Can start Minecraft test client: java.lang.IllegalStateException

Published by Royalzplay on
Status
Fixed
Issue description

I can't start test environment Minecraft client. This is the error I get:

Executing gradle command: clean build
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.15063]
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C:\Pylo\MCreator175>cd forge
C:\Pylo\MCreator175\forge>SET "JAVA_HOME=C:\Pylo\MCreator175\jdk64\"
C:\Pylo\MCreator175\forge>SET JAVA_EXE=%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java.exe
C:\Pylo\MCreator175\forge>SET PATH=%JAVA_HOME%\bin\;%PATH%
C:\Pylo\MCreator175\forge>gradlew -Dorg.gradle.jvmargs="-Xms128m -Xmx3585m" clean build 
Etag download for http://files.minecraftforge.net/maven/de/oceanlabs/mcp/versions.json failed with code 400
Etag download for http://export.mcpbot.bspk.rs/versions.json failed with code 400
Etag download for http://files.minecraftforge.net/maven/net/minecraftforge/forge/json failed with code 400
This mapping 'snapshot_20161220' was designed for MC 1.11! Use at your own peril.
C:\Users\Piotr\.gradle\caches\minecraft\net\minecraftforge\forge\1.11.2-13.20.1.2386\userdev\dev.json could not be parsed
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
A problem occurred configuring root project 'forge'.
> java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected BEGIN_OBJECT but was STRING at line 1 column 1
* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
BUILD FAILED
Total time: 20.339 secs
C:\Pylo\MCreator175\forge>
Task completed with return code 0 in 21499 milliseconds

 

Issue comments

Go to the .gradle folder (in your user home dir: C:\Users\USERNAME\.gradle\). Open "caches" folder and then "minecraft". In there delete the "versionJsons" folder. After you do this, try to reinstall MCreator. If you have any existing workspaces, export them, make a fresh install and try again. Please report back if this works.

After you delete versionJsons, you might not have to reinstall MCreator but just open it again.