Minecraftier

**DarkAmbient** · September 2nd, 2012

Updated: 2013 05 15

Minecraftier is a lightweight app for managing Minecraft.
It can do this for you:

Install Minecraft and add a systemwide launcher to start it
Update LWJGL (can fix blackscreen, mouse-issues or various glitches)
Reserve RAM for Minecraft
Create new Minecraft-launchers wherever you want em
Reset Minecraft (You'll get a vanilla install, except that savefiles is intact)
Launch Minecraft
Debug Minecraft (Saves runtime-log to user-selected location)
Uninstall Minecraft
Install Java (OpenJDK 7)
Backup all your savefiles and settings
Restore a previously created backup
Help you translate glyphs from ingame (Standard Galactic Alphabet)
Install Forge & Forge Modloader
Install Optifine HD for Minecraft 1.5.2, adds lots of graphic-options to Minecraft (highly recommended!)
Assist with installing Mods
And a few more

Download latest version from Github (click zip to download)
(and yay I finally got around learning git!)

Screenshot:

To run Minecraftier:

Save file to your computer then rightclick it, choose properties
Go to the permissions-tab, then make it executable
Close properties and run by doubleclicking minecraftier

Alternatively you may start from the terminal with:

Code:

. minecraftier

or make it executable from the terminal:

Code:

chmod +x minecraftier

then start by doubleclicking minecraftier

(In both terminal-examples we assume you downloaded minecraftier to your homefolder, otherwise you need to cd your way to the location where you downloaded minecraftier)

**asdk** · September 3rd, 2012

Originally Posted by DarkAmbient

Wrote this installer some time ago, but updated it a lot today.

Download: Minecraft-installer

Download the installer, rightclick it and go to the permissions tab. Then make it executable. (not sure on the correct string in english Ubuntu, someone fill me in please)

Then with a few button-clicks you may:

Install Minecraft w/ custom launcher added to your menu/dash
Fix the black-screen-issue
Set amount of memory to reserve for Minecraft
Uninstall Minecraft
Install java or remove+install other version of java

Please try it and let me know of any bugs, suggestion... This is all written from Arch Linux, so I'm unable to try "Ubuntu-specific stuff" like apt-get.. I plan on updating both this post and this script so.. help

It depends on packages zenity, xterm and wget, but I'm pretty sure all packages comes with Ubuntu.(?)

In the future i plan on adding progressbar for downloads. And an option (a working one) to backup the players worlds. Also cross-distro-support.

Have funzy!

Yes, you are right that you have to right click > Properties > permissions > Allow executing file as a program. And yes, executable is what you would call it in English

Is it supposed to create a new txt file called 0?

Minecraft does not install at all when I try to install it. This could be my machine, I'm not sure, Terminal is saying "unexpected operator" and "illegal number", if you need the exact terminal text, just ask.

When I had the .minecraft folder ready and working, it never recognized minecraft as installed, so everything else did not work.

**DarkAmbient** · September 3rd, 2012

Originally Posted by asdk

Yes, you are right that you have to right click > Properties > permissions > Allow executing file as a program. And yes, executable is what you would call it in English

Is it supposed to create a new txt file called 0?

Minecraft does not install at all when I try to install it. This could be my machine, I'm not sure, Terminal is saying "unexpected operator" and "illegal number", if you need the exact terminal text, just ask.

When I had the .minecraft folder ready and working, it never recognized minecraft as installed, so everything else did not work.

Thanks for your reply! Bash is a peculiar langauge, but I'm pretty sure I've fixed all the issues now. Even added a visual progress-bar on downloads while at it. Will update mainpost in a min.

**asdk** · September 4th, 2012

Thanks for the update, everything works now

**kostkon** · September 4th, 2012

Nice app.

**DarkAmbient** · September 4th, 2012

Originally Posted by kostkon

Nice app.

thank you!

And its just been updated to work even better!

Edit: updated it again.. had a typo/error in the script, until now.

**RLewellen** · September 12th, 2012

Hello, Dark Ambient

Thanks so much for all the effort you have put into this downloader/fixer/etc

I do however receive an error when I attempt to run your bash script

./minecraftinstaller120906.sh: 314: ./minecraftinstaller120906.sh: Bad substitution

Any help is much obliged!

**DarkAmbient** · September 12th, 2012

Originally Posted by RLewellen

Hello, Dark Ambient

Thanks so much for all the effort you have put into this downloader/fixer/etc

I do however receive an error when I attempt to run your bash script

Any help is much obliged!

Hi, thank you for mentioned it!

I have honestly no idea what caused the bad substitution. Re-tested all the options again, no errors on my front. Might be due to me running Arch and is unable to try it on Ubuntu atm (Ubuntu-machine is broken) But i've fiddled around a lot now, will upload in a few sec. I'd love it if you could try again and let me know if it works.

It doesn't seem like I can edit first post anymore, so I'll make a new one.

**DarkAmbient** · September 12th, 2012

Updated 2012-09-12

Minecraftinstaller can do this for you:

Install Minecraft and add a launcher to your application-menu / dash
Fix the black-screen-issue (by updating the LWJGL-files)
Set amount of RAM to reserve for Minecraft
Uninstall Minecraft
Install java (or a different version of java)
(next release) Backup your worlds

(Oh and don't laugh at my computers cccp-specs)

>> DOWNLOAD-LINK <<

It is totally safe to install Minecraft with this installer even if you've been playing Minecraft on your computer since before. In fact, the minecraft.jar you normally start with is not needed and can be removed before/after installing using this.

To run Minecraftinstaller:

Save file to your computer then rightclick it, choose properties
Go to the permissions-tab, then make it executable
Close properties and run the installer by doubleclicking

Alternatively you may start from the terminal with:

Code:

./minecraftinstaller120912.sh

or make it executable from the terminal:

Code:

chmod +x minecraftinstaller120912.sh

then start by doubleclicking minecraftinstaller120912.sh

(In both terminal-examples we assume you downloaded the minecraftinstaller to your homefolder)

update 2012/09/12:
Reworked the way the installer figure out stuff, and how it presents it.
Added a funny clock, since last version was made. =)
Users can now go to this thread from inside the installer.
No duplicates of downloaded files anymore

In the future I plan on making the option to backup your worlds to work.

Let me know if something is not working, or if you got any suggestions.

Enjoy!