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We support Minecraft versions from 1.0 up to the latest snapshot. If you find an issue with a specific Minecraft version, please report it.
No. Amidst only supports the PC/Mac edition of Minecraft.
In general, Amidst is not designed to support modded Minecraft versions. Especially, it cannot display biomes that are introduced by mods. However, if it is a mod that does not alter the biome generation, Amidst might just work fine with it. As always: Do this at your own risk. We consider all bug reports about modded Minecraft versions to be invalid.
To run Amidst, you directly executed the Amidst jar file. You do not need to insert it into the Minecraft jar file, like it is the case for many other mods. If you need more control, you can use the Command Line Interface.
Yes. Even though Amidst is not integrated into the Minecraft jar file like other mods, it uses the local Minecraft installation. Thus, you need to create a profile in the Minecraft launcher which executes the Minecraft version you want to use with Amidst. Also, you need to run this Minecraft profile at least once to make sure all required files are downloaded by the Minecraft launcher.
- Operating System: Any
- Java Version: at least Java 8
The window title contains the following information:
- the Amidst version
- the selected Minecraft launcher profile
- the selected Minecraft version
- the recognised Minecraft version
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.
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).
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.
Amidst was originally developed by Skidoodle aka skiphs. It started as a Stronghold Finder. Later on, skiphs decided to add more features and to publish the source code using an open source license. Also, a readily compiled version was provided and a second minecraftforum thread was created.
There is also a statement by skiphs about the history of Amidst. Basically, there have been four iterations:
- the Stronghold Finder
- small area of the map with coordinates
- infinite scrolling
- complete rewrite called Amidst
After the development in the main repository slowed down, DrFrankenstone aka Treer started to maintain a fork, called AmidstExporter. He added support for many new features.
After a while, Amidst underwent a huge refactoring. The merging of the iteration three code with the iteration four code was finished, new features were added and many features of AmidstExporter were ported back to Amidst. During this process, Amidst was moved to this repository to enable easier collaboration of multiple developers.
Please have a look at the README. If that does not fit your intend please create a post in the minecraftforum thread. If you still want to get in contact, for example to submit confidential information, please mail to [email protected]
Before reporting a bug please try to find a solution for it in the wiki and FAQ. If you cannot find it there, please collect as many information as possible and create a new issue. Please include the following information:
- the error message, if any
- the used Minecraft version
- the used Java version
- the used operating system