Inthis Instructable, I will be showing you how you can change some simple settings in the Minecraft launcher so that all of your Minecraft data can be saved to a removeable USB drive. You may be wondering why anyone would want to do something like this, and the answer is simple. You may be on a school computer where you can't download files or access online games, Minecraft USB will run. You may be going to a friend's house and want to show Minecraft to them, just plug in the USB and you are ready to go. You may simply be wanting to play Minecraft on someone elses computer for whatever reason without leaving evidence that you did, Insert USB and have fun!
So, assuming you have already purchased Minecraft, you are going to want to head over to the Minecraft Homepage. Once you are at the homepage, you will see a Log In button on the top right side of the page. Click this button and fill in your login info. After you have logged in, hit the Orange download button and you will see a large page full of text. This tutorial is based on Windows, so the file you download will differ if you are on Mac OSX or if you are on Linux. Click the Minecraft.exe blue tinted text to downoad the file.
Ok, so you have now downloaded the Minecraft.exe file. Now, you should move that file to your USB drive. To do that, find the file that you downloaded and then drag it onto your usb drive folder. You should see that now there is a Minecraft.exe file on your USB drive. Double click that and you will be met with a "Downloading Runtime" Dialogue. This is normal, and will only take a few minutes to download. After it is downloaded, you will see "Setting Up Runtime" This is normal as well, and will likely take longer than downloading did. It may seem like nothing is going on, but just wait and trust me. I did not think anything was going on because it was taking so long to set up the runtime so I cancelled and corrupted the Minecraft file and had to re-download it.
Once the launcher is up and running, you may be asked to log in to your Minecraft account. Do this and you will now be met with a page similar to the one shown in the first picture. What you are going to want to do now is click the "Edit Profile" button that I have circled in the second picture. This will display a menu as shown in the third picture. There are a couple changes that we need to make in order for the launcher to know that we want the files stored on a USB drive instead of the default directory. The first thing we need to change is the Game Directory. This box will be unchecked by default, so you will need to check it and then you will need to enter into the box the drive name of your USB drive followed by :/.minecraft, such as I did in the fourth picture. The letter name of your drive will likely differ from mine because I have multiple drives in use at once. The next step that you will want to do is tell the launcher to use the Runtime that it set up in the directory of the USB drive. This step is not always necessary, but it is more reliable if you tick the box beside "Executable" Under the Java Settings area of the profile editor menu. The last thing we are going to want to change on this menu is the name of the profile. You can call this whatever you want, but I would recommend changing it to something with USB in the name so that you can tell it apart from other profiles that may be on your computer or on another computer you are using this USB drive on. After you have done all of this, click the Save profile button and you are ready to play.
Now, all you have to do is make sure that your USB profile is selected, and click the "Play" button. After this, you will be loading Minecraft straight from your USB drive! You can see in the third picture that all of your Minecraft files are saved to the USB drive, so you can play this from any computer without worrying about leaving files behind.
Cody Littley's new hard drive can only hold a single kilobyte of data---about one millionth of what you can cram onto those finger-nail-sized microSD cards---and it can't exactly slide into the back of your smartphone. But it's still an impressive creation. Littley built it himself, inside the virtual world of Minecraft.
Last time I logged out my storage was working as normal, but after the big crash my storage has been broken. My creative storage cell doesnt show up in my disk drive. When putting a storage disk into the disk drive there is supposed to show a disk when looking at the block outside the gui, but after the crash the disk drive doesnt show this anymore.
If I understand what has happened to my creative disk, then it has been corrupted and cant be used. Luckily the /createdisk command should be able to clone the disk and make a fresh copy containting all the items
If the disk is corrupted, cloning it is unlikely to fix anything since it will just clone the corruption too. The best course of action is a rollback of the area to before the issue. What are the coordinates of the problematic area?
john01dav the exact cords of the disk drive is -289, -208, 27 (x,y,z). Rolling back 4 days would be ideal. I dont know if its possible to just rollback one block, so if you want you can rollback adjacent chunks aswell.
I just looked into it. Either your base is back now, you gave me the wrong coordinates, your base didn't exist 5 days ago, or I made the same error twice (once is plausible and what seems to have happened, twice is implausible but possible).
john01dav So my base is back, from the most recent copy it seems. I dont know how my entire base was deleted, unless all my claimed chunks around the disk drive were rolled back. If this was the case then rolling back the entire base to a copy right before the big crash (Dont remember the actual time, but any time on the 15th would work).
To reassure, my base has been here for over 2 months, making slow progress to build it, but when I logged on it was completely gone.
The disk drive is still missing the creative cell (That was corrupted right after the big crash).
Coordinates should be correct aswell ( ); this shows my players coordinates at the top.
Guthix777 I was wrong, my base was rolled back 6 days, but for some reason the storage disk is still not there. Small bits of progress I had made during these 6 days were rolled back, except for the important part, that being the storage disk.
EDIT: A 7 day roll back might still work
Mojang have announced a new Minecraft subscription service, the Marketplace Pass, which grants access to a catalogue of "150+" community-created Minecraft thingy-ma-bobs. Skins, adventure worlds, survival spawns, mashups, bizarre textures - with a Marketplace Pass, the wider monetisable universe of Minecraft is your (rented) oyster, except that this being Minecraft, the oyster looks like a weird underwater trapdoor. Here's a trailer.
The new Pass is only available for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, however, not the Java game, as per Minecraft's usual church-and-state division between the older versions beloved of modders and the multiplatform editions devised under Microsoft's reign. If you prefer to play Minecraft with friends, you can take out one of Minecraft's existing Realms Plus subscriptions, which nets you everything in the Marketplace Pass plus a personal multiplayer server with space for 10 users.
Going by the announcement post, current Marketplace Pass offerings include Spark Universe's Furniture: Modern 2, which harbours more flashy armchairs than I ever dreamed possible, and 4KS Studios' Hacker Tools, a secret base full of overpowered weapons.
As with subscriptions at large, you're only procuring temporary access to all these things - once the catalog refreshes, and once your subscription ends, you'll need to buy any removed worlds, texture packs, skin packs, or mash-up packs individually if you want to keep playing with them, though the packs themselves won't be automatically deleted from local storage. Each monthly catalogue refresh does, however, include some time-limited character creator items, which are yours to keep forever once redeemed - this month's options include a swanky pair of boots, a leotard and a crown. If you end your Marketplace Pass subscription, you'll have 18 months to download any world templates you've saved to cloud storage.
A Marketplace Pass costs $3.99 a month. Given that Minecraft is a game in which you can more or less build anything you want, and given that there are over a decade's worth of mods and other add-ons freely available for the Java edition, I would probably not take them up on that. But I am an older block-hopper who still forgets that Minecraft today encompasses a sprawling industry of professional creatives who earn actual incomes by selling texture packs that, for example, make Minecraft look like Dune or the interior of a goat. If you're on Bedrock and you buy a lot of packs, $4 is not a huge ask, though the unanswered question here is how much Microsoft are paying the creators of the packs they're bundling up for cheap.
The news comes at a precarious time for the subscription biz in general. An Ubisoft executive recently observed that players don't feel "comfortable" with game subscription services, while Larian's CEO is of the opinion that a wholly subscription-driven games industry would be "savage", because it would give platform holders far too much control over what gets made. Microsoft's Game Pass is perhaps the best-known and most popular subscription service, but there are signs that its growth is slowing, partly because there are only so many Xbox consoles in the wild.
This section will guide you on copying your game data (worlds, saves data, resource packs, server list, etc.) onto the portable drive. If you do not want to copy your game data, you may skip this section.
Note: Make sure to include the quotation marks ("") and choose "All Files" for the "Save As Type" field, or else Notepad will try to correct it to StartMinecraft.bat.txt and it will open as a text file rather than an executable script.
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