# Meloong-Git/PCL

> Plain Craft Launcher (PCL) is an open-source Minecraft launcher for Windows written in Visual Basic .NET: launching the game, downloading versions and mods, with built-in help. Sources are synced with each release.

- Magnitude: 5.8 out of 10 — Breakout
- Stars: 8,559 total · +50 stars measured 2026-10-22, 10:42–12:52 UTC, ≈ 101 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Games & graphics · Language: Visual Basic .NET · Created: 2022-07-26 · Last push: 2026-10-20
- GitHub: https://github.com/Meloong-Git/PCL · Homepage: https://meloong.com/PCL · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/Meloong-Git/PCL

## Useful for

- Launch Minecraft with a chosen version and mods via PCL
- Build a custom launcher from the PCL source code
- Study the UI, animation and download module implementation in VB.NET

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-22 (UTC), 10:42–12:52: 8509 → 8559 stars (+50). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +101 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 11× that of the previous week and a half.
- Elevated gains were measured on the last 2 completed UTC days in a row. Continued growth is not guaranteed.
- GitHub Trending today: #9, +115 stars.
- About 87 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1,182
- Issues and pull requests: 7,058
- Watchers: 32
- Average over the last week: 159 per day
- Usual pace: 9 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 26
- Latest release: 2.99.0.0 (2026-10-20)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-23 … 2026-10-22: 4, 5, 8, 8, 8, 3, 5, 10, 7, 13, 10, 10, 11, 9, 11, 14, 7, 13, 14, 8, 6, 6, 8, 16, 18, 12, 11, 818, 136, 50

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending today: #9, +115 stars

## Similar by description

1. **PrismLauncher/PrismLauncher** — 3.1 · Breakout · Games & graphics · C++ · +11 stars measured 2026-10-22, 00:40–12:55 UTC, ≈ 22 by evening
   A custom Minecraft launcher (fork of MultiMC) for managing multiple game installations, modpacks and accounts at once.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/PrismLauncher/PrismLauncher.md

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-22 13:05 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.