Minecraft (Bedrock Engine) 150

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Released: December 6th, 2017

Used in version 1.2.6

Protocol used in Minecraft: Pocket Edition and variants. The network part of the protocol is managed by RakNet.

⚠ Every packet is encoded as id (byte), padding (2 bytes) and body ⚠

Login sequence

• The client sends a Login packet with the details of its game and its account
• The server always replies with a PlayerStatus
• If status field in the packet sent was different from ok the connection is closed

Spawning sequence

• The server sends a StartGame packet with the world's informations
• The server sends zero or more FullChunkData with the chunk's blocks and tiles
• The server sends the player's inventory using ContainerSetContent
• The server sends the world's textures through ResourcePacksInfo (the textures may be empty)
• The client replies with ResourcePackClientResponse telling the server that the textures have been loaded
• The server sends a PlayStatus packet set to spawned
• The client spawns

Everything written in the documentation has been tested on sel-server. The types and the packets without documentation haven't been tested yet or it's not clear what their real purpose in the game is.

Encoding

Endianness:

Ids: varuint

Array's length: varuint

Packets