Minecraft Bin Folder Not Created–Linux Ubuntu

To re-download your .minecraft folder you have to do a force update. You can find that by clicking "options" in the launcher. Without a forced update, the launcher might only check to make sure you have the latest minecraft.jar and will only download that if it's out of date or missing entirely.

If you deleted it when minecraft is open, Delete the folder again and force update.

Pre 1.6 (Old Launcher)

If you deleted your bin directory it will be recreated when you launch the Minecraft client.

If the client starts up, your bin directory is almost certainly at:

• Windows: C:\Users\You\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft or %AppData%\.minecraft
• Linux: ~/.minecraft
• Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft

Post 1.6.1 (New Launcher)

The new launcher does not create a bin directory. Instead, there is one folder for every installed different version of the game, located in the folder versions in your Minecraft directory (see above). For example 1.7.10, or 14w30c. Note that multiple profiles can use the same version and there will only be one folder.