Do not press the space bar, as it will undo everything we’re setting up. Note that from now on when you boot your Chromebook, you’ll see the following message: OS verification is OFF. Note: when you reboot (and every time you boot), you’ll be told that OS Verification is off and that you can press the spacebar to re-enable it. The Chromebook will then go through its installation process, which will likely take a few minutes.

You’ll then be asked if you’d like to turn off OS Verification. Your machine will reboot, and you will be presented with a recovery screen. (Note: if you’re viewing this on the same device on which you’ll be performing the steps, then you may want to write the steps on a scratchpad.)įirst, we’ll boot the Chromebook in Recovery Mode by holding down the Esc and Refresh (F3) keys and then tap the Power key. We will be using a combination of Chrome’s Developer mode, a special OS environment configurator called crouton, Ubuntu, the XFCE window manager, Java, Minecraft itself, and a graphics optimizer called Optifine.

If you want to spend even more, look for a beefier CPU and more memory, as those will be the primary bottlenecks for running Minecraft. If you’re willing to spend more money, this $260 Chromebook will perform a bit better.

Given that Chromebooks run ChromeOS, how to get this done is not immediately obvious, and we do need to make some tweaks to get the game to perform sufficiently. Today we’re going to set up Minecraft on a $170 Chromebook: it’s the cheapest way I’ve found to get my kids up and running with the Java edition of Minecraft.

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