Linux Gaming @lemmy.world sandfish3424 @discuss.online 2mo ago

How to install Minecraft on Linux Mint?

After listening to this comment in my earlier post, I finally installed Linux in my new machine. I have almost set up everything for my use case save for support for playing Minecraft.

While many Linux switchers are keen to having maximum support and optimization for games, I don't look forward to the same. I plan to having Minecraft as my one and only game in this machine and want to have as minimal dependencies set up for playing it as possible.

I intend to use the fabric version of MC with mod support on my machine with Iris Xe GPU. I am also comfortable with using a different launcher aside from the default one if it is safe and better to do so.

Could someone give me guidance on how I go around installing Minecraft according to my needs?

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You can just download the offical Minecraft launcher for Linux but do yourself a favor and grab Prismlauncher. Even on Windows it's just overall better.

If I recall correctly Linux Mint has flatpak support out of the box so you should be able to download it from the flathub link on the offical Prismlauncher site.
- On Ubuntu (gnome) I had problem with prismlauncher and the official flatpak. Atlauncher worked better for me though it has a worse logo and bad ressource pack integration
- Pedantry
  
  Mint required you to go and enable flatpak support, but it discusses that in the initial "setting up" GUI thing
As other stated, if you bought the game, PrismLauncher is the best launcher out there!
- Huh, I didn't realize it was so commonly liked. We currently use MultiMC, which was the go-to launcher some years ago, but maybe I'll give PrismLauncher a try.
  
  Does it do anything about launching servers? I currently launch Minecraft w/ systemd on boot, and I'm thinking of moving it to my NAS instead of my desktop (that way it's always on), so I'm interested in any way of better managing it since I need to keep the mods consistent between the server and our computers.
  
  PrismLauncher add some more things, such as CurseForge out of the box, it's a fork of MultiMC, so it will do all the things MultiMC can do. If you want to manage your servers easily, you might want to take a look at CraftyController ?
  
  However, I didn't know MultiMC could sync mods between servers and clients? How does this work?
I highly recommend the Prism Launcher. You can find it in the standard Linux Mint Software Manager.
I use https://prismlauncher.org/ and the FTB App.
- Can't you download FTB modpacks through Prism too?
  
  I'm looking at it right now and it has two tabs for FTB Legacy and FTB App Import.
  
  You can, but it has to be Prism 6.3 or older, as FTB support was removed beyond that
  
  You have to load it up in the FTB app then import it into Prism.
For fabric minecraft? Just install prism launcher from the app store, and login
Minecraft is officially supported on Linux through deb or snap here: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/alternative

Unofficial some one packaged it up as a flatpak which can be found here: https://flathub.org/apps/com.mojang.Minecraft

As for ease of mods and other things, Prismlauncher is my go to, though I primarily use it to avoid the endless login requests from MS on the base launcher.

It can also be installed officially via flat hub here: https://flathub.org/apps/org.prismlauncher.PrismLauncher
You have a few choices:

Minecraft launcher (official) - Allows you to play vanilla MC.

Prisim launcher - allows you to download & play mod packs from several sources (newer FTB packs have to be loaded up in the FTB app first before being imported).

FTB app - allows you to play basically any FTB modpack.

The first should show up in the software store and the second two have install instructions on their websites.
I used modrinth launcher since the whole platform is open source afaik. Big fan.

That said, I stopped playing minecraft since microsoft has perverted everything I liked about it to make it a childrens game with microtransactions. They recently announced ramping up the breakneck speed of updates to make it more like a live service game which may devastate the mod community.

I since made a voxelibre server which works surprisingly well. I also maintain a minecraft inspired texture pack since I dislike visual change.

In any case. Good luck.
- voxelibre
  
  I was going to ask "how does that compare to Minetest?" But after a bit of investigation, apparently it is a renamed Mine Clone 2, which is a game for Minetest.
  
  Yeah, they renamed it a couple months ago. The core team got tired of copying MineCraft 1-to-1, as there's just no creativity involved in that and you're hardly allowed to improve on the original.
  
  Yes. I just researched and found out minecraft uses its own engine based on lwjgl. It’s a little bit like whatsapp and matrix. While whatsapp uses(d?) xmpp, matrix is the protocol, not the client.
PollyMC if you want it free :)
- https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/10/if-you-use-polymc-for-minecraft-you-should-switch-away-now/
  
  Mine links to "PollyMC" not "PolyMC". Completely different software but thanks for the heads up!
If you play bedrock, there is “Minecraft bedrock launcher” that loads the android version of the game if you own it on google play store.
You can find lots of guides online, but the official docs have it: https://fabricmc.net/wiki/install#cli_installation

Mint is Ubuntu, so any directions for one work for the other. You'll probably find more hits if you search for Ubuntu if you get stuck.
sudo apt install minecraft

/s
- sudo apt install minetest works, though.

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