Get Minecraft Running On A Raspberry Pi

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Get Minecraft Running On A Raspberry Pi


Raspbian is installed on your Raspberry Pi. This will allow you to find Minecraft Pi in the Games section. Minecraft Pi is a bare-bones version of the popular survival game that was designed to users learn different programming languages.



It's certainly fun but it's not the Minecraft game we love to. A group of Raspberry Pi users has figured out how you can install Minecraft fully-featured on your Raspberry Pi 2, or 3.



There's plenty of editing and tweak with files and Terminal commands, as with everything else on the Raspberry Pi. Be sure to be patient, read through each step, and you should be good to go.



Be aware that prior to you start there are a few things you need to know:



You will need your Mojang account login information, as well as your Minecraft username.



Naturally, you'll require an active license to use Minecraft. You can purchase one from Minecraft.net



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



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



Spend an hour getting everything up and running.



I suggest opening this guide in the browser on your Raspberry Pi with an Terminal window next to it. You'll have to download altered log files from Dropbox. I do not want to publish the commands here only to have them altered later.



The process is simple it requires you to copy Terminal commands from your browser, and then paste them into the command line. After you've pasted each command you press enter on the keyboard and your Pi does the rest.



Tips to make the process smoother



Step 1 is not applicable to Raspberry Pi 3 users. You are not able 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 and select Enable.



Step 7 of the guide confused me. It states that you need to click "edit profile" However, you must select Profile Editor and then double-click the first list. Click on Version Selection next to Use version to select a number of the build. The default guide is 1.8.9. For now, use  GAME SERVERS , and we can switch it once everything is working.



Step 10 requires you to edit "run.sh" without further instructions. To do this you need to open the Minecraft folder that is located within your Pi directory and right-click the run.sh file, and then select Text Editor.



There are two options to launch Minecraft. The guide will tell you to use "./run.sh" in Terminal to launch Minecraft. Although this works, you will need to enter "cd Minecraft", before entering the command. Another option is to open the Minecraft folder and double-click on the run.sh file. Then, select "Execute."



Install the most current version Once you have everything running you can begin playing with the installation. To upgrade to the most recent Minecraft version, you'll need to restart Minecraft.jar.



In a Terminal window enter the following:"cd" Minecraft



Next, enter: java -jar Minecraft.jar



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



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



Then, then, open the Minecraft folder.



To avoid any issues if you make a mistake, make backups of the run.sh file. Change the name to "runcopy.sh".



With a copy safely hidden away open the run.sh file by right-clicking on it and selecting Text Editor.



Press Ctrl-F on your keyboard, and type 1.8.9 in the text field. There should be at most two instances. Each one of them should be replaced with the current Minecraft version (this should be the same version number that you selected in step 3).



Save the file and reboot your Raspberry Pi.



Launch Minecraft as you normally would and enjoy.