Minecraft on FreeBSD

[knor_noah]

I am really new to FreeBSD and I'm still discovering a lot. I was wondering if there is support for Minecraft on FreeBSD. I've read the handbook and haven't found anything about games.

 

[%pupil -sceptical]

The HB covers core basics of most needed system administration briefly,
not going much into detail of user's software including games.

>EDIT:
Ah, sorry, I misread - you ment minecraft, not minesweeper;
but my post may help you to figure it out yourself anyway.
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I don't know if there is any 'support for minesweeper',
but you simply can install and play (several) Minesweeper(clones).

There are many games, and enough ways to play games on FreeBSD.
Besides several threads on this forum having games as a topic
(search via duckduckgo.com and pick the forums sides there, it delivers better results than using the forum's own search) there are also other sites on the internet having 'games on FreeBSD' as topic.
e.g. Oldschool Gaming on FreeBSD to recommend the site of vermaden (you find tons of very good stuff about FreeBSD there; there are other sites, too)

But to give something directly usable:
1. there are the games running natively on FreeBSD:
/usr/ports/games (I don't know how up-to-date this list is, didn't check it, but seems pretty comprehend to me.)

2. My first shot always is to do a pkg search in the shell.
e.G. pkg search mine | grep inesweeper (the missing 'M' is wanted, and my lazy way to get results on 'm' & 'M')
delivers me:

LibreMines-qt5-2.0.1           Free/Libre and Open Source Software Qt based Minesweeper
LibreMines-qt6-2.0.1           Free/Libre and Open Source Software Qt based Minesweeper
gmines-0.2_9                   Well-known minesweeper game for GNUstep
gnome-mines-40.1_3             Gnome minesweeper
kmines-23.08.5                 Minesweeper-like game
xdemineur-2.1.1_2              Another minesweeper game for the X Window System
xmine-1.0.3_3                  The `Athena' port of the xminesweeper game
xminehunter-0.4_5              Motif minesweeper game
xmines-1.0_3                   Minesweeper game for the X Window System

some Minesweeper clones. (IMO more than enough choices on that.)

3. There are more ways to make FreeBSD to run software (including games) from other OSs, like the Linuxulator, Wine, VirtualBox,... (But since you read the HB you already know this.)
Personally I can recommend Mizutamari (HB 13.6.2.) which not only simplifys the configuration of wine a lot, but just let you play your games on steam.

But since you just want Minesweeper (?) I suggest you may try xmines first.

 

[Espionage724]

I am really new to FreeBSD and I'm still discovering a lot. I was wondering if there is support for Minecraft on FreeBSD. I've read the handbook and haven't found anything about games.

At quick glance there's a minecraft-client package.

 

[Zonoia]

Since Minecraft Java edition, is... Java, and Java is cross-platform, you could try running it 'like normal': For example, run `pkg install openjdk17` and download the minecraft .jar from minecraft.net. Now, normally you should be able to run something akin to `java -jar minecraft.jar` wherever you downloaded the .jar file to.

This previously had some problems though:

Unable to start Minecraft

Hello! I've just tried to start Minecraft recently and it can't start with the following output: Bootstrap (v5) Current time is Apr 24, 2024 10:36:41 PM System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Linux' System.getProperty('os.version') == '14.0-RELEASE' System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'amd64'...

forums.freebsd.org

Latest Minecraft on FreeBSD?

I am wondering if there is some "official unofficial" minecraft setup for FreeBSD (game NOT server)? I've read lots of threads and from my understanding the issue mainly exists in the fact that lwjgl-3 does not exist for FreeBSD but I have seen github repos like this been linked...

forums.freebsd.org

GitHub - pog5/minecraft-freebsd: A guide on how to setup Prism Launcher and Minecraft on FreeBSD.

A guide on how to setup Prism Launcher and Minecraft on FreeBSD. - pog5/minecraft-freebsd

github.com

So it *should* be possible, but nowadays it might very well be a hassle to get it working.

 

[jardows]

Since Minecraft Java edition, is... Java, and Java is cross-platform, you could try running it 'like normal': For example, run `pkg install openjdk17` and download the minecraft .jar from minecraft.net. Now, normally you should be able to run something akin to `java -jar minecraft.jar` wherever you downloaded the .jar file to.

This previously had some problems though:

Unable to start Minecraft

Hello! I've just tried to start Minecraft recently and it can't start with the following output: Bootstrap (v5) Current time is Apr 24, 2024 10:36:41 PM System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Linux' System.getProperty('os.version') == '14.0-RELEASE' System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'amd64'...

forums.freebsd.org

Latest Minecraft on FreeBSD?

I am wondering if there is some "official unofficial" minecraft setup for FreeBSD (game NOT server)? I've read lots of threads and from my understanding the issue mainly exists in the fact that lwjgl-3 does not exist for FreeBSD but I have seen github repos like this been linked...

forums.freebsd.org

GitHub - pog5/minecraft-freebsd: A guide on how to setup Prism Launcher and Minecraft on FreeBSD.

A guide on how to setup Prism Launcher and Minecraft on FreeBSD. - pog5/minecraft-freebsd

github.com

So it *should* be possible, but nowadays it might very well be a hassle to get it working.

Not "*should* be" but is possible. And not much of a hassle in my opinion. With the instructions you linked, I have been running Minecraft JE 1.21 for several months now with no issues.

 

[nxjoseph]

Hi. Yes, it's possible to play Minecraft on FreeBSD (even recent versions) with an open-source and a good launcher: Prism Launcher. I wrote a post in my blog for that but it's not written in English, you may translate it to english using some tool and follow the installation steps there. Note, you do need a ports tree populated in /usr/ports.

Here is the link to the blog post.

FreeBSD Prism Launcher kurulumu

Kişisel blog

nxjoseph.com

I used to play Minecraft but I don't play anymore so I uninstalled it. You may have issues about lwjgl3 version with recent versions of Sodium (performance mod for Fabric), the workaround is using older version (i guess working one was v5.9).

 

[LibreQuest]

Mizuma also has an install option for Minecraft.

 

[nxjoseph]

I just realized that there is now official port of prismlauncher for FreeBSD.
games/prismlauncher.

 

[jardows]

I just realized that there is now official port of prismlauncher for FreeBSD.
games/prismlauncher.

Nice! I followed the manual instructions a few months ago. Let us know how the port goes.