Minion
Minion is a free, open-source addon manager for the Elder Scrolls Online MMO. It downloads, installs, updates, and manages thousands of community-created add-ons that extend the game's user interface, provide quality-of-life enhancements, and add new features. The official Minion manager is Java-based and has struggled to keep pace with modern macOS requirements, making it difficult for Mac users to stay on the current version, though a third-party community rebuild with native Apple Silicon support has emerged in recent months.
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1 suggestionThe official Minion project has not yet shipped a native Apple Silicon build — the standard distribution remains Java-based and Intel-only. However, community member Corbin published a signed and notarized universal build bundling both Intel and ARM64 Java runtimes on GitHub in June 2025, which runs natively on Apple Silicon Macs. You can download it from https://github.com/allquixotic/minion3-macos-signed. The original developer is working on a full Minion 4 rewrite that may eventually provide an official native version, but until then the community build is a straightforward alternative that does not require terminal commands. Since Apple is removing Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 (September 2028), moving to a native build now ensures the addon manager will continue working beyond that deadline.
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