Corbin: Fixed Minion 3.0.12 for MacOS Download

Baertram

Just posting for the ones searching for an addon manager for Mac OS:
!All credits to Corbin!

Corbin created a patch for the Minion 3.0.12 version on MAC OS
https://www.esoui.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11276

There are several forum posts here where folks (including me, Cathrisa, Baertram and others) have attempted to fix Minion 3 for modern MacOS.

However, all the solutions I could find til today are either with some opaque "Automation" thing, or they require the user to open the Terminal. I've seen a lot of Mac users not understand how to use the Terminal and give up.

I know sirinsidiator is working on Minion 4, but it'll probably be a slow roll-out until it's available for Mac. So for now, I:

- Took the unmodified .jar distribution of Minion from mmoui.com
- Used my Apple Developer account to register a developer certificate
- Bundled both the AMD64 (Intel) and ARM64 (Apple Silicon) Java 11 Liberica runtimes into an App Bundle with Minion
- Built, signed and notarized a .dmg file

So, if you're one of those users who struggles with the command line, or you just like having a pretty app bundle icon, here you go:

https://github.com/allquixotic/minion3-macos-signed

Credit to Google Gemini 2.5 Pro and Anthropic Claude 4 Opus for helping me figure out how to build a signed app bundle.

If you are not sure whether you trust me enough to download this, consider:

1. Apple's and GitHub's servers scanned my download for viruses and did not find any.
2. I have created numerous addons in the community and have long been an ESO addon developer and maintainer in my spare time.
3. I have a long running GitHub profile and a long history of genuine open source contributions. Most of the code I write, except for when I get paid on the job, is released open source.

Hopefully this helps bridge Minion MacOS users until we get Minion 4.

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If you are curious how I did this, all the "code" (my bash script) is open source in the GitHub repo I published. All the modifications I made to the JDKs (i.e. removing unneeded crap to reduce file size) is in the script. I ran the script as it appears on GitHub to generate the .dmg. Feel free to regenerate it yourself if you don't trust my download

LalMirchi

Many many profuse thanks to Corbin!

I'm running Sequoia on a new Mac Mini M4 and couldn't get Minion to work in spite of help from a respected developer. Many frustrated attempts were made in the terminal. His verdict was that the Minion app needed to be signed with a paid developer account to work with newer versions of MacOS. His assessment turned out to be correct.

My low-tech solution was to install Minion on a very old Mac and copied my Live folder there with the correct path (ESO is not installed on that Mac) then manually move the Addons folder around by sneaker net . This worked well but was quite tedious.

I just downloaded Corbin's version and it works flawlessly. Excellent work!