You can also change your version to an older one by going to the Installations tab. You can click the arrow next to the left of the green Play button to bring it back to the latest released version of Minecraft. To change your Minecraft version, head back to your launcher. Other versions of Minecraft, such as 1.11 and higher, will work on the Hypixel server but due to system changes, it impacts our servers differently.Īdditionally, please note that we may consider dropping support for some lesser used versions at a later date to ensure we're able to offer the best possible experience for our most commonly used versions of Minecraft. Minecraft version 1.8.9 is the most optimized client for our network and for the best player experience we recommend you use 1.8.9. Hypixel currently supports the following Minecraft game versions: You can change your Minecraft version to any of our supported versions. You have to set switch on the left hand side of the line to 'Green' to change that entry, or it'll be grayed out.Changing your Minecraft version can let you choose which version to join the Hypixel Server with. Java Executable *** says 'Use bundled Java Runtime' by default, set to non-changeable (switch on the left side of the textbox) This screen shows everything you can change: On my screen this shows the Profile I loaded, 'Latest Release' version and 'Latest Snapshot'.

When the Mojang window pops up to play your game select the 'Launch Options' button just under the Minecraft banner at the top of the window. If you edit the Java launcher you should be able to point it to the newer version you want. Now it looks as if the path to Java on your disk is coded into the Mojang launcher, which causes the default version (1.8.0_25) to be used. When Mojang first started loading the Java runtime at game start it supposedly would not do so if another version of Java was detected on your system.

If you go in-game and hit the diagnostics key the Java version and some memory usage info is in the very upper right corner. I was thinking Minecraft and Forge versions.

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