Get Minecraft Running On The Raspberry Pi

Raspbian is installed on your Raspberry Pi. This will allow you to access Minecraft Pi in the Games section. Minecraft Pi is a stripped-down version of the popular survival game. It's designed to teach users a variety of programming languages.

It's certainly entertaining but not the Minecraft game we are all so fond of. A group of Raspberry Pi users has figured out how to install Minecraft full-featured on your Raspberry Pi 2, or 3.

Like everything else on the Raspberry Pi, there's a lot of editing and tinkering with files and Terminal commands. You should take your time and read through each step.

Be aware of this before you start, there are certain things you need to know:

You will require your Mojang account login information and your Minecraft username.

Naturally, you'll need a paid license for Minecraft. Minecraft.net has a place to purchase one.

This guide is only for Minecraft 1.8.9. However, with a small modification you can run the latest version, which is currently 1.9.4 (more on this later).

Running Minecraft on a $35 computer isn't the smoothest experience, but it's definitely playable.

Plan on spending an hour getting everything up and running.

I suggest opening the guide in your browser on the Raspberry Pi and placing an Terminal window beside it. There are a few altered log files that are stored in Dropbox accounts that you'll need to download, and I'd hate to share the commands here, only to have the links changed at a later day.

The process is straightforward, mostly requiring you to copy various Terminal commands from the browser, and then paste them into the command line. After you've entered each command, hit the Enter key on the keyboard. Your Pi will handle the rest.

Tips to make the process as smooth as possible Here are some suggestions I came up with to make the process as smoothly as it can:

Raspberry Pi 3 users are exempt from step 1. You are currently unable to overclock the Pi 3. The Pi 3 is faster than the Pi 2 out of the box.

After you have entered Step 4, press the arrow keys to highlight Advanced options. Then, highlight GL Options, select Enable. Dein freund

I was a bit confused in Step 7 of the guideline, where it says click on "edit profile," You actually need to click on Profile Editor and then double-click the first (and only) listing. Under Version Selection click on the drop-down next to Use version and choose the build number. Remember, the default is 1.8.9. At the moment, you can use that version and then we can alter it once everything is working.

Step 10 instructs you to edit "run.sh" without further instructions. Open the Minecraft folder inside your Pi directory, right-click the run.sh file and select Text Editor.

There are two ways to launch Minecraft. The guide will instruct you to use "./run.sh" in Terminal to start Minecraft. While this is a good option, you must type "cd Minecraft", before entering the command. Another alternative is to open the Minecraft folder, double-click on the run.sh file and then choose "Execute."

Use the most recent version of Minecraft, so once you get everything running, you can start tinkering with the installation. To upgrade to the latest Minecraft version, you will need to relaunch Minecraft.jar.

Enter CD Minecraft in a terminal window

Next, enter: java -jar Minecraft.jar

Click on Profile Editor to change the version to 1.9.4 or the most recent version.

Save your change and click on the Play button, causing Minecraft to download the latest version.

Next step is to start the Minecraft folder.

To avoid any issues if you make a mistake, create an archive of the run.sh file. Rename it to something along the lines of "runcopy.sh".

Make sure you have a copy of the file. Then, right-click it and choose Text Editor.

Enter 1.8.9 into the text field by pressing Ctrl+F on your keyboard. There should be two -only twoinstances discovered. Each of them should be replaced with the current Minecraft version (this should be in line with the version number you selected in step 3).

Save the file, then reboot your Raspberry Pi.

Launch Minecraft like you normally would, and then play.