They REVIVED Old Minecraft?

Minecraft has a problem. A problem that,  throughout the years, has only gotten worse and   worse. Playing old versions. If you play Minecraft  Bedrock Edition, there’s almost nothing you can do   about it, especially if your platform of choice is  not a PC. If you do have a PC, and still want to  

Play older versions of the game, Minecraft  Java Edition is clearly the better choice.   There are hundreds of older versions that, with a  few clicks of the mouse, can be enabled and played   at any time. At least, that’s what it  looks like on the surface. The reality  

Of the situation is that many of these versions,  within the vanilla Minecraft launcher anyways,   have become more and more defunct as time has  gone on. From black screens, to game crashes,   world saving issues, no in-game audio, no skin  servers, no authentication servers, the list goes  

On. I’m not saying that Mojang should actively  support versions that are more than a decade old.   That would be silly. However, if they are going  to provide these versions within the launcher,   it would be nice if launching and loading into  many of these versions didn’t usually result  

In the game crashing, repeatedly. Thankfully,  there is now a fix for that, and it’s called   BetaCraft. BetaCraft is an entirely separate  third party launcher that fixes ALL of those   problems for just about every single Pre-Classic,  Classic, Indev, InfDev, Alpha, and Beta release of  

The game, and even just a few more beyond that.  BetaCraft also adds quite a few useful features,   like the ability to make a server on any old  version, and have it show up on their server   list… which has one-click join functionality  by the way. There’s also player skin support,  

Sound support, multiple instances, and more.  For anybody even remotely interested in properly   experiencing older versions of the game,  especially if you like to do so regularly…   like I’m doing for this video, BetaCraft is a  game changer. So let’s go ahead, and check it out!

So, why BetaCraft? Why use a separate  launcher for JUST old versions of Minecraft?   Why not just use the vanilla launcher, or MultiMC?  Honestly, the main reason I prefer BetaCraft is   that it’s stable. Old versions of Minecraft  have a myriad of problems in modern times,  

Many of which are quite simply not intuitive for  the average person to fix. I don’t know about you,   but I would rather not have to know exactly which  Java version to use for any given old version.  

I’d rather not have to keep a list of community  servers and JVM arguments that allow for skins   and sounds to work again. I don’t want to  keep a folder of patched versions that might   break again for one reason or another. I might  HAVE the technical knowledge for these things,  

But I would rather not. And with BetaCraft,  I don’t have to. I just download it, run it,   select a version to play, and go.  So, what else does BetaCraft do? First off, let’s start with the most seemingly  obvious feature. The version selector. As I noted  

Before, each and every version of Minecraft on  this list, aka, absolutely every version up until   Release 1.5, just works, properly. But it’s more  than that. Almost every old version of Minecraft   that doesn’t support it’s window being resized…  just, does support it now. Almost every pre-alpha  

Version that had it’s world saving feature broken  over time… is fixed now. The dreaded black   screen of death that just happens when loading  a world? Yup, that’s fixed too. It’s not just   that the launcher has all of these versions…  but that they actually work. On top of that,  

The vanilla Minecraft launcher only has 10  pre-alpha versions. BetaCraft has 80 of them,   thanks to the archival efforts of groups like  Omniarchive. Once you load into any version that   used to have either player skins or in-game  sounds, but no longer does with the vanilla  

Launcher… yup, you guessed it. Those will work  again as well. So, it’s clear that BetaCraft   is one of, if not the best option for playing  older versions offline… but what about online?

If you want to just up and join a server on any  given version, all you need to do is click on the   server that you want to join within the BetaCraft  launcher, assuming that it’s actually online, and,  

You’re in! It’s really that easy. If you want to  host a server and have it appear on this list,   BetaCraft does provide the information necessary  to make that happen, but it does require some   decent knowledge of how to run a server of  your own in the first place. Still though,  

The option is there for those who want it. This  list is especially useful for anybody wanting to   create or join a classic Minecraft server, since  those versions have no multiplayer button at all.   But even if you don’t want to join a server  that’s on this list, you can still just launch  

These versions, and a window will pop up asking  you if there’s a server IP address that you’d like   to join, so long as the version you’re joining  with is the same one that the server is running.   While I know that the vast majority of you won’t  be bothering with creating your own server,  

I wanted to include this info anyways,  for those of you who are interested. Rounding off this video are a few more little  features. First off, while this launcher does have   a few included mods, mod support really isn’t this  launchers strong-suit, nor it’s primary function.  

But it’s last feature is one of my favorites,  albeit a small one. The addons list. Within   this list are 7 different options that work for  varying versions of the game, only two of which   I really use. Offline DAT saving, which allows  me to save classic worlds as a file on disk,  

And, game mode switch, which allows for  me to swap to and from creative mode in   versions of Minecraft between classic 0.28  through late-stage InfDev. As someone who…   makes Minecraft videos for a living… anything  that reduces the amount of time I have to spend  

Manually messing around with level data files  is honestly, something I can get behind. So that’s BetaCraft! I realize that this video  might be a bit different from what you’re used to,   but whenever something like this comes along and  completely changes the way I personally interact  

With and experience Minecraft, I like to ensure  that I get the word out to as many people as   possible. If you’d like to support the project,  I’ve included some links in the description   down below for you to check out. Among  them are links to my own discord server,  

The BetaCraft discord server, and as well a link  to donate to the BetaCraft project if you like   what they’re doing. I really enjoy when the truly  hard working people within this community can   properly benefit from the exposure that  I bring them. So yeah, that just about  

Does it for me for now. I hope you all enjoyed,  subscribe if you did, and thanks for watching!