DougieLawson wrote:Because the full version includes native code that only runs on X86/X86_64 processors and your RPi has an ARMv6 or ARMv7. Without access to the source code for Minecraft it is 100% impossible to port it to the ARM processor architecture.
That's ridicolous! Minecraft is written entirely in Java and is distributed in the form of a jar. It is a completely processor and OS independent executable. I honestly don't know how well regular Minecraft will run on the Raspberry Pi 2, but I'd give it a try. I think it has the processing power to do it in Raspbian. Just make sure you get a good JVM, which is best done by installing the default-jre package with the command
. You can then go to the Minecraft website, download the .jar form of the launcher, and try executing it. If your JVM doesn't show up as a program that can run .jars in your file manager, run
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java -jar /Path/To/Minecraft/Jar & exit
to run it. Then again, your JVM might not take advantage of the multiple cores of the Raspberry Pi, so it might not run well at all. If you want, you can do this with a single Raspberry Pi 2 (I know for a fact it won't work on a Raspberry Pi 1, even if it is a B+), and tell us the results, as I am too curious about Minecraft's performance.