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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?

meldrik ,

I use prismlauncher.org and the FTB App.

Fisch ,
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Can’t you download FTB modpacks through Prism too?

HouseWolf ,

I’m looking at it right now and it has two tabs for FTB Legacy and FTB App Import.

dinckelman ,

You can, but it has to be Prism 6.3 or older, as FTB support was removed beyond that

HouseWolf , (edited )

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.

JustAnotherKay ,

PedantryMint required you to go and enable flatpak support, but it discusses that in the initial “setting up” GUI thing

celeste ,

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

Blisterexe ,

For fabric minecraft? Just install prism launcher from the app store, and login

just_another_person ,

You can find lots of guides online, but the official docs have it: 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.

haui_lemmy ,

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.

tal , (edited )
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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.

haui_lemmy ,

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.

tal , (edited )
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One thing that I found out was that as “most-Minecraft-like” games for Minetest, there’s apparently Voxelibre (renamed Mine Clone 2) and Mineclonia (fork of Mine Clone 2). Just out of curiosity, if you looked at both, what made Voxelibre particularly appealing relative to Mineclonia?

I’ve played Minetest, even contributed some code IIRC, but that was some time back, haven’t ever played the derived games. Kind of thinking about maybe giving it a go now that there’s apparently more there.

Ephera ,

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.

burgersc12 ,

PollyMC if you want it free :)

RmDebArc_5 ,
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gamingonlinux.com/…/if-you-use-polymc-for-minecra…

Noxious ,

I highly recommend the Prism Launcher. You can find it in the standard Linux Mint Software Manager.

Retro_unlimited ,

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.

Krafting ,
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As other stated, if you bought the game, PrismLauncher is the best launcher out there!

kusivittula ,

sudo apt install minecraft

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