Can Minecraft version 1.12 be run under Ubuntu 20.04?
And if so, how? Or what versions of Java/launcher, do I need?
Minor update on why I want to do this (and possibly other people might want to). Basically, I wanted to experiment with the Custom Worlds options, which is in version 1.12 - but was removed from 1.13. After posting this, I found out that 1.16 added in a version of Customizing Worlds , but it's definitely different from 1.12.
I'm running:
- Ubuntu 20.04
- OpenJDK 11
- Launcher 2.1.15852
- LWJGL Version: 2.9.4
- Minecraft 1.13.2.jar - works
- Minecraft 1.12.2.jar - crashes
The Launcher screen does indicate that there's a "new version of the launcher", but the notes give no indication of what it does or what version it is.
The logs show:
Skipping bad option: lastServer:
Skipping bad option: key_key.pickItem:key.mouse.middle
...
This question, Preferred Version?, seems to indicate there is a bundled version of Java with the installation. Is this different from the OpenJDK that I see, on the command line? Is that what the "launcher update does"? And if so, how would I see what version of internal-Java is currently running?
The docs at Minecraft Tutorials seems to indicate that 1.12 should run, so I'm hoping that's correct.
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