Minecraft Downloads

Buy and download


You first need to buy the game before you can download it on the Minecraft website. It will automatically update the game files to the latest version. It's possible to play offline if you run the game online once.

Microsoft Windows


Download Minecraft.exe, place it anywhere you want, then run it.

Mac OS X


Download Minecraft.zip. Unpack and place Minecraft in your /Applications folder.

Minecraft for Linux / Other


Download Minecraft.jar, an executable jar file. It might work as-is.
If you run into out of memory errors, try launching it with java -Xmx1024M -Xms512M -cp Minecraft.jar net.minecraft.LauncherFrame
Also, please make sure you’re running the Sun JVM…

Minecraft Server


You can check this youtube movie if you want to setup your own Minecraft Multiplayer Server