How To Download & Install Java 17 for Minecraft

This video will show you how to download and install Java 17 for Minecraft. Java 17 is the latest version of Java that is compatible with Minecraft, and it is required in order to play most Minecraft mods as well as run Minecraft servers. From Forge to Optifine to vanilla and modded Minecraft servers, if you want to do anything with Minecraft, you will need Java 17. So, here is how to get Java 17 for Minecraft!

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About this video: Java 17 is the latest compatible version of Java for Minecraft. If you are playing Minecraft 1.18 or newer, you will need to get Java 17 for both Minecraft servers and Minecraft mods. This is because Minecraft is Java based. Thus, any mods or changes you want to make to Minecraft Java Edition will need to be done using Java 17. The good news is getting Java 17 is a lot easier than installing mods for Minecraft, and it is 10x easier than running a Minecraft server. So, if you can install Minecraft mods or run a server, you can install Java 17 without any problems. Thus, let's jump right on into how to get Java 17 for Minecraft!

To get started, you will need go to the Download Java link in the description above. This will actually take you to our text tutorial for installing Java 17. This allows us to keep things up-to-date easily across all of our videos when Minecraft changes their Java version. Once you are on our website, you can scroll down and click the yellow 'Download Java Development Kit' button to be taken to the official Java 17 download page.

Once you are on the Java 17 download page, you will want to click the 'Windows' button. This can be difficult to see, but it is next to 'macOS'. Once Windows is selected, scroll down and click the blue link next to the 'x64 Installer'. This will start the download of Java 17. You most likely won't need to keep or save the file, but if you do, there is no worries. Java 17 is made by Oracle, so it is completely safe.

After you have Java 17 downloaded, we can get it installed. To install Java 17, double click on the file you downloaded. This will open the Java Installer. In this installer, click 'Next', click 'Next' again, and Java 17 will start installing. Then, you will be prompted to 'Close' the installer. Click the 'Close' button, and Java 17 has been installed! There isn't any desktop icon or anything like that because Java 17 works in the background.

You should now be able to open up your Minecraft mod installers and run your Minecraft server. In some cases though, you will still have issues. This is because your .jar files are linked to a program that isn't Java. The good news is that we have a simple program that will fix this. It is linked in the description above, and it is called the Jarfix. When you go to our website, click the yellow 'Download Jarfix' button to start the Jarfix downloading.

With the Jarfix downloaded, just double click on it to run it. It's that simple. You will get a confirmation that it has worked, and now all the .jar files on your computer will be linked to Java 17. This means that they will all work without any issues!

Congrats! You now know how to download and install Java 17 for Minecraft mods and server. If you do have any issues getting Java 17, let us know in the comments. We will try our best to help you out. However, if we did help you install Java 17, please give this video a thumbs up and subscribe. It really helps us out a ton, and it means a lot to me. Thanks in advance!

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[TheBreakdownXYZ]

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[ErinLewisFudge]

Thank you, I needed this tutorial after I got too baked to figure it out myself.

[ShulkMC]

Thank you soo much ive watched loads of your videos because minecraft comes out with new versions left right and centre!

[thegreatchimney]

I am having a problem, I downloaded 17 and forge and all that but whenever I start it up my game crashes and gives me this long crash report. did I do something wrong?

[brendoKillinlife]

Any way you can help me fix my java problem? I cant connect to any realms but java is downloaded. Ive tried jarfix and a few more things. Cant install forge now. Says corrupt jarfile. Cant fix it.

[banana]

Thanks so much! I have been trying to get optifine to work for no joke 1 year, and it now works!

[khalifaalsharqi]

thank you so so much i have been trying to download optifine for a long time, very straightforward tutorial and again thank you

[razerxx]

Every single one of his videos are clear and easy to understand, keep up the good work!

[cleared_]

this is what i've been looking for the past 3 monthes tysm

[freya]

Thank you so much! I used to have mods, but I got a new pc and the file would show up as folders intead of the Java icon!

[SuperMoose]

I have been trying to fix my Minecraft game ever since the Minecraft version 1.17.1 because I am one of the unfortunate people to have the connection reset issue. and nothing has ever worked. I tried this and it didn't work either, it did the same thing as everything else where it lets me play for about 30 seconds making me hopeful but then kills it and putting me back at square one. not your fault but it irritates me that every fix out there has not worked for me when most people seem to have theirs fixed.

[Saturn-OS]

It's very simple thank you. I just got new laptop so kinda in the process of getting everything back.

[maxallamjonathanfotchin]

Man thanks for the jar fix
I was installing so much version of java but they couldn't work the file didn't have a direction I just didn't understand why but as soon that I use the jar fix it work
Thanks a lot

[sheldonbeiler]

Thanks, this helped a ton. You're like my techy older brother when the real one wont answer his phone

[z]

OMG that you so much ive been trying for multiple days the jarfix fixed everything i can finnaly get mods tysm

[alexm]

So one thing i have been struggling with is; I use a fabric loader for certain mods and i used to use optifine as the only optimiser pack but since i installed the fabric mods, if i have optifine and optifabric in the same mods folder as the others my minecraft launcher will just crash. I cannot find any explanation and/or solution on the internet on how to fix it. (I used to play without optifabric just so i didnt get any error messages, but because i dont use optifine i cant use my shaders n shizz)

Does anyone know what i need to do or change because this is giving me headaches.. xD

[Min-rfwo]

hey i follow everything but i noticed when i right click the forge installer at the installer part and click open with and then click java but java isn't there? i followed your previous video about downloading java and i even successfully downloaded java and i even checked if the java app was there and soon enough it was there yet like i said when i reach the open forge installer i right clicked and click open with but java isn't there

[ludovikc]

Quick question is there backwards compatibility? Will old java Minecraft servers still work if I get java 17 when I was previously working on java 16?

[IndigoGollum]

Following this tutorial I updated Java and everything seemed to work for 1.18. Unfortunately, since I updated I haven't been able to launch older versions (specifically 1.12.2) in the official launcher or in MultiMC. Is there some way to revert to the older java versions I used before?

[younglemiteds]

thank you so much i have been trying for years on trying to get shaders <3