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Structures aren't natural.

You lost me at Discord. I have a hard enough time keeping straight all the discords that I only joined because I had to in order to post one thing and leave.

Minecraft is a bunch of 13-year-olds getting together in real life to dress up as creepers and bash each other with foam pickaxes.

When Minecraft was first released, it worked on Windows XP without issue. Because it's a Java game, it still technically should. The problem here is the launcher. As far as I know, playing Minecraft in Windows requires going through the launcher, which is written in C/C++ rather than Java, and therefore the newest versions of it don't work with XP. Old versions of the Minecraft launcher can still be found in some places, but for whatever reason, they don't work with the Mojang login servers anymore.

Does anyone know of a workaround for this?

Firstly, I think yes, we could do with more slabs, stairs, and in general variations on existing building materials- but there's definitely such a thing as taking it too far... too many block variations I think would cause the opposite problem. The right amount should encourage creative building, while too many would be excessive- there is such a thing as a happy medium... it's a decent reason, but not a good enough reason to add new variations for every block in the game, of which there are already well over 600 unique block types

Oh, Mojang is definitely suffering an opposite sort of problem: they are creating waaaaay too many useless new materials that nobody ever asked for instead of expanding the uses for the classic materials. Mojang could remove 80% of existing materials from the game and I think most people either wouldn't care or would welcome the change. But the existence of one mistake should never be used as an excuse for failure to correct another.

Dirt slabs in particular have already been considered by Mojang, but were unable to be implemented into terrain generation.

Why would that be in any way a relevant consideration when slabs of ANY type don't spawn naturally?

That being said, I'm certainly open to the idea of more variation in general- especially in regards to more wooden blocks, (Crafting tables, Wooden tiles, that sort of thing- maybe a carpentry block similar to the stonecutter?); along with more chiseled stone types, pillars, etc.

God no. No more chiseled anything, no more polished anything, and definitely no new types of wood or stone. That's exactly what this game already has too much of.

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dirt is a no from me, because it's not a construction material but a type of soft soil that makes up for much of the terrain For the same reason no sand, gravel, netherrack, snow slabs/stairs either...

Sand and gravel are a false analogy. They fall when you remove the block under them. They are in fact made of many tiny pieces held together by nothing. Dirt, by contrast, holds together well enough that you can make tunnels through it both in the game and in real life.

Snow can behave either way depending on whether you're talking about freshly fallen show (which behaves like sand/gravel) or compacted snow blocks (which behave like dirt).

Netherrack is just fancy red rocks from hell. We can already carve it into bricks and then make stairs and slabs out of those bricks. Why wouldn't we be able to skip the brick-making part?

Set sea level back to y=64, because y=63 is a stupid random number but 64 makes sense to anyone who understands how computers work. Or, when map-customization is finally added back into the game, allow players to set sea level at y=64. The last time we had map-customization, the sea level slider went straight from 63 to 65.

For those who haven't been paying attention to history, here's a recap: ever since the game was still in alpha over a decade ago, people have been requesting the ability to make stairs and slabs out of all of the major construction materials: glass, obsidian, dirt, whatever. There were even Bukkit plugins to make this happen. Since then, every time a totally unnecessary wacky new material has been added to the game (purpur? seriously?), Mojang has wasted absolutely no time making stairs and slabs out of it, but older and more important materials have been neglected.

I'm wondering if that's changed in the past few updates, and if not, if there are any plans.

For all the special ed kids out there who are about to scream "vAgUe" like you did last time, get a grip. You know what stairs and slabs are. You know the recipe is always the same regardless of the material. You know the hardness and durability are always proportional to those of the material you make them out of.

How about just obsidian stairs and slabs? We've been waiting for those for over ten years.

I'll be damned. It worked! Thanks!

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Filename on disk: jinput-platform-2.0.5-natives-windows.jar
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OpenGL has been around since the '90s. Are you using a 30-year-old computer?

Try opening the Device Manager in the Control Panel. Does your video card have the yellow triangle with the exclamation mark? If so, you're installing the wrong drivers.

I need a way to launch older versions of Minecraft either directly or from an older version of the launcher. Where can I get them? Unfortunately, when I try to play older versions from the modern launcher, the JAR files that it downloads are not the complete older versions. They're more like change lists.

EDIT: someone had previously posted a link to an old launcher here. However, this version of the launcher no longer works with the login system. How do I bypass that?

hello?

Okay guys, thanks. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't crazy