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The following link is to a post of mine from 2011 describing how to do what you are asking for. Every version of Minecraft can then reside in it's own completely separate folder and you can have a customized short-cut for each one to directly launch whichever one you want.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/mods-discussion/1370476-how-to-switch-between-1-7-and-1-8-in-ease?page=2#c41

Now, this was originally done with the old launchers in mind and also before the Forge auto-installers so you might have to adapt it a little. As such you might need to do the manual Forge install for each one. The benefit though would be permanent installs of mods for whichever version you have each one set up for. Currently, as you know, Forge only has one mods folder for some reason...

The other caveat is I have never tried this .bat method with windows 10 so I can't say if it would have any issues.

* Also; I'm not saying this is the only or even best current method available, just that it has been a very useful one for me (especially for older versions).

Quote from Barteks2x»

Nice Logo's! Another version based on that image and idea could look similar to this:





This version is crude and not spaced or sized correctly but I had to do it really really fast as I'm late for bed. But I feel it is enough to show you what I am thinking of better than me trying to explain it with words. Your friend who made the originals should be able to do it properly and clean especially since he has the original images etc. Just an idea. No matter what you go with it looks like you are on the right track!

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MineCrak

Will do. Thank for support.

New in fresh version: Dungeon now separated by levels. Each level have a height of 32 blocks. Vanilla mob spawn (and respawn) disabled and levels now have mobs generated together with cubes (currently only zombies). A deeper mob a more it faster, a more it do damage and have more health. Each level have it own blocks and therefore have unique look (currently 8 levels).

Screenshots:

Level 1:

Level 2:

Level 3:

Level 4:

Level 5:

Level 6:

Level 7:

Level 8:

Wow.. You are really making great use of all that extra height, I guess I should say depth. That is really great design work too, good use of colored glass and materials and in how each level looks different.

Being able to create custom procedural worlds with this much variety and freedom is the kind of thing I've always wanted from Minecraft. Thank you for contributing to that dream for everyone.

And thanks to Barteks2x, Cuchaz and Robinton for working to give us the space in Minecraft worlds to make such things possible.

This Mod project is MineCrak Approved

For now I would appreciate it if Add-On threads would have their titles start with [Add-On] or [ADD-ON] and other types of Mods start with [Mod] or [MOD]. And for specific types of modding systems something like [Mod-ModPE] or some such. That would help greatly.

Also; it would be very nice if people would stop listing their Mods as Add-ons if they aren't using the official new Add-on system to make it. I understand the terms would otherwise be interchangeable but now they aren't and it causes confusion. There are important differences between them now as in how they need to be installed, conflicts, works on Realms? etc.

What a brilliant mod! And thank you for making it configurable. There should be lots more AI tweaking/replacing mods.

Also thank you for trusting ScottKillen with your mod, it is definitely in good hands with him.

I hear Creeper blood makes for a quite potent rocket fuel. Collecting it presents a bit of a challenge though.

Quote from Sorrowinsanity»

Well hopefully this project continues on in the hands of others. A mod/concept like this going to waste would be nothing short of a tragedy of gaming.

The wonderful thing about this situation, this time around, is that the work that has been done so far is open source. This makes all the difference in the world.

Thank you for that Cuchaz!

Quote from Adversity»

Since you think the cause of these issues is a bug, please outline the specific steps I can take to reproduce this "bug".

As I mentioned, the snapshots are much faster and more responsive for
me than 1.8.8 but I'd like to help by adding to your bug report. I
apologize for Mojang optimizing the game for me and in turn causing you
performance issues.

You also mentioned that you had an FPS drop in 1.8. Did you file a bug report for that? What ever happened to it if you did?

Quote from Wedhro»

So I did a few tests and I noticed that windows size matters: FPS get from 10 FPS in a maximized window to 20 FPS in a 1/2 screen window size to 30 FPS in a 1/4 screen window size. That's odd considering window size was almost irrelevant in previous versions (just a few extra FPS), that's why I never bothered playing in a small window before.

Now that I found a possible cause for this issue I submitted a bug report here: [MC-84322] - if you're experiencing something like this, feel free to vote in the bug tracker.

Quote from Wedhro»

Of course it turns out my bug report is a duplicate (that godawful search engine...) and therefore it looks like I'm not the only one experiencing a large drop in performances; the only surviving report is this one: [MC-83746] - as above, feel free to vote for it.

If you could see past your own snarkiness you'd see that he did already outline the steps. He says that that degree of FPS change when resizing the window has not occurred in prior versions and seems to be anomalous, and apparently others who have submitted official bug reports agree.

Quote from ScottKillen»

JABBA hand trucks work great for moving storage drawers.

Oh wow.. I was wanting to add hand-carts to Cart Mod since back in beta. I'm glad someone has provided one, and one that supports various mods too, nice.

As the title indicates, this is the first (non-demo) world I created when I got the game, appropriately named "World1", based on the seed -123775873255737467 in 1.5.1-1.6.4 (created in 1.5.1, 1.6.4 is almost the same except for no water lakes in deserts and different chest loot); the seed was randomly generated by the game (I don't think I even knew about seeds back then) and as it turned out it has been a very good seed, starting right from spawning, which places you near a village, no blacksmith but that doesn't really make a difference, near the intersection of a plains, desert, and jungle (open space for building, sand for glass, and wood). Of course, there are also plenty of caves underground, including several mineshafts within a couple hundred blocks of spawn (two overlapping at different levels to the southwest, where a large surface cave opening leads down to them, a third under the desert to the east), and an exposed ravine to the west, although that part came much later; I initially made a network of tunnels under my base and didn't really start caving until around two months had passed, based on an old copy of the world (caves that I intersected were walled off, much of this has since been "cleaned up").

Here are surface and underground maps of the area around spawn, as seen in the actual world and a recreated world in 1.6.4:

(I did not post an AMIDST map because I don't want to see what I haven't explored yet)

I had initially played on this world for around 6 months before I went off of it for about a year while playing around with modding the game, before returning back to it, first by modding a copy with a version of my mod "TheMasterCaver's World" (biome generation modified to have similar parameters to vanilla biomes they replaced so as to minimize chunk borders; here is a rendering of the modded world), then a second time after I'd played more modded worlds (for example); currently this is the only world I am playing on, with a total of around 1 1/2 years of daily gameplay, far longer than any other world I've had and representing about half the total time I've had or played Minecraft.

The world isn't entirely vanilla (beyond an area about X= +/-800 and Z= +1600); I modified the way mineshafts generate by removing their torches so unexplored mineshafts do not show up when I render the underground with MCMap (the mapping utility I used to make the 3D renderings you see in this thread), as well as preventing them from generating in areas with a lot of caves (they are still much more common than they are in 1.7 and later). This includes removing naturally generated torches from existing chunks (before I'd removed them from new mineshafts) by scanning them with code that removed torches attached to wooden planks in a particular manner underground (most of the torches I placed were left alone). I also made a few other modifications to my game, such as changing the way maps render and center themselves (similar to 1.7/1.8) and adding "rail blocks" and "cobweb blocks" which allow me to compactly carry and store rails and cobwebs, much like resources or wool (prior to this I crafted string from cave spider spawners into wool); note that I do not use them for long-term storage and there should be none in the world download (versions before 1.7 are particularly finicky about invalid items, regenerating chunks that contain any). In addition, this world has gone through a name change, by which I mean I had to manually edit the save so tamed animals would recognize my new name after I changed it when name changes came out, as 1.6.4 uses player names instead of UUIDs to keep track of data.

That being said, here are some renderings of the whole world (this and some of the following information may not be current; for example, I've since explored a large area to the east of what is shown below):

Minutor (day):

Minutor (night); yes, most of the light you see comes from cave openings, you can also see my main base in the center and villages (18 bases and 12 villages, including one in my main base):

Minutor (night at layer 22, near the layer of peak cave and mineshaft density):

Unmined, showing all explored caves underground after trimming away chunks without torches within a 1 chunk radius:

One thing that stands out is the lack of mineshafts closer to the origin (center), since they are less common within that area (linearly decreasing in frequency down to 0 at the origin from 80 chunks away along either axis)

Here is a close-up of my main base, along with some screenshots (a bit old but nothing major was changed):

This is the first part of my main base that I built, which has had changes to its layout since but has not been changed otherwise (enlarged, etc); I added the area shown above to expand it:


This is a more up-to-date look at the maps seen above (I modified item frames to render maps like 1.7+, in vanilla 1.6.4 they render like other items):



Part of my underground storage room, where I store all the resources I find while caving (the staircase in the screenshot above leads down to it); there are over two million resources stored here, and would be even if I did not use Fortune for a while after 1.6 came out, prior to which I also only mined what coal I needed, you can still find some caves with the coal left behind (I later re-explored most of these caves to remove the coal). I've mined more than a million coal ore alone, 400,000 iron ore, and some 100,000 other ores. Other resources include moss stone taken from dungeons, rails from mineshafts (also used in my railways), wool crafted from string mined from cave spider spawners (plus some cobwebs, which I only started collecting very late into the world after I added a mod block that let me craft them into blocks as you can with string and wool; these blocks are broken down for storage so there are no permanent modded blocks or items in the world), and loot taken from chests, plus some miscellaneous items such as a chest of mob drops):



A top-down view of the storage room made by deleting everything above it (made at a later date than the images above):



There is a large enclosed area with a glass roof, containing animals and oak trees; I originally made this area as an oak tree farm:

Besides my main base I have numerous secondary bases, of which a more recent one is shown below; most of these bases are relatively simple as they are mainly used as temporary storage areas (filling up a double chest, then I make a trip back to my main base) and to restock on food and wood; at least one older one has more things including enchanting setups and more farms, the latter of which are also seen in my newer bases since I've been trading to get emeralds so I can trade for diamond gear, which I started trading for after I found a villager selling diamond pickaxes, later on buying all gear:

Here is a full-size rendering (4256x3106 pixels, click to see a larger version) of an +/-8 chunk wide swath centered around the railway I made to this base, prior to exploring further; note the absence of caves around the base (which partly shows up on the cave map as parts of it are underground; my main base does not since I use glowstone), which is why I use MCMap to show my progress and removed torches from unexplored mineshafts (I even modified MCMap itself to use a small and more realistic range around torches, which also reduces near surface clutter in forests (MCMap counts any air space that has a 2+ block roof overhead as a cave):

Here is a list of the locations of the 22 bases that I've built, grouped according to the rail line they are on and numbered in the order I built them:

There are also a few structures not considered to be bases and which are not linked by railways scattered around, mainly in the area around base #3. Most of the railways are at y=58, though a short segment to the east of my main base is at y=63 (originally, most were but I moved them down; the railway to the east also went as deep as y=31 along the segment to the north, which I changed before the newest addition to the easternmost base).

Here is a list of the 15 villages I've found in the order I found them in (I did not actually record most of them but the way I explore makes it easy to figure out the earlier ones; #3 might have been found before #2).

Of course, as you can guess, the most notable thing about this world is the sheer amount of caves I've explored - nearly every cave, mineshaft, and ravine within generated chunks, save for a strip around the edges, has been explored with more than 3 million ore and nearly 4 million resources mined from them, and nearly a million torches placed; the exceptions are mainly caves that do not connect to anything else or the surface since the main way I find new caves is through interconnections underground, I'll also check out any surface openings I come across after I've explored an area but do not actively seek them out (most such openings are short dead ends).

Here are some statistics that give you some idea of just how much caving I've done in this one world, which has seen nearly half a year of continuous gameplay:

This is 4335 hours at an average of 3.53 hours per session, which is close to the average across all of my worlds; as an estimate about 90% of this time has been spent caving:



I've mined a total of about 3.11 million ore and 3.54 million blocks including moss stone, cobwebs, and rails, out of a total of 4.54 million blocks mined with a diamond pickaxe and shears (I used iron for a short time early on, now only used to dig out rail tunnels and build new bases using pickaxes taken from minecarts, keeping what I mine outside of caving separate):







I've also crafted 395,564 blocks of mineral resources (including 120 emerald blocks before I started mining it with Silk Touch), equivalent to 3.56 million resources, which when combined with moss stone, cobwebs (albeit most crafted into wool prior to using Silk Touch and cobweb blocks), and rails represents nearly 4 million resources collected over 1,228 play sessions, an average of 3,247 resources per session, even higher when only counting days spent caving:

Here are charts of what I mined over a 4 month period in 2021, during which I spent nearly every day caving with the exception of 2 days in October when I built a new secondary base and railway, otherwise my playstyle is remarkably consistent, with an average of about 3,100 ores and 3,600 resource blocks mined, 337 mobs killed, and 5400 XP collected every day (these figures more accurately reflect my caving than the general statistics shown above):

As for why I mine that many resources even though I do not use many of them, they are a byproduct of caving, which I do for fun, not to get resources; when I start a new world I branch-mine for resources and save caving until after I defeat the Ender Dragon, which to me is the "end" game; some of my worlds have even been "caving only" worlds, where I either used MCEdit to copy a base and gear over from another world or used Creative to build a base and give myself the items I use (either way, I only play in Survival while caving).

This is a series of surface and underground renderings over the six main periods I've played on this world (early-late 2013, mid-late 2015, most of 2016, mid 2017 to early 2018, two separate periods in 2020, and mid-late 2021; the time between these was spent on other worlds) and a full-size animation of an area I explored over several sessions:

This is full-size animation of an area I explored over 10 play sessions, each one lasting for 3-4 hours and covering an area of about 700x700 blocks overall, giving you an idea of how quickly I explore underground, which has included entire large (by 1.6.4 standards) cave systems, up to three separate mineshafts, and half a dozen ravines (not all at once):

A few underground screenshots taken with MCEdit (similar to Spectator mode):

Under my main base at spawn; compared to other areas this area includes a lot more tunnels between caves, as well as branch-mining at diamond level, which I no longer do in this world or in newer worlds except to get resources when I start out. There is still a staircase down from my storage area:



At -800, -1050 is the largest and densest single cave system in the world, and one of the largest and densest I've seen in any world:





Here is an Unmined rendering of the cave above (in a recreated world) showing just how dense that cave system is (from sea level and y=20, the latter of which shows denser caves better); it is unlikely I'll ever find another cave as large and dense as this one (I've found much bigger ones by scanning seeds for dense caves, I estimate that around a million chunks, 18-19 times the size of this world, need to be explored to find a cave like this):



That is not the largest cave system overall though; around -50, -1700 is a huge cave system/complex with more than a dozen separate mineshafts intersecting it:





Another big cave system is around 900, -70:



Not the entire underground is Swiss cheese though, as seen in this sparse area, including unexplored caves (in the upper-left is a desert temple):



It is also interesting just how close caves can get without interconnecting; here is an unexplored mineshaft that is just one block away from another one that I explored. If there had been ore or gravel here I'd have broken through (there are also often breaks in narrower caves and ravines, and larger breaks in ravines under the ocean, which I'll usually mine through):

You can download the world here to see it for yourself (dated 12/6/2021):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mjsawpqbhq1pbdv/World1.zip (503 MB)

Note that while it can be opened in vanilla I recommend using my "World1 custom client", the mod I use to play on this world which includes many bugfixes and optimizations (this includes many fixes for bugs still present in the latest versions). It also includes many minor modifications and tweaks to gameplay, such as "rail" and "cobweb" blocks (these shouldn't be present in the download as I only use them for temporary storage while caving and at secondary bases). However, 1.8's Spectator mode makes it possible to fly around underground to get a good look at what I've explored (I did make it so the suffocation overlay isn't shown in Creative but currently you can't freely move around):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/k73ameapyc4qru8/World1_custom_client.zip

(the first few pages of comments were made back when I had posted this thread for the TMCW-modded version of this world; I decided to reuse this thread instead of making a new one with the same name)



Some relevant links:

Caving to the Far Lands - a detailed analysis of just how much caving I have done based on actual area explored and cave/structure frequencies.
I just mined one million coal ore
What's the longest you've played on one world? - includes some details on most of my other worlds
Does anybody else come close to this level of caving? - I've always been interested if anybody else plays like me (surely there are, some have even told me that 1.7+ is unplayable without mods to bring back 1.6.4-style caves, which is also how I feel)

Features

• Easy to use GUI
• No modding required
• Export to PNG, JPG, HTML (see examples)
• Supports Minecraft Java Edition 1.2 to 1.18 and up
• Supports Minecraft Bedrock Edition 1.4 to 1.18 and up
• Customizable colors and styles
• Modded worlds
• Advanced cave rendering
• Slice at any Y
• Night view
• Nether, The End and custom dimensions
• Fast, multithreaded, low memory usage
• High DPI aware
• Command line version is also available

Download

Latest .NET version for Windows 7/8/10/11, Linux and macOS:
0.15.2-dev (November 2, 2021)

Examples

• Google Maps examples

Screenshots

Wolves are awesome, but are you tired of them? Then prepare for what is coming!
This addon adds the best mythological creature of all time, the Dragon!

And now you can have one by your side in your adventures...

You must find one, tame it and help it grow, so it become in your strongest ally!

Explore in caves

This is where dragons normally appear, but beware, because the fully mature are hostiles!

Behavior

There are 5 stages of growth, and a sixth if it is tamed, all of them immune to fire.

In the first 4 wild stages, they are passives and can be tamed, in the fifth stage, the last for a wild dragon, they become hostiles and can not be tamed, also attack villages.

Mature dragons love cooked mutton, so will always attack sheeps, no matter if they are wild or tamed,so be careful with your sheep pen!

Tamed dragons will teleport to their owner if they are more than 24 blocks away.

Be careful when you explore a small cave, if your dragon is large it could hurt him teleport there, so it's best to tie it to a fence outside the cave.

Taming

A wild dragon can be tamed with any kind of cooked meat.

The larger a wild dragon is, the more costly to tame it; in the first stage you have 3/4 chances, in the second 1/2, in the third 1/3 and in the fourth 1/6.

Once tamed, you can healed with any kind of cooked meat.

The growth of a tamed dragon takes 24 minutes from stage 1 to stage 5, but can be slowly accelerated using any type of cooked meat. Each use takes 10% off the remaining time to grow up. And takes 20 minutes more to reach stage 6, but can be slowly accelerated using gunpowder. Each use takes 20% off the remaining time to grow up.

A dragon stage 6 can beat the Wither, at least give it a worthy fight, and maybe win.

The tamed stage is always a little larger than the wild equivalent stage, also tamed dragons begin to throw fire in stage 4, the wilds only do it in the stage 5.

Wild values:

Wild Dragon Stage 1

Passive

Can be tamed

Health Points: 20 ()

Wild Dragon Stage 2

Passive

Can be tamed

Health Points: 30 ()

Wild Dragon Stage 3

Passive

Can be tamed

Health Points: 40 ( x 20)

Wild Dragon Stage 4

Passive

Can be tamed

Health Points: 50 ( x 25)

Wild Dragon Stage 5

Hostile

Can not be tamed

Health Points: 60 ( x 30)

Tamed values:

Tamed Dragon Stage 1

Passive

Health Points: 30 ()

Tamed Dragon Stage 2

Passive

Health Points: 50 ( x 25)

Tamed Dragon Stage 3

Passive

Health Points: 80 ( x 40)

Tamed Dragon Stage 4

Start throw fire to help his owner

Health Points: 130 ( x 65)

Tamed Dragon Stage 5

Throw fire to help his owner

Health Points: 180 ( x 90)

Tamed Dragon Stage 6

Throw explosive fireballs to help his owner

Health Points: 250 ( x 125)

Screenshots:

Downloads (iOS/Android/Windows 10/Other):

Dragons Behaviors (.McPack)

Dragons Resources (.McPack)

If your device does not support .mcpack do not worry, here are a .zip with all files:

Dragons Add-On (.zip)

This is an addon which only works for 0.16.0/0.17.0 or above, report any bug to my Twitter @all_gonza or in this post, also send me screenshots, I love it!

Have a great time and enjoy!

All my Add-Ons Here!

Also Try:

Amazing Mobs Add-On!

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-pocket-edition/mcpe-mods-tools/2761316-amazing-mobs-add-on-a-lot-of-new-creatures-on-your

The End Add-On!

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-pocket-edition/mcpe-mods-tools/2758083-the-end-add-on-ender-dragon-endermites-ender

Polar Bears Add-On!

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-pocket-edition/mcpe-mods-tools/2757115-polar-bear-add-on-like-pc-win10-pocket-edition

Llamas Add-On!

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-pocket-edition/mcpe-mods-tools/2756374-llamas-add-on-like-pc-pocket-edition-win10-edition

Zombie Apocalypse Add-On:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-pocket-edition/mcpe-mods-tools/2746260-zombie-apocalypse-add-on-for-mc-pe-0-16

Life Mod:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-pocket-edition/mcpe-mods-tools/2720276-life-mod-add-new-villages-structures-monsters-and

Pocket Creatures!
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-pocket-edition/mcpe-mods-tools/2541441-pocket-creatures-v2-elephants-lions-ostriches

Chococraft!

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-pocket-edition/mcpe-mods-tools/2682236-chocobos-in-mc-pe-chococraft-mod

Polar Bears ModPE (.js):
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-pocket-edition/mcpe-mods-tools/2657755-polar-bears-pe-like-pc-mcpe-0-14-x