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Mojang Releases Minecraft: Pi Edition For the Raspberry Pi

Posted by Unknown on from the now-with-smaller-blocks dept.

hypnosec writes "Mojang has officially released Minecraft: Pi Edition for the credit card sized Raspberry Pi. Back in November, Minecraft was ported to the Raspberry Pi, and it was revealed that Mojang would release a free version of the game. The game is completely free and is now available for download. Even though the game will carry only a limited set of features, the cost and complexity of building and hosting a Minecraft LAN-party has definitely dropped." From the looks of it, you should be able to run it on any ARM system that can run Debian Wheezy. More generally, the idea of a tiny box you can just turn on and have a server for a bzflag, Quake, etc. tournament is appealing.

7 of 93 comments (clear)

  1. Processing power and scalability by loufoque · · Score: 4, Funny

    How powerful is this device? Can it host a large enough server for less wattage than a normal PC?

    1. Re:Processing power and scalability by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      if it sits there with its thumb up its ass most of the time, it might do the job

      Which describes most home servers. But it's just not as fun if you're not spinning the power meter and heating the house.

    2. Re:Processing power and scalability by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      I use my Pi to watch porn from the DMZ. Every morning I wash the sheets and re-flash the SD card.

    3. Re:Processing power and scalability by Cryacin · · Score: 4, Funny

      My home server rack IS my house heating! I brute force SSL codes to keep warm in winter, you insensitive clod!

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  2. Pi Edition? by Skevin · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought this meant your Minecraft session occurred in a boat trapped with a tiger.

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    1. Re:Pi Edition? by grouchomarxist · · Score: 4, Funny

      You can see that here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLG8r_gdWe0

  3. Re:It runs like crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obviously, you're doing something wrong.