Window Title

The window title contains the following information:

• the Amidst version
• the selected Minecraft launcher profile
• the selected Minecraft version
• the recognised Minecraft version

What is the difference between the Minecraft version and launcher profile?

A Minecraft version is a specific version of the Minecraft game code.

The Minecraft launcher allows you to create multiple profiles. You can choose a custom name for each profile and assign a Minecraft version that should be used for it. You can also specify a custom directory for the profile, that is used to store the save games.

What is the difference between the selected and the recognised Minecraft version?

The selected Minecraft version is the Minecraft version associated with the selected launcher profile.

The recognised Minecraft version depends on information that is taken from the actual Minecraft game code (the jar file).

Why do you extract the recognised Minecraft version from the jar file?

We use the recognised version to determine which Amidst features should be activated, e.g. the used mineshaft algorithm. We do this, because it allows Amidst to be executed only from the jar file, without knowing the Minecraft version.

However, the algorithm to extract the recognised Minecraft version from the Minecraft game code is not as good as it should be. This means, some actually different Minecraft versions are mapped to the same recognised Minecraft version. For example, the versions 1.8.9, 1.8.8, 1.8.7, 1.8.6, 1.8.5 and 1.8.4 are all mapped to the recognised Minecraft version 1.8.9. This means, we cannot enable or disable Amidst features for one of the given versions, but only for all of them.