Portable Minecraft v1.40

[o0Julia0o]

keep it simple, or make 2 versions, 1 light-version - only with 1 tab & one version with forge & all the other tabs etc.

great work by the way!

[rui334]

koolio there something wrong I can't turn it on it said
The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK to
close the application

[Koolio]

no idea rui

it worked before?

[rui334]

well it did worked before

[salamala]

is there a way to use this portabe version and installin / using also Adventurecraft + Zelda mod?
Thank you very much!

[GGMaster]

will you update the launcher?

[Koolio]

what do you want updating exactly?

[Chris]

Most likely 1.7.9

[Koolio]

So been doing getting the launcher more updated recently

It's been so long since the last update, but finally got more of this stuff figured out with file handling and getting multifile downloading setup, before I would package all the files needed to run minecraft version with the mod setup I use etc.

Well I've almost complete the update....




...it can now download,install and run every official minecraft release, among many other big improvements that will make it easier to do modpacks.

This new release will actually make it possible for cracked players to install there own mods such as using the forge installer for any minecraft version. The catch being you would need to install the launcher to "%appdata%\.minecraft" like the official minecraft laucher does...  then install those type of mods that use an installer, in that directory. Pretty much how its done anyway, then after you have done that you can just copy the kraftzone launcher(and all files in the that directory) to wherever you want again, and it will all work ala PORTABLE!

Will hopefully have it released in the few days, still got one last thing to do with getting the resource files downloaded (at the moment all the files needed to launch a minecraft version work(except you don't get any sounds/textures downloaded/or loaded up), and for newer minecraft releases they have moved to using some hash filing system for textures,sounds etc so the file names are non-readable random crap, where as before a sound file was a sound file with readable file name.

Shouldn't take long though, the biggest hurdles are over.

[Koolio]

New version... no installer for this version until more of it is tested and working.

The key improvement is all minecraft releases, should download and work.

Important notice, if you start a download, don't cancel it

Reason being is that when it starts a download, and it gets cancelled the incomplete file it was downloading at the time you press cancel, doesn't get wiped (I haven't gotten to adding the code and its not so simple).

And if that happens then you end up with a corrupt file, that doesn't get updated (because the file exists). Basically this version is NOT bugfree, and there is still much more to add, but it does work overall



21/05/04
v1.25...And more fixes


Download: http://kraftzone.net/downloads/MinecraftLauncher_v1.25.zip

Extract it to a new folder, so it doesn't interfere with you current working MC launcher.

[Koolio]

Ok a more complete release should work better for everyone now and I've created an proper installer for it. It will default install directory to %appdata%\.minecraft

which pretty useful, as you can following mod installations from other guides as if you were using the real minecraft launcher which also default to installing at %appdata%\.minecraft

Will do a new thread for the kz launcher when the mod pack part of it is complete.

For now if you want consider this one final for the minecraft releases feature. You can still download the java portable and 1.7.2 custom modpack in the [Updates] tab.

Once installed goto [Settings]>[Minecraft Releases] to get minecraft releases.
Fill in username, select options, save new profile, then launch.

A video tutorial going through how to use it will be done later. It should not be not that hard though.

----v1.30---- 30/5/2014 ----
-Check updates now gets latest launcher version information,
 downloads and prompts to updats the launcher after app close.
-"Minecraft Launcher.exe" can be renamed and will still work including
updates.
- Uninstalling a minecraft version will prompt to remove the gamedata
 folder aswel. (assets(sounds,textures, library files, will not be removed as
 they are used by multiple minecraft versions. You can still manually delete
 files/folders, and it will redownload the files required when you install
 a new minecraft version.
- Error handling for canceled downloads and incomplete files will be removed.
- Extra debuging code added, [Settings]>Debug (enabled/ticked), will show
 more error information if there is any.

----v1.25---- 22/5/2014 ----
And more internal fixes
-By far the hugest update, launcher can now check minecrafts json files for
 missing files that are required to launch and offer download option.

-[Settings]>[Minecraft Releases] You can now download all minecraft releases
 including latest snapshots.

Install Setup:
http://kraftzone.net/downloads/KzSetup_1.30.exe

The above will offer to install to default location of  %appdata%\.minecraft  and create shortcut icons in startmenu
---------or ----------
The below is do it yourself install (extract all .zip files into a new folder you created):

Portable Zip :
http://kraftzone.net/downloads/MinecraftLauncher_v1.30.zip

Run "Minecraft Launcher.exe" (this file can be renamed, it will still work)

Disclaimer: While its fully tested to work on my end, I can't fully test every computer scenerio or possible bug, so if anything goes wrong let me know and I'll try to help fix it. Also this launcher only connects to Mojang for mc releases and resource files, and Kraftzone.net for modpack, javaportable and launcher updates (and that's only if you hit the update button to check)

[_GGMaster_]

i cant open the new launcher help me plz thanks

[Koolio]

hmm no idea... why not provide more info like what OS version?

otherwise cannot help you.

[Pepsi87]

your launcher is making me mad. I cant install any litemod mods, no voxel cam, no da flight, I literally cant do anything, i even tried the .minecraft approach and still nothing, not not even the WE CUI works, but on the tab when you start up mc it says 'Mod WE CUI ACTIVE'

Koolio i need help :3

[Koolio]

So I had a look at installing forge specifically the windows .exe launcher (http://files.minecraftforge.net/maven/net/minecraftforge/forge/1.7.2-10.12.2.1127/forge-1.7.2-10.12.2.1127-installer-win.exe) with my launcher while its in the default .minecraft folder....

Looks like there was 2 problems, one it won't let you install anything without "launcher_profiles.json" file, which the official launcher creates to store profile data in.

my launcher uses its own profile storage, so I'll just add a dummy file that fools the forge installer for now.

The other issue is after forge is installed, my launcher sets the gamedir folder to that of the minecraft version, by default minecraft will create that folder if it doesn't exist, but with forge it checks the gamedir to find any mods, but because it loads before minecraft does, the folder doesn't exist so it crashes.

So those things are fixed, I imagine the litemod installer has similar problems to that of forge, so I'll check that next.

In future though, you should goto [Settings] and make sure the [Debug] checkbox is ticked.. then try launching any versions, it will generate any errors during launch or while playing, I left it optional as some errors aren't really errors, just notices and they can be annoying. So if u have issues getting something to work do that in future and then copy any error you get.