Minecraft Pi 0.6.1 cannot talk to the updated Android version 0.7

Oh no...

updated my android minecraft;

(looks nice)

but now can no longer connect to our raspberry pi minecraft :(

so now it is a waiting game;  I assume minecraft_pi will be updated?

so if you read this, and have not updated minecraft... you may want to wait...

Minecraft pi supports words on signs

Found, by accident, that the minecraft pi supports signs with words,  if you create the sign with an android pe client.

The default behaviour on minecraft pi is to place a blank sign.

They do survive saving and restarting.

need to dig into the python api to see how to do it there...

pidora minecraft how to

Just downloaded pidora: http://pidora.ca/

and the first thing to check:

Does it run minecraft_pi?

Yes !  but not immediately.

found had to install 2 libraries, and then add permissions to the graphics device;

so, as root:


yum install libpng12.armv6hl SDL.armv6hl

chmod a+rw /dev/vchiq

and then you can unpack and run minecraft_pi !

Notes:

1. the window decorations on the default window manager, do not quite work for me; so the minecraft window "floats" above the border.
2. I know I should look at a better way of handling /dev/vchiq, but above will work
3. the screensaver!  defaults do not understand the minecraft window works, so if you let the default locking screen saver start, you have to "type blind" as the minecraft window likely is sitting on top of the normal re-login screen.  I turned the screen saver off for now.
4. Firewall !!  Fedora has firewall enabled; so was not visible with my android minecraft pe;  had to call up the firewall gui and enable port 4711 ...