We installed the $6.99 Bedrock Minecraft client on our children’s Kindle Fire.   Other than the lack of a mouse our children are having a blast playing it on their own server.  

Upgrade the Bedrock Server

sudo systemctl stop mcbedrock

sudo cp /home/mcserver/minecraft_bedrock/server.properties /home/mcserver/server.properties.bkup

DOWNLOAD_URL=$(curl -H “Accept-Encoding: identity” -H “Accept-Language: en” -s -L -A “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; BEDROCK-UPDATER)” https://minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock/ | grep -o ‘https://minecraft.azureedge.net/bin-linux/[^”]*’)

sudo wget $DOWNLOAD_URL -O /home/mcserver/minecraft_bedrock/bedrock-server.zip

sudo unzip -o /home/mcserver/minecraft_bedrock/bedrock-server.zip -d /home/mcserver/minecraft_bedrock/

sudo rm /home/mcserver/minecraft_bedrock/bedrock-server.zip

sudo mv /home/mcserver/server.properties.bkup /home/mcserver/minecraft_bedrock/server.properties

sudo chown -R mcserver:mcserver /home/mcserver/

sudo systemctl start mcbedrock