How do I find the Minecraft version from an old .minecraft folder?

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AndyMASH

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I have an old save, I've saved everything, the whole .minecraft folder. I want to know the exact version of that minecraft save, I think it's 1.0, but I wanna be sure. Where do I find the version of the game? Is it somewhere in minecraft.jar?!
 

Celestialphoenix

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Tartarus.. I mean at work. Same thing really.
Have a dig through all the folders- open files in notepad. It'll be there somewhere.

If you have access to the old (pre 1.5) launcher- run Minecraft with that launcher to create a .minecraft folder. Switch the newly created .minecraft for a copy of your old instance and launch MC. If it boots just look on the f3 screen.
If its a modded instance- look at the version number of mods, and see what MC version they need.
If you have screnshots- check the date against MC releases. (or look at 'date modified' on the files in the .minecraft)
 
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