In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Mindustry, a sandbox tower defense game, on FreeBSD Latest.
Before proceeding with this tutorial, ensure that you have the following prerequisites:
Mindustry requires Java 8 or higher to run. We will use OpenJDK as the Java runtime environment.
To install OpenJDK, run the following command:
pkg install openjdk8
Start by creating a new directory where we will download and install Mindustry. Run the following command to create a new directory named mindustry in the home directory:
mkdir ~/mindustry
Change to the newly created directory:
cd ~/mindustry
Next, download the game files using the following command:
fetch https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry/releases/download/v6-build/mindustry-server-release.jar
To run Mindustry, execute the following command:
java -jar mindustry-server-release.jar
This will start the server and the game will be available at http://localhost:6567.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Mindustry on FreeBSD Latest. Now you can start playing Mindustry and enjoy the sandbox tower defense game.
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