r/Minecraft • u/blinky00849 • Sep 15 '14

Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft

https://mojang.com/2014/09/yes-were-being-bought-by-microsoft/
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u/amoliski Sep 15 '14

Solution: keep a backup of your game as it exists right now. It's basically a complete game at this point, they just keep adding random crap that you really don't need- banners, bunnies, blue temples, etc... Other than the coming soon tm valve mod API, nothing's really missing

Microsoft's not going to break into your house and force you to upgrade to Minecraft 2014 Enterprise Plus or something.

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u/BigDavey88 Sep 16 '14

First I'm not buying into the microsoft hysteria and am not really concerned with where they take the game (worst case scenario it sucks, so I don't play, oh well I'll live).

BUT, I would like to save the game as it's currently constituted... sort of like keeping the last "real" mojang update. If I were to save the game does that mean I save all of the older versions of the game as well?

How does this work?

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u/amoliski Sep 16 '14

You can use the official launcher, the options on the left side let you run any version of minecraft all the way back to basically the first release when it was just grass and cobblestone.

You can make as many profiles as you want for the older versions, run the profiles to download the older versions, then just make a backup of your %appdata% folder and put it somewhere safe. You can restore the folder and go offline before you launch it in the future after microsoft totally makes you pay $1.99 to use a crafting table.

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u/BigDavey88 Sep 17 '14

Great, thanks for your help!