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! Video Information
This video, titled ‘They REVIVED Old Minecraft?’, was uploaded by AntVenom on 2021-09-26 20:00:07. It has garnered 356172 views and 23980 likes. The duration of the video is 00:08:02 or 482 seconds.
Old Minecraft versions within the vanilla launcher are very unstable now. BetaCraft is a launcher that fixes that problem, and more!
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BETACRAFT LINKS » https://betacraft.uk/
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