SK's Minecraft Launcher

SK's Minecraft Launcher is a custom Minecraft launcher.

• Easy addon and mod installation.
• Supports downloading modpacks for private servers.
• Compatible with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
• Maintained by the creator of WorldEdit, WorldGuard, and more!
• With history going back to 2010!

Download Latest Version: http://builds.enginehub.org/job/skmclauncher/last-successful/

Screenshots

Launcher

Console Window

Building a Mod Pack

1. Build a folder with all the mods/ config/ etc. files. Put in a minecraft.jar, but none of the LWJGL stuff (jinput.jar, bin/natives/ etc.).

2. Open the launcher, and click "Install from URL...".

   

3. Click "Build your own package...."

   

4. Change the settings appropriately.

   • Package ID should be something like bobs-modpack
   • Pick any name for the package, like Bob's Modpack o' Fun.
   • Version can be anything, and it changes when you make a new modpack so the launcher knows to update.
   • Source directory is the folder with all the things that you want to install (from step 1).
   • Output directory is where to place the files that you will later have to upload.
   • You don't have to chave the filenames.

5. Click the build button.

6. Upload the contents of the output directory to your website.

Now that you have a URL to update.xml (like http://example.com/modpack/update.xml), give people that link and they can put it in "Install from URL..." to automatically download!

When you need to update, just upload the new files to the same place. The launcher will know to only download changed files! (except for config/ -- that entire folder gets updated at once).

Advanced Building

There are some features not supported by the above GUI process.

• The builder tool lets you zip up config/ so that all the configuration files download as one file (which is faster). You can't setup your own settings for other folders with the GUI.
• You can't set some files to not overwrite on update. You would do that for "default configuration" files like a list of minimap waypoints.
• You can't make parts of the update "optional" that players can choose to install or not.

How to Make More Advanced Updates

You can actually still use the GUI. You just need to make a "builder configuration" and input into the GUI.

1. Make a copy of sample_builder_config.xml.
2. Edit the file as needed.
3. In the GUI, click "Use Builder Configuration" at the top and select your configuration.
4. Build as normal.

Command Line

You can also do all of this from terminal or command line.

Sample command:

java -cp SKMCLauncher.jar com.sk89q.lpbuilder.UpdateBuilder -dir "/path/to/files/" -out "/path/to/www/" -config "/path/to/sample_builder_config.xml"`

Tip: If you combine this tool with Git (or SVN, etc.) and a continuous integration server (Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo, etc.), you can push updates to your server's players by just pushing to your repository!

• -dir path_of_client_files
• -out output_dir
• -id id (replace the ID for the mod pack)
• -name name (replace the name of the mod pack)
• -version version (set the version of this package)
• -package-filename filename (change package.xml to something else)
• -update-filename filename (change update.xml to something else)
• -config config_path
• -clean (delete contents of the output directory first)

Compiling

With Eclipse

Tip: You should try to set up m2eclipse as outlined below, as m2eclipse will automatically download other projects that SKMCLauncher needs. If not, you have to manually collect all the dependencies!

If you want to open this project in Eclipse:

1. Download the source code. Use Git if you can, so updating is easier.
2. Install Maven.
3. Install the m2eclipse for Eclipse if you haven't already. Make sure to set JAVA_HOME and the path to Maven if you need to do that.
4. Setup a new project in Eclipse, and make sure to enable Maven support (right click the project, and select "Convert to Maven Project").
5. m2eclipse will download everything you need. Just run the main class from Eclipse!

Command Line

You need to have Maven installed (http://maven.apache.org). Once installed, simply run:

mvn package

Maven will automatically download dependencies for you. Note: For that to work, be sure to add Maven to your "PATH".

License

The launcher is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3.

Contributions by third parties must be dual licensed under the two licenses described within LICENSE.txt (GNU General Public License, version 3, and the 3-clause BSD license).