ViaBedrock

ViaVersion addon to add support for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition servers.

ViaBedrock aims to be as compatible and accurate as possible with the Minecraft: Bedrock Edition protocol.

Usage

ViaBedrock is in very early stages of development and NOT intended for regular use yet.

Do not report any bugs yet. There are still a lot of things which are not implemented yet.

If you want to talk about ViaBedrock or learn more about it you can join my Discord.

Standalone proxy (Serverside / Clientside)

To use ViaBedrock independently of any server or client software, you can download the latest ViaProxy dev build (Click on the ViaProxy-x.x.x.jar file).

Fabric mod (Clientside)

To use ViaBedrock as a Fabric mod, you can download the latest ViaFabricPlus dev build.

Features

Here is an overview of the current and planned features in ViaBedrock.

• [x] Pinging
• [x] Joining
• [x] Xbox Live Auth
• [x] Chat / Commands
• [x] Chunks
• [x] Chunk caching
• [x] Block updates
• [x] Block entities
• [x] Biomes
• [x] Player spawning
• [x] Entity spawning
• [x] Entity interactions
• [ ] Entity metadata
• [x] Entity attributes
• [ ] Entity mounting
• [x] Player abilities
• [x] Movement
• [ ] Client-Authoritative Inventory
• [ ] Server-Authoritative Inventory
• [ ] Item data
• [ ] Block breaking
• [ ] Block placing
• [ ] Item use
• [x] Respawning and dimension switching
• [x] Form GUIs
• [x] Scoreboard
• [x] Titles
• [x] Bossbar
• [x] Player list
• [x] Command suggestions
• [x] Sounds (No mob sounds yet)
• [x] Particles
• [x] Basic resource pack conversion (Contributions are welcome)

Experimental

Some features are experimental, which means they are almost certainly not fully stable/tested and may cause unexpected issues. To enable those features set enable-experimental-features to true in the config file.

• Block placing
• Item use
• Entity metadata
• Some item data

Optional clientside mods

Below is a list of mods which can be used in combination with ViaBedrock to enhance certain aspects, which would not be possible without client modification:

• ViaBedrockUtility: Adds support for some custom player skins and improves custom entity rendering
• BedrockSkinUtility: Adds support for some custom player skins

Useful resources

ViaBedrock would not have been possible without the following projects:

• ViaVersion: Provides the base for translating packets
• CloudburstMC Protocol: Documentation of the Bedrock Edition protocol
• PMMP BedrockProtocol: Documentation of the Bedrock Edition protocol
• Mojang Protocol Docs: Documentation of the Bedrock Edition protocol
• CloudburstMC Protocol Docs: Documentation of the Bedrock Edition protocol
• wiki.vg: Documentation of the Bedrock Edition protocol
• mcrputil: Documentation of Bedrock Edition resource pack encryption
• wiki.bedrock.dev: Documentation of various technical aspects of Bedrock Edition

Additionally ViaBedrock uses assets and data dumps from other projects: See the Data Asset Sources.md file for more information.