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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.

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  1. It runs like crap by Cito · · Score: 0, Troll

    there is no hardware acceleration, tested with Rapbian both softfloat/hardfloat versions, Arch, and Debian at 1600x900 it never got over 10 - 15 frames per second.

    it wont run as server, I ran the server and after about 3 to 5 mins of "working" it finally started but connections would time out when running on the lan and if 2 people connected it slowed to a crawl.

    without broadcom releasing any video acceleration the thing is worthless for gaming unless it's 2d.

    there is no acceleration in X, and the only thing that gets acceleration is omxplayer playing h264 or the 2 other codecs but for the 2 other codecs you must pay a license fee to get a serial to unlock the feature in the firmware.

    it's a great product but yea, they got a lot of work to do to make minecraft playable other than for the sake of saying "I got it to run on raspberry pi"

    tested on raspberry pi model B 512mb 2nd revision board the newest version of the board fully updated os's on a class 10 sdcard, tested 3 different class 10 sd cards, no difference.