Sorry about that – I did try to search for duplicates, but for some reason none came up newer than 1.18. However, noting just how many duplicates there are for this issue, I'd like to suggest that you reconsider the "works as intended" resolution: while perhaps this result is intended, it's clearly not what I and many others actually want.
So, instead of marking this as a bug, please consider it a request for a feature.... It would be nice if there were some way to create a "water world"...like a world in which every biome is deep ocean and in which there is very nearly no land above sea level.
Thanks!
I did select the game you doofus dont think im some sort of idiot like most other people out there
I just tried it, and I could download the 1.7.2 jar (and downforeveryoneorjustme.com tells me that it's up, too 😉 ).
Also, I was able to run the launcher without getting all the 503 errors which was nailing it over the weekend which is an improvement.
However, I'm still getting the Java exceptions when I try to launch either version of the server or the 1.7.2 client. 😞
I just pulled down the 1.6.4 jar (from https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.6.4/minecraft_server.1.6.4.jar), and it doesn't hit this problem.
Thanks so much. I will do that.