Monday, 11 February 2013

Raspberry Pi - Minecraft - Install

Im so excited...  The first release of Minecraft has been made available.


Download

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

 Extract

tar -zxvf minecraft-pi-0.1.1.tar.gz

Execute

cd mcpi
./minecraft-pi

Note - minecraft has to be run directly on the Pi, it wont work from ssh or via a desktop viewer e.g. TightVNC.

API
By far the best thing about the Minecraft: Pi edition (other than it being free) is the api which allows you to interact with the world in real time.  Ive created a few posts / tutorials / interesting things about the Minecraft API:

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34 comments:

  1. David Wales13 February 2013 at 04:44

    I've really enjoyed all your posts about the Minecraft Pi Edition. I used your code to help me learn the API =D I've now written my own Minesweeper game that runs within Minecraft Pi Edition. You can read about it here: http://daviewales.tk/minecraft/minecraftpiedition.html

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  2. Unknown14 February 2013 at 13:30

    Will I delete folder minecraft-pi or just overwrite?

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    1. Martin O'Hanlon14 February 2013 at 22:23

      minecraft-pi is the name of the minecraft program its not a directory, do you mcpi? Are you getting an error message?

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  3. Monterroza29 April 2013 at 14:58

    Have you tried getting the Minecraft-Pi edition to run on a mac?

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    1. Unknown1 October 2016 at 06:42

      That's not possible because the binaries are compiled for the ARM chipset, which is incompatible with Intel x86_64 and 32-bit processors such as windows and Mac.

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  4. Unknown9 May 2013 at 12:26

    Hi,

    I am having trouble with getting the minecraft window to go full screen, I don't have the standard max, min, close chrome around the window.

    Any suggestions on how I could go full screen via the config file or some other way would be great!

    Thanks in advance

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    1. Martin O'Hanlon9 May 2013 at 14:20

      Weird sorry I don't have any advice I'm not sure why you don't have the minimise maximise buttons. Has the widow got focus? I.e have you clicked in it?

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    2. RaserSharp18 November 2016 at 20:14

      I have a similar issue, but I can resize the window if I am very careful with the mouse around the outer window - a resize icon shows

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  5. Mr I King12 August 2013 at 12:03

    I'me getting an error whenever I join a game:
    terminate called after throwing an instance of "std::bad_alloc"

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    1. Martin O'Hanlon13 August 2013 at 14:33

      When you join a game, do you mean just starting minecraft, not multiplayer? Although to be honest, I've never seen that error before, are you running raspbian?

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  6. Unknown20 August 2013 at 15:06

    I just get a blank screen when i start minecraft-pi.

    Is it hdmi or other???

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    1. Unknown20 August 2013 at 16:43

      Never mind. Got it to work now but not in full screen-mode ;-(

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  7. Owain27 August 2013 at 11:35

    Can you help, I try to run the first part of your minecraft tutorial, the part where you say hi in the game, and it always comes up saying that there is no module named minecraft.minecraft. Any ideas on a fix?

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    1. Martin O'Hanlon27 August 2013 at 13:56

      Have you copied the api into the same directory as your program? It tends to be the first step in my tutorial. Also the api doesn't work with Python 4, so if you are using Idle, make sure you use Idle and not Idle 3

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    2. Owain27 August 2013 at 19:59

      Firstly thanks for you quick reply.
      I have moved the api, into the file via the file manager (before hand doing it with the terminal) and tired it in idle and still it is not working, showing the same error "ImportError: No module named minecraft.minecraft" Anything else I could try?

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    3. Martin O'Hanlon8 September 2013 at 10:35

      The error you are getting is basically saying that your program cant find a file called minecraft.py in a directory called minecraft.

      Whatever directory your program is in, you should copy all the python api files from ~/mcpi/api/python/mcpi into a directory called minecraft in your programs directory, so if your program was in ~/myprogram, you could use

      cp -r ~/mcpi/api/python/mcpi ~/myprogram/minecraft

      Perhaps go right back to the start and try it again.

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  8. MinecraftPENews17 November 2013 at 17:39

    Hey I get this error:

    failed to open vchiq instance

    I am using an emulator. vchiq is used to interact with the hardware which the emulator can't do. Any idea on how to fix it anyway?

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    1. Martin O'Hanlon18 November 2013 at 07:16

      I dont think you can fix the error, you need to be running minecraft pi edition on a pi using a screen directly.

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  9. Teddy1 February 2016 at 02:12

    I'm new to minecraft. I got as far as: cd /mcpi
    When I execute: ./minecraft-pi, I got the following:
    error while loading shared libraries: libSDL-1.2.so.0 can not open shared object file: No such File or Directory

    Also, where do I go to setup an API?

    Please help

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    1. Teddy1 February 2016 at 14:43

      I was at the Mincraft site and I installed some Libraries. Now when I'm in /mcpi and I execute
      ./minecraft-pi, I get the error: Couldn't initialize SDL

      Again, Help

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    2. Martin O'Hanlon1 February 2016 at 20:18

      This is a really old post. Minecraft: Pi edition has been installed by default on Raspbian for a long time. What OS are you trying to install too?

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    3. Teddy2 February 2016 at 01:21

      This comment has been removed by the author.

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    4. Teddy2 February 2016 at 01:43

      I realize this is OLD, but so am I.
      I'm just now checking out Minecraft,
      so cut me some slack.

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  10. Teddy2 February 2016 at 01:24

    Debian Jessie on Raspberry pi 2
    trying to start it from the pi at the command line.
    Do I need to start it from the GUI?

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    1. Martin O'Hanlon2 February 2016 at 06:43

      Yes you need to start the GUI, using 'startx', open a terminal using Menu > Accessories > Terminal and run Minecraft .

      However it is already pre installed, so you can also launch it straight from Menu. Menu > Games > Minecraft

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  11. Andrii6 November 2016 at 13:11

    Hi! Is it possible to install this version of Minecraft on the Windows PC?

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    1. Martin O'Hanlon13 November 2016 at 22:09

      No. Its compiled for ARM and the Raspberry Pi only. If you want to code Minecraft on windows you can use the full version of Minecraft with the Raspberry Juice plugin. https://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/raspberryjuice/

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  12. Andrii15 November 2016 at 07:10

    Thanks for your answer. Could you explain me the difference between this version of Minecraft and the PC ver?

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    1. Martin O'Hanlon6 January 2017 at 15:58

      Minecraft: Pi edition is a highly stripped down and simple version of Minecraft. Its simple, but it does have an api, so you can code your own mods.

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  13. Andrii7 January 2017 at 10:08

    So, Minecraft PC ver. doesn't have the api and I won't create the mods, isn't it?

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    1. Martin O'Hanlon21 January 2017 at 06:19

      No, you can however you the RaspberryJuice plugin to do the same thing.

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  14. Andrii27 January 2017 at 10:11

    By the way, there is one interesting platform for learning and studying of the Minecraft https://www.learntomod.com/
    Do you find it usefull?

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  15. asdasd13 July 2018 at 19:32

    Can it be installed in Debian?

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