Mod notice
This seems to be caused by broken resource packs which have NULL characters in pack.meta
.
Workaround: Navigate to [.minecraft/resource-packs/|http://hopper.minecraft.net/help/guides/finding-minecraft-data-folder/]
and move all the files in there into some other folder.
Before the official release of 1.13 I tried downloading the snapshots and they all gave me the same crash reports. I left it and just decided to wait for 1.13. Now that it's out I just get the same crashing report.
Crash report:
The game crashed whilst initializing game
Error: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Not a JSON Object: "\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000"
Here is the full crash report:
---- Minecraft Crash Report -------- Minecraft Crash Report ----// You should try our sister game, Minceraft!
Time: 7/19/18 6:10 PMDescription: Initializing game
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Not a JSON Object: "\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000" at com.google.gson.JsonElement.getAsJsonObject(JsonElement.java:90) at uh.a(SourceFile:72) at uh.a(SourceFile:65) at uz.a(SourceFile:35) at uu.a(SourceFile:38) at uw.a(SourceFile:32) at cfl.a(SourceFile:1211) at cfi.am(SourceFile:451) at cfi.a(SourceFile:377) at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:144)
A detailed walkthrough of the error, its code path and all known details is as follows:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Head --Thread: Client threadStacktrace: at com.google.gson.JsonElement.getAsJsonObject(JsonElement.java:90) at uh.a(SourceFile:72) at uh.a(SourceFile:65) at uz.a(SourceFile:35) at uu.a(SourceFile:38) at uw.a(SourceFile:32) at cfl.a(SourceFile:1211) at cfi.am(SourceFile:451)
-- Initialization --Details:Stacktrace: at cfi.a(SourceFile:377) at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:144)
-- System Details --Details: Minecraft Version: 1.13 Operating System: Windows 8 (amd64) version 6.2 Java Version: 1.8.0_51, Oracle Corporation Java VM Version: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation Memory: 1142903680 bytes (1089 MB) / 1476395008 bytes (1408 MB) up to 2147483648 bytes (2048 MB) JVM Flags: 9 total; -XX:HeapDumpPath=MojangTricksIntelDriversForPerformance_javaw.exe_minecraft.exe.heapdump -Xss1M -Xmx2G -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:G1NewSizePercent=20 -XX:G1ReservePercent=20 -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=50 -XX:G1HeapRegionSize=16M Launched Version: 1.13 LWJGL: 3.1.6 build 14 OpenGL: GeForce GT 630/PCIe/SSE2 GL version 4.6.0 NVIDIA 388.13, NVIDIA Corporation GL Caps: Using GL 1.3 multitexturing.Using GL 1.3 texture combiners.Using framebuffer objects because OpenGL 3.0 is supported and separate blending is supported.Shaders are available because OpenGL 2.1 is supported.VBOs are available because OpenGL 1.5 is supported.
Using VBOs: Yes Is Modded: Probably not. Jar signature remains and client brand is untouched. Type: Client (map_client.txt) Resource Packs: Current Language: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null Profiler Position: N/A (disabled) CPU: 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.80GHz
I got that I needed to add the full crash report from this (MCL-9004) issue and I really hope someone can help me to fix this. If you want to know anything I'll check this often, thanks!
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I did what you said and it still doesn't work. I did also update my Java to see if that fixes it but this is still a problem for me.

All I can see is that your graphics driver is outdated:
OpenGL: GeForce GT 630/PCIe/SSE2 GL version 4.6.0 NVIDIA 388.13
Current version is 398.36. Please update to this. I doubt that this resolve this issue, but that's my last resort.

It seems like one of your resource packs has NULLs in its pack.mcmeta, try renaming resourcepacks (the folder in .minecraft)

Oh my gosh updating my graphics card never worked, but when I tried doing what Ktos said It finally fixed it! Not sure if I have to delete all my packs I use in 1.8 but this did definitely help! Thanks 🙂

@unknown: Great finding!
Is this still an issue in the latest release/snapshot?
Please
Uninstall Minecraft
Download the installer from https://minecraft.net
Re-install Minecraft
Please respond if that did work.