Server status

03 · 2500 – present Checking

Global female-specified.gl.joinmc.link Checking
Germany rails-enjoyed.tun.ply.gg Checking
World map ↗ BlueMap Checking
Terrain download Distant Horizons Checking
Pack 1.0.14 · 98 mods · NeoForge 1.21.1 Checking

02 · 2300 – 2500 Retired

Server retired
Server and world 17 GB

01 · 1200 – 2300 Retired

Server retired
World 25 GB

Kapital Launcher

Changelog

v1.0.0-beta.6

26 October 2026

Features

Update the launcher in place and restart into the new version
Add a storage section to chapter settings
Ask before deleting storage, and make worlds deletable
Show summer New Cliffhanger as Lichdenstein's chapter art
Redesign the download page around the chapter strip and a pixel backdrop
Show the Download button for the visitor's system with the other system under it
Cycle the download page's chapters every 5 seconds
Show the Frangfurd server's status live on the download page
Cycle the download popup's banner through the chapters in a wave of squares
Add a compact launcher with the three chapters as panels, from the sidebar button's right-click menu or a short window
Allow the window down to 960 × 360
Grow the chapter's picture on a tall window, with Play and the panels at the foot
Use the wiki's 2560 px world covers as chapter art
Add Camera Tools, an add-on Frangfurd players turn on in chapter settings

Fixes

Make Stop end the download and a game started in an open Prism
Keep each chapter's slideshow to its own world and fix the hero corner line
Open a storage group from anywhere on its tile
Show each era's region page in the wiki panel until the wiki loads
Wait out a virus scanner holding the launcher when an update swaps it in
Show the resize cursor at the window's edges on Windows
Show the slashes of an address in a mono field as typed
Say that a local pack is http only when an https address is entered
Show a chapter's storage and mods once its settings page has slid in
Show the game's line in place of the status on a compact panel
Open the compact launcher on each chapter's wiki picture instead of cutting to it
Remove the light corner at the top left of a chapter's settings in the compact launcher
Keep the compact title full size near the minimum window height
Start a page's slide on the first frame after the click
Draw chapter settings' mods and storage at once when they were read before
Slide pages in without dropping frames on large screens
Drop the tooltip on Open in Prism in chapter settings
Stop light lines flashing along the picture when switching to compact

v1.0.0-beta.5

20 October 2026

Features

Show a plain hero, clickable chapters and a changelog on the download site #282
Add a Tailscale switch and installer to the chapter's server settings #281
Add a compact sidebar and the launcher's tools to the header #283
Polish the downloads section, popups and animations #285

Fixes

Drop the header wordmark and centre the macOS traffic lights in the bar #276
Give the macOS header room and drop the hand cursor #284

v1.0.0-beta.4

18 October 2026

Features

Download the server's Distant Horizons terrain from the settings page #272
Open each chapter column in a popup with its full text #274

Fixes

Show Frangfurd's pack as 1.0.6 when its source cannot be read #271
Fix the memory slider sliver and say when Prism has no account by the profile name #275

v1.0.0-beta.3

15 October 2026

Features

Point the download site at the newest release when it is built #253
Attach a Prism instance zip per chapter to each release #256
Tell the player when a newer Kapital Launcher is out #267

Fixes

Show the download site's app preview with today's facts #254
Use the short changelog lines in the site's app preview #255
Keep the macOS loading card in front of the game until the handover #259
Show Prism as found when the page asks before detection finishes #262
Write the log file in installed Windows builds #263
Show the offer to get Prism as a popup over the window #264
Sync the pack on a first Play before Prism has a Java #266
Open a chapter's settings on macOS 13 without URL.canParse #268
Keep the macOS loading card the only screen from Play to Drippy #270

v1.0.0-beta.2

12 October 2026

Features

Give the download popup room, the display face and a quiet reveal #187
Lay out the settings pages as grouped rows with a section nav #194
Mark the recommended memory, name the default preset, and save with Revert #196
Open a chapter's instance in Prism from its settings #197
Let a player add Java arguments of their own after the preset #198
Open an account page from the sidebar's account tile #199
Hold a place for the Distant Horizons world data under Server #200
Offer Iris as a mod switch and lock the mods that need it while it is off #202
Play offline and show play time on the account page #203
Show the player's face and UUID from Mojang on the account page #204
Offer the pack's panorama as the hero picture #205
Measure a Prism update against the version Prism updated itself to #234
Flag an instance the launcher did not set up, and reinstall it #245
Switch Frangfurd Menu and Tempo on and off, and record the first-party jar exception #252

Fixes

Centre the pack source cards and name the chapter over its logs, map and report #201
Start each panorama somewhere worth seeing, decode it before drawing, and keep its turn #206
Show Prism's console on the card when the console appears after the run ended #214
Centre the loading card on the screen when the launcher is minimised #215
Give the Windows executable readable version information #216
Close the launcher's own leftover Prism at the next Play, splash or not #217
Refuse instance.cfg writes while Prism is open, after closing the launcher's own #218
Drop the Wiki button and keep the download popup's colour in step with the page #219
Fix the managed Prism install on macOS and check it on Mac runners #220
Give the macOS window its App, Edit and Window menus #229
Refuse a managed Prism not signed by Prism's own developer on macOS #230
Refuse a managed Prism update while that Prism is running #232
Keep the launcher running when the loading card closes while its webview starts #236
Give Prism's first start 15 seconds to answer with its version #238
Put a screen-sized game window back on its monitor at the handover #247
Keep the app's tests away from the real Prism folder #249
Stop the download site flashing unstyled on load #250

v1.0.0-beta.1

4 October 2026

Features

Add server status, settle the open decisions and adopt the suite conventions #2
Add a download site on Cloudflare Pages #12
Warn when a chapter's Prism instance does not exist yet #10
Replace the OS title bar with the app's own header bar #13
Show the Kapital Launcher logo as the download site's heading #18
Fill the chapters with the packs' real facts and Frangfurd's address #19
Get a verified, launcher-managed Prism for players who have none #26
Offer to get Prism in the app, and to update the managed copy #27
Show Install until a chapter's instance exists #40
Install a chapter from a local packwiz serve #42
Show Frangfurd as pack 1.0.0 with 96 mods #49
Add the settings screen with native pickers and a developer pack field #54
Show four pack facts, with the chapter's size on disk #62
Show a random wiki page per chapter from the wiki's lore export #63
Put the chapter view in a card that slides by direction, with the nav highlight gliding #64
Let a player set a chapter's memory and JVM preset from a pen in its hero #65
Fit the chapter card to the window, the hero taking the height left over #73
Draw each chapter's name as its title art, and its blurred art behind its nav tile #75
Offer Update and play when the installed pack is behind, with a Version row #76
Show pack icons in the nav, tint the tile art toward the accent, one title height #78
Use the Kapitel Kapital mark as the app icon #79
Follow a launched game from Play to its end #82
Open a chapter's instance folder from its settings #89
Frontend errors in the launcher's own log #90
Copy a redacted log for a bug report #91
About section with version, disclaimer and licences #92
Keep the game window hidden until the resource reload #93
Loading splash card from Play to the resource reload #96
Keep Prism's progress dialogs and the pack sync out of sight #98
Add launcher window showcase to download page #99
Install Frangfurd from the hosted pack #101
Loading card in its own window on Windows and macOS #102
Point the download page's GitHub button at the repository #105
Show the game's status beside Play and the server's on the right #113
Stop a start or a game from the launcher #115
Show what the launcher knows when a start fails or the game crashes #116
Keep Prism's console behind the launcher's failure view and show it on request #117
Switch an installed chapter between its published pack and a dev pack #120
Show errors as corner notices and trim the loading card #130
Install Luxemburg from the hosted pack #131
Install Lichdenstein from the hosted pack #134
Fetch the wiki's screenshots with their subjects and cache them #144
Cycle the chapter art and wiki post together #147
Play always reads Play, and the pack line names the version #148
Preview the screens a run only shows when something goes wrong #149
Keep the launcher still when its state changes, with one house style for its controls #150
Pick a chapter's server between its addresses in Settings #152
Give Lichdenstein and Luxemburg their servers, and show a server that is down in red #153
Fold the Developer settings away behind their title #154
Read the logs and crash reports of earlier runs #158
Slide pages over the card, reveal content once loaded, and a red Stop #159
Disable a chapter's mods, a few as quick switches and any in advanced mode #160
Group the hero's tools, show the pack version, and even out page padding #165
Join a chapter's server on Play only when the player's switch says so #166
Open a chapter's BlueMap from the hero, in the launcher or the browser #171
Fill each chapter's changelog from its pack's host #173
Bring the page titles, action bar alignment and pack changelog to main #174
Backdrops from the wiki's page pictures, a set number per chapter #175
Build an NSIS setup and a disk image, and set the bundle identifier #180
Add a download popup to the site that picks the operating system #182

Fixes

Stop the chapter restore and save effects from feeding each other #7
Show an unsettled server address as a placeholder #21
Ask servers for status with protocol 0, which Frangfurd answers #60
Scroll the chapter view under a thumb drawn over the content #61
Slide the chapter card the way the content moves, with a softer curve #72
Shrink the header bar's logo to 16 px #74
Draw no tooltips on the icon and window buttons #80
Wait for the tracker's run and its last event in the tests #100
End a start when Prism's launch fails, and say why #106
Refuse a zip entry that escapes the install folder through a symlink chain #108
Let the app quit while the loading card is opening or closing #109
Keep the loading card and the launcher window in step with macOS #110
Re-enable Prism's task failures in its log so a failed start is noticed #114
Wait on the console hold's own count in the sweep test #119
Stop saying the game is running after it has closed #127
Show Frangfurd as pack 1.0.1 #128
Free a closed game's instance at once and name the served pack version #129
Close the launcher's Prism after a stopped game #135
Queue the game window's hide so the handover's show always wins #137
Keep the wiki page when the open chapter is clicked again #143
Keep the chapter slide from making the card scroll #146
Hold backdrops until loaded, keep titles in memory, and ease the glow #176

Kapital Launcher

Code signing policy

Free code signing provided by SignPath.io, certificate by SignPath Foundation. This covers the Windows builds. The first beta was published before signing was set up and is not signed.

Every release is built from the public source by the project's release workflow on GitHub, and only those builds are signed.

Team roles

Committers and reviewers: Alessandro Gekeler
Approvers: Alessandro Gekeler

Privacy policy

This program will not transfer any information to other networked systems unless specifically requested by the user or the person installing or operating it.

It has no telemetry and no account of its own. To show what it shows, it reads the Kapitel Kapital wiki, asks each chapter's game server whether it is online, checks the pack host for a newer pack and GitHub for a newer Prism Launcher. It downloads Prism Launcher and a chapter's pack only when you ask it to. Signing in to Minecraft is done by Prism Launcher with Microsoft, under their own terms; this app never sees it.

Removing it

On Windows, uninstall Kapital Launcher from Settings, Apps. On macOS, move it from Applications to the Trash. Your settings and worlds stay where they are until you delete them yourself.