It's possible to use create an MCP installation for versions of Minecraft where there hasn't been a full MCP release. It takes a little bit of manual setup, but the end result is highly useful.
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Download and extract the most recent MCP build from http://www.modcoderpack.com/. (Currently, the latest build is http://www.modcoderpack.com/files/mcp940.zip)
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Edit
version.cfg
in theconf
folder, and changeClientVersion
andServerVersion
to the version you want (for instance, 1.12.2). -
Download the SRG zip for the version you want; these can generally be found at
http://mcpbot.bspk.rs/mcp/<version>/mcp-<version>-srg.zip
(for example, http://mcpbot.bspk.rs/mcp/1.11.2/mcp-1.11.2-srg.zip) or athttp://files.minecraftforge.net/maven/de/oceanlabs/mcp/mcp/<version>/mcp-<version>-srg.zip
(for example, http://files.minecraftforge.net/maven/de/oceanlabs/mcp/mcp/1.12.2/mcp-1.12.2-srg.zip). (For 1.12.1 and 1.12.2, only the minecraftforge link works) -
Extract that zip into the MCP
conf
folder, over