Raspberry Pi microcomputers can be a great option for hosting your Minecraft world as long as you don't mind doing the work to set it up.

Overclock your Raspberry Pi to Medium. Change the memory split to 16MB. Reboot your Raspberry Pi. Download and install Java. Download and install Minecraft Server.

Once you have downloaded the free Raspberry Pi version of Minecraft, you will need to follow some specific instructions to get the game running smoothly on your device.

The Raspberry Pi is available for purchase in the US for $35, but it's unsurprisingly sold out, and it'll most likely stay that way for a while.

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Minecraft: Pi Edition, a specially tailored version of Minecraft Pocket Edition for the Raspberry Pi, is to be released for free, Mojang’s chief world officer Owen Hill has announced.

That gives it more flexibility than you’ll find in the paid consumer shipping versions of Minecraft, in a package that’s completely free to run on $35 Raspberry Pi hardware.

NOOBS is the built-in operating system installer for Raspberry Pi. But if you already know which operating system you want to use, there's a quicker way to get your Pi up and running.