I love the idea of having a portable Minecraft installation. Syncing between machines or even giving your worlds and mod-setup to a friend. Before Minecraft’s updated launcher, the only way to change the data storage location away from “%APPDATA%\Roaming\.minecraft” was…

Here’s a quick demo on launching a Minecraft server in Windows using a .bat file. Right click in your folder and go to New > Text Document. Name it start_server.bat Hit Yes when windows asks if you’re sure about changing…