Won't always connect to server until a number of attempts

Since the server doesn't do "downloading terrain" I'm assuming you're not actually running a server? Are you trying to connect to one or are you trying to start a single-player game?

Please force a crash by pressing F3 + C for 10 seconds while in-game and attach the crash report ([minecraft|http://hopper.minecraft.net/help/finding-minecraft-data-folder]/crash-reports/crash-<DATE>-client.txt) here.

My latest crash report

and yea im trying to join a server because i do not understand how to start one xD

Please attach the complete output of the "Development console" tab of the launcher.

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If the launcher closes after game start, please edit your profile and select "Launcher visibility" then, "Keep the launcher open".

[16:38:27 INFO]: Minecraft Launcher 1.3.7 (through bootstrap 5) started on windows...
[16:38:27 INFO]: Refreshing local version list...
[16:38:27 INFO]: Current time is Dec 13, 2013 4:38:27 PM
[16:38:27 INFO]: System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Windows 8'
[16:38:27 INFO]: System.getProperty('os.version') == '6.2'
[16:38:27 INFO]: System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'x86'
[16:38:27 INFO]: System.getProperty('java.version') == '1.7.0_45'
[16:38:27 INFO]: System.getProperty('java.vendor') == 'Oracle Corporation'
[16:38:27 INFO]: System.getProperty('sun.arch.data.model') == '32'
[16:38:27 INFO]: Refreshing remote version list...
[16:38:27 INFO]: Refresh complete.
[16:38:27 INFO]: Loaded 1 profile(s); selected 'ButtonMash1990'
[16:38:27 INFO]: Refreshing auth...
[16:38:27 INFO]: Logging in with access token
[16:39:18 INFO]: Getting syncinfo for selected version
[16:39:18 INFO]: Queueing library & version downloads
[16:39:18 INFO]: Download job 'Version & Libraries' started (16 threads, 27 files)
[16:39:18 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\apache\logging\log4j\log4j-core\2.0-beta9\log4j-core-2.0-beta9.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:18 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\sf\trove4j\trove4j\3.0.3\trove4j-3.0.3.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:18 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\libraryjavasound\20101123\libraryjavasound-20101123.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:18 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\mojang\authlib\1.2\authlib-1.2.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:18 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\java3d\vecmath\1.3.1\vecmath-1.3.1.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:18 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\tv\twitch\twitch\5.12\twitch-5.12.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:18 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\apache\commons\commons-lang3\3.1\commons-lang3-3.1.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:18 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\io\netty\netty-all\4.0.10.Final\netty-all-4.0.10.Final.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:18 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jinput\jinput\2.0.5\jinput-2.0.5.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:18 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\librarylwjglopenal\20100824\librarylwjglopenal-20100824.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:18 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\google\guava\guava\15.0\guava-15.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:18 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl\2.9.1-nightly-20131120\lwjgl-2.9.1-nightly-20131120.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:18 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl-platform\2.9.1-nightly-20131120\lwjgl-platform-2.9.1-nightly-20131120-natives-windows.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:18 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\google\code\gson\gson\2.2.4\gson-2.2.4.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:18 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\apache\logging\log4j\log4j-api\2.0-beta9\log4j-api-2.0-beta9.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:18 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl_util\2.9.1-nightly-20131120\lwjgl_util-2.9.1-nightly-20131120.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:19 INFO]: Download job 'Resources' skipped as there are no files to download
[16:39:19 INFO]: Job 'Resources' finished successfully (took 0:00:00.000)
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl_util\2.9.1-nightly-20131120\lwjgl_util-2.9.1-nightly-20131120.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jinput\jinput\2.0.5\jinput-2.0.5.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\apache\logging\log4j\log4j-api\2.0-beta9\log4j-api-2.0-beta9.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jinput\jinput-platform\2.0.5\jinput-platform-2.0.5-natives-windows.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:19 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\soundsystem\20120107\soundsystem-20120107.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl\2.9.1-nightly-20131120\lwjgl-2.9.1-nightly-20131120.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\sf\trove4j\trove4j\3.0.3\trove4j-3.0.3.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\codecwav\20101023\codecwav-20101023.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\google\guava\guava\15.0\guava-15.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\tv\twitch\twitch-platform\5.12\twitch-platform-5.12-natives-windows-32.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\google\code\gson\gson\2.2.4\gson-2.2.4.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\ibm\icu\icu4j-core-mojang\51.2\icu4j-core-mojang-51.2.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\codecwav\20101023\codecwav-20101023.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jutils\jutils\1.0.0\jutils-1.0.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jutils\jutils\1.0.0\jutils-1.0.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\tv\twitch\twitch-external-platform\4.5\twitch-external-platform-4.5-natives-windows-32.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jinput\jinput-platform\2.0.5\jinput-platform-2.0.5-natives-windows.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\commons-io\commons-io\2.4\commons-io-2.4.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\soundsystem\20120107\soundsystem-20120107.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\codecjorbis\20101023\codecjorbis-20101023.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\codecjorbis\20101023\codecjorbis-20101023.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\sf\jopt-simple\jopt-simple\4.5\jopt-simple-4.5.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\commons-io\commons-io\2.4\commons-io-2.4.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Attempting to download C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\versions\1.7.4\1.7.4.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\sf\jopt-simple\jopt-simple\4.5\jopt-simple-4.5.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl-platform\2.9.1-nightly-20131120\lwjgl-platform-2.9.1-nightly-20131120-natives-windows.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\io\netty\netty-all\4.0.10.Final\netty-all-4.0.10.Final.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\apache\commons\commons-lang3\3.1\commons-lang3-3.1.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\mojang\authlib\1.2\authlib-1.2.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\tv\twitch\twitch\5.12\twitch-5.12.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\libraryjavasound\20101123\libraryjavasound-20101123.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\apache\logging\log4j\log4j-core\2.0-beta9\log4j-core-2.0-beta9.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\java3d\vecmath\1.3.1\vecmath-1.3.1.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\librarylwjglopenal\20100824\librarylwjglopenal-20100824.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\tv\twitch\twitch-platform\5.12\twitch-platform-5.12-natives-windows-32.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\ibm\icu\icu4j-core-mojang\51.2\icu4j-core-mojang-51.2.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\versions\1.7.4\1.7.4.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
[16:39:19 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\tv\twitch\twitch-external-platform\4.5\twitch-external-platform-4.5-natives-windows-32.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[16:39:19 INFO]: Job 'Version & Libraries' finished successfully (took 0:00:00.990)
[16:39:19 INFO]: Launching game
[16:39:19 INFO]: Looking for old natives & assets to clean up...
[16:39:19 INFO]: Unpacking natives to C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\versions\1.7.4\1.7.4-natives-794554053911
[16:39:19 INFO]: Launching in C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft
[16:39:19 INFO]: Half command: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin\javaw.exe -XX:HeapDumpPath=MojangTricksIntelDriversForPerformance_javaw.exe_minecraft.exe.heapdump -Xmx512M -Djava.library.path=C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\versions\1.7.4\1.7.4-natives-794554053911 -cp C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\java3d\vecmath\1.3.1\vecmath-1.3.1.jar;C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\sf\trove4j\trove4j\3.0.3\trove4j-3.0.3.jar;C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\ibm\icu\icu4j-core-mojang\51.2\icu4j-core-mojang-51.2.jar;C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\sf\jopt-simple\jopt-simple\4.5\jopt-simple-4.5.jar;C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\codecjorbis\20101023\codecjorbis-20101023.jar;C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\codecwav\20101023\codecwav-20101023.jar;C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\libraryjavasound\20101123\libraryjavasound-20101123.jar;C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\librarylwjglopenal\20100824\librarylwjglopenal-20100824.jar;C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\soundsystem\20120107\soundsystem-20120107.jar;C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\io\netty\netty-all\4.0.10.Final\netty-all-4.0.10.Final.jar;C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\google\guava\guava\15.0\guava-15.0.jar;C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\apache\commons\commons-lang3\3.1\commons-lang3-3.1.jar;C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\commons-io\commons-io\2.4\commons-io-2.4.jar;C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jinput\jinput\2.0.5\jinput-2.0.5.jar;C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jutils\jutils\1.0.0\jutils-1.0.0.jar;C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\google\code\gson\gson\2.2.4\gson-2.2.4.jar;C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\mojang\authlib\1.2\authlib-1.2.jar;C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\apache\logging\log4j\log4j-api\2.0-beta9\log4j-api-2.0-beta9.jar;C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\apache\logging\log4j\log4j-core\2.0-beta9\log4j-core-2.0-beta9.jar;C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl\2.9.1-nightly-20131120\lwjgl-2.9.1-nightly-20131120.jar;C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl_util\2.9.1-nightly-20131120\lwjgl_util-2.9.1-nightly-20131120.jar;C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\tv\twitch\twitch\5.12\twitch-5.12.jar;C:\Users\Ross\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\versions\1.7.4\1.7.4.jar net.minecraft.client.main.Main
[16:39:20 INFO]: Client> [16:39:20] [main/INFO]: Setting user: ButtonMash1990
[16:39:20 INFO]: Client> [16:39:20] [main/INFO]: (Session ID is token:f87b030cd40347ba9a9edc8b02445729:5f8322905e9d48f1bd8f74dae2289e6a)
[16:39:21 INFO]: Client> [16:39:21] [Client thread/INFO]: LWJGL Version: 2.9.1
[16:39:22 INFO]: Client> [16:39:22] [Client thread/INFO]: Reloading ResourceManager: Default
[16:39:22 INFO]: Client>
[16:39:22 INFO]: Client> Starting up SoundSystem...
[16:39:22 INFO]: Client> Initializing LWJGL OpenAL
[16:39:22 INFO]: Client> (The LWJGL binding of OpenAL. For more information, see http://www.lwjgl.org)
[16:39:22 INFO]: Client> OpenAL initialized.
[16:39:22 INFO]: Client> [16:39:22] [Client thread/INFO]: Created: 512x256 textures/blocks-atlas
[16:39:22 INFO]: Client>
[16:39:22 INFO]: Client> [16:39:22] [Sound Library Loader/INFO]: Sound engine started
[16:39:22 INFO]: Client> [16:39:22] [Client thread/INFO]: Created: 256x256 textures/items-atlas

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