Mods with new 1.6.1 launcher

[thornton77 Profile]

How to Mod minecraft with the new 1.6.1 launcher
If you don't know the new launcher dosn't like mod'ed jar files.
it replaces them with the stock file the next time Minecraft is open.

I'm not going to take that. it's my file. I just have to give up my rights over said file to make it work. If I can't change it, neither can Mojang

I have know idea how you would go about this on a MAC,
This is for Windows 8 or 7

Open your .Minecraft folder
C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft
or
%appdata%\Roaming\.minecraft

Make sure you have used the new launcher with the version you want to Mod so the jar is in the folder
Open it and exit it first. The you should see the Jar in the folder. I'm using 1.5.1



Mod or replace the jar file with one you already have modded
once the file is there Right click it and go to Properties



Click on the security tab and select your user account.
Then click the advanced button at the bottom



Click "Disable inheritance"



you want to copy the permissions or in windows 8 it's convert permission



click ok and then you will see no ineritance for any account


Click edit
un-check Full control, Modify, and Write
then click OK


The perms for your account should be Read & execute only now



Now the minecraft launcher can't up overwrite your fill because you can't change it ether.
if you need to change it you will have to log on as administrator .

[PosterAnonymous Profile]

... Or just make the file Read-Only after you've modded it?

EDIT: Nope, doesn't seem to work... Might need more testing. Don't have time for this right now - @ Work

[jaythedogg Profile]

Doesn't the new Magic Launcher support 1.6?

[gregor1942 Profile]

jay i have had trouble with magic launcher running 1.5.1 since the 1.6.1 update and i am pretty sure you have to use the new minecraft launcher to get 1.6.1 to work

[jaythedogg Profile]

jay i have had trouble with magic launcher running 1.5.1 since the 1.6.1 update and i am pretty sure you have to use the new minecraft launcher to get 1.6.1 to work

I just tried getting on Minecraft with Magic Launcher and it won't let me play on any 1.6 servers, even though my Magic Launcher is updated & my Minecraft is fully updated. Weird.

As far as Twit goes, I'm still trying to figure out how to roll back to 1.5.1 with ML.

[hamy02 Profile]

jay i have had trouble with magic launcher running 1.5.1 since the 1.6.1 update and i am pretty sure you have to use the new minecraft launcher to get 1.6.1 to work

I just tried getting on Minecraft with Magic Launcher and it won't let me play on any 1.6 servers, even though my Magic Launcher is updated & my Minecraft is fully updated. Weird.

As far as Twit goes, I'm still trying to figure out how to roll back to 1.5.1 with ML.

I haven't actually tested it, but this comes to mind. Go to http://assets.minecraft.net/1_5_1/minecraft.jar and download the .jar. Put it in your Bin folder and rename the other minecraft.jar to something else. This seems like it would work, but again haven't tested it.

[jaythedogg Profile]

jay i have had trouble with magic launcher running 1.5.1 since the 1.6.1 update and i am pretty sure you have to use the new minecraft launcher to get 1.6.1 to work

I just tried getting on Minecraft with Magic Launcher and it won't let me play on any 1.6 servers, even though my Magic Launcher is updated & my Minecraft is fully updated. Weird.

As far as Twit goes, I'm still trying to figure out how to roll back to 1.5.1 with ML.

I haven't actually tested it, but this comes to mind. Go to http://assets.minecraft.net/1_5_1/minecraft.jar and download the .jar. Put it in your Bin folder and rename the other minecraft.jar to something else. This seems like it would work, but again haven't tested it.

Thanks! Will do.

[hamy02 Profile]

Be sure to tell me if it works

[jaythedogg Profile]

No, it didn't. Just crashed. I instead used the standard launcher to download 1.5.1 as well as 1.6.1 & then pointed my Magic Launcher (newest version) to the 1.5.1 & 1.6.1 with aptly named configurations within Magic Launcher, each having their own mods. That seems to have gotten me back on.

Thanks for the tips that got me messing around again.

[NekoDre Profile]

That looks too complicated to me. I just found my .minecraft folder, went into versions, copied the 1.5.1 folder, pasted a new folder and named it "1.5.1mod" modded the 1.5.1.jar as normal, opened the 1.5.1.json file with a text editor and looked for the part near the beginning that says "id": "1.5.1" and changed 1.5.1 to 1.5.1mod making sure to leave the end quote. saved, closed, launched minecraft launcher, and edited my profile to use 1.5.1mod instead of 1.5.1

[PosterAnonymous Profile]

Yeah, now that more people have played with it, it is as simple as Neko stated.

[ODSTLink Profile]

So, you figured out how to disable the security on your launcher, but what if you want to turn it back on? Could you still do that if you give up control over some of it?

[asim0v Profile]

The latest MCPatcher works with the new launcher without issues. My jar has not been reset. It seems to change something for the launcher, which causes it to not reset.

[Labtec7 Profile Website]

Thank Goodness I used MC patcher anyways..that made things simple!