I recently got a new, secondary hard drive which I'm putting all of my games on, at least, the ones that I can. But it seems that Minecraft can't really be moved from Roaming on the C:\ drive.
I can change the location of the launcher, and I can change the installation location of profiles, but the game itself always creates a .minecraft folder in Roaming on C:\.
I'm certain I'm not the only person ever who's wanted to move Minecraft, so I propose a simple option to change Minecraft's installation location upon the first startup of the Launcher, and perhaps also an option to change it afterwards in the Launcher.
This way anyone could have Minecraft anywhere, in any folder on their main hard drive or in a different hard drive entirely. Without always having to have a .minecraft folder in Roaming.
Opinions? I think it's time Minecraft's installation became more customizable.
Yeah, that should be possible. For now you could use MultiMC, you can't customize where individual instances go but it you can customize where the instance folder is. An instance in this case is a complete install of minecraft.
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Well.... Support (but that may slow down the game maybe [and I repeat MAYBE] from Java)
Java shouldn't be a problem. Minecraft installs its own, proprietary version of Java now, completely independent of the global installation.
If you don't have it, then I recommend downloading the launcher again from Minecraft.net and putting it in its own folder, it should install it when you start it up for the first time!
That's one of the reasons I've made this thread now and not a year or two ago. Now that Minecraft doesn't need a global Java installation, it can really be put anywhere without problems, at least, as far as I know.
I recently got a new, secondary hard drive which I'm putting all of my games on, at least, the ones that I can. But it seems that Minecraft can't really be moved from Roaming on the C:\ drive.
I can change the location of the launcher, and I can change the installation location of profiles, but the game itself always creates a .minecraft folder in Roaming on C:\.
I'm certain I'm not the only person ever who's wanted to move Minecraft, so I propose a simple option to change Minecraft's installation location upon the first startup of the Launcher, and perhaps also an option to change it afterwards in the Launcher.
This way anyone could have Minecraft anywhere, in any folder on their main hard drive or in a different hard drive entirely. Without always having to have a .minecraft folder in Roaming.
Opinions? I think it's time Minecraft's installation became more customizable.
Yeah, that should be possible. For now you could use MultiMC, you can't customize where individual instances go but it you can customize where the instance folder is. An instance in this case is a complete install of minecraft.
Please don't PM me asking for help, I will just redirect you to the appropriate forum, where there are others who are far more skilled than me.
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Well.... Support (but that may slow down the game maybe [and I repeat MAYBE] from Java)
Java shouldn't be a problem. Minecraft installs its own, proprietary version of Java now, completely independent of the global installation.
If you don't have it, then I recommend downloading the launcher again from Minecraft.net and putting it in its own folder, it should install it when you start it up for the first time!
That's one of the reasons I've made this thread now and not a year or two ago. Now that Minecraft doesn't need a global Java installation, it can really be put anywhere without problems, at least, as far as I know.