Hi, I have recently been getting this crash. However, I managed to successfully startup minecraft a couple times before this crash started to occur. Ever since this crash has occurred, minecraft is unable to startup anymore.

Crash Reports:
Crash Report: http://pastebin.com/s3289P6Q
Console: http://pastebin.com/dYVKaYat

I have the exact same issue.

It looks like according to the code below:
URL remoteURL = new URL("http://blay09.net/eiranet/api/skins.php");
InputStream in = remoteURL.openStream();
Gson gson = new Gson();
JsonReader reader = new JsonReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
JsonObject root = gson.fromJson(reader, JsonObject.class);

Is trying to load a file from the website (to load supporter's skins I guess).
However, the website is currently offline (Error establishing a database connection).

Hence it kinda crash the game for everyone at the moment.
Better implement a failsafe for that kind of feature..

Same bug as in issue #121

Regards,
Clem

Do you think it's possible to disable the connection?
To my knowledge, the skins are used in the auto sieves? So, if we disable auto sieves in the config, will it be a temporary solution?

Not sure if that would work, regardless you'd probably loose those blocks in your world?

Just checked the config file, you can only disable the auto sieve's recipe. Not the actual block

#121 (comment) this workaround worked for me

Well, this is technically for my modpack. I don't want to trouble my downloaders with this tho...

Sorry. My server died for a bit there and I thought Ex Compressum would have handled it correctly but for some reason the JSON parser disagreed. I've put a temporary fix up so you should be able to run properly again.

Wealthyturtle, I am sure blay09 will implement a failsafe in the function loading the skin list, so it does not happen in the future ;)

Alright, thanks for the fix :)