Pre-release protocol
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This page documents the changes from the last stable Minecraft release (currently 1.12.2, protocol 340) to the current pre-release (currently 17w46a, protocol 345). Note that this page contains bleeding-edge information that may not be completely or correctly documented.
One who wishes to commandeer the merging of this into Protocol when an update is made must be sure to respect any changes that may have occurred to the respective packets there.
Contents
Data types
No changes so far.
Packets
| ID | Packet name | Documentation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Handshaking serverbound | |||
| 0x00 | Handshake | Current | Pre |
| Play clientbound | |||
| Chat Message (clientbound) | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Multi Block Change | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Tab-Complete (clientbound) | Current | Pre | |
| 0x11 | Declare Commands | Pre | |
| Confirm Transaction (clientbound) | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Close Window (clientbound) | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Open Window | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Window Items | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Window Property | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Set Slot | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Set Cooldown | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Plugin Message (clientbound) | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Named Sound Effect | Current | Pre | |
| Disconnect (play) | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Entity Status | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Explosion | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Unload Chunk | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Change Game State | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Keep Alive (clientbound) | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Chunk Data | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Effect | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Particle | Current | Pre | |
| Join Game | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Map | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Entity | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Entity Relative Move | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Entity Look And Relative Move | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Entity Look | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Vehicle Move (clientbound) | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Open Sign Editor | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Craft Recipe Response | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Player Abilities (clientbound) | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Combat Event | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Player List Item | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Player Position And Look (clientbound) | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Use Bed | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Unlock Recipes | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Destroy Entities | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Remove Entity Effect | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Resource Pack Send | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Respawn | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Entity Head Look | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Select Advancement Tab | Current | (unchanged) | |
| World Border | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Camera | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Held Item Change (clientbound) | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Display Scoreboard | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Entity Metadata | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Attach Entity | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Entity Velocity | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Entity Equipment | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Set Experience | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Update Health | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Scoreboard Objective | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Set Passengers | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Teams | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Update Score | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Spawn Position | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Time Update | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Title | Current | (unchanged) | |
| 0x4A | Stop Sound | Pre | |
| Sound Effect | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Player List Header And Footer | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Collect Item | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Entity Teleport | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Advancements | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Entity Properties | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Entity Effect | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Play serverbound | |||
| Chat Message (serverbound) | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Client Status | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Client Settings | Current | (unchanged) | |
| Tab-Complete (serverbound) | Current | Pre | |
New/modified data types
No changes so far.
Block Actions
No changes so far.
Plugin Channels
MC|StopSound
Server to client
Used to implement the
/stopsound command. Stops a sound that is currently playing on the client.
| Field name | Field type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Sound category | String | Should be one of the sound categories used in Named Sound Effect, but if it's invalid or empty then it is (intentionally) treated as all sound categories. |
| Sound name | String | A sound effect name. If left empty, all sounds are stopped. |
Emptiness of sound category or sound name can be combined, IE a empty sound name but a set sound category will stop all sounds in the given category.
This plugin channel has been replaced by the stop sound packet.
Play
Clientbound
Tab-Complete (clientbound)
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| This is most definitely no longer an accurate description of this packet |
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. The client sorts these alphabetically before listing them.
| Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Play | Client | Transaction Id | VarInt | This id should also be used in the tab completion response packet, or it will be ignored. | |
| Count | VarInt | Number of elements in the following array | |||
| Matches | Array of String (32767) | One eligible command, note that each command is sent separately instead of in a single string, hence the need for Count |
Declare Commands
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| This information is probably incomplete/inaccurate |
Lists all of the commands on the server, and how they are parsed.
| Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0x11 | Play | Client | Count | VarInt | Length of the following array |
| Nodes | Array of Node | A array of CommandNodes
| |||
| Root index | VarInt | Index of the RootCommandNode in the previous array
|
Node:
| Field Name | Field Type | Notes | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flags | Byte (read) and VarInt (written) | Writing as VarInt doesn't currently cause any problems because there aren't more then 7 bits used, but it's something to look out for (don't set more than the 7 lowest bits, or things will break).
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| Children Count | VarInt | Length of the following array | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | Array of VarInt | The indexes of the children CommandNodes within the Nodes array
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| Redirect node | Optional VarInt | Only if flags & 0x08. Points to the redirect CommandNode within the Nodes array
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| Extra node data | Extra node data | Type depends on the CommandNode type, see below.
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Extra node data:
| Type | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
RootCommandNode
|
Empty | Empty | |
LiteralCommandNode
|
Literal | String (32767) | The text |
ArgumentCommandNode
|
Name | String (32767) | The name of the argument |
| Parser | Identifier | One of several known to the client, listed below. If the client does not know the parser, reading this RequiredArgumentBuilder stops immediately (following fields are not read) | |
| Properties | Optional, varies | See below. Varies depending on the parser. | |
| Suggests | Optional Identifier | Only present if (flags & 0x10) != 0. See below for the available types. |
Parsers:
| Identifier | Description | Properties | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
brigadier:bool
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Boolean value (true or false, case-sensitive)
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None | ||||||||||||
brigadier:float
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Float | Specifies min and max values:
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brigadier:integer
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Integer | Specifies min and max values:
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brigadier:string
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A string | A VarInt enum:
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minecraft:entity
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A selector, player name, or UUID. | Has a single flags byte:
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minecraft:game_profile
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A player, online or not. Can also use a selector, which may match one or more players (but not entities). | None | ||||||||||||
minecraft:block_pos
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A location, represented as 3 numbers (which must be integers). May use relative locations with ~.
|
None | ||||||||||||
minecraft:vec3
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A location, represented as 3 numbers (which may have a decimal point, but will be moved to the center of a block if none is specified). May use relative locations with ~.
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None | ||||||||||||
minecraft:vec2
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A location, represented as 2 numbers (which may have a decimal point, but will be moved to the center of a block if none is specified). May use relative locations with ~.
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None | ||||||||||||
minecraft:block
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A block state, optionally including NBT and state information. | None | ||||||||||||
minecraft:item
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An item, optionally including NBT. | None | ||||||||||||
minecraft:color
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A chat color. One of the names from Chat#Colors, or reset. Case-insensitive.
|
None | ||||||||||||
minecraft:component
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A JSON Chat component. | None | ||||||||||||
minecraft:message
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A regular message, potentially including selectors. | None | ||||||||||||
minecraft:nbt
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An NBT value, parsed using JSON-NBT rules. | None | ||||||||||||
minecraft:nbt_path
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A path within an NBT value, allowing for array and member accesses. | None | ||||||||||||
minecraft:objective
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A scoreboard objective. | None | ||||||||||||
minecraft:objective_criteria
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A single score criterion. | None | ||||||||||||
minecraft:operation
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A scoreboard operator | None | ||||||||||||
minecraft:particle
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A particle effect (an identifier with extra information following it for specific particles, mirroring the Particle packet) | None | ||||||||||||
minecraft:rotation
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An angle, represented as 2 numbers (which may have a decimal point, but will be moved to the center of a block if none is specified). May use relative locations with ~.
|
None | ||||||||||||
minecraft:scoreboard_slot
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A scoreboard display position slot. list, sidebar, belowName, and sidebar.team.${color} for all chat colors (reset is not included)
|
None | ||||||||||||
minecraft:score_holder
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Something that can join a team. Allows selectors and *.
|
Has a single flags byte:
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minecraft:swizzle
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A collection of up to 3 axes. | None | ||||||||||||
minecraft:team
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The name of a team. Parsed as an unquoted string. | None | ||||||||||||
minecraft:item_slot
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A name for an inventory slot. | None | ||||||||||||
minecraft:resource_location
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An Identifier. | None | ||||||||||||
minecraft:mob_effect
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A potion effect. | None |
Suggestion types:
| Identifier | Description |
|---|---|
minecraft:ask_server
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Sends the Tab-Complete packet to the server to request tab completions.
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minecraft:all_recipes
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Suggests all the available recipes. |
minecraft:available_sounds
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Suggests all the available sounds. |
minecraft:summonable_entities
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Suggests all the summonable entities. |
Named Sound Effect
- See also: #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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Play | Client | Sound Name | All sound effect names as of 1.12.2 can be seen here. | ||
| Sound Category | VarInt Enum | The category that this sound will be played from (current categories) | |||
| Effect Position X | Int | Effect X multiplied by 8 (fixed-point number with only 3 bits dedicated to the fractional part) | |||
| Effect Position Y | Int | Effect Y multiplied by 8 (fixed-point number with only 3 bits dedicated to the fractional part) | |||
| Effect Position Z | Int | Effect Z multiplied by 8 (fixed-point number with only 3 bits dedicated to the fractional part) | |||
| Volume | Float | 1 is 100%, can be more | |||
| Pitch | Float | Float between 0.5 and 2.0 by Notchian clients |
Particle
Displays the named particle
| Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Stop Sound
| Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0x4A | Play | Client | Flags | Byte | Controls which fields are present. |
| Source | Optional VarInt enum | Only if flags is 3 or 1 (bit mask 0x1). See below. If not present, then sounds from all sources are cleared. | |||
| Sound | Optional Identifier | Only if flags is 2 or 3 (bit mask 0x2). A sound effect name, see Named Sound Effect. If not present, then all sounds are cleared. |
Categories:
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| master | 0 |
| music | 1 |
| record | 2 |
| weather | 3 |
| block | 4 |
| hostile | 5 |
| neutral | 6 |
| player | 7 |
| ambient | 8 |
| voice | 9 |
Serverbound
Tab-Complete (serverbound)
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Sent when the user presses tab while writing text.
| Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Play | Server | Transaction Id | VarInt | The id received in the tab completion request packet, must match or the client will ignore this packet. | |
| Text | String (32767) | All text behind the cursor without the / (e.g. to the left of the cursor in left-to-right languages like English)
| |||
| Assume Command | Boolean | If true, the server will parse Text as a command even if it doesn't start with a /. Used in the command block GUI.
| |||
| Has Position | Boolean | ||||
| Looked At Block | Optional Position | The position of the block being looked at. Only sent if Has Position is true. |
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 |
| Server Address | String | Hostname or IP, e.g. localhost or 127.0.0.1, that was used to connect. The Notchian server does not use this information. | |||
| Server Port | Unsigned Short | Default is 25565. The Notchian server does not use this information. | |||
| Next State | VarInt Enum | 1 for status, 2 for login |
Status
Clientbound
No changes so far.
Serverbound
No changes so far.
Login
Clientbound
No changes so far.
Serverbound
No changes so far.
