Ok no crash report to start off with. I have never seen an issue like this before and im hopeing someone out there can help me :D...
First off I was playing minecraft one day and all is great. Then mojang decides to come out with a new launcher claiming it doesnt need java. I upgrade my launcher or so I thought and it downloaded some other minecraft launcher that looked the same. After this I clicked play and it said I had an old outdated version of java, So i downloaded the newest java currently being java 8 update 31. Once this downloaded it automatically got rid of my last java download. After this maintence is all done and said I go to join my favorite server Desteria and when I get to the main menu for minecraft I click on multiplayer to see all my servers. When I click on multiplayer the whole game freezes and says "Not Responding". From here I can do two things... 1) Wait it out and then after about 10 minutes it shows my servers and a blank thing, no motd and all it says is pinging. Forever. 2) Option 2 is spam it click when it says not responding then it says wait for program to respond or quit. I click quit and it still says not responding for about 30 seconds then it just goes away. No crash report nothing.
I have researched this with no success, I have found some ideas and tried them but to no avail.
I tried I think, I got rid of the .mji launcher thing that I downloaded and completly deleted .minecraft so its like a brand new mc. Still persists with the issue. Idk what to do tbh, am I doing something wrong to get the old launcher back
When downloading the old platform on Minecraft.net click Show all platforms and then there will be a download option for the older model that is also named Minecraft.exe
This just started happening to me as well. I have absolutely no idea what changed to cause this bug.
I do know one thing that I was able to do to at least be able to click the multiplayer button without it blowing up:
If you remove the 'servers.dat' file from your .minecraft directory you will be able to click the multiplayer button without the game crashing (on windows it's in /Users/<user>/AppData/Roming/.minecraft).
However, as soon as I attempt to add a new server the game crashes again. So, it's not much of an improvement.
Basically, it's been confirmed as an issue but it doesn't appear to have any forward momentum towards being resolved nor do I see any root cause (other than that "your servers.dat file may be corrupt").
If you want to see some traction on this, I suggest going to that bug report, getting an account/sign-in and up-vote the issue to gain some attention.
OK. The new launcher is an actual program and its files are spread throughout program files and appdata. Go into control panel, and remove minecraft. This will remove both program files and appdata. Now reinstall.
OK. The new launcher is an actual program and its files are spread throughout program files and appdata. Go into control panel, and remove minecraft. This will remove both program files and appdata. Now reinstall.
Yes, that's true; you can uninstall the application through the control panel. However, that doesn't necessarily remove the AppData folder (where servers.dat) is located. I'd suggest that if you uninstall minecraft as you described, you should still check the AppData directory and make sure that things got removed there.
I'll also say that I did try uninstalling and reinstalling (and removing the AppData folder) a number of times. I also tried using the old minecraft executable file instead of the installed version. I tried restarting the computer. I tried turning off antivirus. I tried allowing java via windows firewall. I tried writing exclusions in my antivirus for java. I tried deleting servers.dat. I tried importing a servers.dat from a different system. I tried uninstalling Java and reinstalling it (32bit and 64bit). I tried downgrading to Java 1.7.
... essentially, I've tried everything I can think of short of reinstalling windows itself to fix this issue. Nothing has helped.
First off I was playing minecraft one day and all is great. Then mojang decides to come out with a new launcher claiming it doesnt need java. I upgrade my launcher or so I thought and it downloaded some other minecraft launcher that looked the same. After this I clicked play and it said I had an old outdated version of java, So i downloaded the newest java currently being java 8 update 31. Once this downloaded it automatically got rid of my last java download. After this maintence is all done and said I go to join my favorite server Desteria and when I get to the main menu for minecraft I click on multiplayer to see all my servers. When I click on multiplayer the whole game freezes and says "Not Responding". From here I can do two things... 1) Wait it out and then after about 10 minutes it shows my servers and a blank thing, no motd and all it says is pinging. Forever. 2) Option 2 is spam it click when it says not responding then it says wait for program to respond or quit. I click quit and it still says not responding for about 30 seconds then it just goes away. No crash report nothing.
I have researched this with no success, I have found some ideas and tried them but to no avail.
I have tried:
-Reinstalling java (Deleting the other first)
-Upgrading java all the way
-Restarting my pc
-Deleting .minecraft and redownloading it
-running version 1.7.10 and 1.8 and 1.8.1
-launchers .exe and .mji
-restarting my pc again.
Please help asap
This just started happening to me as well. I have absolutely no idea what changed to cause this bug.
I do know one thing that I was able to do to at least be able to click the multiplayer button without it blowing up:
If you remove the 'servers.dat' file from your .minecraft directory you will be able to click the multiplayer button without the game crashing (on windows it's in /Users/<user>/AppData/Roming/.minecraft).
However, as soon as I attempt to add a new server the game crashes again. So, it's not much of an improvement.
Here is the most relevant and recent open bug report I've found on this: https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-38385
Basically, it's been confirmed as an issue but it doesn't appear to have any forward momentum towards being resolved nor do I see any root cause (other than that "your servers.dat file may be corrupt").
If you want to see some traction on this, I suggest going to that bug report, getting an account/sign-in and up-vote the issue to gain some attention.
OK. The new launcher is an actual program and its files are spread throughout program files and appdata. Go into control panel, and remove minecraft. This will remove both program files and appdata. Now reinstall.
Yes, that's true; you can uninstall the application through the control panel. However, that doesn't necessarily remove the AppData folder (where servers.dat) is located. I'd suggest that if you uninstall minecraft as you described, you should still check the AppData directory and make sure that things got removed there.
I'll also say that I did try uninstalling and reinstalling (and removing the AppData folder) a number of times. I also tried using the old minecraft executable file instead of the installed version. I tried restarting the computer. I tried turning off antivirus. I tried allowing java via windows firewall. I tried writing exclusions in my antivirus for java. I tried deleting servers.dat. I tried importing a servers.dat from a different system. I tried uninstalling Java and reinstalling it (32bit and 64bit). I tried downgrading to Java 1.7.
... essentially, I've tried everything I can think of short of reinstalling windows itself to fix this issue. Nothing has helped.
Reinstall Minecraft?