It is worth mentioning that it has been possible to run Minecraft natively on M1 Macs for a while now. The M1 ARM64 architecture is now supported Minecraft received native Apple Silicon recently as part of The Wild Update, version 1.19, in July 2022: In fact, Minecraft is one of the few AAA games that support M1 Macs with a native ARM Apple Silicon version. You can absolutely play Minecraft on your Mac, and that includes Intel and M1 Models.