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ok, so I have multiple versions of a game running(minecraft). I use one version of minecraft for my younger brother, and one for myself. In windows, there's my minecraft.bat file:

set APPDATA=E:\backup\Minecraft\minecraft folders\1.8 MC\data
bin\minecraft.exe

this is for me, and starts minecraft from mu hard drive, instead of Appdata. now I completely removed windows, and use an ubuntu-only computer. is there any way to do this?

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  • is there any way to do this in ubuntu? – techgenius101 Jun 24 '15 at 12:37
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As far as I understand, (I only have a basic working know how of how to run minecraft server) you would want something like this.

Install screen if you dont already have it

sudo apt-get install screen

screen -S "Minecraft server Me"

cd /location/of/minecraft/config/

Fire up the minecraft server once you have located the config like this

java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogu

For your brother

screen -S "Minecraft server Brother"

cd /location/of/minecraft/configforbrother/

Start up his instance

java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_serverbrother.jar nogui

This however will only allow you to run one minecraft server at a time. You can however change the port the the minecraft server binds to when it starts and run multiple minecraft servers at the same time.

Have a look here for more indepth explantions on how to run minecraft on linux

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  • what? it didn't work – techgenius101 Jun 24 '15 at 13:13
  • You need to change this - cd /location/of/minecraft/config/ to the actual directory. Did you follow the guide I posted at the bottom? – deanvz Jun 24 '15 at 13:19
  • but this is for a server. it doesn't work for me. – techgenius101 Jun 24 '15 at 13:29
  • by config do you mean the ".minecraft" folder? – techgenius101 Jun 24 '15 at 13:30
  • this is the title of the guide "How To Set Up a Minecraft Server on Linux". – deanvz Jun 24 '15 at 13:36

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