Hi, how to install desktop version of Minecraft on your raspberry pi, i will also be showing you how to install the latest version. since the guild has a lot of things needed to be copy and paste. you can find a link to my website below. thanks for the view!
Equipment List
Raspberry Pi 3 ► Amazon | Ebay
Software List
Raspbian Pixel ► https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
Credit
Credit goes to everyone from his post who made this possible https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=137279
1 Make sure you have the latest Raspbian :
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade
$ sudo rpi-update2 In Menu\Preferences\Raspberry Pi Configuration :
Set GPU memory to 64Mb
Reboot
3 Install the experimental OpenGL Driver, sound & glxgears demo
$ sudo apt-get -y install xcompmgr libgl1-mesa-dri && sudo apt-get -y install libalut0 libalut-dev && sudo apt-get -y install mesa-utils4 Enable ‘GL Driver’
$ sudo raspi-configThis will start the config utility. Select ‘Advanced Options’, then select ‘GL Driver’, then select ‘Enable’, then select ‘Yes’ to reboot and enable the driver.
5 Test driver using glxgears
$ glxgearsThis should run at about 60 fps.
6 Download Minecraft
$ mkdir ~/Minecraft; mkdir ~/Minecraft/Natives; cd ~/Minecraft && wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/Minecraft.jar
7a Install launcher :
$ java -jar Minecraft.jarLogin with Minecraft email and password
If you’ve got the latest Minecraft.jar click ‘edit profile’ and select use release – ‘release 1.8.9’, then ‘save profile’
Click Play to install game
You will then receive an ‘Unsatisfied link error’
Close launcher
7b Copy libraries
$ cd ~/Minecraft/Natives && wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/4oxcvz3ky7a3x6f/liblwjgl.so && wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/m0r8e01jg2og36z/libopenal.so8 Update lwjgl
$ cd /home/pi/.minecraft/libraries/org/lwjgl/lwjgl/lwjgl/2.9.4-nightly-20150209 && rm lwjgl-2.9.4-nightly-20150209.jar; wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/mj15sz3bub4dmr6/lwjgl-2.9.4-nightly-20150209.jar( based on Roger Allen’s tutorial : http://rogerallen.github.io/jetson/2014 … etson-tk1/ )
9 Copy run script
$ cd ~/Minecraft/ && wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/jkhr58apwa7pt1w/run.sh && sudo chmod +x run.sh10 Edit run.sh, update MINECRAFT_LOGIN, MINECRAFT_USERNAME and MINECRAFT_PASSWORD (may need “” for special characters) to your own
$ nano run.sh11 From Terminal use ./run.sh
$ ./run.sh
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stuck at Starting launcher
are you using the correct version?
help me pls ./run.sh: 43: ./run.sh: /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-8-oracle-arm32-vfp-hflt/jre/bin/java: not found
not working :(
Do you think you could run a minecraft server version this way too? I think it might be a fun way to use a pi3.
yup can run a small home minecraft server with this.
This was pretty cool while it lasted. Thanks for the info to get it up and running. The kids moved on to other games. How do we go about uninstalling it to free up some space?
Thanks, Aaron
To uninstall goto /home/pi/Minecraft and delete the stuff, I tried installing OptiFine too and it installed into /home/pi/.minecraft, I don't know if that was there but if it is delete it too. Should free up the space Minecraft took up!
2 years later: People play Minecraft again, bringing the usefulness back to this article.
cant say exit how do i say exit ???
control+shift+^+X
This was a great tutorial to get 1.8.9 working perfectly. Issue is just the move to 1.11.2. I cant get past the "loading world". The same thing happens when I join a server. It keeps saying "logging in". Other people can see me login but I'm permanetly stuck at the loading screen. Any idea why that is or how to solve it.
Running on Pi2B followed the tutorial above to the letter.
by me it's says failed to login try restarting your game at 1.11.2 can someone help me ?!!?
i am stuck at launch. it says unsatisfied link.
please help.
It stopped working when it tried to do ./run.sh
Please help me!
Same!
I rebooted the Pi and I tried running it, it said ./run.sh wasn't able to be ran. So it all went away.
After many attepts and having to reinstal Raspian stretch I have been able to sort of getting Minecraft 1.8.9 working, but is very notchi and very slow is this normal. My glxgears is running very well at 60fps. Can you suggest what could be going on?