No internet, no launcher?

[Ganjalf_The_Green]

Hello,

yesterday in my area we had our usual internet blackout, so me and my neighbor decide to pull up our home built wireless antennas and play local just waiting for internet to come back ( blackout went on for 11 hours as usual ), when we fired up the launcher it tried to download the modpacks list and was frozen at the basic window without the list, does that means that with no internet nobody can play ftb? Is there a workaround?
Can you implement a list caching in the launcher?

I tried to poke around with the minecraft original launcher and copying the jar in the version directory but in the end it did not start...

Thank you for your time.

 

[JamiePhonic]

you should be able to play just fine offline. here's the log i got when i started the launcher with my lan adapter disabled

FTBLaunch starting up (version 1.3.3) AnalyticsBackgroundThread started new.creeperrepo.net: java.net.UnknownHostException: new.creeperrepo.net Java version: 1.7.0_25 Java vendor: Oracle Corporation Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre Java specification: Java Virtual Machine Specification version: 1.7 by Oracle Corporation Java vm: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM version: 23.7-b01 by Oracle Corporation www.creeperrepo.net: java.net.UnknownHostException: www.creeperrepo.net Error making tracking request: java.net.UnknownHostException: www.google-analytics.com OS: amd64 Linux 3.11.0-12-generic [i18n] Checking for updates ... [i18n] enUS English language file loaded! [i18n] Could not retrieve version info, skipping update.: java.net.UnknownHostException: new.creeperrepo.net
[i18n] Added 0 enUS to options pane
[i18n] enUS English language file loaded!
launcher.feed-the-beast.com: java.net.UnknownHostException: launcher.feed-the-beast.com
Failed to load modpacks, loading from backup: java.net.UnknownHostException: new.creeperrepo.net
Loading modpack information for modpacks.xml...
new.creeperrepo.net: java.net.UnknownHostException: new.creeperrepo.net
Adding pack 1
Adding pack 2
Adding pack 3
Adding pack 4
Adding pack 5
Adding pack 6
Adding pack 7
Adding pack 8
Adding pack 9
Adding pack 10
Adding pack 11
Adding pack 12
Adding pack 13
Adding pack 14
Adding pack 15
Adding pack 16
Adding pack 17
Adding pack 18
Adding pack 19
Adding pack 20
Adding pack 21
Adding pack 22
Adding pack 23
Adding pack 24
Adding pack 25
Adding pack 26
Adding pack 27
Adding pack 28
Adding pack 29
Adding pack 30
Adding pack 31
loading map information...
loading texture pack information...
new.creeperrepo.net: java.net.UnknownHostException: new.creeperrepo.net
new.creeperrepo.net: java.net.UnknownHostException: new.creeperrepo.net
Logging in...
IOException, minecraft servers might be down. Check @ help.mojang.com
Login failed:
launcher.feed-the-beast.com: java.net.UnknownHostException: launcher.feed-the-beast.com

 

[Ganjalf_The_Green]

This is weird,

I run it with my adapter off today and it worked as you say, but I promise, yesterday it did not work for me and my friend, we just had for over 20 minutes the launcher empty and the console not returning any output, we should have gave it another try I suppose since its not rocket science...

Apologies for taking your time and thank you for the attention.

 

[JamiePhonic]

Apologies for taking your time and thank you for the attention.

don't apologise. we're more than happy to help, no matter how trivial the problem