

Now you can visit the mcpi directory ( cd mcpi) and start playing the game by typing: $.
#CREATIVE MINECRAFT SHORTCUTS INSTALL#
To install Minecraft, download the package into a directory of your choice and unzip it from a terminal with: $ tar zxvf minecraft-pi-0.1.1.tar.gz To start, Creative mode might make the Pi version less fun, but it is offset by the fact that the creators have included a nice and simple API that allows you to program new features into the game using the Python programming language. Instead, in your inventory, you have an infinite number of the blocks and tools you need, and you use those to do your building.

"villagers"), and although you can dig, you can't pick up blocks (mine) or transform combinations of blocks into new objects (craft). In this mode, you have no mobs (animals, monsters, and non-player humans – a.k.a. This is similar to early versions of the game for mobile devices. The Pi version of Minecraft is a bit limited, in that you can only use the Creative playing mode. However, a client version has been adapted to the Raspberry Pi, and that is the one I'll be using in this article.
#CREATIVE MINECRAFT SHORTCUTS FULL VERSION#
Minecraft, the "social lego" with zombies, skeletons, and creepers, has become a social phenomenon, earning a place in the Smithsonian's "Art of Videogames," a feature-length documentary, an article in The Guardian, and ports to nearly every modern personal computing platform in existence, including the Raspberry Pi.Īlthough you can run a Minecraft server from your Pi, hardware constraints won't allow you to play the full version directly on your Pi.
