Minecraft
This is a temporary page.
Minecraft got way too popular for this humble server. I've had to disable everything fancy to even get it to run. It went down on Saturday, September 18.
It will probably go back to normal on Monday, September 20.
If your launcher is giving you download errors, please update the launcher by downloading the latest version from this page.
The following things do not work at the moment:
Registering an account
Purchasing the game
User verification for online servers
Sounds and music for new players
The following does work:
Actually playing the game
Player skins
Until this all gets sorted out, I'm officially calling a "free-to-play weekend", or however long this will take to fix. You will need to have a paid account to play it later on when this gets fixed though.
If you want to keep track of the latest developments, please follow my blog. I also post stuff on my twitter, but there's a lot of nonsense there as well.
/ Notch
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Windows:
Download Minecraft.exe, place it anywhere you want, then run it.
If that version doesn't work for some reason, try this: Minecraft.exe
Mac OSX:
Download Minecraft.zip, extract the Minecraft app, then run it.
Linux / Other:
Download Minecraft.jar, an executable jar file. It might work as-is.
If you run into out of memory errors, try launching it with java -Xmx1024M -Xms512M -cp MinecraftLauncher.jar net.minecraft.LauncherFrame
Also, please make sure you're running the Sun JVM...
Multiplayer alpha server software
Minecraft alpha multiplayer support is currently under heavy development, and is riddled with bugs. You can help test it, though. It will get better soon, I promise!
If you're running on windows and just want to set up a server easily, download Minecraft_Server.exe, place it anywhere you want, then run it.
If you want to run the server on any other OS, or want to run it without the gui, it's a bit more involved.
First, make sure you can use java from the command line. On linux and mac, this should automatically work, but on windows you might want to set up a PATH system variable.
Then download minecraft_server.jar to anywhere, then launch it as:
java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui
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