[Suggestion] Support for Minecraft versions pre-1.2.3?

[aaronfranke]

Hi, I would like to make a modpack that uses an old version of Minecraft, as in Beta 1.7.3 old. Does the technic launcher support versions older than the ones listed in the pack submit menu, and/or are there plans for adding support for this?

[Chefsbrian]

Well, I can't speak for the state of the platforms ability to support an older setup like that... But its not likely, after the update that merged server and single player together (1.3 I believe...)

I have to ask, why so far back?

[aaronfranke]

Why would the merging of server-singleplayer make a difference on version compatibility? The earliest version available to choose from is 1.2, in which they still had them seperate.

And the reason it needs to be so far back is because this pack is a revival of Robinton's Cubic Chunks mod (http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/310298-100robintons-mods/) which makes the world height infinite by storing chunks in cubes. It is requested that a modpack be created to allow easier access to the mod. You see, it is very hard to acquire the correct versions of the required mods (as they're so old the mod-makers no longer support them) and installation is currently tricky.

[disconsented]

Well, I can't speak for the state of the platforms ability to support an older setup like that... But its not likely, after the update that merged server and single player together (1.3 I believe...)

I have to ask, why so far back?

I would guess some obscure mod

[Chefsbrian]

Why would the merging of server-singleplayer make a difference on version compatibility? The earliest version available to choose from is 1.2, in which they still had them seperate.

And the reason it needs to be so far back is because this pack is a revival of Robinton's Cubic Chunks mod (http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/310298-100robintons-mods/) which makes the world height infinite by storing chunks in cubes. It is requested that a modpack be created to allow easier access to the mod. You see, it is very hard to acquire the correct versions of the required mods (as they're so old the mod-makers no longer support them) and installation is currently tricky.

It makes a difference because, back then, many mods only had single player versions or only had multiplayer versions, or had to have different versions of each for server and client respectively. Suffice to say, modding was a mess of logic back then. So the problem is, alot of mods, even with the help of early versions of forge, simply had hard incompatibility to other mods, which makes a "Modpack" Difficult. Newer versions of minecraft, with high block limits (ID Limits) and even higher Item limits, helped remedy this issue for the most part, which contributed to the sudden rise of all these platforms supporting modpacks.

But to keep things simple, I doubt any of the current clients resources could properly support a 1.7.3 beta build. But your welcome to give it a shot, just don't be surprised if it dies.