Some time ago mojang switched from S3 to their own distribution network.
Unfortunatley that means that all the people who are stuck with the 1.6.93 launcher can't play newer versions of Minecraft anymore.
This includes atm all players on macOS which use the Twitch Client, which requires a manual update to 1.6.93 as they still use 1.6.91.
Error from logs as expected:
[10:14:18 ERROR]: Couldn't download resources
java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/indexes/1.14.json
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(HttpURLConnection.java:1900) ~[?:1.8.0_251]
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1498) ~[?:1.8.0_251]
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:268) ~[?:1.8.0_251]
at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.MinecraftVersionManager.getResourceFiles(MinecraftVersionManager.java:274) [launcher.jar:1.6.93]
at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.MinecraftVersionManager.downloadResources(MinecraftVersionManager.java:256) [launcher.jar:1.6.93]
at com.mojang.launcher.game.runner.AbstractGameRunner.downloadRequiredFiles(AbstractGameRunner.java:123) [launcher.jar:1.6.93]
at net.minecraft.launcher.game.MinecraftGameRunner.downloadRequiredFiles(MinecraftGameRunner.java:96) [launcher.jar:1.6.93]
at com.mojang.launcher.game.runner.AbstractGameRunner.playGame(AbstractGameRunner.java:110) [launcher.jar:1.6.93]
at net.minecraft.launcher.game.GameLaunchDispatcher$1.run(GameLaunchDispatcher.java:111) [launcher.jar:1.6.93]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) [?:1.8.0_251]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) [?:1.8.0_251]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [?:1.8.0_251]
Any chance to get a fixed version of the launcher?
Comments 3
Well the other option would be to talk to Twitch to fix their Launcher, I don't know if a lot of other OS really rely on the old legacy launcher.
Thank you for your report!
Closing as Cannot Reproduce.
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Hi, thanks for bringing this up to us. We are having internal discussions regarding this - I can't currently say if we will fix it or not.