Raspberry Pi Minecraft Client

In one of my last articles I showed you how to use your Raspberry Pi as Minecraft server. There is also a special Minecraft client avaliable. With it you can play Minecraft on your Raspberry Pi.

Installation

You can install the client directly from your console. It is a good idea to install it into your home directory. You can do that with this two commands:

wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.minecraft.net/pi/minecraft-pi-0.1.1.tar.gz
tar -zxvf minecraft-pi-0.1.1.tar.gz

Play Minecraft

You can play Minecraft by simply launching it from your home folder. Try these commands:

cd mcpi
minecraft-pi

Done!

Problems

It is possible, that you are not able to start the pre compiled version of Minecraft. I got these error message:

vchiq_lib: Incompatible VCHIQ library - driver version 2 (min 2), library version 6 (min 3)
* failed to open vchiq instance

To solve this problem you have to update your Raspbian Linux wheezy kernel. You can do this with the following commands. After a reboot it should work. It solved the problem for me:

sudo passwd root
su
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install git
wget http://goo.gl/1BOfJ -O /usr/bin/rpi-update
chmod +x /usr/bin/rpi-update
swapon -a
rpi-update
   ---> ERROR : 2769590689: vchiq_lib: Very incompatible VCHIQ library - cannot retrieve driver version
rm /boot/.firmware_revision
reboot
su
rpi-update