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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.

2 of 93 comments (clear)

  1. Performance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I struggle to host 3 people on a mini-ITX Intel Atom system, I can't imagine how poorly this would run a MC server.

  2. I'm no programmer, but... by Legion303 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Isn't MC written in Java? And isn't Java supposed to be platform-independent?

    Followup question: Shouldn't it then run on any platform that has a JRE installed?