Minecraft 1.6.1 Official Download

Minecraft Updates — July 2, 2013, 8:48 AM - 575 Views

Minecraft 1.6.1 is now out on the Minecraft Launcher, and ready to play! David and Toby go over many of the new features – enjoy!

Changelogs:

Added handling of invitations
Added resetting realm with one of provided realm templates
Added viewing backups for a realm and the ability to restore any of them
Added setting the owner of a realm as game master operator
Added confirmation screens for various actions (such as deleting a realm)
Ability to leave someone else’s realm that previously accepted invitation for.
Fixed game mode and game difficulty issue
Minor GUI fixes for better usability

Download Minecraft 1.6.1 Official:

You can download the new launcher for the following systems:

Windows: MinecraftDev.exe

MAC/OSX:MinecraftDev.dmg

Linux: MinecraftDev.jar

To install the launcher, simply download and run the program.

Manual installation

Minecraft for Windows

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

Minecraft for Mac OS X

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

Minecraft for Linux / Other

Download minecraft.jar. The jar is executable and might work as-is. If you run into memory issues, try launching it with java -Xmx1024M -Xms512M -cp minecraft.jar net.minecraft.LauncherFrame, also please use Sun’s JVM.

Multiplayer Server

If you’re running on Windows and just want to set up a server easily, download Minecraft_Server.exe and run it.

If you want to run the server on any other OS or without GUI it’s a bit more involved. First make sure you can use java from the command line. On Linux and Mac OS X this should already be set up but on Windows you might have to tinker with the PATH environment variable. Download and run minecraft_server.jar with java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui.