[GUIDE] Installing BTW on Mac OS X without extra tools

[bandcamper]

An homage to FC.

If utilities are a problem (or perhaps you want to script it), you don't need MCPatcher or winrar, or anything else to reliably install BTW on OS X El Capitan, as long as you can bring up a terminal and type.

Ingredients:

• * The freshest BTW zip from the download page
  * Vanilla Minecraft installed, with profile created using version 1.5.2, and successfully run at least once. (OS X used to prompt you to install a legacy version of Java (1.6.0), which you seems to no longer be required.)
  * The 1.5.2 server jar - if you want to patch the server, which we'll download from Mojang here.

Steps (client):

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1. * Prepare for our patched version inside the Minecraft install

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   $ cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/minecraft/versions
   $ rm -fr 1.5.2-btw
   $ mkdir 1.5.2-btw
   $ cp 1.5.2/1.5.2.jar 1.5.2-btw/1.5.2-btw.jar
   $ sed s/1\.5\.2/1.5.2-btw/ < 1.5.2/1.5.2.json > 1.5.2-btw/1.5.2-btw.json 

   * Unzip the btw archive wherever you saved it.

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   $ cd ~/Downloads
   $ unzip -d BTWMod4-A2TimingRodentb BTWMod4-A2TimingRodentb.zip 

   * Head in there

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   $ cd BTWMod4-A2TimingRodentb 

   * Read the readme. Are you crazy?

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   $ open readme.txt

   * Use the jar utility to do the patch

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   $ /usr/bin/jar uf ~/Library/Application\ Support/minecraft/versions/1.5.2-btw/1.5.2-btw.jar -C MINECRAFT-JAR .

   * Remove the META-INF

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   $ zip -d ~/Library/Application\ Support/minecraft/versions/1.5.2-btw/1.5.2-btw.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF META-INF/MOJANG_C.SF META-INF/MOJANG_C.DSA

   * Change your profile to use the 1.5.2-btw version, run minecraft and join the few.

Steps (server):

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1. * Unzip the btw archive to somewhere long term.

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   $ cd ~/Downloads
   $ unzip -d BTWMod4-A2TimingRodentb BTWMod4-A2TimingRodentb.zip
   $ mv BTWMod4-A2TimingRodentb ~/btwserver 

   * Head in there

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   $ cd ~/btwserver

   * Read the readme. Yep.

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   $ open readme.txt

   * Fetch the base jar

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   $ curl -O http://assets.minecraft.net/1_5_2/minecraft_server.jar 

   * Do the patch using java tools

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   $ /usr/bin/jar uMf minecraft_server.jar -C MINECRAFT_SERVER-JAR .

   * Start it!

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   $ /usr/bin/java -Xmx1G -Xms1G -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui 

Updated for OS X Sierra and TimingRodentb!

[magikeh]

Wow! Fantastic guide, thank you. Also welcome to the community :)

[bandcamper]

...welcome...

Thanks! But I've been here for about a year, just haven't had anything to say before now. HumpedCamel tipped me over and I felt like I needed to do something other than money for FC.

By the way, I also have an AWS CloudFormation script to bring up a transient BTW server if anyone is interested.

While I'm giving shout-outs, I would also like to thank haschischtasche for a let's play that showed me you can play skillfully and with urgency, and Xisuma's UHC series for modelling efficient caving BTW-style. I'd not really bothered with MC before BTW.

If anyone tries my patching approach and has issues, let me know here and I'll support.

[esphorem]

Thanks for posting these instructions! I haven't played Minecraft or BTW for a *long* time now, so I'm pretty rusty on this stuff. :)
One thing though: Did you mean sed s/1\.5\.2/1.5.2-btw/? As is, the dots will match any character.

[bandcamper]

...Did you mean...

Yes! - nice pickup. Fixed.

[Six]

Thanks a bunch. I was finally wanting to update my BTW install after having not done so in quite a while, and had forgotten how I did it last time through command line. For anyone just looking to update an existing BTW install over a previous existing version, you only really need to use the jar command (after unzipping the btw zip).

I would also be very very interested in that AWS CloudFormation script you mentioned, if you could share the details on that, I've been toying with the idea of setting up a small server for friends lately.

[bandcamper]

...AWS CloudFormation... server for friends...

That's my scenario. I've started another post here.

If you try it and run into problems, I'd be very happy to help.

[Mr_Weax]

I'm having difficulties with the server patch.

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/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/jar uMf minecraft_server.jar -C MINECRAFT_SERVER-JAR

This line doesn't work, and it tells me I'm using 'jar' incorrectly.

Help is appreciated!

[bandcamper]

...using 'jar' incorrectly.

No worries, can you post or send more error text? Also perhaps the result of this:

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$ ls -al /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/jar

Here's my output:

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$ ls -al /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/jar
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  101216 15 Jul 08:22 /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/jar
$

[bandcamper]

Updated for OS X Sierra and TimingRodentb!

And caught a bug. Things are a bit simpler under Sierra because you don't need JDK 1.6.0.

Right, now for some playtesting...