Game crashes when loading world/joining server (renderDistance in options.txt set to > 16)

Please attach the complete output of the "Development console" which can be found on the second tab of the launcher.

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

Attached!

Changing view distance to 20, from 10

Change the render distance to the maximum possible 16.

Don't mess with options.txt