Hello, first of all, sorry if i made this thread in the wrong category.
I am currently playing on a new world, that i created in the old alpha version 1.2.6. What i want to do, is to play on that world and version for some time and after some weeks or month, update to the next version bit by bit, so after some time i would change the version from a1.2.6 to beta 1.0.2 to b1.1_02 to b1.2_02 and so on. And i am taking my time with that. And because of that i would like to sometimes use different texture packs.
(I'm calling them texture packs in this thread because they where called that way back then.)
So until now i made myself a 16x16 Painterly Pack and a 64x64 Misa Pack for a1.2.6 and managed to use the Misa Pack with that version by making a custom version of a1.2.6 in \.minecraft\versions and Patching its jar with the HDTextureFix_v1.1.10 from McPatcher.net. Everything works fine except i can't change the animated textures like water, lava, fire etc., which i think wasn't possible in that version anyway back then.
Now i am having a few questions and/or problems that i hope you can help me with.
Is there a certain way to tell, which version of the HDTextureFix is compatible with which minecraft beta version? I was just assuming and lucky that the HDFixv1.1.10 is working with a1.2.6.
I can't use any version of the HDTextureFix between 2.0.0 and 3.0.4_02 because i get an error message, saying that Minecraft was not found in C:\Users\MyName\Appdata\Roaming\.minecraft and then asking me to locate the game myself, which obviously doesn't work.
I am guessing that this is because the current launcher and the one we had before doesn't use the bin folder to contain the minecraft.jar file.
Also i can't make the HDTextureFix find the game by creating a bin folder and putting a minecraft.jar in it myself.
And because the even older launcher, that looks like this doesn't work anymore to download and install the game in the old way and format, it seems impossible to use the versions between 2.0.0 and 3.0.4_02.
HDFix versions after 3.0.4_02 don't work for me with the current launcher because of and error message saying
"java.io.IOException: Could not get list of launcher profiles".
I can't use OptiFine instead, because looking on the OptiFine site, the oldest version you can get is for full release 1.7.2.
So in conclusion:
1. Is there any known way or workaround to HDPatch any minecraft.jar file from version beta 1.0.2 to full release 1.6.4?
2. Can you explain or show me a good tutorial on how to change the water/lava/fire textures via texturepacks in the old formats?
3. If there is a way to get HD textures working and stuff, what about stuff like random mobs and what else the MCPatcher made possible back then?
Any good explanations or tutorials on how to do that with those old texture pack formats?
4. Yes i know, there are SOME tutorials/threads scattered around the internet about all of that but i am unable to find any definitive solutions.
I hope i was clear enough with everything and that you can help me here.
I will try to explain anything unclear and sorry if the text was unnecessarily long, but better too much than too little.
You can find all Optifine versions back to Beta 1.4 in the following thread; I'm not sure if/when they added HD texture support (which shouldn't be needed for more recent versions as they added native support in 1.5 when they started using individual textures instead of "terrain.png", including for water and lava, which previously used hardcoded textures):
Thank you. But i've already tried those links. They sadly don't work anymore. The site always says that the file i want to download doesn't exist. So the guys from optifine probably removed it by themselves for whatever reason.
Thank you. But i've already tried those links. They sadly don't work anymore. The site always says that the file i want to download doesn't exist. So the guys from optifine probably removed it by themselves for whatever reason.
Okay i wasn't thoroughtly with all the links. Some of them do work.
I tried the links from the version beta 1.6.6 on because that's the first version where i see that it's stated that it supports HD textures without needing the MCPatcher. The version "OptiFog 1.6.6_F_HD" for example and the downloads for the versions after that. But the links for those versions just give me an ad infected page that redirects me to a broken mediafire or 2shared or whatever download that doesn't work.
So if i guess right i don't need the MCPatcher for any version from b1.6.6 on. Now i just need to somehow get those optifine versions and know with which version of the Patcher i need to patch from b1.0.2 till b1.5.2. But thank you, i think i am getting closer to solutions.
Hello, first of all, sorry if i made this thread in the wrong category.
I am currently playing on a new world, that i created in the old alpha version 1.2.6. What i want to do, is to play on that world and version for some time and after some weeks or month, update to the next version bit by bit, so after some time i would change the version from a1.2.6 to beta 1.0.2 to b1.1_02 to b1.2_02 and so on. And i am taking my time with that. And because of that i would like to sometimes use different texture packs.
(I'm calling them texture packs in this thread because they where called that way back then.)
So until now i made myself a 16x16 Painterly Pack and a 64x64 Misa Pack for a1.2.6 and managed to use the Misa Pack with that version by making a custom version of a1.2.6 in \.minecraft\versions and Patching its jar with the HDTextureFix_v1.1.10 from McPatcher.net. Everything works fine except i can't change the animated textures like water, lava, fire etc., which i think wasn't possible in that version anyway back then.
Now i am having a few questions and/or problems that i hope you can help me with.
Is there a certain way to tell, which version of the HDTextureFix is compatible with which minecraft beta version? I was just assuming and lucky that the HDFixv1.1.10 is working with a1.2.6.
I can't use any version of the HDTextureFix between 2.0.0 and 3.0.4_02 because i get an error message, saying that Minecraft was not found in C:\Users\MyName\Appdata\Roaming\.minecraft and then asking me to locate the game myself, which obviously doesn't work.
I am guessing that this is because the current launcher and the one we had before doesn't use the bin folder to contain the minecraft.jar file.
Also i can't make the HDTextureFix find the game by creating a bin folder and putting a minecraft.jar in it myself.
And because the even older launcher, that looks like this doesn't work anymore to download and install the game in the old way and format, it seems impossible to use the versions between 2.0.0 and 3.0.4_02.
HDFix versions after 3.0.4_02 don't work for me with the current launcher because of and error message saying
"java.io.IOException: Could not get list of launcher profiles".
I can't use OptiFine instead, because looking on the OptiFine site, the oldest version you can get is for full release 1.7.2.
So in conclusion:
1. Is there any known way or workaround to HDPatch any minecraft.jar file from version beta 1.0.2 to full release 1.6.4?
2. Can you explain or show me a good tutorial on how to change the water/lava/fire textures via texturepacks in the old formats?
3. If there is a way to get HD textures working and stuff, what about stuff like random mobs and what else the MCPatcher made possible back then?
Any good explanations or tutorials on how to do that with those old texture pack formats?
4. Yes i know, there are SOME tutorials/threads scattered around the internet about all of that but i am unable to find any definitive solutions.
I hope i was clear enough with everything and that you can help me here.
I will try to explain anything unclear and sorry if the text was unnecessarily long, but better too much than too little.
You can find all Optifine versions back to Beta 1.4 in the following thread; I'm not sure if/when they added HD texture support (which shouldn't be needed for more recent versions as they added native support in 1.5 when they started using individual textures instead of "terrain.png", including for water and lava, which previously used hardcoded textures):
https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding-java-edition/minecraft-mods/1286605-b1-4-1-9-optifine-history (comment #17 has a link to an even older version, before it was called "Optifine", and there may be other versions in comments. I doubt these versions had anything other than optimizations though).
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
Thank you. But i've already tried those links. They sadly don't work anymore. The site always says that the file i want to download doesn't exist. So the guys from optifine probably removed it by themselves for whatever reason.
Which links did you try? Many versions have at least two links; for example, the download for OptiFine_1.6.4_HD_U_D1 links to "http://adf.ly/404181/optifine.net/adloadx?f=OptiFine_1.6.4_HD_U_D1.jar" and "http://optifined.net/adloadx?f=OptiFine_1.6.4_HD_U_D1.jar", the latter of which is a direct link to the Optifine site (which I also note has "optifined.net" and not "optifine.net" in the URL) and brings me to a working download (I never click on any adfly links so I can't say if the first one works). Likewise, here is a working link for the Beta 1.4 version, using the "alternative download" link (screenshot showing that I successfully downloaded both files; if neither of these examples work for you something must be blocking them. In the second example the first download link given goes to 2shared.com, which brings me to an expired domain page).
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
Okay i wasn't thoroughtly with all the links. Some of them do work.
I tried the links from the version beta 1.6.6 on because that's the first version where i see that it's stated that it supports HD textures without needing the MCPatcher. The version "OptiFog 1.6.6_F_HD" for example and the downloads for the versions after that. But the links for those versions just give me an ad infected page that redirects me to a broken mediafire or 2shared or whatever download that doesn't work.
So if i guess right i don't need the MCPatcher for any version from b1.6.6 on. Now i just need to somehow get those optifine versions and know with which version of the Patcher i need to patch from b1.0.2 till b1.5.2. But thank you, i think i am getting closer to solutions.