Does Amidst run when offline?

[BigAlanM]

When I copied the crash report to enter into Issue #71 I found that there is a notice in the "versions.json" file from Mojang that states that it's moving from https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/versions.json.

"__comment": "This URL is being phased out! Please update your scripts to check https://launchermeta.mojang.com/mc/game/version_manifest.json instead. Thanks <3 --Dinnerbone",

1. I suspect that this needs to be changed in the Amidst code.
   NOTE: The new file, version_manifest.json, has another parameter in each version entry labeled "url".
2. What happens if Amidst is run on a machine that doesn't happen to be online at the time?

[stefandollase]

You can run Amidst completely without an internet connection. It uses the internet for three reasons:

Checking for updates

This will just be skipped.

Loading the current version list

This will fallback to a possibly outdated version list which is included with the Amidst jar file. This may cause an issue where a profile that uses the latest version will now use the latest version included in the outdated version list. However, there is nothing we can do about this, really.

Loading player information

The skin will fallback to the Steve skin while the player name will fallback to the uuid.

You made a really good discovery there. I will create a new issue for it, since the main question here is answered.