work with forge to get mods. Any chance you could open this PR again so we can start using the new launcher?

@nathantalewis it's been a while that I don't even play it, so it's low on my priority list, but I'll reopen in case I manage some progress

@cpages, I was able to find a workaround that allowed me to use the old launcher with forge. It turns out there was an empty string in a url field of the forge version json file. I just added the correct url for the version I was using at everything was happy.