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Minecraft is a commercial game very popular with geeks. It's a game about blocks. You can build a computer out of the game thanks to logical switches. There is a parallel world. Zombies, pigs, spiders, sheeps, wolves that you can tame, etc... This wiki page is here to help you install the game :)

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Getting the game

Buy your copy here : http://www.minecraft.net

Put the files in ~/.minecraft/ or wherever you want to. And make the game executable :

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$ chmod u+x minecraft.jar

Install java

The devs say Sun's java is required but OpenJDK works fine :

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# pacman-g2 -S openjdk


Play the game

Run minecraft with :

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$ java -jar $HOME/.minecraft/Minecraft.jar

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