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Revision as of 11:54, 18 February 2016
Heads up!
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This page presents a dissection of the current Minecraft protocol.
If you're having trouble, check out the FAQ or ask for help in the IRC channel (#mcdevs on irc.freenode.net).
Note: While you may use the contents of this page without restriction to create servers, clients, bots, etc… you still need to provide attribution to #mcdevs if you copy any of the contents of this page for publication elsewhere.
The changes between versions may be viewed at Protocol History.
Contents
- 1 Definitions
- 2 Packet format
- 3 Handshaking
- 4 Play
- 4.1 Clientbound
- 4.1.1 Keep Alive
- 4.1.2 Join Game
- 4.1.3 Chat Message
- 4.1.4 Time Update
- 4.1.5 Entity Equipment
- 4.1.6 Spawn Position
- 4.1.7 Update Health
- 4.1.8 Respawn
- 4.1.9 Player Position And Look
- 4.1.10 Held Item Change
- 4.1.11 Use Bed
- 4.1.12 Animation
- 4.1.13 Spawn Player
- 4.1.14 Collect Item
- 4.1.15 Spawn Object
- 4.1.16 Spawn Mob
- 4.1.17 Spawn Painting
- 4.1.18 Spawn Experience Orb
- 4.1.19 Entity Velocity
- 4.1.20 Destroy Entities
- 4.1.21 Entity
- 4.1.22 Entity Relative Move
- 4.1.23 Entity Look
- 4.1.24 Entity Look And Relative Move
- 4.1.25 Entity Teleport
- 4.1.26 Entity Head Look
- 4.1.27 Entity Status
- 4.1.28 Attach Entity
- 4.1.29 Entity Metadata
- 4.1.30 Entity Effect
- 4.1.31 Remove Entity Effect
- 4.1.32 Set Experience
- 4.1.33 Entity Properties
- 4.1.34 Chunk Data
- 4.1.35 Multi Block Change
- 4.1.36 Block Change
- 4.1.37 Block Action
- 4.1.38 Block Break Animation
- 4.1.39 Map Chunk Bulk
- 4.1.40 Explosion
- 4.1.41 Effect
- 4.1.42 Sound Effect
- 4.1.43 Particle
- 4.1.44 Change Game State
- 4.1.45 Spawn Global Entity
- 4.1.46 Open Window
- 4.1.47 Close Window
- 4.1.48 Set Slot
- 4.1.49 Window Items
- 4.1.50 Window Property
- 4.1.51 Confirm Transaction
- 4.1.52 Update Sign
- 4.1.53 Map
- 4.1.54 Update Block Entity
- 4.1.55 Open Sign Editor
- 4.1.56 Statistics
- 4.1.57 Player List Item
- 4.1.58 Player Abilities
- 4.1.59 Tab-Complete
- 4.1.60 Scoreboard Objective
- 4.1.61 Update Score
- 4.1.62 Display Scoreboard
- 4.1.63 Teams
- 4.1.64 Plugin Message
- 4.1.65 Disconnect
- 4.1.66 Server Difficulty
- 4.1.67 Combat Event
- 4.1.68 Camera
- 4.1.69 World Border
- 4.1.70 Title
- 4.1.71 Set Compression
- 4.1.72 Player List Header And Footer
- 4.1.73 Resource Pack Send
- 4.1.74 Update Entity NBT
- 4.2 Serverbound
- 4.2.1 Keep Alive
- 4.2.2 Chat Message
- 4.2.3 Use Entity
- 4.2.4 Player
- 4.2.5 Player Position
- 4.2.6 Player Look
- 4.2.7 Player Position And Look
- 4.2.8 Player Digging
- 4.2.9 Player Block Placement
- 4.2.10 Held Item Change
- 4.2.11 Animation
- 4.2.12 Entity Action
- 4.2.13 Steer Vehicle
- 4.2.14 Close Window
- 4.2.15 Click Window
- 4.2.16 Confirm Transaction
- 4.2.17 Creative Inventory Action
- 4.2.18 Enchant Item
- 4.2.19 Update Sign
- 4.2.20 Player Abilities
- 4.2.21 Tab-Complete
- 4.2.22 Client Settings
- 4.2.23 Client Status
- 4.2.24 Plugin Message
- 4.2.25 Spectate
- 4.2.26 Resource Pack Status
- 4.1 Clientbound
- 5 Status
- 6 Login
Definitions
The Minecraft server accepts connections from TCP clients and communicates with them using packets. A packet is a sequence of bytes sent over the TCP connection. The meaning of a packet depends both on its packet ID and the current state of the connection. The initial state of each connection is Handshaking, and state is switched using the packets Handshake (Handshaking, 0x00, serverbound) and Login Success (Login, 0x02, clientbound).
Data types
All data sent over the network (except for VarInt and VarLong) is big-endian, that is the bytes are sent from most significant byte to least significant byte. The majority of everyday computers are little-endian, therefore it may be necessary to change the endianness before sending data over the network.
Name | Size (bytes) | Encodes | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Boolean | 1 | Either false or true | True is encoded as 0x01 , false as 0x00 .
|
Byte | 1 | An integer between -128 and 127 | Signed 8-bit integer, two's complement |
Unsigned Byte | 1 | An integer between 0 and 255 | Unsigned 8-bit integer |
Short | 2 | An integer between -32768 and 32767 | Signed 16-bit integer, two's complement |
Unsigned Short | 2 | An integer between 0 and 65535 | Unsigned 16-bit integer |
Int | 4 | An integer between -2147483648 and 2147483647 | Signed 32-bit integer, two's complement |
Long | 8 | An integer between -9223372036854775808 and 9223372036854775807 | Signed 64-bit integer, two's complement |
Float | 4 | A single-precision 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point number | |
Double | 8 | A double-precision 64-bit IEEE 754 floating point number | |
String (n) | ≥ 1 ≤ (n×3) + 3 |
A sequence of Unicode scalar values | UTF-8 string prefixed with its size in bytes as a VarInt. Maximum length of n characters, which varies by context. The encoding used on the wire is regular UTF-8, not Java's "slight modification". However, the length of the string for purposes of the length limit is its number of UTF-16 code units, that is, scalar values > U+FFFF are counted as two. Up to n × 3 bytes can be used to encode a UTF-8 string comprising n code units when converted to UTF-16, and both of those limits are checked. Maximum n value is 32767. The + 3 is due to the max size of a valid length VarInt.
|
Text Component | Varies | See Text formatting#Text components | Encoded as a NBT Tag, with the type of tag used depending on the case:
|
JSON Text Component | ≥ 1 ≤ (262144×3) + 3 |
See Text formatting#Text components | The maximum permitted length when decoding is 262144, but the Notchian server since 1.20.3 refuses to encode longer than 32767. This may be a bug. |
Identifier | ≥ 1 ≤ (32767×3) + 3 |
See Identifier below | Encoded as a String with max length of 32767. |
VarInt | ≥ 1 ≤ 5 |
An integer between -2147483648 and 2147483647 | Variable-length data encoding a two's complement signed 32-bit integer; more info in their section |
VarLong | ≥ 1 ≤ 10 |
An integer between -9223372036854775808 and 9223372036854775807 | Variable-length data encoding a two's complement signed 64-bit integer; more info in their section |
Entity Metadata | Varies | Miscellaneous information about an entity | See Entity_metadata#Entity Metadata Format |
Slot | Varies | An item stack in an inventory or container | See Slot Data |
NBT | Varies | Depends on context | See NBT |
Position | 8 | An integer/block position: x (-33554432 to 33554431), z (-33554432 to 33554431), y (-2048 to 2047) | x as a 26-bit integer, followed by z as a 26-bit integer, followed by y as a 12-bit integer (all signed, two's complement). See also the section below. |
Angle | 1 | A rotation angle in steps of 1/256 of a full turn | Whether or not this is signed does not matter, since the resulting angles are the same. |
UUID | 16 | A UUID | Encoded as an unsigned 128-bit integer (or two unsigned 64-bit integers: the most significant 64 bits and then the least significant 64 bits) |
BitSet | Varies | See #BitSet below | A length-prefixed bit set. |
Fixed BitSet (n) | ceil(n / 8) | See #Fixed BitSet below | A bit set with a fixed length of n bits. |
Optional X | 0 or size of X | A field of type X, or nothing | Whether or not the field is present must be known from the context. |
Array of X | count times size of X | Zero or more fields of type X | The count must be known from the context. |
X Enum | size of X | A specific value from a given list | The list of possible values and how each is encoded as an X must be known from the context. An invalid value sent by either side will usually result in the client being disconnected with an error or even crashing. |
Byte Array | Varies | Depends on context | This is just a sequence of zero or more bytes, its meaning should be explained somewhere else, e.g. in the packet description. The length must also be known from the context. |
Identifier
Identifiers are a namespaced location, in the form of minecraft:thing
. If the namespace is not provided, it defaults to minecraft
(i.e. thing
is minecraft:thing
). Custom content should always be in its own namespace, not the default one. Both the namespace and value can use all lowercase alphanumeric characters (a-z and 0-9), dot (.
), dash (-
), and underscore (_
). In addition, values can use slash (/
). The naming convention is lower_case_with_underscores
. More information.
For ease of determining whether a namespace or value is valid, here are regular expressions for each:
- Namespace:
[a-z0-9.-_]
- Value:
[a-z0-9.-_/]
VarInt and VarLong
Variable-length format such that smaller numbers use fewer bytes. These are very similar to Protocol Buffer Varints: the 7 least significant bits are used to encode the value and the most significant bit indicates whether there's another byte after it for the next part of the number. The least significant group is written first, followed by each of the more significant groups; thus, VarInts are effectively little endian (however, groups are 7 bits, not 8).
VarInts are never longer than 5 bytes, and VarLongs are never longer than 10 bytes. Within these limits, unnecessarily long encodings (e.g. 81 00
to encode 1) are allowed.
Pseudocode to read and write VarInts and VarLongs:
private static final int SEGMENT_BITS = 0x7F;
private static final int CONTINUE_BIT = 0x80;
public int readVarInt() {
int value = 0;
int position = 0;
byte currentByte;
while (true) {
currentByte = readByte();
value |= (currentByte & SEGMENT_BITS) << position;
if ((currentByte & CONTINUE_BIT) == 0) break;
position += 7;
if (position >= 32) throw new RuntimeException("VarInt is too big");
}
return value;
}
public long readVarLong() {
long value = 0;
int position = 0;
byte currentByte;
while (true) {
currentByte = readByte();
value |= (long) (currentByte & SEGMENT_BITS) << position;
if ((currentByte & CONTINUE_BIT) == 0) break;
position += 7;
if (position >= 64) throw new RuntimeException("VarLong is too big");
}
return value;
}
public void writeVarInt(int value) {
while (true) {
if ((value & ~SEGMENT_BITS) == 0) {
writeByte(value);
return;
}
writeByte((value & SEGMENT_BITS) | CONTINUE_BIT);
// Note: >>> means that the sign bit is shifted with the rest of the number rather than being left alone
value >>>= 7;
}
}
public void writeVarLong(long value) {
while (true) {
if ((value & ~((long) SEGMENT_BITS)) == 0) {
writeByte(value);
return;
}
writeByte((value & SEGMENT_BITS) | CONTINUE_BIT);
// Note: >>> means that the sign bit is shifted with the rest of the number rather than being left alone
value >>>= 7;
}
}
Note Minecraft's VarInts are identical to LEB128 with the slight change of throwing a exception if it goes over a set amount of bytes.
Note that Minecraft's VarInts are not encoded using Protocol Buffers; it's just similar. If you try to use Protocol Buffers Varints with Minecraft's VarInts, you'll get incorrect results in some cases. The major differences:
- Minecraft's VarInts are all signed, but do not use the ZigZag encoding. Protocol buffers have 3 types of Varints:
uint32
(normal encoding, unsigned),sint32
(ZigZag encoding, signed), andint32
(normal encoding, signed). Minecraft's are theint32
variety. Because Minecraft uses the normal encoding instead of ZigZag encoding, negative values always use the maximum number of bytes. - Minecraft's VarInts are never longer than 5 bytes and its VarLongs will never be longer than 10 bytes, while Protocol Buffer Varints will always use 10 bytes when encoding negative numbers, even if it's an
int32
.
Sample VarInts:
Value | Hex bytes | Decimal bytes |
---|---|---|
0 | 0x00 | 0 |
1 | 0x01 | 1 |
2 | 0x02 | 2 |
127 | 0x7f | 127 |
128 | 0x80 0x01 | 128 1 |
255 | 0xff 0x01 | 255 1 |
25565 | 0xdd 0xc7 0x01 | 221 199 1 |
2097151 | 0xff 0xff 0x7f | 255 255 127 |
2147483647 | 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0x07 | 255 255 255 255 7 |
-1 | 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0x0f | 255 255 255 255 15 |
-2147483648 | 0x80 0x80 0x80 0x80 0x08 | 128 128 128 128 8 |
Sample VarLongs:
Value | Hex bytes | Decimal bytes |
---|---|---|
0 | 0x00 | 0 |
1 | 0x01 | 1 |
2 | 0x02 | 2 |
127 | 0x7f | 127 |
128 | 0x80 0x01 | 128 1 |
255 | 0xff 0x01 | 255 1 |
2147483647 | 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0x07 | 255 255 255 255 7 |
9223372036854775807 | 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0x7f | 255 255 255 255 255 255 255 255 127 |
-1 | 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0x01 | 255 255 255 255 255 255 255 255 255 1 |
-2147483648 | 0x80 0x80 0x80 0x80 0xf8 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0x01 | 128 128 128 128 248 255 255 255 255 1 |
-9223372036854775808 | 0x80 0x80 0x80 0x80 0x80 0x80 0x80 0x80 0x80 0x01 | 128 128 128 128 128 128 128 128 128 1 |
Position
Note: What you are seeing here is the latest version of the Data types article, but the position type was different before 1.14.
64-bit value split into three signed integer parts:
- x: 26 MSBs
- z: 26 middle bits
- y: 12 LSBs
For example, a 64-bit position can be broken down as follows:
Example value (big endian): 01000110000001110110001100 10110000010101101101001000 001100111111
- The red value is the X coordinate, which is
18357644
in this example. - The blue value is the Z coordinate, which is
-20882616
in this example. - The green value is the Y coordinate, which is
831
in this example.
Encoded as follows:
((x & 0x3FFFFFF) << 38) | ((z & 0x3FFFFFF) << 12) | (y & 0xFFF)
And decoded as:
val = read_long(); x = val >> 38; y = val << 52 >> 52; z = val << 26 >> 38;
Note: The above assumes that the right shift operator sign extends the value (this is called an arithmetic shift), so that the signedness of the coordinates is preserved. In many languages, this requires the integer type of val
to be signed. In the absence of such an operator, the following may be useful:
if x >= 1 << 25 { x -= 1 << 26 } if y >= 1 << 11 { y -= 1 << 12 } if z >= 1 << 25 { z -= 1 << 26 }
Fixed-point numbers
Some fields may be stored as fixed-point numbers, where a certain number of bits represent the signed integer part (number to the left of the decimal point) and the rest represent the fractional part (to the right). Floating point numbers (float and double), in contrast, keep the number itself (mantissa) in one chunk, while the location of the decimal point (exponent) is stored beside it. Essentially, while fixed-point numbers have lower range than floating point numbers, their fractional precision is greater for higher values.
Prior to version 1.9 a fixed-point format with 5 fraction bits and 27 integer bits was used to send entity positions to the client. Some uses of fixed point remain in modern versions, but they differ from that format.
Most programming languages lack support for fractional integers directly, but you can represent them as integers. The following C or Java-like pseudocode converts a double to a fixed-point integer with n fraction bits:
x_fixed = (int)(x_double * (1 << n));
And back again:
x_double = (double)x_fixed / (1 << n);
Bit sets
The types BitSet and Fixed BitSet represent packed lists of bits. The Notchian implementation uses Java's BitSet
class.
BitSet
Bit sets of type BitSet are prefixed by their length in longs.
Field Name | Field Type | Meaning |
---|---|---|
Length | VarInt | Number of longs in the following array. May be 0 (if no bits are set). |
Data | Array of Long | A packed representation of the bit set as created by BitSet.toLongArray .
|
The ith bit is set when (Data[i / 64] & (1 << (i % 64))) != 0
, where i starts at 0.
Fixed BitSet
Bit sets of type Fixed BitSet (n) have a fixed length of n bits, encoded as ceil(n / 8)
bytes. Note that this is different from BitSet, which uses longs.
Field Name | Field Type | Meaning |
---|---|---|
Data | Byte Array (n) | A packed representation of the bit set as created by BitSet.toByteArray , padded with zeroes at the end to fit the specified length.
|
The ith bit is set when (Data[i / 8] & (1 << (i % 8))) != 0
, where i starts at 0. This encoding is not equivalent to the long array in BitSet.
Other definitions
Term | Definition |
---|---|
Player | When used in the singular, Player always refers to the client connected to the server. |
Entity | Entity refers to any item, player, mob, minecart or boat etc. See the Minecraft Wiki article for a full list. |
EID | An EID — or Entity ID — is a 4-byte sequence used to identify a specific entity. An entity's EID is unique on the entire server. |
XYZ | In this document, the axis names are the same as those shown in the debug screen (F3). Y points upwards, X points east, and Z points south. |
Meter | The meter is Minecraft's base unit of length, equal to the length of a vertex of a solid block. The term “block” may be used to mean “meter” or “cubic meter”. |
Global palette | A table/dictionary/palette mapping nonnegative integers to block states. The block state IDs can be constructed from this table by multiplying what the Minecraft Wiki calls “block IDs” by 16 and adding the metadata/damage value (or in most programming languages block_id << 4 | metadata ).
|
Packet format
Without compression
Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|
Length | VarInt | Length of packet data + length of the packet ID |
Packet ID | VarInt | |
Data | Byte Array | Depends on the connection state and packet ID, see the sections below |
With compression
Once a Set Compression packet is sent, zlib compression is enabled for all following packets. The format of a packet changes slighty to include the size of the uncompressed packet.
Compressed? | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
No | Packet Length | VarInt | Length of Data Length + compressed length of (Packet ID + Data) |
No | Data Length | VarInt | Length of uncompressed (Packet ID + Data) or 0 |
Yes | Packet ID | Varint | zlib compressed packet ID (see the sections below) |
Data | Byte Array | zlib compressed packet data (see the sections below) |
The length given by the Packet Length field is the number of bytes that remain in that packet, including the Data Length field.
If Data Length is set to zero, then the packet is uncompressed; otherwise it is the size of the uncompressed packet.
If compressed, the uncompressed length of (Packet ID + Data) must be equal to or over the threshold set in the packet Set Compression (Login, 0x03, clientbound), otherwise the receiving party will disconnect.
Compression can be disabled by sending the packet Set Compression (Login, 0x03, clientbound) with a Threshold of -1.
Handshaking
Clientbound
There are no clientbound packets in the Handshaking state, since the protocol immediately switches to a different state after the client sends the first packet.
Serverbound
Handshake
This causes the server to switch into the target state.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x00 | Handshaking | Server | Protocol Version | VarInt | See protocol version numbers (currently 47) |
Server Address | String | hostname or IP, e.g. localhost or 127.0.0.1 | |||
Server Port | Unsigned Short | default is 25565 | |||
Next State | VarInt | 1 for status, 2 for login |
Legacy Server List Ping
This packet uses a nonstandard format. It is never length-prefixed, and the packet ID is an Unsigned Byte instead of a VarInt.
While not technically part of the current protocol, legacy clients may send this packet to initiate Server List Ping, and modern servers should handle it correctly.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0xFE | Handshaking | Server | Payload | Unsigned Byte | always 1 (0x01 )
|
See Server List Ping#1.6 for the details of the protocol that follows this packet.
Play
Clientbound
Keep Alive
The server will frequently send out a keep-alive, each containing a random ID. The client must respond with the same packet. If the client does not respond to them for over 30 seconds, the server kicks the client. Vice versa, if the server does not send any keep-alives for 20 seconds, the client will disconnect and yields a "Timed out" exception.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x00 | Play | Client | Keep Alive ID | VarInt |
Join Game
See Protocol Encryption for information on logging in.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x01 | Play | Client | Entity ID | Int | The player's Entity ID (EID) |
Gamemode | Unsigned Byte | 0: Survival, 1: Creative, 2: Adventure, 3: Spectator. Bit 3 (0x8) is the hardcore flag. | |||
Dimension | Byte | -1: Nether, 0: Overworld, 1: End | |||
Difficulty | Unsigned Byte | 0: peaceful, 1: easy, 2: normal, 3: hard | |||
Max Players | Unsigned Byte | Used by the client to draw the player list | |||
Level Type | String | default, flat, largeBiomes, amplified, default_1_1 | |||
Reduced Debug Info | Boolean | If true, a Notchian client shows reduced information on the debug screen. |
If the Dimension isn't valid then the client will crash
Chat Message
Identifying the difference between Chat/System Message is important as it helps respect the user's chat visibility options. While Position 2 accepts json formatting it will not display, old style formatting works
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x02 | Play | Client | JSON Data | Chat | Limited to 32767 bytes |
Position | Byte | 0: chat (chat box), 1: system message (chat box), 2: above hotbar |
Malformed JSON will disconnect the client
Time Update
Time is based on ticks, where 20 ticks happen every second. There are 24000 ticks in a day, making Minecraft days exactly 20 minutes long.
The time of day is based on the timestamp modulo 24000. 0 is sunrise, 6000 is noon, 12000 is sunset, and 18000 is midnight.
The default SMP server increments the time by 20
every second.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x03 | Play | Client | World Age | Long | In ticks; not changed by server commands |
Time of day | Long | The world (or region) time, in ticks. If negative the sun will stop moving at the Math.abs of the time |
Entity Equipment
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x04 | Play | Client | Entity ID | VarInt | Entity's EID |
Slot | Short | Equipment slot. 0: held, 1–4: armor slot (1: boots, 2: leggings, 3: chestplate, 4: helmet) | |||
Item | Slot | Item in slot format |
Spawn Position
Sent by the server after login to specify the coordinates of the spawn point (the point at which players spawn at, and which the compass points to). It can be sent at any time to update the point compasses point at.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x05 | Play | Client | Location | Position | Spawn location |
Update Health
Sent by the server to update/set the health of the player it is sent to.
Food saturation acts as a food “overcharge”. Food values will not decrease while the saturation is over zero. Players logging in automatically get a saturation of 5.0. Eating food increases the saturation as well as the food bar.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x06 | Play | Client | Health | Float | 0 or less = dead, 20 = full HP |
Food | VarInt | 0–20 | |||
Food Saturation | Float | Seems to vary from 0.0 to 5.0 in integer increments |
Respawn
To change the player's dimension (overworld/nether/end), send them a respawn packet with the appropriate dimension, followed by prechunks/chunks for the new dimension, and finally a position and look packet. You do not need to unload chunks, the client will do it automatically.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x07 | Play | Client | Dimension | Int | -1: The Nether, 0: The Overworld, 1: The End |
Difficulty | Unsigned Byte | 0: Peaceful, 1: Easy, 2: Normal, 3: Hard | |||
Gamemode | Unsigned Byte | 0: survival, 1: creative, 2: adventure. The hardcore flag is not included | |||
Level Type | String | Same as Join Game |
If the Dimension isn't valid then the client will crash
Avoid changing player's dimension to same dimension they were already in, weird bugs can occur i.e. such player will be unable to attack other players in new world (fixes after their death and respawn)
Player Position And Look
Updates the player's position on the server. This packet will also close the "Downloading Terrain" screen when joining/respawning.
If the distance between the last known position of the player on the server and the new position set by this packet is greater than 100 meters, the client will be kicked for “You moved too quickly :( (Hacking?)”.
Also if the fixed-point number of X or Z is set greater than 3.2E7D
the client will be kicked for “Illegal position”.
Yaw is measured in degrees, and does not follow classical trigonometry rules. The unit circle of yaw on the XZ-plane starts at (0, 1) and turns counterclockwise, with 90 at (-1, 0), 180 at (0, -1) and 270 at (1, 0). Additionally, yaw is not clamped to between 0 and 360 degrees; any number is valid, including negative numbers and numbers greater than 360.
Pitch is measured in degrees, where 0 is looking straight ahead, -90 is looking straight up, and 90 is looking straight down.
The yaw and pitch of player (in degrees), standing at point (x0, y0, z0) and looking towards point (x, y, z) one can be calculated with:
dx = x-x0 dy = y-y0 dz = z-z0 r = sqrt( dx*dx + dy*dy + dz*dz ) yaw = -atan2(dx,dz)/PI*180 if yaw < 0 then yaw = 360 - yaw pitch = -arcsin(dy/r)/PI*180
You can get a unit vector from a given yaw/pitch via:
x = -cos(pitch) * sin(yaw) y = -sin(pitch) z = cos(pitch) * cos(yaw)
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x08 | Play | Client | X | Double | Absolute or relative position, depending on Flags |
Y | Double | Absolute or relative position, depending on Flags | |||
Z | Double | Absolute or relative position, depending on Flags | |||
Yaw | Float | Absolute or relative rotation on the X Axis, in degrees | |||
Pitch | Float | Absolute or relative rotation on the Y Axis, in degrees | |||
Flags | Byte | Bit field, see below |
About the Flags field:
<Dinnerbone> It's a bitfield, X/Y/Z/Y_ROT/X_ROT. If X is set, the x value is relative and not absolute.
Field | Bit |
---|---|
X | 0x01 |
Y | 0x02 |
Z | 0x04 |
Y_ROT | 0x08 |
X_ROT | 0x10 |
Held Item Change
Sent to change the player's slot selection.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x09 | Play | Client | Slot | Byte | The slot which the player has selected (0–8) |
Use Bed
This packet tells that a player goes to bed.
The client with the matching Entity ID will go into bed mode.
This Packet is sent to all nearby players including the one sent to bed.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x0A | Play | Client | Entity ID | VarInt | Sleeping player's EID |
Location | Position | Block location of the head part of the bed |
Animation
Sent whenever an entity should change animation.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x0B | Play | Client | Entity ID | VarInt | Player ID |
Animation | Unsigned Byte | Animation ID (see below) |
Animation can be one of the following values:
ID | Animation |
---|---|
0 | Swing arm |
1 | Take damage |
2 | Leave bed |
3 | Eat food |
4 | Critical effect |
5 | Magic critical effect |
Spawn Player
This packet is sent by the server when a player comes into visible range, not when a player joins.
This packet must be sent after the Player List Item (Play, 0x38, clientbound) packet that adds the player data for the client to use when spawning a player. If the tab list entry for the UUID included in this packet is not present when this packet arrives, the entity will not be spawned. The tab includes skin/cape data.
Servers can, however, safely spawn player entities for players not in visible range. The client appears to handle it correctly.
When in online-mode the UUIDs must be valid and have valid skin blobs, in offline-mode UUID v3 is used.
For NPCs UUID v2 should be used. Note:
<+Grum> i will never confirm this as a feature you know that :)
In an example UUID, xxxxxxxx-xxxx-Yxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
, the UUID version is specified by Y
. So, for UUID v3, Y
will always be 3
, and for UUID v2, Y
will always be 2
.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x0C | Play | Client | Entity ID | VarInt | Player's EID |
Player UUID | UUID | ||||
X | Int | Player X as a Fixed-Point number | |||
Y | Int | Player Y as a Fixed-Point number | |||
Z | Int | Player Z as a Fixed-Point number | |||
Yaw | Angle | ||||
Pitch | Angle | ||||
Current Item | Short | The item the player is currently holding. Note that this should be 0 for “no item”, unlike -1 used in other packets. | |||
Metadata | Metadata |
A negative Current Item crashes clients
The client will crash if no Metadata is sent
Collect Item
Sent by the server when someone picks up an item lying on the ground — its sole purpose appears to be the animation of the item flying towards you. It doesn't destroy the entity in the client memory, and it doesn't add it to your inventory. The server only checks for items to be picked up after each Player Position (and Player Position And Look) packet sent by the client.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x0D | Play | Client | Collected Entity ID | VarInt | |
Collector Entity ID | VarInt |
Spawn Object
Sent by the server when a vehicle or other object is created.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x0E | Play | Client | Entity ID | VarInt | EID of the object |
Type | Byte | The type of object (see Entities#Objects) | |||
X | Int | X position as a Fixed-Point number | |||
Y | Int | Y position as a Fixed-Point number | |||
Z | Int | Z position as a Fixed-Point number | |||
Pitch | Angle | ||||
Yaw | Angle | ||||
Data | Int | Meaning dependent on the value of the Type field, see Object Data for details. | |||
Velocity X | Optional Short | Only sent if the Data field is nonzero. Same units as Entity Velocity. | |||
Velocity Y | Optional Short | Only sent if the Data field is nonzero. Same units as Entity Velocity. | |||
Velocity Z | Optional Short | Only sent if the Data field is nonzero. Same units as Entity Velocity. |
Spawn Mob
Sent by the server when a Mob Entity is Spawned
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x0F | Play | Client | Entity ID | VarInt | |
Type | Unsigned Byte | The type of mob. See Mobs | |||
X | Int | X position as a Fixed-Point number | |||
Y | Int | Y position as a Fixed-Point number | |||
Z | Int | Z position as a Fixed-Point number | |||
Yaw | Angle | ||||
Pitch | Angle | ||||
Head Pitch | Angle | ||||
Velocity X | Short | Same units as Entity Velocity | |||
Velocity Y | Short | Same units as Entity Velocity | |||
Velocity Z | Short | Same units as Entity Velocity | |||
Metadata | Metadata |
Spawn Painting
This packet shows location, name, and type of painting.
Calculating the center of an image: given a (width x height) grid of cells, with (0, 0) being the top left corner, the center is (max(0, width / 2 - 1), height / 2). E.g.
2x1 (1, 0) 4x4 (1, 2)
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x10 | Play | Client | Entity ID | VarInt | |
Title | String | Name of the painting. Max length 13 | |||
Location | Position | Center coordinates | |||
Direction | Unsigned Byte | Direction the painting faces. 0: north (-z), 1: west (-x), 2: south (+z), 3: east (+x) |
Spawn Experience Orb
Spawns one or more experience orbs.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x11 | Play | Client | Entity ID | VarInt | Entity's ID |
X | Int | X position as a Fixed-Point number | |||
Y | Int | Y position as a Fixed-Point number | |||
Z | Int | Z position as a Fixed-Point number | |||
Count | Short | The amount of experience this orb will reward once collected |
Entity Velocity
Velocity is believed to be in units of 1/8000 of a block per server tick (50ms); for example, -1343 would move (-1343 / 8000) = −0.167875 blocks per tick (or −3,3575 blocks per second).
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x12 | Play | Client | Entity ID | VarInt | |
Velocity X | Short | Velocity on the X axis | |||
Velocity Y | Short | Velocity on the Y axis | |||
Velocity Z | Short | Velocity on the Z axis |
Destroy Entities
Sent by the server when a list of entities is to be destroyed on the client.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x13 | Play | Client | Count | VarInt | Number of elements in the following array |
Entity IDs | Array of VarInt | The list of entities of destroy |
Entity
This packet may be used to initialize an entity.
For player entities, either this packet or any move/look packet is sent every game tick. So the meaning of this packet is basically that the entity did not move/look since the last such packet.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x14 | Play | Client | Entity ID | VarInt |
Entity Relative Move
This packet is sent by the server when an entity moves less then 4 blocks; if an entity moves more than 4 blocks Entity Teleport should be sent instead.
This packet allows at most four blocks movement in any direction, because byte range is from -128 to 127.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x15 | Play | Client | Entity ID | VarInt | |
Delta X | Byte | Change in X position as a Fixed-Point number | |||
Delta Y | Byte | Change in Y position as a Fixed-Point number | |||
Delta Z | Byte | Change in Z position as a Fixed-Point number | |||
On Ground | Boolean |
Entity Look
This packet is sent by the server when an entity rotates.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x16 | Play | Client | Entity ID | VarInt | |
Yaw | Angle | New angle, not a delta | |||
Pitch | Angle | New angle, not a delta | |||
On Ground | Boolean |
Entity Look And Relative Move
This packet is sent by the server when an entity rotates and moves. Since a byte range is limited from -128 to 127, and movement is offset of fixed-point numbers, this packet allows at most four blocks movement in any direction. (-128/32 == -4)
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x17 | Play | Client | Entity ID | VarInt | |
Delta X | Byte | Change in X position as a Fixed-Point number | |||
Delta Y | Byte | Change in Y position as a Fixed-Point number | |||
Delta Z | Byte | Change in Z position as a Fixed-Point number | |||
Yaw | Angle | New angle, not a delta | |||
Pitch | Angle | New angle, not a delta | |||
On Ground | Boolean |
Entity Teleport
This packet is sent by the server when an entity moves more than 4 blocks.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x18 | Play | Client | Entity ID | VarInt | |
X | Int | X position as a Fixed-Point number | |||
Y | Int | Y position as a Fixed-Point number | |||
Z | Int | Z position as a Fixed-Point number | |||
Yaw | Angle | New angle, not a delta | |||
Pitch | Angle | New angle, not a delta | |||
On Ground | Boolean |
Entity Head Look
Changes the direction an entity's head is facing.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x19 | Play | Client | Entity ID | VarInt | |
Head Yaw | Angle | New angle, not a delta |
Entity Status
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x1A | Play | Client | Entity ID | Int | |
Entity Status | Byte | See below |
Entity Status | Meaning |
---|---|
1 | Sent when resetting a mob spawn minecart's timer / Rabbit jump animation |
2 | Living Entity hurt |
3 | Living Entity dead |
4 | Iron Golem throwing up arms |
6 | Wolf/Ocelot/Horse taming — Spawn “heart” particles |
7 | Wolf/Ocelot/Horse tamed — Spawn “smoke” particles |
8 | Wolf shaking water — Trigger the shaking animation |
9 | (of self) Eating accepted by server |
10 | Sheep eating grass |
10 | Play TNT ignite sound |
11 | Iron Golem handing over a rose |
12 | Villager mating — Spawn “heart” particles |
13 | Spawn particles indicating that a villager is angry and seeking revenge |
14 | Spawn happy particles near a villager |
15 | Witch animation — Spawn “magic” particles |
16 | Play zombie converting into a villager sound |
17 | Firework exploding |
18 | Animal in love (ready to mate) — Spawn “heart” particles |
19 | Reset squid rotation |
20 | Spawn explosion particle — works for some living entities |
21 | Play guardian sound — works for only for guardians |
22 | Enables reduced debug for players |
23 | Disables reduced debug for players |
Attach Entity
This packet is sent when a player has been attached to an entity (e.g. Minecart).
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x1B | Play | Client | Entity ID | Int | Attached entity's EID |
Vehicle ID | Int | Vechicle's Entity ID. Set to -1 to detach | |||
Leash | Boolean | If true leashes the entity to the vehicle |
Entity Metadata
Updates one or more metadata properties for an existing entity. Any properties not included in the Metadata field are left unchanged.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x1C | Play | Client | Entity ID | VarInt | |
Metadata | Metadata |
Entity Effect
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x1D | Play | Client | Entity ID | VarInt | |
Effect ID | Byte | See this table | |||
Amplifier | Byte | Notchian client displays effect level as Amplifier + 1 | |||
Duration | VarInt | Seconds | |||
Hide Particles | Boolean |
Remove Entity Effect
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x1E | Play | Client | Entity ID | VarInt | |
Effect ID | Byte | See this table |
Set Experience
Sent by the server when the client should change experience levels.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x1F | Play | Client | Experience bar | Float | Between 0 and 1 |
Level | VarInt | ||||
Total Experience | VarInt | See Experience#Leveling up on the Minecraft Wiki for Total Experience to Level conversion |
Entity Properties
Sets attributes on the given entity.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x20 | Play | Client | Entity ID | VarInt | |||
Number Of Properties | Int | Number of elements in the following array | |||||
Property | Key | Array | String | See below | |||
Value | Double | See below | |||||
Number Of Modifiers | VarInt | Number of elements in the following array | |||||
Modifiers | Array of Modifier Data | See Attribute#Modifiers |
Known Key values:
Key | Default | Min | Max | Label |
---|---|---|---|---|
generic.maxHealth | 20.0 | 0.0 | Double.MaxValue | Max Health |
generic.followRange | 32.0 | 0.0 | 2048.0 | Follow Range |
generic.knockbackResistance | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | Knockback Resistance |
generic.movementSpeed | 0.699999988079071 | 0.0 | Double.MaxValue | Movement Speed |
generic.attackDamage | 2.0 | 0.0 | Double.MaxValue | |
horse.jumpStrength | 0.7 | 0.0 | 2.0 | Jump Strength |
zombie.spawnReinforcements | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | Spawn Reinforcements Chance |
Modifier Data structure:
Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|
UUID | UUID | |
Amount | Double | May be positive or negative |
Operation | Byte | See below |
The operation controls how the base value of the modifier is changed.
- 0: Add/subtract amount
- 1: Add/subtract amount percent of the current value
- 2: Multiply by amount percent
All of the 0's are applied first, and then the 1's, and then the 2's.
Chunk Data
Chunks are not unloaded by the client automatically. To unload chunks, send this packet with Ground-Up Continuous=true and no 16^3 chunks (eg. Primary Bit Mask=0). The server does not send skylight information for nether-chunks, it's up to the client to know if the player is currently in the nether. You can also infer this information from the primary bitmask and the amount of uncompressed bytes sent.
See also: SMP Map Format
Changes in 1.8:
- Data value section removed
- Extended id section removed
- Block id section is now a unsigned short (little endian) per a block
- The block id is equal to
(id << 4) | data
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x21 | Play | Client | Chunk X | Int | Chunk X coordinate |
Chunk Z | Int | Chunk Z coordinate | |||
Ground-Up Continuous | Boolean | This is true if the packet represents all sections in this vertical column, where the Primary Bit Mask specifies exactly which sections are included, and which are air | |||
Primary Bit Mask | Unsigned Short | Bitmask with 1 for every 16x16x16 section whose data follows in the compressed data | |||
Size | VarInt | Size of Data | |||
Data | Chunk |
Multi Block Change
Fired whenever 2 or more blocks are changed within the render distance.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x22 | Play | Client | Chunk X | Int | Chunk X coordinate | ||
Chunk Z | Int | Chunk Z coordinate | |||||
Record Count | VarInt | Number of elements in the following array, i.e. the number of blocks affected | |||||
Record | Horizontal Position | Array | Unsigned Byte | The 4 most significant bits (0xF0 ) encode the X coordinate, relative to the chunk. The 4 least significant bits (0x0F ) encode the Z coordinate, relative to the chunk.
| |||
Y Coordinate | Unsigned Byte | ||||||
Block ID | VarInt | The new block state ID for the block as given in the global palette (When reading data: type = id >> 4 , meta = id & 15 , when writing data: id = type << 4 | (meta & 15) )
|
Block Change
Fired whenever a block is changed within the render distance.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x23 | Play | Client | Location | Position | Block Coordinates |
Block ID | VarInt | The new block state ID for the block as given in the global palette (When reading data: type = id >> 4 , meta = id & 15 , when writing data: id = type << 4 | (meta & 15) )
|
Block Action
This packet is used for a number of things:
- Chests opening and closing
- Pistons pushing and pulling
- Note blocks playing
- Updating beacons
See also: Block Actions
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x24 | Play | Client | Location | Position | Block coordinates |
Byte 1 | Unsigned Byte | Varies depending on block — see Block Actions | |||
Byte 2 | Unsigned Byte | Varies depending on block — see Block Actions | |||
Block Type | VarInt | The block type ID for the block, not including metadata/damage value |
Block Break Animation
0–9 are the displayable destroy stages and each other number means that there is no animation on this coordinate.
You can also set an animation to air! The animation will still be visible.
If you need to display several break animations at the same time you have to give each of them a unique Entity ID.
Also if you set the coordinates to a special block like water etc. it won't show the actual break animation but some other interesting effects. For example, water will lose its transparency.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x25 | Play | Client | Entity ID | VarInt | EID for the animation |
Location | Position | Block Position | |||
Destroy Stage | Byte | 0–9 to set it, any other value to remove it |
Map Chunk Bulk
1.8 changes at Chunk Data
To reduce the number of bytes, this packet is used to send chunks together for better compression results.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x26 | Play | Client | Sky Light Sent | Boolean | Whether or not Chunk Data contains light nibble arrays. This is true in the Overworld, false in the End + Nether | ||
Chunk Column Count | VarInt | Number of elements in each of the following arrays | |||||
Chunk Meta | Chunk X | Array | Int | The X coordinate of the chunk | |||
Chunk Z | Int | The Z coordinate of the chunk | |||||
Primary Bit Mask | Unsigned Short | A bit mask which specifies which sections are not empty in this chunk | |||||
Chunk Data | Array of Chunk | Each chunk in this array corresponds to the data at the same position in Chunk Meta |
Explosion
Sent when an explosion occurs (creepers, TNT, and ghast fireballs).
Each block in Records is set to air. Coordinates for each axis in record is int(X) + record.x
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x27 | Play | Client | X | Float | |
Y | Float | ||||
Z | Float | ||||
Radius | Float | Currently unused in the client | |||
Record Count | Int | Number of elements in the following array | |||
Records | Array of (Byte, Byte, Byte) | Each record is 3 signed bytes long, each bytes are the XYZ (respectively) offsets of affected blocks. | |||
Player Motion X | Float | X velocity of the player being pushed by the explosion | |||
Player Motion Y | Float | Y velocity of the player being pushed by the explosion | |||
Player Motion Z | Float | Z velocity of the player being pushed by the explosion |
Effect
Sent when a client is to play a sound or particle effect.
By default, the Minecraft client adjusts the volume of sound effects based on distance. The final boolean field is used to disable this, and instead the effect is played from 2 blocks away in the correct direction. Currently this is only used for effect 1013 (mob.wither.spawn), and is ignored for any other value by the client.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x28 | Play | Client | Effect ID | Int | The ID of the effect, see below |
Location | Position | The location of the effect | |||
Data | Int | Extra data for certain effects, see below | |||
Disable Relative Volume | Boolean | See above |
Effect IDs:
ID | Name | Data |
---|---|---|
Sound | ||
1000 | random.click
|
|
1001 | random.click
|
|
1002 | random.bow
|
|
1003 | random.door_open or random.door_close (50/50 chance)
|
|
1004 | random.fizz
|
|
1005 | Play a music disc. | Record ID |
1006 | not assigned | |
1007 | mob.ghast.charge
|
|
1008 | mob.ghast.fireball
|
|
1009 | mob.ghast.fireball , but with a lower volume
|
|
1010 | mob.zombie.wood
|
|
1011 | mob.zombie.metal
|
|
1012 | mob.zombie.woodbreak
|
|
1013 | mob.wither.spawn
|
|
1014 | mob.wither.shoot
|
|
1015 | mob.bat.takeoff
|
|
1016 | mob.zombie.infect
|
|
1017 | mob.zombie.unfect
|
|
1018 | mob.enderdragon.end
|
|
1020 | random.anvil_break
|
|
1021 | random.anvil_use
|
|
1022 | random.anvil_land
|
|
Particle | ||
2000 | Spawns 10 smoke particles, e.g. from a fire | Direction, see below |
2001 | Block break | Block ID |
2002 | Splash potion. Particle effect + glass break sound. | Potion ID |
2003 | Eye of Ender entity break animation — particles and sound | |
2004 | Mob spawn particle effect: smoke + flames | |
2005 | Spawn “happy villager” effect (green crosses), used for bonemealing vegetation |
Smoke directions:
ID | Direction |
---|---|
0 | South-East |
1 | South |
2 | South-West |
3 | East |
4 | (Up or middle ?) |
5 | West |
6 | North-East |
7 | North |
8 | North-West |
Sound Effect
Used to play a sound effect on the client.
Custom sounds may be added by resource packs.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x29 | Play | Client | Sound name | String | All known sound effect names can be seen here |
Effect position X | Int | Effect X multiplied by 8 | |||
Effect position Y | Int | Effect Y multiplied by 8 | |||
Effect position Z | Int | Effect Z multiplied by 8 | |||
Volume | Float | 1 is 100%, can be more | |||
Pitch | Unsigned Byte | 63 is 100%, can be more |
Particle
Displays the named particle
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x2A | Play | Client | Particle ID | Int | See below |
Long Distance | Boolean | If true, particle distance increases from 256 to 65536 | |||
X | Float | X position of the particle | |||
Y | Float | Y position of the particle | |||
Z | Float | Z position of the particle | |||
Offset X | Float | This is added to the X position after being multiplied by random.nextGaussian() | |||
Offset Y | Float | This is added to the Y position after being multiplied by random.nextGaussian() | |||
Offset Z | Float | This is added to the Z position after being multiplied by random.nextGaussian() | |||
Particle Data | Float | The data of each particle | |||
Particle Count | Int | The number of particles to create | |||
Data | Array of VarInt | Length depends on particle. "iconcrack" has length of 2, "blockcrack", and "blockdust" have lengths of 1, the rest have 0. |
Particle IDs:
Particle Name | Particle ID |
---|---|
explode | 0 |
largeexplosion | 1 |
hugeexplosion | 2 |
fireworksSpark | 3 |
bubble | 4 |
splash | 5 |
wake | 6 |
suspended | 7 |
depthsuspend | 8 |
crit | 9 |
magicCrit | 10 |
smoke | 11 |
largesmoke | 12 |
spell | 13 |
instantSpell | 14 |
mobSpell | 15 |
mobSpellAmbient | 16 |
witchMagic | 17 |
dripWater | 18 |
dripLava | 19 |
angryVillager | 20 |
happyVillager | 21 |
townaura | 22 |
note | 23 |
portal | 24 |
enchantmenttable | 25 |
flame | 26 |
lava | 27 |
footstep | 28 |
cloud | 29 |
reddust | 30 |
snowballpoof | 31 |
snowshovel | 32 |
slime | 33 |
heart | 34 |
barrier | 35 |
iconcrack_(id)_(data) | 36 |
blockcrack_(id+(data<<12)) | 37 |
blockdust_(id) | 38 |
droplet | 39 |
take | 40 |
mobappearance | 41 |
Change Game State
It appears when a bed can't be used as a spawn point and when the rain state changes.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x2B | Play | Client | Reason | Unsigned Byte | See below |
Value | Float | Depends on Reason |
Reason codes:
Reason | Effect | Value |
---|---|---|
0 | Invalid Bed | |
1 | End raining | |
2 | Begin raining | |
3 | Change game mode | 0: Survival, 1: Creative, 2: Adventure, 3: Spectator |
4 | Enter credits | |
5 | Demo message | 0: Show welcome to demo screen, 101: Tell movement controls, 102: Tell jump control, 103: Tell inventory control |
6 | Arrow hitting player | Appears to be played when an arrow strikes another player in Multiplayer |
7 | Fade value | The current darkness value. 1 = Dark, 0 = Bright, Setting the value higher causes the game to change color and freeze |
8 | Fade time | Time in ticks for the sky to fade |
10 | Play mob appearance (effect and sound) | Unknown |
Spawn Global Entity
With this packet, the server notifies the client of thunderbolts striking within a 512 block radius around the player. The coordinates specify where exactly the thunderbolt strikes.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x2C | Play | Client | Entity ID | VarInt | The EID of the thunderbolt |
Type | Byte | The global entity type, currently always 1 for thunderbolt | |||
X | Int | Thunderbolt X, a fixed-point number | |||
Y | Int | Thunderbolt Y, a fixed-point number | |||
Z | Int | Thunderbolt Z, a fixed-point number |
Open Window
This is sent to the client when it should open an inventory, such as a chest, workbench, or furnace. This message is not sent anywhere for clients opening their own inventory.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x2D | Play | Client | Window ID | Unsigned Byte | A unique id number for the window to be displayed. Notchian server implementation is a counter, starting at 1. |
Window Type | String | The window type to use for display. See Inventory for a list. | |||
Window Title | Chat | The title of the window | |||
Number Of Slots | Unsigned Byte | Number of slots in the window (excluding the number of slots in the player inventory) | |||
Entity ID | Optional Int | EntityHorse's EID. Only sent when Window Type is “EntityHorse” |
See Inventory for further information.
Close Window
This packet is sent from the server to the client when a window is forcibly closed, such as when a chest is destroyed while it's open.
Note, notchian clients send a close window packet with Window ID 0 to close their inventory even though there is never an Open Window packet for inventory.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x2E | Play | Client | Window ID | Unsigned Byte | This is the ID of the window that was closed. 0 for inventory. |
Set Slot
Sent by the server when an item in a slot (in a window) is added/removed.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x2F | Play | Client | Window ID | Byte | The window which is being updated. 0 for player inventory. Note that all known window types include the player inventory. This packet will only be sent for the currently opened window while the player is performing actions, even if it affects the player inventory. After the window is closed, a number of these packets are sent to update the player's inventory window (0). |
Slot | Short | The slot that should be updated | |||
Slot Data | Slot |
To set the curser (the item currently dragged with the mouse), use -1 as Window ID and as Slot
Window Items
Sent by the server when items in multiple slots (in a window) are added/removed. This includes the main inventory, equipped armour and crafting slots.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x30 | Play | Client | Window ID | Unsigned Byte | The ID of window which items are being sent for. 0 for player inventory. |
Count | Short | Number of elements in the following array | |||
Slot Data | Array of Slot |
See inventory windows for further information about how slots are indexed.
Window Property
This packet is used to inform the client that part of a GUI window should be updated.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x31 | Play | Client | Window ID | Unsigned Byte | |
Property | Short | The property to be updated, see below | |||
Value | Short | The new value for the property, see below |
The meaning of the Property field depends on the type of the window. The following table shows the known combinations of window type and property, and how the value is to be interpreted.
Window type | Property | Value |
---|---|---|
Furnace | 0: Fire icon (fuel left) | counting from fuel burn time down to 0 (in-game ticks) |
1: Maximum fuel burn time | fuel burn time or 0 (in-game ticks) | |
2: Progress arrow | 0–200 (in-game ticks) | |
3: Maximum progress | always 200 | |
Enchantment Table | 0: Level requirement for top enchantment slot | The enchantment's xp level requirement |
1: Level requirement for middle enchantment slot | ||
2: Level requirement for bottom enchantment slot | ||
3: The seed for generating the enchantments view for the client | Unknown | |
4: Enchantment shown on mouse hover over top enchantment slot | The enchantment id (set to -1 to hide it) | |
5: Enchantment shown on mouse hover over middle enchantment slot | ||
6: Enchantment shown on mouse hover over bottom enchantment slot | ||
Beacon | 0: Power level | Unknown |
1: First potion effect | Unknown | |
2: Second potion effect | Unknown | |
Anvil | 0: Repair cost | The repair's cost in xp levels |
Brewing Stand | 0: Brew time | 0–400, with 400 making the arrow empty, and 0 making the arrow full |
Confirm Transaction
A packet from the server indicating whether a request from the client was accepted, or whether there was a conflict (due to lag).
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x32 | Play | Client | Window ID | Byte | The ID of the window that the action occurred in |
Action Number | Short | Every action that is to be accepted has a unique number. This field corresponds to that number. | |||
Accepted | Boolean | Whether the action was accepted |
Update Sign
This message is sent from the server to the client whenever a sign is discovered or created. This message is NOT sent when a sign is destroyed or unloaded.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x33 | Play | Client | Location | Position | |
Line 1 | Chat | First line of text in the sign | |||
Line 2 | Chat | Second line of text in the sign | |||
Line 3 | Chat | Third line of text in the sign | |||
Line 4 | Chat | Fourth line of text in the sign |
Map
Updates a rectangular area on a map.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x34 | Play | Client | Item Damage | VarInt | The damage value (map ID) of the map being modified | ||
Scale | Byte | ||||||
Icon Count | VarInt | Number of elements in the following array | |||||
Icon | Direction And Type | Array | Byte | 0xF0 = Direction, 0x0F = Type | |||
X | Byte | ||||||
Z | Byte | ||||||
Columns | Byte | Number of columns updated | |||||
Rows | Optional Byte | Only if Columns is more than 0; number of rows updated | |||||
X | Optional Byte | Only if Columns is more than 0; x offset of the westernmost column | |||||
Z | Optional Byte | Only if Columns is more than 0; z offset of the northernmost row | |||||
Length | Optional VarInt | Only if Columns is more than 0; length of the following array | |||||
Data | Optional Array of Unsigned Byte | Only if Columns is more than 0; see Map item format |
Update Block Entity
Essentially a block update on a block entity.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x35 | Play | Client | Location | Position | |
Action | Unsigned Byte | The type of update to perform, see below | |||
NBT Data | Optional NBT Tag | If not present then it's a TAG_END (0) |
Action field:
- 1: Set SpawnPotentials of a mob spawner
- 2: Set command block text (command and last execution status)
- 3: Set the level, primary, and secondary powers of a beacon
- 4: Set rotation and skin of mob head
- 5: Set type of flower in flower pot
- 6: Set base color and patterns on a banner
Open Sign Editor
Sent when the client has placed a sign and is allowed to send Update Sign.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x36 | Play | Client | Location | Position |
Statistics
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x37 | Play | Client | Count | VarInt | Number of elements in the following array | ||
Statistic | Name | Array | String | https://gist.github.com/thinkofdeath/a1842c21a0cf2e1fb5e0 | |||
Value | VarInt | The amount to set it to |
Player List Item
Sent by the notchian server to update the user list (<tab> in the client).
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x38 | Play | Client | Action | VarInt | Determines the rest of the Player format after the UUID | |||||
Number Of Players | VarInt | Number of elements in the following array | ||||||||
Player | UUID | Array | UUID | |||||||
Action | Field Name | |||||||||
0: add player | Name | String | ||||||||
Number Of Properties | VarInt | Number of elements in the following array | ||||||||
Property | Name | Array | String | |||||||
Value | String | |||||||||
Is Signed | Boolean | |||||||||
Signature | Optional String | Only if Is Signed is true | ||||||||
Gamemode | VarInt | |||||||||
Ping | VarInt | |||||||||
Has Display Name | Boolean | |||||||||
Display Name | Optional Chat | Only if Has Display Name is true | ||||||||
1: update gamemode | Gamemode | VarInt | ||||||||
2: update latency | Ping | VarInt | ||||||||
3: update display name | Has Display Name | Boolean | ||||||||
Display Name | Optional Chat | Only send if Has Display Name is true | ||||||||
4: remove player | no fields | no fields |
The Property field looks as in the response of Mojang API#UUID -> Profile + Skin/Cape, except of course using the protocol format instead of JSON. That is, each player will usually have one property with Name “textures” and Value being a base64-encoded JSON string as documented at Mojang API#UUID -> Profile + Skin/Cape. An empty properties array is also acceptable, and will cause clients to display the player with one of the two default skins depending on UUID.
Player Abilities
The latter 2 floats are used to indicate the field of view and flying speed respectively, while the first byte is used to determine the value of 4 booleans.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x39 | Play | Client | Flags | Byte | Bit field, see below |
Flying Speed | Float | ||||
Field of View Modifier | Float | Modifies the field of view, like a speed potion. A Notchian server will use the same value as the movement speed (send in the Entity Properties packet). |
About the flags:
Field | Bit |
---|---|
Invulnerable | 0x01 |
Flying | 0x02 |
Allow Flying | 0x04 |
Creative Mode | 0x08 |
Tab-Complete
The server responds with a list of auto-completions of the last word sent to it. In the case of regular chat, this is a player username. Command names and parameters are also supported.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x3A | Play | Client | Count | VarInt | Number of elements in the following array |
Matches | Array of String | One eligible command, note that each command is sent separately instead of in a single string, hence the need for Count |
Scoreboard Objective
This is sent to the client when it should create a new scoreboard objective or remove one.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x3B | Play | Client | Objective Name | String | An unique name for the objective |
Mode | Byte | 0 to create the scoreboard. 1 to remove the scoreboard. 2 to update the display text. | |||
Objective Value | Optional String | Only if mode is 0 or 2. The text to be displayed for the score | |||
Type | Optional String | Only if mode is 0 or 2. “integer” or “hearts” |
Update Score
This is sent to the client when it should update a scoreboard item.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x3C | Play | Client | Score Name | String | The name of the score to be updated or removed |
Action | Byte | 0 to create/update an item. 1 to remove an item. | |||
Objective Name | String | The name of the objective the score belongs to | |||
Value | Optional VarInt | The score to be displayed next to the entry. Only sent when Action does not equal 1. |
Display Scoreboard
This is sent to the client when it should display a scoreboard.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x3D | Play | Client | Position | Byte | The position of the scoreboard. 0: list, 1: sidebar, 2: below name. |
Score Name | String | The unique name for the scoreboard to be displayed. |
Teams
Creates and updates teams.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x3E | Play | Client | Team Name | String | A unique name for the team. (Shared with scoreboard). |
Mode | Byte | If 0 then the team is created.
If 1 then the team is removed. If 2 the team team information is updated. If 3 then new players are added to the team. If 4 then players are removed from the team. | |||
Team Display Name | Optional String | Only if Mode = 0 or 2. | |||
Team Prefix | Optional String | Only if Mode = 0 or 2. Displayed before the players' name that are part of this team | |||
Team Suffix | Optional String | Only if Mode = 0 or 2. Displayed after the players' name that are part of this team | |||
Friendly Fire | Optional Byte | Only if Mode = 0 or 2. 0 for off, 1 for on, 3 for seeing friendly invisibles | |||
Name Tag Visibility | Optional String | Only if Mode = 0 or 2. always, hideForOtherTeams, hideForOwnTeam, never | |||
Color | Optional Byte | Only if Mode = 0 or 2. Same as Chat colors | |||
Player Count | Optional VarInt | Only if Mode = 0 or 3 or 4. Number of players in the array | |||
Players | Optional Array of String | Only if Mode = 0 or 3 or 4. Players to be added/remove from the team. Max 40 characters so may be uuid's later |
Plugin Message
Mods and plugins can use this to send their data. Minecraft itself uses a number of plugin channels. These internal channels are prefixed with MC|
.
More documentation on this: http://dinnerbone.com/blog/2012/01/13/minecraft-plugin-channels-messaging/
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x3F | Play | Client | Channel | String | Name of the plugin channel used to send the data |
Data | Byte Array | Any data, depending on the channel. MC| channels are documented here.
|
Disconnect
Sent by the server before it disconnects a client. The client assumes that the server has already closed the connection by the time the packet arrives.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x40 | Play | Client | Reason | Chat | Displayed to the client when the connection terminates. |
Server Difficulty
Changes the difficulty setting in the client's option menu
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x41 | Play | Client | Difficulty | Unsigned Byte | 0: peaceful, 1: easy, 2: normal, 3: hard |
Combat Event
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x42 | Play | Client | Event | VarInt | 0: enter combat, 1: end combat, 2: entity dead |
Duration | Optional VarInt | Only for end combat | |||
Player ID | Optional VarInt | Only for entity dead | |||
Entity ID | Optional Int | Only for end combat and entity dead | |||
Message | String | Only for entity dead |
Camera
Sets the entity that the player renders from. This is normally used when the left-clicks an entity while in spectator mode.
The player's camera will move with the entity and look where it is looking. The entity is often another player, but can be any type of entity. The player is unable to move this entity (move packets will act as if they are coming from the other entity).
If the given entity is not loaded by the player, this packet is ignored. To return control to the player, send this packet with their entity ID.
The Notchian server resets this (sends it back to the default entity) whenever the spectated entity is killed or the player sneaks, but only if they were spectating an entity. It also sends this packet whenever the player switches out of spectator mode (even if they weren't spectating an entity).
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x43 | Play | Client | Camera ID | VarInt | ID of the entity to set the client's camera to |
The notchian also loads certain shaders for given entities:
- Creeper →
shaders/post/creeper.json
- Spider (and cave spider) →
shaders/post/spider.json
- Enderman →
shaders/post/invert.json
- Anything else → the current shader is unloaded
World Border
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x44 | Play | Client | Action | VarInt | Determines the format of the rest of the packet | |
Action | Field Name | |||||
0: set size | Radius | Double | meters | |||
1: lerp size | Old Radius | Double | meters | |||
New Radius | Double | meters | ||||
Speed | VarLong | number of real-time ticks/seconds (?) until New Radius is reached. From experiments, it appears that Notchian server does not sync world border speed to game ticks, so it gets out of sync with server lag | ||||
2: set center | X | Double | ||||
Z | Double | |||||
3: initialize | X | Double | ||||
Z | Double | |||||
Old Radius | Double | |||||
New Radius | Double | |||||
Speed | VarLong | |||||
Portal Teleport Boundary | VarInt | Resulting coordinates from a portal teleport are limited to +-value. Usually 29999984. | ||||
Warning Time | VarInt | |||||
Warning Blocks | VarInt | |||||
4: set warning time | Warning Time | VarInt | unit? | |||
5: set warning blocks | Warning Blocks | VarInt |
Title
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x45 | Play | Client | Action | VarInt | ||
Action | Field Name | |||||
0: set title | Title Text | Chat | ||||
1: set subtitle | Subtitle Text | Chat | ||||
2: set times and display | Fade In | Int | ticks | |||
Stay | Int | ticks | ||||
Fade Out | Int | ticks | ||||
3: hide | no fields | no fields | ||||
4: reset | no fields | no fields |
“Hide” makes the title disappear, but if you run times again the same title will appear. “Reset” erases the text.
Set Compression
This packet is completely broken and has been removed in the 1.9 snapshots. The packet Set Compression (Login, 0x03, clientbound) should be used instead.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x46 | Play | Client | Threshold | VarInt | Packets of this size or higher may be compressed |
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x47 | Play | Client | Header | Chat | |
Footer | Chat |
Resource Pack Send
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x48 | Play | Client | URL | String | The URL to the resource pack. |
Hash | String | A 40 character hexadecimal and lowercase SHA-1 hash of the resource pack file. (must be lower case in order to work) If it's not a 40 character hexadecimal string, the client will not use it for hash verification and likely waste bandwidth — but it will still treat it as a unique id |
Update Entity NBT
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x49 | Play | Client | Entity ID | VarInt | |
Tag | NBT Tag |
Serverbound
Keep Alive
The server will frequently send out a keep-alive, each containing a random ID. The client must respond with the same packet.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x00 | Play | Server | Keep Alive ID | VarInt |
Chat Message
The default server will check the message to see if it begins with a '/'. If it doesn't, the username of the sender is prepended and sent to all other clients (including the original sender). If it does, the server assumes it to be a command and attempts to process it. A message longer than 100 characters will cause the server to kick the client. This change was initially done by allowing the client to not slice the message up to 119 (the previous limit), without changes to the server. For this reason, the vanilla server kept the code to cut messages at 119, but this isn't a protocol limitation and can be ignored.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x01 | Play | Server | Message | String | The client sends the raw input, not Chat |
Use Entity
This packet is sent from the client to the server when the client attacks or right-clicks another entity (a player, minecart, etc).
A Notchian server only accepts this packet if the entity being attacked/used is visible without obstruction and within a 4-unit radius of the player's position.
Note that middle-click in creative mode is interpreted by the client and sent as a Creative Inventory Action packet instead.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x02 | Play | Server | Target | VarInt | |
Type | VarInt | 0: interact, 1: attack, 2: interact at | |||
Target X | Optional Float | Only if Type is interact at | |||
Target Y | Optional Float | Only if Type is interact at | |||
Target Z | Optional Float | Only if Type is interact at |
Player
This packet as well as Player Position (Play, 0x04, serverbound), Player Look (Play, 0x05, serverbound), and Player Position And Look (Play, 0x06, serverbound) are called the “serverbound movement packets”. At least one of them must be sent on each tick to ensure that servers will update things like player health correctly. Vanilla clients will send Player Position once every 20 ticks even for a stationary player, and Player on every other tick.
This packet is used to indicate whether the player is on ground (walking/swimming), or airborne (jumping/falling).
When dropping from sufficient height, fall damage is applied when this state goes from false to true. The amount of damage applied is based on the point where it last changed from true to false. Note that there are several movement related packets containing this state.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x03 | Play | Server | On Ground | Boolean | True if the client is on the ground, false otherwise |
Player Position
Updates the player's XYZ position on the server.
If the distance between the last known position of the player on the server and the new position set by this packet is greater than 100 units, this will result in the client being kicked for “You moved too quickly :( (Hacking?)”
If the distance is greater than 10 units, the server will log the warning message "<name> moved too quickly!", followed by two coordinate triples (maybe movement delta?), but will not kick the client.
Also if the fixed-point number of X or Z is set greater than 3.2×107 the client will be kicked for “Illegal position”.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x04 | Play | Server | X | Double | Absolute position |
Feet Y | Double | Absolute position, normally Head Y - 1.62 | |||
Z | Double | Absolute position | |||
On Ground | Boolean | True if the client is on the ground, false otherwise |
Player Look
Updates the direction the player is looking in.
Yaw is measured in degrees, and does not follow classical trigonometry rules. The unit circle of yaw on the XZ-plane starts at (0, 1) and turns counterclockwise, with 90 at (-1, 0), 180 at (0,-1) and 270 at (1, 0). Additionally, yaw is not clamped to between 0 and 360 degrees; any number is valid, including negative numbers and numbers greater than 360.
Pitch is measured in degrees, where 0 is looking straight ahead, -90 is looking straight up, and 90 is looking straight down.
The yaw and pitch of player (in degrees), standing at point (x0, y0, z0) and looking towards point (x, y, z) one can be calculated with:
dx = x-x0 dy = y-y0 dz = z-z0 r = sqrt( dx*dx + dy*dy + dz*dz ) yaw = -atan2(dx,dz)/PI*180 if yaw < 0 then yaw = 360 - yaw pitch = -arcsin(dy/r)/PI*180
You can get a unit vector from a given yaw/pitch via:
x = -cos(pitch) * sin(yaw) y = -sin(pitch) z = cos(pitch) * cos(yaw)
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x05 | Play | Server | Yaw | Float | Absolute rotation on the X Axis, in degrees |
Pitch | Float | Absolute rotation on the Y Axis, in degrees | |||
On Ground | Boolean | True if the client is on the ground, False otherwise |
Player Position And Look
A combination of Player Look and Player Position.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x06 | Play | Server | X | Double | Absolute position |
Feet Y | Double | Absolute feet position, normally Head Y - 1.62 | |||
Z | Double | Absolute position | |||
Yaw | Float | Absolute rotation on the X Axis, in degrees | |||
Pitch | Float | Absolute rotation on the Y Axis, in degrees | |||
On Ground | Boolean | True if the client is on the ground, false otherwise |
Player Digging
Sent when the player mines a block. A Notchian server only accepts digging packets with coordinates within a 6-unit radius of the player's position.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x07 | Play | Server | Status | Byte | The action the player is taking against the block (see below) |
Location | Position | Block position | |||
Face | Byte | The face being hit (see below) |
Status can (currently) be one of six values:
Meaning | Value |
---|---|
Started digging | 0
|
Cancelled digging | 1
|
Finished digging | 2
|
Drop item stack | 3
|
Drop item | 4
|
Shoot arrow / finish eating | 5
|
Notchian clients send a 0 (started digging) when they start digging and a 2 (finished digging) once they think they are finished. If digging is aborted, the client simply send a 1 (cancel digging).
Status code 4 (drop item) is a special case. In-game, when you use the Drop Item command (keypress 'q'), a dig packet with a status of 4, and all other values set to 0, is sent from client to server. Status code 3 is similar, but drops the entire stack.
Status code 5 (shoot arrow / finish eating) is also a special case. The x, y and z fields are all set to 0 like above, with the exception of the face field, which is set to 255.
The face can be one of six values, representing the face being hit:
Value | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Offset | -Y | +Y | -Z | +Z | -X | +X |
Player Block Placement
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x08 | Play | Server | Location | Position | Block position |
Face | Byte | The face on which the block is placed (see above) | |||
Held Item | Slot | ||||
Cursor Position X | Byte | The position of the crosshair on the block | |||
Cursor Position Y | Byte | ||||
Cursor Position Z | Byte |
In normal operation (i.e. placing a block), this packet is sent once, with the values set normally.
This packet has a special case where X, Y, Z, and Face are all -1. (Note that Y is unsigned so set to 255.) This special packet indicates that the currently held item for the player should have its state updated such as eating food, pulling back bows, using buckets, etc.
In a Notchian Beta client, the block or item ID corresponds to whatever the client is currently holding, and the client sends one of these packets any time a right-click is issued on a surface, so no assumptions can be made about the safety of the ID. However, with the implementation of server-side inventory, a Notchian server seems to ignore the item ID, instead operating on server-side inventory information and holding selection. The client has been observed (1.2.5 and 1.3.2) to send both real item IDs and -1 in a single session.
Special note on using buckets: When using buckets, the Notchian client might send two packets: first a normal and then a special case. The first normal packet is sent when you're looking at a block (e.g. the water you want to scoop up). This normal packet does not appear to do anything with a Notchian server. The second, special case packet appears to perform the action — based on current position/orientation and with a distance check — it appears that buckets can only be used within a radius of 6 units.
Held Item Change
Sent when the player changes the slot selection
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x09 | Play | Server | Slot | Short | The slot which the player has selected (0–8) |
Animation
Sent when the player's arm swings
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x0A | Play | Server | no fields |
Entity Action
Sent by the client to indicate that it has performed certain actions: sneaking (crouching), sprinting, exiting a bed, jumping with a horse, and opening a horse's inventory while riding it.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x0B | Play | Server | Entity ID | VarInt | Player ID |
Action ID | VarInt | The ID of the action, see below | |||
Action Parameter | VarInt | Only used by Horse Jump Boost, in which case it ranges from 0 to 100. In all other cases it is 0. |
Action ID can be one of the following values:
ID | Action |
---|---|
0 | Start sneaking |
1 | Stop sneaking |
2 | Leave bed |
3 | Start sprinting |
4 | Stop sprinting |
5 | Jump with horse |
6 | Open ridden horse inventory |
Leave Bed is only sent when the "Leave Bed" button is clicked on the sleep GUI, not when waking up due today time.
Open ridden horse inventory is only sent when pressing the inventory key on a horse - all other methods of opening a horse's inventory (involving right-clicking or shift-right-clicking it) do not use this packet.
Steer Vehicle
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x0C | Play | Server | Sideways | Float | Positive to the left of the player |
Forward | Float | Positive forward | |||
Flags | Unsigned Byte | Bit mask. 0x1: jump, 0x2: unmount |
Close Window
This packet is sent by the client when closing a window.
Notchian clients send a Close Window packet with Window ID 0 to close their inventory even though there is never an Open Window packet for the inventory.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x0D | Play | Server | Window ID | Unsigned Byte | This is the ID of the window that was closed. 0 for player inventory. |
Click Window
This packet is sent by the player when it clicks on a slot in a window.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x0E | Play | Server | Window ID | Unsigned Byte | The ID of the window which was clicked. 0 for player inventory. |
Slot | Short | The clicked slot number, see below | |||
Button | Byte | The button used in the click, see below | |||
Action Number | Short | A unique number for the action, implemented by Notchian as a counter, starting at 1. Used by the server to send back a Confirm Transaction. | |||
Mode | Byte Enum | Inventory operation mode, see below | |||
Clicked item | Slot | The clicked slot. Has to be empty (item ID = -1) for drop mode. |
See Inventory for further information about how slots are indexed.
When right-clicking on a stack of items, half the stack will be picked up and half left in the slot. If the stack is an odd number, the half left in the slot will be smaller of the amounts.
The distinct type of click performed by the client is determined by the combination of the Mode and Button fields.
Mode | Button | Slot | Trigger |
---|---|---|---|
0 | 0 | Normal | Left mouse click |
1 | Normal | Right mouse click | |
1 | 0 | Normal | Shift + left mouse click |
1 | Normal | Shift + right mouse click (identical behavior) | |
2 | 0 | Normal | Number key 1 |
1 | Normal | Number key 2 | |
2 | Normal | Number key 3 | |
⋮ | ⋮ | ⋮ | |
8 | Normal | Number key 9 | |
3 | 2 | Normal | Middle click |
4 | 0 | Normal* | Drop key (Q) (* Clicked item is different, see above) |
1 | Normal* | Ctrl + Drop key (Ctrl-Q) (drops full stack) | |
0 | -999 | Left click outside inventory holding nothing (no-op) | |
1 | -999 | Right click outside inventory holding nothing (no-op) | |
5 | 0 | -999 | Starting left mouse drag (or middle mouse) |
4 | -999 | Starting right mouse drag | |
1 | Normal | Add slot for left-mouse drag | |
5 | Normal | Add slot for right-mouse drag | |
2 | -999 | Ending left mouse drag | |
6 | -999 | Ending right mouse drag | |
6 | 0 | Normal | Double click |
Starting from version 1.5, “painting mode” is available for use in inventory windows. It is done by picking up stack of something (more than 1 item), then holding mouse button (left, right or middle) and dragging held stack over empty (or same type in case of right button) slots. In that case client sends the following to server after mouse button release (omitting first pickup packet which is sent as usual):
- packet with mode 5, slot -999, button (0 for left | 4 for right);
- packet for every slot painted on, mode is still 5, button (1 | 5);
- packet with mode 5, slot -999, button (2 | 6);
If any of the painting packets other than the “progress” ones are sent out of order (for example, a start, some slots, then another start; or a left-click in the middle) the painting status will be reset.
The server will send back a Confirm Transaction packet. If the click was not accepted, the client must reflect that packet before sending more Click Window packets, otherwise the server will reject them silently. The Notchian server also sends a Window Items packet for the open window and Set Slot packets for the clicked and cursor slot, but only when the click was not accepted, probably to resynchronize client and server.
Confirm Transaction
If a transaction sent by the client was not accepted, the server will reply with a Confirm Transaction (Play, 0x32, clientbound) packet with the Accepted field set to false. When this happens, the client must reflect the packet to apologize (as with movement), otherwise the server ignores any successive transactions.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x0F | Play | Server | Window ID | Byte | The ID of the window that the action occurred in |
Action Number | Short | Every action that is to be accepted has a unique number. This field corresponds to that number. | |||
Accepted | Boolean | Whether the action was accepted |
Creative Inventory Action
While the user is in the standard inventory (i.e., not a crafting bench) in Creative mode, the player will send this packet.
Clicking in the creative inventory menu is quite different from non-creative inventory management. Picking up an item with the mouse actually deletes the item from the server, and placing an item into a slot or dropping it out of the inventory actually tells the server to create the item from scratch. (This can be verified by clicking an item that you don't mind deleting, then severing the connection to the server; the item will be nowhere to be found when you log back in.) As a result of this implementation strategy, the "Destroy Item" slot is just a client-side implementation detail that means "I don't intend to recreate this item.". Additionally, the long listings of items (by category, etc.) are a client-side interface for choosing which item to create. Picking up an item from such listings sends no packets to the server; only when you put it somewhere does it tell the server to create the item in that location.
This action can be described as "set inventory slot". Picking up an item sets the slot to item ID -1. Placing an item into an inventory slot sets the slot to the specified item. Dropping an item (by clicking outside the window) effectively sets slot -1 to the specified item, which causes the server to spawn the item entity, etc.. All other inventory slots are numbered the same as the non-creative inventory (including slots for the 2x2 crafting menu, even though they aren't visible in the vanilla client).
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x10 | Play | Server | Slot | Short | Inventory slot |
Clicked Item | Slot |
Enchant Item
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x11 | Play | Server | Window ID | Byte | The ID of the enchantment table window sent by Open Window |
Enchantment | Byte | The position of the enchantment on the enchantment table window, starting with 0 as the topmost one |
Update Sign
This message is sent from the client to the server when the “Done” button is pushed after placing a sign.
The server only accepts this packet after Open Sign Editor, otherwise this packet is silently ignored.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x12 | Play | Server | Location | Position | Block Coordinates |
Line 1 | Chat | First line of text in the sign | |||
Line 2 | Chat | Second line of text in the sign | |||
Line 3 | Chat | Third line of text in the sign | |||
Line 4 | Chat | Fourth line of text in the sign |
Player Abilities
The latter 2 bytes are used to indicate the walking and flying speeds respectively, while the first byte is used to determine the value of 4 booleans.
The vanilla client sends this packet when the player starts/stops flying with the Flags parameter changed accordingly. All other parameters are ignored by the vanilla server.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x13 | Play | Server | Flags | Byte | Bit mask. 0x08: damage disabled (god mode), 0x04: can fly, 0x02: is flying, 0x01: is Creative |
Flying Speed | Float | ||||
Walking Speed | Float |
Tab-Complete
Sent when the user presses tab while writing text.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x14 | Play | Server | Text | String | All text behind the cursor |
Has Position | Boolean | ||||
Looked At Block | Optional Position | The position of the block being looked at. Only sent if Has Position is true. |
Client Settings
Sent when the player connects, or when settings are changed.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x15 | Play | Server | Locale | String | e.g. en_GB |
View Distance | Byte | Client-side render distance, in chunks | |||
Chat Mode | Byte | 0: enabled, 1: commands only, 2: hidden | |||
Chat Colors | Boolean | “Colors” multiplayer setting | |||
Displayed Skin Parts | Unsigned Byte | Skin parts, see note below |
Displayed Skin Parts flags:
- Bit 0 (0x01): Cape enabled
- Bit 1 (0x02): Jacket enabled
- Bit 2 (0x04): Left Sleeve enabled
- Bit 3 (0x08): Right Sleeve enabled
- Bit 4 (0x10): Left Pants Leg enabled
- Bit 5 (0x20): Right Pants Leg enabled
- Bit 6 (0x40): Hat enabled
The most significant bit (bit 7, 0x80) appears to be unused.
Client Status
Sent when the client is ready to complete login and when the client is ready to respawn after death.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x16 | Play | Server | Action ID | VarInt | See below |
Action ID values:
Action ID | Action |
---|---|
0 | Perform respawn |
1 | Request stats |
2 | Taking Inventory achievement |
Plugin Message
Mods and plugins can use this to send their data. Minecraft itself uses a number of plugin channels. These internal channels are prefixed with MC|
.
More documentation on this: http://dinnerbone.com/blog/2012/01/13/minecraft-plugin-channels-messaging/
Note that the length of Data is known only from the packet length, since the packet has no length field of any kind.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x17 | Play | Server | Channel | String | Name of the plugin channel used to send the data |
Data | Byte Array | Any data, depending on the channel. MC| channels are documented here.
|
Spectate
Teleports the player to the given entity. The player must be in spectator mode.
The Notchian client only uses this to teleport to players, but it appears to accept any type of entity. The entity does not need to be in the same dimension as the player; if necessary, the player will be respawned in the right world. If the given entity cannot be found (or isn't loaded), this packet will be ignored. It will also be ignored if the player attempts to teleport to themselves.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x18 | Play | Server | Target Player | UUID | UUID of the player to teleport to (can also be an entity UUID) |
Resource Pack Status
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x19 | Play | Server | Hash | String | The hash sent in the Resource Pack Send packet. |
Result | VarInt Enum | 0: successfully loaded, 1: declined, 2: failed download, 3: accepted |
Status
- Main article: Server List Ping
Clientbound
Response
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x00 | Status | Client | JSON Response | String | See Server List Ping#Response |
Pong
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x01 | Status | Client | Payload | Long | Should be the same as sent by the client |
Serverbound
Request
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x00 | Status | Server | no fields |
Ping
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x01 | Status | Server | Payload | Long | May be any number. Notchian clients use a system-dependent time value which is counted in milliseconds. |
Login
The login process is as follows:
- C→S: Handshake with Next State set to 2 (login)
- C→S: Login Start
- S→C: Encryption Request
- Client auth
- C→S: Encryption Response
- Server auth, both enable encryption
- S→C: Login Success and Set Compression
Login Success and Set Compression can be sent in either order, but anything after Set Compression must use the Post Compression packet format. The packet ID for Set Compression also depends on the current connection state, and Login Success switches the state to play, meaning that the correct packet ID must be used depending on the order chosen.
For unauthenticated and localhost connections (either of the two conditions is enough for an unencrypted connection) there is no encryption. In that case Login Start is directly followed by Login Success.
See Protocol Encryption for details.
Clientbound
Disconnect
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x00 | Login | Client | Reason | Chat |
Encryption Request
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x01 | Login | Client | Server ID | String | Appears to be empty |
Public Key Length | VarInt | Length of Public Key | |||
Public Key | Byte Array | ||||
Verify Token Length | VarInt | Length of Verify Token | |||
Verify Token | Byte Array |
See Protocol Encryption for details.
Login Success
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x02 | Login | Client | UUID | String | Unlike in other packets, this field contains the UUID as a string with hyphens. |
Username | String |
This packet switches the connection state to play.
Set Compression
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x03 | Login | Client | Threshold | VarInt | Maximum size of a packet before its compressed |
Serverbound
Login Start
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x00 | Login | Server | Name | String |
Encryption Response
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x01 | Login | Server | Shared Secret Length | VarInt | Length of Shared Secret |
Shared Secret | Byte Array | ||||
Verify Token Length | VarInt | Length of Verify Token | |||
Verify Token | Byte Array |
See Protocol Encryption for details.