Archives add-on

The archives addon allows you to install and run old archived versions that are not officially listed by Mojang. It is backed by the omniarchive work.

pip install --user portablemc-archives

Usage

This add-on extends the syntax accepted by the start sub-command, by prepending the version with arc:. Every version starting with this prefix will be resolved from archive repositories hosted on archives.org. This addon also add a -a (--archives) flag to the search sub-command. You can use it to list all archived versions or search for some specific ones before actually trying to run them.

The following repositories are used to resolve your versions:

• Pre-Classic (Rubydung)
• Classic
• Indev
• Infdev
• Alpha
• Beta

Examples

portablemc search -a                # List all archived versions.
portablemc search -a a1.2.0         # List all archived versions that contains the string 'a1.2.0'.
portablemc start arc:a1.2.0         # Start the archived version of alpha 1.2.0.
portablemc start --dry arc:a1.2.0   # Install the archived version of alpha 1.2.0 if it's not already the case.

Credits

• Omniarchive community