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.
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.
If you play bedrock then don’t 🙃
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
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.
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)
ATLauncher my beloved, never any controversy!
(I hope this statement never bites me back)
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.
Prism Launcher is the way to go, works great and has a buildin mod manager.
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.
