DECRAFT

Advanced launcher for very old Minecraft. Latest releases

About the project

Jar files for very old (preclassic to Indev) versions of Minecraft can be hard to get running. The goal of this project is to make a launcher that can easily make them work without modifying them.

This project's main purpose is to help preserve these legacy versions.

Target compatibility

All versions up until release 1.5.2 + modifications deriving from them are expected to work. If you find a version that fits this description but does not run, please open an issue.

To run DECRAFT, you will need at least Windows Vista with .NET Framework 4.5.2 installed.

Alternatively, you can run it on Linux through the Wine compatibility layer. With winetricks installed, use this command to install all prerequisites:

winetricks dotnet472 vcrun2012 d3dcompiler_47

Building

To build the project, you will need Visual Studio 2019/2022 with .NET Desktop Development tools and .NET Framework SDK 4.5.2 installed.

Contributions

All contributions, including feature suggestions/requests, PRs, bug fixes, are welcome.

For translators:

Instructions on how to help localize DECRAFT into other languages can be found here