Laby Launcher

Instances

• Drag an instance onto the desktop to get a shortcut for it
• Create a desktop shortcut for an instance from its right click menu
• Duplicate an instance and pick which group the copy lands in
• Instance settings gained a category rail and a search field
• The screenshot viewer reads the LabyMod metadata in a picture
• A screenshot shows the version account server and position it was taken at
• Screenshots open in a small scene that shows where every player stood
• The shaders tab can switch a shader mod back on instead of downloading it again
• Right click menus on every installed list
• Several instances may run at the same time by default
• A game from your last session is picked up again after a launcher restart
• An adopted game ends the way a launched one does with play time and cleanup
• The instance list follows live updates without a manual refresh
• Scanning a folder finds instances at any depth below it
• The migrated default instance follows the newest release
• Converting your own game directory copies eight files at once and shows progress
• A LabyMod jar is never paired with a libraries list from another build
• Being signed out is reported as sign in again instead of launching an old build

Creating an instance

• Instance creation is a dialog wizard you can walk back through
• Pick mods and content while creating an instance and install it all on finish
• Pick the instance icon during creation
• A card on the first step takes you straight to import
• Bundle LabyMod is a toggle that is on by default
• Modpack instances carry LabyMod where the pack loader allows it
• Fabric and Forge offer every version their own loader supports
• A searchable version picker with a minor version row you can scroll or drag
• Loader tiles carry their own logo
• Sharing mods and addons moved into advanced options
• Switching loader no longer flashes a loading state

Icon editor

• One icon editor for instances and servers
• Combine a symbol and a gradient background into an icon
• Custom background colours
• A layer list with reordering visibility and drag handles
• Select several layers and delete them together
• Randomize an icon
• The last eight icons you used are kept
• Search the symbol grid
• Upload your own image and treat it like any other symbol
• A live preview at every size the launcher draws the icon in
• Badged preset icons for new instances

Mods and content

• A details dialog for mods addons and packs with description and gallery
• Project details are cached on disk for fourteen days
• Notify me on a mod that has no build for your version yet
• Remove an installed project by clicking it
• Bundled addons stay in the browse list greyed out at the bottom
• Incompatible addons sort last
• A browse search says when it matched nothing
• A browse search clears when you leave that tab
• Hovering the remove button on an installed addon shows a trash bin icon
• Addons are checked against the Minecraft version too
• A library is no longer called a mod
• The store is offered when a card has nothing installed

Modpacks

• Browse and install FTB modpacks next to Modrinth and CurseForge
• A platform rail in the create dialog switches the modpack source
• The whole FTB catalogue is cached locally so browsing it is instant
• Modpack cards and their summary card were restyled

Import and export

• Import NoRisk Client instances including the profiles that ship with the client
• Import cards carry one meta line with version loader and content counts
• The import header names how many launcher folders are searched
• The import rescan setting left the global settings

Clips recording

• Record your game in the background and save the last minutes with one key
• Recording on Windows Linux and macOS straight out of the running game
• Choose the codec quality frame rate and clip length up to five minutes
• Hardware H264 HEVC and AV1 wherever the graphics card offers them
• Dedicated AMD NVIDIA and Intel encoder paths for clean recordings
• Pick the window to record from a grid of live previews
• Record several games at once each keyed to its own window
• Record the game the desktop and the microphone as separate sound tracks
• A sound track per application so you can balance them afterwards
• Microphone noise suppression push to talk and a level test
• DeepFilterNet as a high quality microphone noise suppression
• Save a clip by voice with phrase lists in German and English
• A card and a chime inside the game when a clip is saved
• The mouse pointer is drawn into Windows clips
• A recording status chip and menu in the title bar
• Leave chosen apps out of the recording
• Clip settings have their own sections and a search
• Settings that restart the recorder are marked as such
• A diagnostics package with sample tables and one keyframe instead of your recording
• Recording follows the game onto its own graphics card on hybrid laptops
• The apps you can leave out are listed with their icons and update live

Clip editor

• A full clip editor with a stage a transport a timeline and render jobs
• Cut trim split and group items on the timeline
• Text shapes arrows and blur you can drag while typing
• A blur takes in what is drawn under it
• Colour filters effects transitions and animation panels
• Automatic captions from the clip sound
• Pick the caption source language model and look
• Captions through Whisper or Vosk with word timings
• Import your own videos images and audio into a clip
• Record a voiceover take and have it levelled automatically
• Speed changes and freeze frames
• Drafts so an edit survives closing the editor
• Undo history for everything you do
• Export a range as a video or as a GIF with a size choice
• Export with one flattened sound track or with every track kept
• Balance every sound track with a look ahead limiter over the mix
• Reframe a clip for another aspect ratio
• A library panel for your imports and assets

Clips library and sharing

• A clips page with a grid month headers hover playback and filters
• Filter clips by the people in them and the server they were played on
• Players and the server are tagged automatically out of the game
• Name tags over the clip viewer showing where the players stood
• Post a clip to the Laby website with a visibility you choose
• Comments reactions and mentions on posted clips
• See the clips your friends posted
• Edit the title server and people of an uploaded clip
• Drag clips out of the library into Discord or the explorer
• Rubber band selection ctrl A and delete in the grid
• Rename a clip by clicking its title in the viewer
• Folders for your clips with an order you set by hand

Play screen

• The friends list sits in its own column beside the news on wide windows
• Filter the friends list by name once it holds eight friends or more
• Click a friend to open a direct chat

Skins

• A discover page for skins with categories
• Search a player by name and add the skin they are wearing
• Drop a PNG onto the skin list to add it
• Live use counts on every skin
• Skins you are wearing can be removed from my skins not only added

News

• News and changelog are one feed with filters per source
• Laby articles LabyMod and launcher releases and Minecraft patch notes in one stream
• Minecraft entries link their wiki page
• A reader bar that carries the title once the headline scrolls away
• The news categories are called Laby and Minecraft now
• Markdown tables in news are styled like the website

Settings

• Settings have a search bar five categories and a jump rail
• A highlight colour picker with presets and any colour you like
• A keybind control for the clip keys
• Close the window to the tray with open settings and quit in its menu
• Start with the system straight into the tray
• Add a Steam library entry with artwork for Big Picture and the Deck
• Storage settings showing what every kind of content uses
• Hardware acceleration can be turned off and heals back on after fourteen days
• Settings rows react at once and the list stays smooth while scrolling
• A switch or dropdown follows its setting when it is changed somewhere else
• Directory fields are wider and the path can still be selected

Storage and downloads

• A storage panel listing every content kind with the clearable rows first
• Instances listed by size each with a breakdown per category
• Remove leftover instance data by hand
• Delete cache entries and assets no instance holds any more
• One content cache for every download in the launcher
• The storage walk skips Windows junctions
• Java runtimes install from the Mojang manifest instead of an archive

Notifications

• Chat message banners with quick reply and the sender head
• Unread notifications sit at the top of the list
• Banners for friends coming online are opt in

Logs and crashes

• The crash dialog reads the crash report and names what broke the game
• Apply a fix from the crash dialog and take it back again
• Diagnoses for old java 32 bit java the wrong version mixin conflicts and broken packs
• Log level filters for normal warning and error lines
• Send a log to support straight from the launcher
• The game writes its own log files so the launcher can be closed and reopened
• Ctrl F puts the caret in the log search field and keeps it open
• Failed resources and uncaught errors reach the log
• The install log is written to the launcher logs folder
• A log another launcher holds open no longer breaks startup

Accounts

• Deleting the account you are signed in with switches to another one
• A read never lands in a bucket the token does not belong to
• Account rows moved into a title bar popover
• Cosmetics are retried when they arrive late or come back empty
• The launcher falls back to the Steve head when no skin can be fetched

Look and feel

• The whole launcher rebuilt on the LabySky design language
• Blocky pixel styling for buttons pills tabs cards and dialogs
• Rounded window corners on Windows 11
• A new loading screen with the mark and a glow
• Window control buttons drawn as launcher keys
• Escape closes any dialog popover or menu without leaving the page
• Every search field gained a clear button
• The screenshot lightbox slides left and right when you page through it

Performance and stability

• Startup shows its steps with a progress bar an estimate and a note when one runs long
• Pages load lazily so the window is ready sooner
• The launcher never waits on the clip recorder on Windows or Linux
• The clips encoder probe never blocks the launcher on Linux
• Background refreshers step aside while a game is launching
• Connections race IPv6 and IPv4 so a slow host no longer stalls the launcher
• The installer is about twenty seven megabytes smaller
• Bundled images ship as webp and the fonts as one variable family
• Files are written atomically so a crash cannot leave half a file behind
• Quitting tears everything down instead of leaving a ghost process
• A module set that lost a file relaunches into a sound one
• The launcher runs on Electron 44 and Chromium 150
• One zip reader and one zip writer for the whole launcher
• No image bytes travel over the internal bridge any more
• The first launch no longer grinds the window while it hashes files
• Server and player icons are cached across views so nothing flickers
• Minecraft metadata and version images are served from disk first

Updates and installing

• The launcher updates in modules so most updates need no installer at all
• A stable and a nightly update channel
• Translations update over the air together with the code
• A new assisted Windows installer with a welcome folder progress and finish page
• The Windows installer is drawn in the launcher own look
• The Windows installer is offline and carries everything it installs
• Terms of service acceptance happens in the Windows installer
• The update button moved into the title bar

Windows

• Clips recording through the game own graphics with AMD NVIDIA and Intel encoders
• Desktop shortcuts for instances by right click or by drag
• The mouse pointer is composited into clips

Linux

• Clips recording on Linux through OpenGL and Vulkan
• Per application sound tracks on Linux
• Launcher data moves to the local share folder on its own
• The updated AppImage starts with a clean environment
• Launcher and game windows are named so taskbars match them to the icon

macOS

• A second build for everything below Ventura
• Clips recording on macOS with hardware H264 and AAC sound
• A mac moves onto the modern build as soon as it can run it
• The menu bar item carries the logo cut lines and cmd Q quits the launcher
• The dock icon brings the launcher back when it is hidden in the tray
• Native libraries are stripped so the newest macOS can load them
• File watchers are closed on quit so nothing deadlocks the app

Servers

The servers page stays hidden until ongoing infrastructure updates are done.

Everything below is ready and will be switched on at a later time.

• Create a server with a type picker version information memory and a port
• Paper Fabric Forge and vanilla servers with the right java resolved for you
• A live console with colours and a command input
• An overview tab graphing processor and memory use over the last minute
• A files tab with a split editor syntax highlighting image preview and multi select
• An NBT tree editor for server files
• A properties tab with translated descriptions search and autosave
• Access management with player autocomplete
• A worlds tab and one click hosting of a singleplayer world
• Backups on a schedule and of a running server
• A content browser for mods plugins and datapacks
• A server icon you can edit with the same editor instances use
• Share your servers publically through our relay server (doesn't expose your IP)

Chat and friends

The chats page stays hidden until ongoing infrastructure updates are done.

Everything below is ready and will be switched on at a later time.

• Changelog details for chats coming soon once publically released 🤫

Integrations

• Discord presence now work for non LabyMod instances
• A Steam library entry with artwork for Big Picture and the Steam Deck
• Discord presence speaks its socket directly without an extra library
• Turning Discord presence off drops the connection

Onboarding

• Onboarding takes the most recent account when none is active