I’m taking the dive and switching from windows this weekend. My wife and I like to play modded Minecraft and I was wondering if that’s possible on mint? Does anyone know a way to make Minecraft run on Linux and if so, if it can run mods as well? Please share your knowledge on how to do it if it’s possible.

    • Zippythezigzag@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      I’ve tried it back when it was called Minetest. It was fun and the different games are neat but it doesn’t have the mods I like (sophisticated storage, create, and some QoL mods)

  • Doombot1@lemmy.one
    6·
    14 hours ago

    Playing Java (as mentioned by others) should work just fine on Linux. IIRC Fabric mod loader works pretty well, although it’s been a year since I’ve played.

    Sideboard - if you’ve got an nvidia card, look into a mod called nvidium. That plus a few other visual mods got me to 128 chunk render @ ~500FPS… it’s pretty awesome, just only works w/ nvidia cards.

    • Zippythezigzag@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      4·
      11 hours ago

      Thanks for the heads up. I do have nvidia. I’ll check it out after I get everything set up.

    • andrewta@lemmy.world
      2·
      23 hours ago

      I’ve never played Minecraft but would it be possible to do what op is asking through steam as a non steam game? Just curious

      • jrgd@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        22 hours ago

        If you are looking for Steam Deck compatibility, PrismLauncher has a page for bootstrapping it to look nice on Deck. PrismLauncher does also support controller navigation, though this breaks for me on my Steam Controller when using SteamInput rather Xinput. Perhaps this is different for the deck’s controls?

        Obviously for desktop, there isn’t much point to doing this unless you really make use of big picture mode.

  • Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    20·
    23 hours ago

    The Java version runs natively on Linux, and you can mod the game as well. If you’re playing bedrock edition, then getting it working might be a little more complicated.

  • massacre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    20 hours ago

    Java on Mint here. Works great with mods too. Been solid for years unless we get a broken mod or buggy forge update, etc. But those are easy to rollback.

  • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
    1·
    16 hours ago

    Yes Minecraft runs on Java. Java runs on anything except for consoles because they explicitly make sure it doesn’t that’s why there’s off-brand Minecraft now

  • matelt@feddit.uk
    2·
    22 hours ago

    I use ATLauncher but for some reason every time I launch it it behaves as if it was a fresh install every time :(

    I’m on mint cinnamon

          • matelt@feddit.uk
            1·
            5 hours ago

            lol I just wanted to install ATLauncher on my 2nd drive and this was a suggested solution to change the installation directory. As I said I’m a complete noob :D

      • matelt@feddit.uk
        1·
        6 hours ago

        Hey :) Yes I did, but I am also a very inexperienced Linux user so I might have done something wrong somewhere.

        • Clocks [They/Them]@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          5 hours ago

          I always ask if someone installed via flatpak, because apps in flatpaks are all, in theory, in the same environment.

          Same environment means testing things is easier, because it’s more likely the fault of some code bug then the user.

      • Zippythezigzag@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        2·
        19 hours ago

        This is the one I use on windows. I’m glad I’ll be able to use it on Linux too. Thank you for making such an awesome launcher.

    • 18107@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      21 hours ago

      It works for me. One thing to note is that your have to press the hidden apply button after changing any settings for then to take effect. I’ve forgotten it many times.