For those of you who prefer downloading things and keeping them up to date using Flatpak, you can now grab Minecraft on Flathub. A good time too, with the recent huge Village & Pillage update that was released back in April.
Seems they had some trouble getting the Minecraft Flatpak ready, with the original request being opened back in November 2017 but it finally arrived this month.
I gave it a test and all seems to work nicely using the Flatpak on Ubuntu 19.04:
In fact, it actually works a little better than the official .deb installer on Ubuntu, as it doesn't have slightly messed up text in the launcher. A very minor issue though but if it bugs you try the new Flatpak.
While Mojang have their newer launcher available to download as a .deb for Ubuntu/Debian and it's on the AUR for Arch users, most others were left to download the plain launcher files to run. This way, at least there's another way to grab Minecraft that works across multiple distributions, that is part of the aim of Flatpak after all.
Find it here on Flathub.
Hat tip to AsciiWolf.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Nah, seriously, if you have'nt tried Minetest, it has become very cool (I will probably stop putting message under every message about Minecraft on the issue, that can soon become annoying)
MKN-dev-LINUX May 14, 2019
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Perkeleen_Vittupää May 14, 2019
Quoting: amataiUsual message about how minetest is cool to put under any post about Minecraft ^_^
Nah, seriously, if you have'nt tried Minetest, it has become very cool (I will probably stop putting message under every message about Minecraft on the issue, that can soon become annoying)
Minetest is definitely very fun. My eight year old son loves it.
There's also an official 10th Anniversary “theme park” map, released yesterday. It's rather fun, with puzzles and easter eggs galore, and some genuinely breathtaking builds. (Honestly, it's the sort of thing that should have been included in the main distribution years ago. The console versions have tutorial worlds, and they really add to the game.)
Last edited by Dunc on 14 May 2019 at 1:59 pm UTC
https://snapcraft.io/mc-installer
Quoting: amataiUsual message about how minetest is cool to put under any post about Minecraft ^_^My kids like all of the extras that Minecraft has, like animals, rails/cars, house decorations, etc. How does Minetest do with those kinds of things?
Nah, seriously, if you have'nt tried Minetest, it has become very cool (I will probably stop putting message under every message about Minecraft on the issue, that can soon become annoying)
Quoting: SchykenI've been using the Snap, mc-installer, which has been out for some time now. Works very well. Glad to see there's another method of grabbing it.
https://snapcraft.io/mc-installer
Interesting. I tried it a week ago and it didn't work for me.
Quoting: iiariQuoting: amataiUsual message about how minetest is cool to put under any post about Minecraft ^_^My kids like all of the extras that Minecraft has, like animals, rails/cars, house decorations, etc. How does Minetest do with those kinds of things?
Nah, seriously, if you have'nt tried Minetest, it has become very cool (I will probably stop putting message under every message about Minecraft on the issue, that can soon become annoying)
Those aren't really present in the base Minetest game, but the whole point of it is to be able to mod it. You even have a basic mods browser inside the game itself (that allows you to pick from the selection that's on their "contentdb website".
Better trains, bikes, or roads, automation, biomes, trees, NPCs... you name it :)
It could use a bit more polish, though, I agree :)
I used this Flatpak the other day to checkout the latest update, I hadn't realized it was so new. Well done, and thanks :)
Why flatpak? I prefer my proprietary software sandboxed.
The update? I was both impressed and not-so-much. In a way, it's still the same old game, but it feels more polished:
* In-game crafting guide, that's very nice
* It allowed me to discover the fireplace, which saved me as I could locate my home from afar due to the smoke
* not sure about auto-jumping as implemented
* nice improvements to boats
That said, I managed to spend more time than I would like to admit into it ^^"
Last edited by MayeulC on 14 May 2019 at 8:16 pm UTC
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