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MultiMC And Chunky
Now, I am about to set off a bunch of red flags, so apologies. First of all, as I pointed out in the title, I use MultiMC. MultiMC is a Third party Minecraft launcher that works very differently from the vanilla launcher. It allows you to create instances that all have their own saves, mods, resourcepacks, etc. directories, so you can keep all you minecraft stuff separate, but they use the same Jars from another folder in the MultiMC folder. It is different, but it is a cool launcher. I use Ubuntu Linux, which is not really important, but I can understand heavy techy answers. I would like to know if it would be possible to add support for MultiMC with Chunky, because Chunky seems cool.
Now you may ask: "Why can't you just install regular Minecraft to use with Chunky, and play with MultiMC". I have two reasons why I'd rather not do that. One, I have slow internet, which makes bringing down anything with any size (MC), take a very very long time. It can take more than an hour for just MC. And, my laptop has an SSD, which is small, so I'd rather not take up any more space than I have to on it.
If you don't want to support MultiMC, that is fine, but I thought I'd give it a shot. Thanks for reading! : )
All you should have to do would be find where MultiMC saves it's worlds for each instance, and direct Chunky to look in that folder for the saves. Regardless of how MultiMC handles the client, it can't (and shouldn't) make any changes to the way the base game handles world saves.
On the main Chunky window, click "change world", then "browse for specific world" or "choose world directory". You can then navigate to wherever your worlds are saved for MultiMC, and load them accordingly.
That would work. However, the way MultiMC works is it puts all of those things (Mods, worlds, screenies, etc.) in separate instance folders, but keeps the assets from MC in a centralized location to save space. Much nicer than other launchers, and less of a pain for us. Not only would you need to teach Chunky where the worlds can be found, but it also needs to tell it where to find the assets.
Can it not do that automatically? You can always make give the user a choice of "installation type", like a dropdown menu that controls search directories.
I don't know. Since I'm installing on Linux, the file-system is a little different, and like I said, MultiMC reformats the way MC stores it's files, so chunky doesn't know where to find both the game assets and the saves to load. You would need to make the file chooser more configurable, so you could point it to the actual game jar, and the saves folder. That would allow me to use Chunky. As we are talking about this, does chunky work with mods? I want to use it to do some rendering, but I'm not sure how to make it find those assets.
Chunky does not work with mods. It doesn't interpret the extra blocks or block models in any way, and no support for them is planned. It's simply too complicated and the mods too diverse to implement safely.
You could possibly install Minecraft as normal, and use that for the assets while setting the world directory as needed. It might also be possible to just set the MultiMC assets location as the "Minecraft Directory" and then choose world locations from there.
Direct question to this theme: It needs xxx/.minecraft or just needs jars in selected folder? Upd: Oh, i'm just answered myself.
Use root folder of MultiMC for Chunky.
I have two installations of minecraft, one at the vanilla directory and one on a different harddrive, i can use MultiMC world instances with Chunky without issues.
I don't keep the vanilla launcher installed because I prefer MultiMC, it would be nice if chunky were to recognise MultiMC as a valid install.
What you would need to do is load the 1.17.1.jar file as a resource pack in Chunky. That gives Chunky the assets it needs to render most things properly. To load worlds, change the world directory to the saves location for MultiMC.
