Tutorials/Playing and saving Minecraft on a thumb drive

This tutorial explains how to run Minecraft on a Thumb/Flash/USB drive. It is useful if you want to keep your game data (worlds, texture packs, server list...) when switching computers.

What you will need

 * A Flash/Thumb drive with at least 256MB of space.
 * A computer that runs Windows.

How to set it up
First take your thumb drive, put it in the computer and open it. Create a folder and name it "Minecraft portable" (or whatever you want to) and in that folder, make two new folders named "bin" and "data" They MUST have that EXACT name or else it wont work. Now copy your mincraft client and paste it into the "bin" folder. Now we need the Minecraft data files.

To get them here is what you do.


 * 1) Press  +
 * 2) Type %APPDATA%
 * 3) Find your .minecraft folder and copy it.
 * 4) Now, open the Minecraft portable file we made earlier and paste the .minecraft file into the data folder.

Running it all
You may have tried to run Minecraft but it will not work. To make it run and save to and from the thumb drive, you need to make a batch file.

Here is the code, copy and paste it into any notepad program:

SET APPDATA=%CD%\data bin\minecraft.exe

Now save that as MC_portable_launcher.bat And put it into the Minecraft portable folder, not in "bin" or "data".

Run it.

If you have any trouble or just don't understand, the original thread can be found here.

For Windows 7 users you need to edit the file extension in any archiving program e.g: winRAR, 7-Zip etc