BTA Evolution Challenge
Posted: 20 Mar 2026, 00:36
Out of curiosity, boredom and procrastinating from my college assignments I decided to do an Evolution Challenge for BTA. I will be documenting my progress in this thread unless I forget to in which case feel free to bug me about it in discord.
CURRENT VERSION: 1.7.5
If you're familiar with "The Evolution Challenge"; starting a world from old version of Minecraft and then updating to the next update sequentially until you reach the latest current release. This challenge would be based on that for every major versions of BTA.
Here's a guideline to the challenge if you want to tackle it as well:
1. Make a fresh instance and start from Minecraft Beta 1.7.4 (via the BTA Installer; make sure you have advanced checked to change versions).
2. Check the wiki for each respective versions and find every new features added.
Here is the link https://bta.miraheze.org/wiki/Version_history
3. Each new features added in that version are your goals. Your goal is to make a build (preferably more if you want to) out of the new blocks from that update. This is to make the challenge more interesting than just crafting a block and then stuffing into the chest and be done with it quickly.
4. Once your goals are reached, you may proceed into the next MAJOR UPDATE until you have reached the current stable build 7.3_04. An exception can be made if there is a bug that you think may stop your progression (i.e diamond tools not being able to be crafted in 1.7.4_01)
5. Snapshots, prereleases, nightly builds and the april fools updates are not allowed. I don't care if you have some super secret ass version that was found covered in shit, grease and used needles behind jonk's dumpster.
6. There is no time requirements take as much time as you want and as long as you'd like. Be it a week, a month or 50 years - play it at your own pace and have fun.
7. You can add any extra challenges to your run if you want.
8. DON'T FORGET TO BACKUP YOUR WORLD
Expect bugs and crashes, you're playing old versions of a mod for an old version of an old game.
Feel free to post your run in this thread as well.
CURRENT VERSION: 1.7.5
If you're familiar with "The Evolution Challenge"; starting a world from old version of Minecraft and then updating to the next update sequentially until you reach the latest current release. This challenge would be based on that for every major versions of BTA.
Here's a guideline to the challenge if you want to tackle it as well:
1. Make a fresh instance and start from Minecraft Beta 1.7.4 (via the BTA Installer; make sure you have advanced checked to change versions).
2. Check the wiki for each respective versions and find every new features added.
Here is the link https://bta.miraheze.org/wiki/Version_history
3. Each new features added in that version are your goals. Your goal is to make a build (preferably more if you want to) out of the new blocks from that update. This is to make the challenge more interesting than just crafting a block and then stuffing into the chest and be done with it quickly.
4. Once your goals are reached, you may proceed into the next MAJOR UPDATE until you have reached the current stable build 7.3_04. An exception can be made if there is a bug that you think may stop your progression (i.e diamond tools not being able to be crafted in 1.7.4_01)
5. Snapshots, prereleases, nightly builds and the april fools updates are not allowed. I don't care if you have some super secret ass version that was found covered in shit, grease and used needles behind jonk's dumpster.
6. There is no time requirements take as much time as you want and as long as you'd like. Be it a week, a month or 50 years - play it at your own pace and have fun.
7. You can add any extra challenges to your run if you want.
8. DON'T FORGET TO BACKUP YOUR WORLD
Expect bugs and crashes, you're playing old versions of a mod for an old version of an old game.
Feel free to post your run in this thread as well.
