MC-123257

The latest snapshot for 1.13 17w50a keeps crashing

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Every time I start the new snapshot (17w50a) for 1.13 it keeps getting me back to launcher and saying,"The game crashed whilst initializing game
Error: com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: com.google.gson.stream.MalformedJsonException: Invalid escape sequence at line 4 column 37 path $.pack.description".

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MC-123460 JSON parsing exceptions thrown during parsing of pack.mcmeta of data and resource packs are not caught properly Resolved

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Created: 2017-12-15T00:22:59Z

Updated: 2025-04-15T03:43:55Z

Resolved: 2018-01-08T03:13:39Z

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Affects Versions: Minecraft 17w50a

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Retrieved 2025-06-06T03:01:54Z