diff --git a/pkgs/games/multimc/default.nix b/pkgs/games/multimc/default.nix
index bcdd950de4ad..472a8b2966c8 100644
--- a/pkgs/games/multimc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/games/multimc/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-{ stdenv, mkDerivation, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, jdk, zlib, file, makeWrapper, xorg, libpulseaudio, qtbase }:
+{ stdenv, mkDerivation, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, jdk8, zlib, file, makeWrapper, xorg, libpulseaudio, qtbase }:
 
 let
+  jdk = jdk8;
   libpath = with xorg; stdenv.lib.makeLibraryPath [ libX11 libXext libXcursor libXrandr libXxf86vm libpulseaudio ];
 in mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "multimc";