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.
Or you can go deep dive and try Luanti.
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)
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.
Thanks for the heads up. I do have nvidia. I’ll check it out after I get everything set up.
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.
Awesome. Thank you. I play Java. Bedrock is a sin.
Prism Launcher is the way to go, works great and has a buildin mod manager.
I use Feed the beast app, on MX-Linux (Debian based), launching the modpack “All the mods 10” run perfectly, while running the server on the same time (just need a lot of Ram)
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
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.
Hidden apply button?
The apply button is at the bottom of each settings page. It’s not deliberately hidden, but it is easy to miss. Just closing the settings page will revert all changes.
Hello! I’m one of the developers of ATLauncher.
Did you install via flatpak?
Alright ignore me, I uninstalled Flatseal and it works fine now.
… Flatseal??? I am quite confused but, I’ll just nod for now.
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
Hmm… I’ll have to update my instructions then, perhaps I made them incorrectly.
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.
Oh I didn’t do much, just modernization things and Linux stuff.
Ryan is who you should thank, Old lad deserves it.
Fair enough, I’m still grateful to the whole team.
Hey :) Yes I did, but I am also a very inexperienced Linux user so I might have done something wrong somewhere.
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.
It is possible. I suggest Prism Launcher. You can get CurseForge modpacks, and more.
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
ATLauncher my beloved, never any controversy!
(I hope this statement never bites me back)
I use Prism Launcher. You can download the mod packs easily.
I second prism launcher!
I use PolyMC.
I just learned that there’s some nefarious stuff about it though, so I’m switching to a fork of it, Prism Launcher.
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.
