Quite often, modern Internet users do not know how to install Minecraft on a computer, but at the same time they have heard a lot about this game and really want to play it. Other people install it on different operating systems, each of which differs in certain features. It is for this reason that it is worth understanding how to install Minecraft on a wide variety of operating systems on a computer.
Download game
Initially, you should decide which version of the game you are going to download. You can simply download the empty version from the official site and be content with the usual settings without any user additions. If you want to immediately get the maximum opportunities and interesting changes right after you figure out how to install Minecraft on your computer, you can find some amateur site, which on the Internet today is quite large, and there you can download a client with pre-installed into it mods.
It is worth noting the fact that over the past few months the game managed to change quite a lot, and in particular the launchers are changing. Thus, it is simply impossible to use a single launcher for all versions, as a result of which users think so often about how to install Minecraft on a computer.
Installation
Original customers are recommended. After you download the archive you need, inside it there will be a special folder called Minecraft, while inside the folder itself there will be a specialized exe file with the corresponding name.
If you do not understand how to install Minecraft on a computer, you should initially install a Java player, which downloads from the official site without any problems. It should be warned that the player needs to be downloaded for its system capacity, so initially it’s best for you to determine if your OS is 32-bit or 64-bit.
After that, place the exe file you downloaded onto the “Desktop”. This file is a launcher. At the same time, it’s worth mentioning right away that it can be used simultaneously for various game versions. For example, the only launcher was used for versions 1.2.5, 1.4.5, as well as 1.4.7 and a number of others.
Quite often, people do not download the game, but simply install it from some disk that they purchased or simply borrowed from their friends. If in this case you don’t know how to install Minecraft from a disk to a computer, you just need to have all the relevant files on the media, and the rest of the installation procedure is absolutely identical to that described above.
We observe the nuances
Next, the Minecraft folder itself must be copied to two addresses.
- On Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating systems, the folder should be moved to: C: / Users / User name / AppData / Roaming.
- On Windows XP, the folder moves here: C: / Documents and Settings / User name / Application Data /.
How to find the AppData folder?
At this stage, many users often have various problems with how to install Minecraft on a computer, and this is not at all surprising, since initially this folder is hidden from the user's eyes, so you have to find it.
This is done as follows:
- You can simply click the “Start” button and in the line closest to it (“find programs and files”) simply register the above address. This option is the simplest and is available to absolutely everyone.
- Alternatively, you can go to “My Computer”, go to C: / Users / User name and then simply add the rest to the top line, similar to ordinary browsers.
Once you find the appropriate folder, you can move our Minecraft to it.
Now you have completely installed the game on your computer. After that, at any convenient moment, you can simply launch the shortcut that you put earlier on the "Desktop". If after that the game starts, play and have fun. But sometimes it happens that an error occurs.
An error has occurred. What to do?
In most cases, if you get an error when trying to start the game after all the above steps, it simply means that you did not have a Java player installed on your computer. If, however, you installed it, but an error occurs, it is likely that you did not download the version for your operating system. In this case, go to the official developer’s site and download the version for a different bit size of your operating system.
How to install mods?
If you figured out how to install the Minecraft game on a computer, but don’t know how to install the mods you need on it, do it as follows:
- Go into the game folder and make a backup copy of the minecraft.jar file, so that later you have the opportunity to reinstall.
- Open the original folder and move the mod you need into it. In this case, you need to move the files that are located in the mod file you downloaded.
- Delete the META-INF folder.
After that, you can start the game and enjoy the installed mods.