Forge simply is incompatible with newer Java versions.There is 3 reason for Minecraft players to use Java 8 instead of the newer one: You may have notice that I mentioned about getting java 8 even though the latest version of Java is 12. The official website also does not offer JRE.The official website does not offer binary for Java 8.For this guide/blog post we’ll use AdoptOpenJDK instead as the has the following advantage over the official JDK website: The first is the official openjdk website, they have binary in zip format ready to go in the same vein as the Oracle download page above (the website is run by Oracle in fact). There are two main source of Java binary that I frequent. I may have a Oracle account myself, but the steps for obtaining the download has become so convoluted and the experience so shitty that I just don’t bother anymore. This actually still works, but for Java 8 due to licensing change on Oracle side an Oracle account are now required for Java 8 download. Like the installer method above, extracting the archive will net you a working jre installation. That is no longer the case, I don’t know why but something seems to change in the installation process.Īnother thing that used to work flawlessly is obtaining the jre (or jdk) from the Oracle JDK download page in the zip or tar.gz format. In the past, simply extracting the offline installer from will net you a working Java installation. For me however the bundled runtime is simply too out of date, a lot of mods will display warning about bugs specific to the earlier versions.įinally, the idea of installing the official Minecraft launcher just to use it’s bundled runtime with MultiMC just seems strange to me. Thankfully, Mojang have bundled Java runtime onto the official Minecraft launcher. It would come with a control panel applet, a web browser integration, an annoying updater, and worse of all: a toolbar ads on the installer itself, all of which is not necessary to play Minecraft at all! One of the most frustrating aspect about installing Java to play Minecraft is that the installer would try to integrate Java onto Windows.

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