I have followed advice as directed in a previous issue. I removed Avast and even ensured that firewall and malware programs are not blocking Minecraft.
MC-82632
Crash on "Generating Terrain"
Resolved
Duplicate
0
Ronald Aldous
(Unassigned)
Unconfirmed
Minecraft 1.8.7
Retrieved
Duplicate of MC-34749.
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