Tutorials/Playing and saving Minecraft on a thumb drive

What you'll need

 * A Flash/Thumb Drive with more than 4GB.
 * A Computer that runs Windows.

How to set it up
First take your thumb drive, put it in the computer and open it. It Should be blank if you purchaced a new one (Recommended As Minecraft takes a lot of memory) and 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) Open your start menu.
 * 2) Open "Run" (if you don't have it search it on your search bar)
 * 3) Type %APPDATA%
 * 4) Find your .minecraft file and copy it.
 * 5) 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 that wont work. To Make it run and save to and from the thumb drive. We need to make a Batch file.

Here is the code Copy and paste it into Notepad:

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.

And Run it.

If you have any trouble or just don't understand. The Original thread can be found here  This page was created to help people. Credit for this discovery goes to minecraft forum user "toughenough6".