How to Install Minecraft on Raspberry Pi

Hello Raspberry Pi Enthusiasts.

In this article I will show you how to install Minecraft on your Raspberry Pi box.

This indications are valid for both Raspberry Pi running Debian Wheezy / Raspbian and Arch Linux, because the installation is done from source.

Let’s start.

Step 1. Boot up your pi:

Login on your Pi, with the user pi and the password raspberry.

Step 2. Start the graphical interface:

$ startx

Step 3. Download Minecraft:

$ wget -c https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.minecraft.net/pi/minecraft-pi-0.1.1.tar.gz

Step 4. Extract the archive and cd into the extracted directory::

$ tar -zxvf minecraft-pi-0.1.1.tar.gz
$ cd mcpi

Step 5. Run Minecraft on your Raspberry Pi:

$ ./minecraft-pi