Life in the Woods Renaissance Launcher

Launcher for the Life in the Woods Renaissance Mod-Pack for Minecraft.

(free and open source)

Version 1.3.12

11-Jan-2017

This is the developer's page of the Launcher for Life in the Woods Renaissance. For the official release versions of the mod-pack and the launcher binary please visit the Life in the Woods Renaissance web-site.

For the helper mod, which was especially developed to improve usability of the Life in the Woods Renaissance mod-pack see here.

The Life in the Woods Renaissance Launcher is based on Open MCL.

Prerequisites for Developers

Change Log

11.01.2017: Launcher v1.3.12 [r1146] (release not pushed to active clients)
- Mod: adapted to changes in json package
29.07.2016: Launcher v1.3.11 [r1093]
- Fix: Installation fails because of missing dynamic lights zip file
17.07.2016: Launcher v1.3.10 [r1091]
- Fix: Saving user added shader during upgrade
- Fix: Launcher forces download of optional addons
- Fix: Launcher does not stop initialising when using user added shaders (not sildurs)
25.06.2016: Launcher v1.3.8 [r1077]
- Add: Support to switch between user accounts
- Add: New feature: LitWr version selection and option to keep a specific version
- Add: Options to select features like OptiFine, ShadersMod and Dynamic Lights
- Add: Support for new forge installer
- Mod: Demand Java 1.8 (required by newer mods)
- Mod: Improved integrity checks for repository entries
- Mod: Tolerate web servers which give valid responses on non-existing documents (instead of an error code)
- Mod: Better responsiveness in case of non existing file on server side
- Mod: Improved transaction state handling for special cases
- Fix: Transaction in wrong state if file not exists
- Fix: File access check not trustworthy on windows
- Fix: Exception when selecting non-existing directory in external download dialog
- Fix: Adapting to new JSONCodec interface
- Fix: Issue with external downloads if manually changing download folder
17.03.2016: Launcher v1.2.10 [r957]
- Fix: All fixes from 1.2.9
- Fix: overflow in random update server selection
- Fix: Wrong installation procedure for DynamicLights mod
01.03.2016: Launcher v1.2.9 [r941] (available through manual download only)
- Fix: Number format issue (caused by another application)
- Fix: incorrect utf8 escape sequences interpretation (caused issues with JVM arguments in launcher profiles)
- Mod: No more pre-selection of OpenGL related settings (those are too system specific to find proper ones)
- Add: Use manually downloaded launcher if version number is greater
28.02.2016: Launcher v1.2.8 and Mod-Pack v1.0.8
- Launcher v1.2.8 [r927]
  - Mod: Improved check for JDK Win32ShellFolder bug
  - Mod: Java check now non-restrictive
  - Add: Reminder to tell user that upgrade will resets mods and configs
  - Mod: No more multi-core chunk loading as default
  - Fix: Launcher crashing if no Minecraft profile available
  - Fix: Config pane content not resizing
- Mod-Pack v1.0.8 [r926]
  - Fix: Some secret buildings broken.
  - Fix: Shader patching not working on Windows with long file names in path.
22.02.2016: v1.2.6 [r908]: Improved connectivity and support for German umlaute
- Fix: Issue with special characters such as German umlaute
- Fix: non-restrictive java check
- Fix: config pane resizing
- Add: load balancing
- Mod: increased connect timeout
- Fix: corrupted package descriptors due to interrupted download