bashcraft

bashcraft is a minimal Minecraft launcher and updater, written in pure Bash, for use under Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris.

Usage

bashcraft.sh [--force-update] [--remove-prefs] [--change-prefs] [--help]

Options

• --force-update: Force an update of Minecraft, overwriting the existing minecraft.jar and associated files
• --remove-prefs: Removes the preferences file.
• --change-prefs: Prompts for a new username and password and stores it in the preferences file.
• --help: Provide a brief help message.

File locations

bashcraft.sh can be placed anywhere, but it will store Minecraft and it's preferences under a set location, determined by platform:

• Linux and Solaris: ~/.minecraft
• Mac OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft

Preferences

The preference file, bashcraft-prefs, is stored in the same directory as the Minecraft installation, which varies by platform (see above). The preference file is a Bash script, which is sourced at runtime before starting Minecraft. It can contain any commands you wish to run before Minecraft starts, as well as the following configuration options:

• username="...": The Minecraft username you wish to use
• password="...": The password to the Minecraft account specified in username. Not required if you wish to play offline.
• MCoptions="...": Any options you wish to pass to Minecraft can be specified here.

Screenshot

bashcraft is a command-line program, but have a screenshot anyway:

Licence

bashcraft is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.

Authors

bashcraft has had contributions from the following people:

• Alex
• Alice Jenkinson <[email protected]>