lodestone

Keep multiple Minecraft accounts online and AFK on a server. Headless, lightweight, and without a single game window.

Supported Minecraft version: 1.21.11.

Note

lodestone runs your accounts in the background, so they stay connected with minimal CPU and memory. No game client, no extra windows. You sign in once with Microsoft and lodestone handles the rest.

Features

• Multiple accounts: add as many Microsoft accounts as you like and keep them all connected at once.
• One-time sign-in: log in through Microsoft once per account. lodestone remembers it, so you never have to re-enter a password.
• One server, one click: set a server address and connect your selected accounts together, or one at a time.
• Truly headless: no game window, no rendering, just a quiet background connection per account.
• Live overview: see each account's status and uptime, plus real CPU and memory usage per account and in total.
• Stays online: automatic reconnect after a drop, so a brief network hiccup doesn't end the session.
• Automatic updates: lodestone updates itself and shows you what changed.

Getting started

Download

Grab the latest version for your operating system from the Releases page, then install and open it. There's nothing else to install: the connection engine is built in.

Use it

1. Add an account. Click + Add. A code and a link appear: open the link, enter the code, and sign in with Microsoft. The window closes itself once you're signed in.
2. Enter a server, for example mc.example.net or 192.168.0.10:25565.
3. Pick the accounts you want with the checkboxes.
4. Start them with Start selected, or connect each one individually. Status and uptime update live, and Disconnect all disconnects everyone.

Automatic updates

lodestone checks for new versions on launch. When one is available, a banner appears: click Update now and it downloads, installs, and restarts into the new version. After updating, a "What's new" screen shows you what changed. You can reopen it any time by clicking the version number in the top right. The full history lives in the changelog.

Languages

lodestone ships in English and German. Pick your language in Settings (the gear icon in the top right), where you can also check for updates.

Adding a language is just a file change. Copy src/locales/en.json to src/locales/<code>.json, translate the values, and add one line to src/locales/index.json that maps the code to a display name, for example "fr": "Français". The new language then appears in the settings dropdown.

Your accounts & privacy

• No passwords are ever stored. Only the renewable tokens Microsoft issues.

• Sign-in tokens live in your OS keychain, not in a plaintext file: the macOS Keychain, the Windows Credential Manager, or the Linux Secret Service (GNOME Keyring / KWallet). If no keychain is reachable, lodestone falls back to an owner-only file in com.lodestone.app/auth-cache/.

• Avatars are optional. With them on, each skin head is fetched from mc-heads.net once and cached at com.lodestone.app/avatars/, so a UUID leaves your machine at most once. Turn them off in Settings to keep everything local.

• Everything else stays on your machine:

  • Settings (accounts, selection, server): com.lodestone.app/config.json

  (under ~/Library/Application Support/ on macOS, %AppData% on Windows, and ~/.config/ on Linux).

Building from source

Want to run the latest code or contribute?

npm install        # install dependencies
npm run tauri dev  # build and launch the app

You'll need Node.js (only for the Tauri CLI tooling) and Rust along with the usual Tauri prerequisites. The bot engine (azalea) needs nightly Rust; the pinned rust-toolchain.toml selects it automatically, so rustup installs it on first build.

Cutting a release (maintainers): bump the version with npm run release -- patch (or minor / major), fill in the changelog, then commit and push a vX.Y.Z tag. The GitHub Actions workflow builds and publishes the signed release for every platform.

How it works

lodestone is a small Tauri desktop app. The interface and account management are native and lightweight. The Minecraft connections are handled in-process by azalea, a pure-Rust headless client, so there is no Node.js runtime or game client to install. All bots share the one app process, and the resource readout shows the app's total CPU and memory.

License

Released under the MIT License.