Minecraft & Steam?

[Sehtey]

Hey, does anyone know how I can get Minecraft working with steam? It's just cos I wanna be able to talk in steam with minecraft because the overlay is nice ;3

[Pandemoneus]

Open Steam -> Add Game -> Add 3rd party game -> Search -> Navigate to Minecraft -> Add

And there you go.

[Jay?]

I'm pretty sure that won't enable the overlay, that'll just tell everyone that you're playing minecraft.

A neat trick that you can do twith that is make a simple .bat file, and name it something like "StarCraft 3 Beta" and add it as a 3rd party game. Then occasionaly run it and watch people harass you about how you got it.

[The Merchant of Menace]

The overlay works fine if you just add Minecraft to your game list.

[Neowulf]

I am so renaming my tekkit server launcher to Grand Theft Auto V BETA.

[Jay?]

The overlay works fine if you just add Minecraft to your game list.

Ill have to do this then. That didn't work last time i was really into steam.

[linkthegamer]

Ill have to do this then. That didn't work last time i was really into steam.

I am surprised they might have added that since that is one of the reason to by a game on steam instead of just pirate and run it as a 3rd party game. Be nice to be able to use that overlay in games. Now if it just had logging.

Also that batch file game spoofing trick is evil. But now I want to try it, "Linkthegamer is now playing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 Beta"

[Jay?]

Nah, the overlay always worked, but it only could be used on steam games, tat you purchased through steam. Having it on minecraft would be super useful, particularly for thaumcraft recipes.

[linkthegamer]

Nah, the overlay always worked, but it only could be used on steam games, tat you purchased through steam. Having it on minecraft would be super useful, particularly for thaumcraft recipes.

That was what I meant. I though it had to be a game that you had purchased and downloaded from Steam proper and not just any game you added via steams "Add a 3rd party game" option. I didn't even think about the fact I could play in full screen and check the wikis at the same time. I really will have to try that later.

[sneezing panda]

I am surprised they might have added that since that is one of the reason to by a game on steam instead of just pirate and run it as a 3rd party game. Be nice to be able to use that overlay in games. Now if it just had logging.

Also that batch file game spoofing trick is evil. But now I want to try it, "Linkthegamer is now playing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 Beta"

That should be "Half-Life 3" and I am good friends with the guy who was doing the McOverhaul for Minecraft where you could have a steam-esque overlay. I can find out about getting the source if you want.

[DemonCrusher36]

That should be "Half-Life 3" and I am good friends with the guy who was doing the McOverhaul for Minecraft where you could have a steam-esque overlay. I can find out about getting the source if you want.

Valve cant count to 3 though.

[linkthegamer]

That should be "Half-Life 3" and I am good friends with the guy who was doing the McOverhaul for Minecraft where you could have a steam-esque overlay. I can find out about getting the source if you want.

Ahh nice. I Couldn't remember if the next game was supposed the 3rd installment of the series or another episodic expansion.

Valve cant count to 3 though.

I have noticed that. Maybe we should ask for Half-Life 2: Episode 2 - Part 2 instead.

[freakachu]

steam will put the overlay on 3rd party games if you run them through the client. for instance, it works for league of legends.

however, if you run the technic launcher with steam, the overlay will not work. this seems to be due to the way the launcher restarts itself every time you run it and then just ends up running a jar and blah blah. basically steam doesn't have any idea what it's doing and gives up. the vanilla launcher worked though, last time I tried it.

[Industrial Miner]

How about Skyrim V BETA?

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[linkthegamer]

How about Skyrim V BETA?

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Pfft, I run the Elder Scrolls VI: Elsweyr Beta.

Also I tired the overlay thing then looked on google, the consensus seems to be you have to use 32-bit java even on 64-bit, and quite possible it has to be java 6 as well. I hope they are wrong about that.

[ppeupf]

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Now every time I play minecraft I will be playing GTA V closed Beta XD