Installing Raspbian on your Raspberry Pi means you'll find Minecraft Pi in the Games section. Minecraft Pi is a bare-bones version of the popular survival game, designed to teach users various programming languages. It's certainly entertaining but it's not the Minecraft game we love. A group of Raspberry Pi users has figured out how to install Minecraft fully-featured on your Raspberry Pi 2, or 3. There's a lot to edit and tweaking using files and Terminal commands, just like everything else on the Raspberry Pi. Make sure you take your time, read through each step, and you should be good to go. Keep in mind Before you dive in, there's some things you should be aware of: You will require your Mojang account login details and your Minecraft username. You'll need an active Minecraft license. You can purchase one at Minecraft.net This guide is only for Minecraft 1.8.9. However, with a minor modification you can use the most recent version, currently 1.9.4 (more on this later). While Minecraft is not the most enjoyable experience on a $35 computer It is certainly possible to play it. Spend an hour putting everything together. I suggest opening the guide using your browser on the Raspberry Pi and then putting a Terminal window alongside it. You'll need to download some altered log files from Dropbox. I do not want to publish the commands here only to have them altered later on. It's a breeze. You'll need to copy various Terminal commands from your browser and then paste them into the command prompt. After you've pasted each command you press enter on the keyboard and your Pi does the rest. Tips to make the process as smooth as you can Here are some ideas I came up with to make the process go as smoothly as it can: 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. Next highlight GL Options, select Enable. Step 7 in the guide was confusing to me. It says to click edit profile, but you actually need to click Profile Editor , and then double-click the first listing. Under Version Selection click on the drop-down next to Use version and select the build number. Keep in mind, the default setting is 1.8.9. This version is currently recommended. We will make changes when everything is in place. Step 10 tells you to edit the run.sh file, without any further instructions. To do this, open the Minecraft folder that is located within your Pi directory, and right-click on the run.sh file, then choose Text Editor. To start Minecraft, you have a two options. The guide will show you how to use ./run.sh in Terminal to start Minecraft. If that's the case, before entering the command, you'll have to type cd Minecraft into a Terminal window. Another option is to open the Minecraft folder, double-click on the run.sh file and select Execute. Start with the latest version. Then you are able playing around with the installation. To upgrade to the latest Minecraft version, you'll need to restart Minecraft.jar. Enter the cd Minecraft in a terminal window Next, enter: java -jar Minecraft.jar Click on Profile Editor then change the version to 1.9.4 (or whatever the latest version is). Save your changes and then click the Play button, causing Minecraft to download the latest version. Then step is to start the Minecraft folder. To avoid any issues if you commit a mistake, you should make backups of the run.sh file. Change the name to something that is on the lines of runcopy.sh. Make sure you have an image of the file. Then, right-click it and select Text Editor. Enter 1.8.9 into the text field by pressing Ctrl+F on your keyboard. There should be twoand only twoinstances discovered. Replace each with the current version of Minecraft (this must be the same version you selected in step 3). Save the file, then reboot your Raspberry Pi. Start Minecraft like you normally and enjoy. minecraft servers
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