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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.

6 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: 3, Funny

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

    2. 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.