Mojang and Microsoft are planning on bringing more fluidity to their games in the future, and that starts now with the release of the new Minecraft Launcher Beta. Which brings nothing really at the moment. It is available for PC, Mac, and Linux and allows you to launch the Java Edition of Minecraft just like you always have, with the hope for new features to come in the near future.
Still, if you like to be on the cutting edge of Minecraft updates and see all the new things that are coming before they’re released, the new Minecraft Launcher Beta is the latest bit of software you should install. Seems familiar. The mentions that this version of the Launcher will eventually allow players to switch between the different games from the brand, including game which was announced at this year. You can grab the downloads for the new Minecraft Launcher Beta by clicking the button below.
Feb 9, 2017 - If the new 1.11.2 launcher STILL doesn't work for you Mac Users, follow these steps. Enter in the search window: ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft 4. I didn't download the launcher, I used the old file. Thanks very much! The new launcher was causing problems for me, including lag, but I had deleted the old one. Minecraft does not 'install' like a usual program (in fact, Minecraft.exe is not an installer). When started, it creates and uses a folder for itself (.minecraft), which contains the *.jar executables and assets, but it doesn't create a new launcher executable that is registered in the OS somewhere.
Just remember that this is BETA, meaning there may be bugs present that could effect your gameplay experience in the future. Don’t forget to also keep tabs on the and share your thoughts on the Launcher over there so that the developers can improve the experience for all of us.
This is the main screen of the launcher. As you can see, I have many different instances with different versions and purposes. In the Vanilla category I keep several versions of Vanilla Minecraft so that I can easily choose which version I want to play. All the instances have their own worlds and resource packs, so you won't have a problem with version incompatibility. In the Forge category I keep all instances with mods.
These instances can all have different versions of Minecraft, Forge and LiteLoader installed, all with their own mods. You can double-click any instance to launch it. Creating an instance. To make it easier to understand, I highlighted some options for you:.
Red: Change the icon that will appear on the main screen for this instance. You can choose from a few standard icons or import your own (like I did with my Empire Minecraft instance ). Blue: The name of the instance. You can choose anything you want here!.
Green: The group/category I mentioned earlier. You can choose an existing category here or type in a new one. Orange: The instance's Minecraft Version. Select a version by clicking the '.' It's also possible to import a modpack straight away, but I won't be covering that in this guide.
I created an instance called 'Guide' in the 'Forge' category with Minecraft 1.11.2 for the sake of this guide. And now you can play Vanilla Minecraft by just double-clicking your newly created instance Installing Forge & LiteLoader Okay, so we created a Vanilla Minecraft instance nice and easy, but we want to go one step further. Now, I'm going to show you how to install Forge and LiteLoader into your instance. Yup, it works Installing Mods Installing mods is just as easy as installing Forge and LiteLoader. First, you'll need to download a mod of your choice.
In this guide, I'll be installing JourneyMap, a minimap mod for Forge (you can download it for yourself ). Once you've downloaded a mod of your choice, click on the 'Loader Mods' ( Blue) button as shown in the image above. Then, click the 'Add' button, navigate to the folder where you've downloaded your mod, and open it.
Now, your mod should be added to the list. Launch your instance again to be sure your mod is working. Repeat this process for every mod you want to install.
If your mod doesn't work, make sure it's compatible with your current version of Minecraft/Forge/LiteLoader. EDIT: Installing OptiFine without Forge Understandably, some of you just want to install OptiFine and preferably without installing Forge.
This is also possible in MultiMC. To do that, download OptiFine first from their.
Open the downloaded.jar file like you normally would when you're installing it for the regular Minecraft Launcher. However, instead of choosing 'Install', you should choose 'Extract'. You'll get a prompt asking you where you want to put the extracted file. When you did that, click 'Save'. Now, switch back to MultiMC and open the Edit Instance menu of the instance where you want to install OptiFine in.
Click 'Add jar mod' and select the file you just extracted using the OptiFine installer. You'll get a warning that 'you shouldn't be doing this unless you know what you're doing blah blah', but you can just ignore that And that's it! If you want to install shaders to OptiFine in MultiMC, navigate to the folder where you've installed MultiMC and navigate to.
Code: instances minecraft shaderpacksand paste your shader pack there. Resource Packs, Worlds and Other Options Adding resource packs and worlds works in a similar way as installing mods.
In the Instance settings menu, click 'Resource packs' or 'Worlds', click add and open your resource pack or world file. If you take screenshots in-game, you can find them in the 'Screenshots' option. You can view them or quickly upload them to imgur.com so you can share them with others easily. Running Multiple Instances at The Same Time If you have multiple accounts and a beefy computer, you might want to run multiple instances of Minecraft at the same time. This has been made easier in MultiMC in a recent update, because you don't have to open MultiMC twice anymore. On the main screen you can easily switch between accounts in the top right corner.
If you have yet to add a second account, you can do so by clicking 'Manage Accounts' and adding an account the same way as you did during the First Time Setup. You can than open one instance for each account you have. You cannot open the same instance twice though. Very nice guide, my compliments Tim! Not only is this one heck of a guide, it also made me seriously curious about this.
In fact, I'm most likely going to check this out and experiment a bit. Fun fact: I don't hate the new launcher, not at all, but I have discovered a few quirks with it already. For some reason it sometimes simply crashes on me whenever I tried to fire up a second Minecraft instance. Even with using separate game directories.
I think I pinpointed it to launcherprofiles.json ( edit: and removed jar files in the versions directory) but yeah. For the record: this is not evidence that the new launcher sucks or whatever. I've experienced the same problems with the old one. That launcher could sometimes simply fail to start Minecraft at all and close itself without giving any reason what so ever.
I managed to trace that back to the 'versions' folder: if you installed a lot of Forge versions (for example) and then decide that it's time to clean up and remove several (unused!) instances then the old launcher would sometimes get haywired and refuse to launch any Minecraft version at all. So some of these problems are definitely not limited to the new launcher. But yeah, picture me curious. I'm especially interested in the ability to separate your mods a bit. Heck, I'm going to experiment and report back later. Nltimv said: Added the section 'Installing OptiFine without Forge'.Can you read minds or something?
I was about to comment how I gave up on all launchers and right now I moved back to the old one (1.76.6) because I ended up getting fed up with all of 'm The new launcher The new Minecraft launcher isn't bad at all, but it most definitely has some very nasty quirks. If you want to use multiple accounts then this launcher isn't suitable. Simple as that. Sometimes it will work, but it more than often chokes on itself.
I've narrowed the possible causes down to the versions folder (specifically: the.json file) as well as the launcherprofiles.json file. But just to be clear: not even setting up a separate Minecraft gamefolder helps here. I've tried to fire up Minecraft many times (just the vanilla current version) only to be greeted with this. I also noticed a very troublesome issue with the new launcher (which also made me decide not to use it): when using multiple accounts it will sometimes remove game jar files for reasons I fail to understand. So, there is chance that you'll look into.minecraft versions 1.11.2 and you'll find 1.11.2.json but not 1.11.2.jar. Not a problem for vanilla versions, but it gets tedious when you're trying to use OptiFine and discover 1.11.2-OptiFineHDUB7.jar to be missing.
When I started a game and try to launch a new instance for GripCEO I'm always greeted with this error, no matter what I do. So yeah, this is not for me MultiMC I like what the authors are trying here, and it works. But I still ended up getting annoyed because every new version will be assigned to a separate gaming directory. So when I change the sound volume in one instance then this doesn't propagate to my other instances.
Same goes for server settings, every instance I make (I usually keep 3: vanilla, vanilla + optifine & forgelite) has to be told about all the servers again. I know I can copy servers.dat, that's not the point. Basically I can't easily combine anything. I want a few versions / instances to use the same gaming directory. I know it's not recommended, but I don't care because it works. Has always worked for me (apart from some minor logfile issues). The old launcher I spend way too much time on this nonsense; trying to debug the new launcher (finding out what made it crash) and ended up actually trying to make it work (see above error ).
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Then I ended up with MultiMC which also gobbled up time and right now I'm like ' screw it'. So I grabbed a backup, restored launcher.jar, put it in a different directory (d: program files minecraft instead of d: program files minecraft game) and made a shortcut onto my desktop. As a direct result I can finally log onto my LAN server using 2 accounts again. I did need to re-auth all my accounts but that was it I'll probably write up a batchfile next week which can move launcherprofiles.json out of the way so that I can use both vanilla launchers side by side.
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Or maybe I'll study the changes and try to find a way to manually hack into it so that I can convert between both versions of the file back and forth. Time to play a game or two.
ShelLuser said: MultiMC I like what the authors are trying here, and it works. But I still ended up getting annoyed because every new version will be assigned to a separate gaming directory. So when I change the sound volume in one instance then this doesn't propagate to my other instances. Same goes for server settings, every instance I make (I usually keep 3: vanilla, vanilla + optifine & forgelite) has to be told about all the servers again. I know I can copy servers.dat, that's not the point.
Basically I can't easily combine anything. I want a few versions / instances to use the same gaming directory. I know it's not recommended, but I don't care because it works.
Has always worked for me (apart from some minor logfile issues).I hope they add something like a 'shared directory' in a future update.