Press Right Shift. It's still Minecraft.

Everything BlueClient adds sits on one page made of the game's own buttons — same grey slabs, same font, same place on the screen. You already know how to use it before you open it.

Three sections — General, Combat and Visual — then Waypoints, HUD Layout and Presets, which get a page each.
Type three letters in the search box and you're on the setting, wherever it was filed.
HUD Layout drags every readout wherever you want it.
Presets save the whole client under a name. Switch mid-game; the one you leave saves itself.

Blue Settings open over the game: six vanilla Minecraft buttons — General, Combat, Visual, Waypoints, HUD Layout and Presets — a search box above them and Done below.

What it adds to your screen

A map and thirteen readouts, drawn the way the game draws things. Drag any of them anywhere. Turn off the ones you don't want.

Minimap

FPS

Ping

Coordinates

Clock

Day

CPS

Target

Potion effects

Keystrokes

Armour and durability

Totem counter

Saturation

Waypoints you can see through a mountain

Drop one on your base, your portal, the hole you left the diamonds in. It stands up through the terrain with its name and how far away it is, so getting home stops being a map problem.

Sixteen colours, each named in its own colour.
Link one to a block and it outlines that block when you walk up to it.
Die, and one is planted where you fell before you can forget.
Every one shows on the minimap too, held at the edge when it's off the map.

Play the song you actually want

Minecraft's soundtrack turns up when it feels like it, and never when you want it. BlueClient hands you the list instead — Sweden, Mice on Venus, Aria Math, all of them, by name — and plays the one you pick.

Every song in the game, in one list you scroll. Clicking a row plays it, so choosing is listening.
Its own volume, so turning the music up doesn't turn the game up with it.
Shuffle if you'd rather not choose, and skip when you've heard enough.
Switch it off and the game's own music comes straight back — nothing was written to your settings.

The Music page open over the game: a scrolling list of Minecraft song names in vanilla buttons, with the one playing marked.

A launcher that stays out of your way

Sign in with the Microsoft account that already owns the game — or just type a name — pick a profile, press Play. No second account, no launcher behind the launcher.

Every profile keeps its own version, memory and mods.
Nothing leaks between them — a modded world can't break the one you play on servers.
Sodium, Lithium, FerriteCore, Entity Culling, ImmediatelyFast, Krypton, Dynamic FPS, Iris and LambDynamicLights come set up.
Pick any Minecraft off a wall of its own posters, snapshots included. BlueClient's own menu and HUD come with 1.20.5 to 26.3.
Run more than one game at once, on different accounts.

The BlueClient launcher: a player standing in a world under a Play button, with Cosmetics and Where you left off on one side and featured servers with live player counts and Friends on the other.

Every hour counts

Play with BlueClient and your hours are written down — on every server, in every world — as a level that only goes up, a streak of days, and capes you earn by playing. Nothing to buy. The record stays on your PC.

Level 2 after fifteen minutes, level 3 after an hour, and it never stops. Your hours on a server you already play count from the first day.
The last seven days on Home, every day a bar. Press it and the whole week opens, day by day, hour by hour.
Two capes, both of them moving: Signature at level 3, and one in your own colours at level 100 — or sooner, when three friends you invited have played. Seen in the game by everyone on BlueClient.
Copy your card as a picture and paste it straight into Discord.

Next to the others

Eight things people ask before they install a client. The first two we measured ourselves, on one PC, the same way for every client — the benchmarks show how. The other six come from each client's own website, read on 4 September 2026.

BlueClient compared with Lunar Client and Dawn
	BlueClient	Lunar Client	Dawn
Play to title screen measured	10.9 s on 26.2.	Not measured: it starts the game from its own launcher.	Not measured: it starts the game from its own launcher.
Frames a second measured	824 on 26.2.	Not measured.	Not measured.
What it costs	Free. There is no paid tier.	Free, plus a paid Lunar+ subscription and a radio subscription at $4.99 a month.	Free, with cosmetics and points sold inside the launcher.
The in-game menu	Minecraft's own buttons, on Right Shift.	A panel in Lunar's own style, on Right Shift.	A full-screen panel in Dawn's own style.
Choose the music	Yes — the game's own songs, by name.	No. Lunar FM is radio stations, and they are chosen in the launcher.	No. Its Music module controls an outside music app.
Ads in the client	None.	The free tier of its radio is ad-supported; paying removes the ads.	Its terms reserve the right to show ads in the launcher, and to limit it for anyone blocking them.
Anything to buy	Nothing. There is no store.	Cloaks, wings, pets and emotes, with a Store button on the in-game title screen.	Cosmetics and points, in the launcher.
Minecraft versions	1.20.5 to 26.3 — nineteen of them.	1.7 through to the current 26.2.	Not published on the site.

Lunar Client is lunarclient.com, Dawn is dawn.gg. If any of this has changed since, tell us and it changes here.

And the rest

Zoom: Hold a key and the view narrows. Looking around slows down with it, so tracking something far off stays steady.
Freelook: Swing the camera around yourself without turning your body, then drop back to first person. It stands down by itself on Hypixel, whose rules don't allow it.
Health indicators: Switch it on and everyone's hearts are over their head, above their name, drawn the way the hotbar draws yours — a hit empties them. Players, mobs, or both, at the size you like. Off by itself on Hypixel, whose rules don't allow it, and any server running the BlueClient plugin can hold it off too.
Your own keys: Zoom, freelook and the waypoint marker each have a key of their own, set on their page. Press the button, press the key.
Toggle sprint: Sprint stays on while you move forward, no key held.
Fog and brightness: A slider each for world, water, lava and powder snow, from what the game draws down to none. Fullbright too.
Lower fire: Burning no longer fills the screen. Drop the flames as far as you like and see it as you move the slider.
Shulker preview: Hover a shulker box anywhere and its contents open under it as the grid they are, not five lines of grey text.
Ping as a number: The millisecond count in the player list, green through red, instead of five bars that look the same under 150 ms.
Dynamic lights: A torch in your hand lights the blocks around you — in a cave, at night — without a shader. One switch under Visual.
Time and weather: Keep it day, sunset, night or any tick you type, whatever the server's clock says, and switch the rain off. Only what you see changes.
Shaders, already there: Photon, by SixthSurge, comes with the client. No pack to find, no Iris to install, nothing to unzip — one button under Visual and the world has shadows, moving water and light through the leaves. Ten parts under it, each a switch of its own, so you can take back whatever your machine can’t hold — or leave it to Fast, Balanced and Fancy at the top of the page, which set all ten for you.
Clips, on one key: Press F8 and the last few seconds are a video file on your clipboard, sound and all. Paste it straight into Discord. Nothing records to disk until you press it, and you set how long and how big. Star the ones that matter and the launcher shows just those.
Discover Servers: A list of servers worth playing, in the game’s own Multiplayer screen, with what each one is next to its name. Pick one and it joins; keep one and it’s in your list.
Servers from the pause menu: The server list opens over the running game, with Friends beside it and BlueClient’s own settings above — everything the client adds, one Escape from wherever you are. You stay where you are until you actually pick another server.
Friends: Add people by their Minecraft name and see who's on and where — in a world, or on which server. On the title screen and in the pause menu. No BlueClient account: your Microsoft sign-in is enough.
Join them, or bring them to you: A friend on a server: press Join and you’re on it. A friend in their own survival world: ask to come in, and a card on their screen lets them say yes. Invite works the other way round. No port forwarding, no address to type, no third program — and when your router won’t let a friend reach you directly, BlueClient carries the connection itself.
Reconnect: Kicked, timed out, server full? One button on the disconnect screen puts you back in, without finding the server in the list again.
Presets: Save the whole client under a name — every switch, every option, and where each readout sits. Switch between them mid-game; the one you leave saves itself.
Detailed textures: One switch and the whole game is Faithful's 32x or 64x — the same look, more of it — fetched for your Minecraft. Beside it, small tools, totems, shields and blocks in your hand, at the size you like.
Particles: How many sparks a hit throws and how much smoke a blast makes, from none to four times the game's, in a colour of your choice. Block dust when you break one — and when you place one.
Browse skins: Search skins by what they are — pig, hoodie, lava — or by a player's name for everything they have ever worn. Keep three, switch whenever you like; wearing one is your real skin, everywhere.
Worlds, backed up: Every world you have, from every profile and every other launcher on this PC, on one page. A world is zipped when the game closes, three copies kept, and a world in the official launcher comes over in one press.
Chat that listens: Your name in chat lights the line — and any word you tell it to watch. A search box under the last line finds what was said. Right-click copies a line. Coordinates someone typed are one click from being a waypoint. And everything said is kept in a plain log, one file a day, opened from the launcher.
Block outline: The line round the block you are looking at, as thick, as bright and as see-through as you like — or cycling through every colour.
Drop protection: Q asks twice before a named or enchanted item leaves your hand.
When it crashes, it says why: A game that dies leaves one line on Play in plain words — the mod that did it, named — with Retry and Remove on the same row. No log to read.
Nothing a server calls cheating: No extra reach, no automation, no seeing players through blocks. Everything it adds is on your screen and nowhere else.

What happens next

1
Open the file

BlueClient needs Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit (Windows 8 and 7 can't run it). If a blue box says Windows protected your PC, press More info, then Run anyway. Windows shows that box for any app it hasn't seen much of yet.

The publisher Windows shows is Adrian Lacko: BlueClient's maker, with a code-signing certificate from Certum. Any other name means the file did not come from here.

Before that, your browser may say the file isn't commonly downloaded. Keep it: in Edge press … beside it, then Keep, Show more and Keep anyway. Browsers say this about any app they haven't seen many times yet.

On a Mac, open the file and drag BlueClient into Applications. It is signed by Adrian Lacko and checked by Apple, so it opens like any other app.
2
Sign in, or just type a name

Sign in with Microsoft for your own skin and the servers that check accounts, or type a name and play. The sign-in window is Microsoft's own page, the same one the official launcher opens: BlueClient never sees your password.
3
The first Play takes a few minutes

The first time, BlueClient downloads Minecraft itself: usually 2 to 5 minutes, depending on your internet. After that Play is quick — 10.9 s to the title screen on our test PC. You don't need the official launcher.

Questions

Do I need to own Minecraft?

No. Sign in with a Microsoft account if you have one — your skin, your servers — or play with just a name. Servers that check accounts with Mojang will ask for the real one; the rest let you straight in.

Will it get me banned?

It does nothing a server counts as cheating. Servers set their own rules, so check yours if you're unsure — but nothing here touches anyone else's game.

Which versions work?

Every release from 1.20.5 to 26.3 — nineteen of them, the newest included — carries the menu, the HUD, the waypoints and the music. The launcher installs and runs any other version too; one from before 1.20.5 just starts as plain Minecraft.

What does it cost?

Nothing. No paid tier, no cosmetics to buy, no account to make with us.

Can I add my own mods?

Yes. Add Fabric mods from inside the launcher, or drop the jars into a profile yourself.

Does it work on Mac or Linux?

Mac, yes: macOS 11 or newer, on Intel and Apple Silicon, one download. Linux not yet.

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