The game wont let me use any version earlier than 1.8. I changed my profile settings so that it will allow earlier versions but it still wont work...

Wont let me log onto an servers with 1.7.10 or earlier without crashing

To be able to log onto my server
I should be able to play on 1.7.10 and earlier

My game crashed

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