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Minecraft:Applet

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Revision as of 11:03, 19 July 2026 by SyncBot (talk | contribs) (Sync: updated from Minecraft)

Template:Distinguish Java applets were the original way to run Minecraft:Minecraft. It worked by allowing the Java game to run in the Template:W for players to access without having to download a launcher or client. The pages that allowed running Minecraft in the browser were gradually taken down after the Minecraft:Minecraft Launcher was released, superceding browser play.

Hosting

Minecraft was originally hosted as an applet on Minecraft:Mojang.com before being moved to Minecraft:Minecraft.net.

Different development phases of the game were hosted at different URLs. This meant that players could use newer test builds while still having access to the stable game. The exception is mptest, which overwrites the clients used by other pages.

Applet pages

URL
<ref group=note>The index.jsp in the URLs is optional.</ref><ref group=note>All minecraft.net URLs may have optional subdomain www in addition to the bare domain. For mojang.com, the www subdomain is the only one.</ref> 		Created Taken offline Game versions
www.mojang.com/notch/minecraft/ May 16, 2009 Dec 11, 2014 ~ May 19, 2015<ref group=note>Applet removed between May 22 and June 27, 2009.</ref> Minecraft:mc-161607–Minecraft:0.0.12a_03
www.minecraft.net/play.jsp May 22, 2009 Sep 8~15, 2011<ref group=note>Redirected to /classic/play from this point until site redesign in May 2016 (even when /classic/play was taken down).</ref> Classic Minecraft:0.0.13a–Minecraft:0.0.14a_08; Minecraft:0.0.16a_02 (final reupload) – Minecraft:0.0.23a_01; & 0.28–0.30 Creative
www.minecraft.net/mptest/index.jsp May 31, 2009 ? Classic 0.0.15a-1–Minecraft:0.0.15a_03
www.minecraft.net/mptest.jsp June 7, 2009 Jun 12, 2009 ~ Nov 2016; probably 2010 Classic Minecraft:0.0.16a–Minecraft:0.0.16a_02
www.minecraft.net/survivaltest/index.jsp Sep 1, 2009 Dec 12~17, 2010 Classic Minecraft:0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST – Minecraft:0.27 SURVIVAL TEST & 0.30 Survival
www.minecraft.net/indev/index.jsp Dec 23, 2009 Sep 18, 2010 Indev 0.31-20091223 – 20100223
www.minecraft.net/infdev/index.jsp Feb 27, 2010 Sep 18, 2010 Infdev 20100227 – 20100627
www.minecraft.net/game/ Jun 29, 2010 Sep 8~15, 2011 Minecraft:Infdev 20100629 – Minecraft:Beta 1.7.3
www.minecraft.net/play Jul~Sep 2011 Oct 20 ~ Nov 23, 2016 Minecraft:Beta 1.8 – release Minecraft:1.5.2
www.minecraft.net/classic/play Sep 8~15, 2011 Sep 25 ~ Oct 12, 2015 Classic 0.30_01c
minecraft.net/demo ? ? ?

Other pages

URL Wiki page
www.minecraft.net/infdev/preview.jsp Minecraft:Level previewer

HTML code

This is a sample of the applet element, from May 25, 2009<ref>minecraft.net/play.jsp (Source code) – Wayback Machine, May 25, 2009.</ref>: <syntaxhighlight lang=html> <applet code="org.lwjgl.util.applet.AppletLoader" archive="client/lwjgl_util_applet.jar, client/lzma.jar" codebase="" width="854" height="480"> 

 <param name="al_title" value="Minecraft" />
 <param name="al_main" value="com.mojang.minecraft.MinecraftApplet" />
 <param name="al_logo" value="client/logo_small.png" />
 <param name="al_progressbar" value="appletprogress.gif" />
 <param name="al_jars" value="client/lwjgl_applet.jar.pack.lzma, client/lwjgl.jar.pack.lzma, client/jinput.jar.pack.lzma, client/lwjgl_util.jar.pack.lzma, client/res.jar.lzma, client/minecraft.jar" />
 <param name="al_windows" value="client/windows_natives.jar.lzma" />
 <param name="al_linux" value="client/linux_natives.jar.lzma" />
 <param name="al_mac" value="client/macosx_natives.jar.lzma" />
 <param name="al_solaris" value="client/solaris_natives.jar.lzma" />
 <param name="al_version" value="5.17" />
 <param name="separate_jvm" value="true" />
 <param name="java_arguments" value="-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true -Dsun.awt.noerasebackground=true -Dsun.java2d.d3d=false -Dsun.java2d.opengl=false -Dsun.java2d.pmoffscreen=false" />
 <param name="al_bgcolor" value="000000" />
 <param name="al_fgcolor" value="ffffff" />
 <param name="al_errorcolor" value="ff0000" />
 <param name="al_prepend_host" value="true" />

</applet> </syntaxhighlight>

Minecraft:al_version is an identifier used to determine whether to pull an existing version from cache. The rest of the parameters either sets up the Java environment including classpath, natives, arguments, and entrypoint class, or sets up the visual display of the applet.

Storage locations

The .jar is downloaded to the user's temporary folder on disk. The subpath of the temporary folder differs based on the applet page the game is being played on.

URL Path in system temporary directory
www.mojang.com/notch/minecraft,
(www.)minecraft.net/mptest/,
(www.)minecraft.net/mptest.jsp 		Minecraft/
(www.)minecraft.net/play.jsp,
(www.)minecraft.net/mptest.jsp,
(www.)minecraft.net/classic/play 		(www.)minecraft.net/Minecraft/
(www.)minecraft.net/survivaltest/ (www.)minecraft.net/Minecraft_creeper_test/
(www.)minecraft.net/indev/ (www.)minecraft.net/Minecraft_sneakpeek/
(www.)minecraft.net/infdev/ (www.)minecraft.net/Minecraft_infdev/

Starting from Minecraft:Infdev 20100629, it is now located on disk at Minecraft:.minecraft/bin/ (used by minecraft.net/game/).

Gallery

Classic

Indev

Infdev

Alpha

Beta

Release

Misc

Trivia

  • The applet version relied on the Java browser plugin, which was later considered insecure and then discontinued.<ref>Template:Cite</ref>

See also

Notes

Template:Notelist

References

Template:Reflist

Navigation

Template:Navbox official resources Template:Navbox Minecraft

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