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Question: on my PC,(windows 7) when I try to open the JAR with 7zip it says installer Name Param Is Missing" What do I do? answer quick, I want to ride dragons with mods! --Strackkorotus 05:19, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Lost File

I can't find my minecraft.jar file. Can someone tell me where it is?

The wiki's talk pages are not for support. Also, read the page. Calinou - talk × contribs » 11:35, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

12:49, 17 February 2013 Revision by 5ives

Directory?

I think this page should contain a directory, like the one on the .minecraft page. Firebastard 23:45, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

That could be done. It's pretty long, though, even omitting all the class files; the textures folder alone has nearly 500 files in it. -- Orthotope 10:33, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Obsolete 1.6+

Starting from minecraft 1.6, minecraft will no longer store version specific jars and files in the bin folder, and will be stored in the VERSIONS folder, and no longer called 'minecraft.jar'. -- Extreme ( T|C ) 21:01, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Rename to client.jar

The name Minecraft.jar doesn't feel right. Plus, Mojang used the term client.jar in their files. Whenever you download a .jar file from Mojang, it will download you a client.jar file. So this should be renamed.--Skylord wars (talk) 06:56, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

This page is named Minecraft.jar because that was the name of the .jar file for years (at least up to 2013, when I stopped saving the .jar files from new versions). Though that being said, I don't have an opinion on what the page should be named now (least of all because it's been some time since I even booted the launcher, and at this point I don't even have it installed). ディノ千?!? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 07:27, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
This link https://launcher.mojang.com/mc/game/1.12.2/client/0f275bc1547d01fa5f56ba34bdc87d981ee12daf/client.jar shows that Mojang has started using client.jar as the name. All download links from pre-classic to and have renamed to client.jar. Skylord wars (talk) 10:05, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
Turns out Mojang had 3 places to store their versions.
  1. https://assets.minecraft.net/1_5_2/minecraft.jar
  2. https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.5.2/1.5.2.jar
  3. https://launcher.mojang.com/mc/game/1.5.2/client/465378c9dc2f779ae1d6e8046ebc46fb53a57968/client.jar

The assets.minecraft.net is the one that downloads minecraft.jar, which is the one that you're saying. The https://aws.amazon.com/s3/ link is the one soon gonna be deprecated. Currently, the launcher uses the new format which downloads client.jar. Since, minecraft.jar is no longer used, it should be renamed to client.jar. skylord_wars (talk) 17:02, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

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