Registry Data
Registries are repositories of data that contain entries pertaining to certain aspects of the game, such as the world, the player, among others.
The ability for the server to send customized registries to the client was introduced in 1.16.3, which allows for a great deal of customization over certain features of the game.
Format
The server sends these registries to the client via Registry Data packet during the configuration phase.
Packet ID | State | Bound To | Field Name | Field Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0x05 | Configuration | Client | Registry Data | NBT Tag Compound | Information included below. |
The Registry Data field represents a list of all available registries in the form of a Compound Tag. Elements in this compound are defined by the registry information, associated with the registry's name, as shown in the example below:
{
"minecraft:worldgen/biome": {
"type": "minecraft:worldgen/biome",
"value": [
{
"name": "minecraft:ocean",
"id": 0,
"element": { /* Element */ }
},
{
"name": "minecraft:plains",
"id": 1,
"element": { /* Element */ }
},
{ /* Registry Entry */ }
...
]
},
"minecraft:dimension_type": { /* Registry */ },
"minecraft:chat_type": { /* Registry */ },
...
}
Registry
The Registry Compound Tag specifies the type of the registry, and a list of registry entries.
The name of the registry in the Registry Data is always the same to the registry type in the Notchian implementation.
Name | Type | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|
type | TAG_String | The type of the registry. | |
value | TAG_List of TAG_Compound | List of registry entries. The format of the entries is defined by the value of the previous field. |
Registry Entry
The Registry Entry Compound Tag specifies a single entry of a Registry.
Name | Type | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|
name | TAG_String | The name of the entry. | |
id | TAG_Int | The protocol ID of the entry. | |
element | TAG_Compound | The actual data of the entry.
This field is context-dependent and is based on the type field of its Registry. |
Available Registries
The current release specification allows for six different registries to be sent to the client, six of which are required. A brief explanation of each of them is presented below, along with the format of their entries' element field.
Armor Trim Material
The minecraft:trim_material
registry.
Name | Type | Meaning | Values | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
asset_name | TAG_String | <tba> | <tba> | |||||
ingredient | TAG_String | <tba> | <tba> | |||||
item_model_index | TAG_Float | <tba> | <tba> | |||||
override_armor_materials | Optional TAG_Compound | <tba> | <tba> | |||||
description | TAG_Compound or TAG_String | <tba> | <tba> |
Armor Trim Pattern
The minecraft:trim_pattern
registry.
Name | Type | Meaning | Values | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
asset_id | TAG_String | <tba> | <tba> | |||||
template_item | TAG_String | <tba> | <tba> | |||||
description | TAG_Compound or TAG_String | <tba> | <tba> | |||||
decal | TAG_Byte | <tba> | <tba> |
Biome
The minecraft:worldgen/biome
registry. It defines several aesthetic characteristics of the biomes present in the game.
A registry entry for each biome implemented in the client must exist in the Biome registry, otherwise the client will crash with an exception due to the missing biome.
Name | Type | Meaning | Values | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
has_precipitation | TAG_Byte | Determines whether or not the biome has precipitation. | 1: true, 0: false. | |||||
temperature | TAG_Float | The temperature factor of the biome.
Affects foliage and grass color if they are not explicitly set. |
The default values vary between -0.5 and 2.0. | |||||
temperature_modifier | Optional TAG_String | Modifier that affects the resulting temperature. | Can be either:
| |||||
downfall | TAG_Float | The downfall factor of the biome.
Affects foliage and grass color if they are not explicitly set. |
The default values vary between 0.0 and 1.0. | |||||
effects | TAG_Compound | Biome special effects. | See Effects. |
Effects
Name | Type | Meaning | Values | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
fog_color | TAG_Int | The color of the fog effect when looking past the view distance. | Example: 8364543, which is #7FA1FF in RGB. | |||||
water_color | TAG_Int | The tint color of the water blocks. | Example: 8364543, which is #7FA1FF in RGB. | |||||
water_fog_color | TAG_Int | The color of the fog effect when looking past the view distance when underwater. | Example: 8364543, which is #7FA1FF in RGB. | |||||
sky_color | TAG_Int | The color of the sky. | Example: 8364543, which is #7FA1FF in RGB. | |||||
foliage_color | Optional TAG_Int | The tint color of leaves.
If not specified, the foliage color is calculated based on biome |
Example: 8364543, which is #7FA1FF in RGB. | |||||
grass_color | Optional TAG_Int | The tint color of the grass.
If not specified, the grass color is calculated based on biome |
Example: 8364543, which is #7FA1FF in RGB. | |||||
grass_color_modifier | Optional TAG_String | Modifier that affects the resulting grass color. | Can be either:
| |||||
particle | Optional TAG_Compound | Ambient visual particles. | See Particle. | |||||
ambient_sound | Optional TAG_String or TAG_Compound | Ambient soundtrack that starts playing when entering the biome, and fades out when exiting it. | Can be either:
| |||||
mood_sound | Optional TAG_Compound | Additional ambient sound that plays in moody situations. Moodiness increases when blocks around the player are at both sky and block light level zero, and decreases otherwise.
The moodiness calculation happens once per tick, and after reaching a certain value, the ambient mood sound is played. |
See Mood sound. | |||||
additions_sound | Optional TAG_Compound | Additional ambient sound that has a chance of playing randomly every tick. | See Additions sound. | |||||
music | Optional TAG_Compound | Music properties for the biome. | See Music. |
Particle
Name | Type | Meaning | Values | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
options | TAG_Compound | Particle type and related options. | See Particle options. | |||||
probability | TAG_Float | The chance for the particle to be spawned. Ambient particles are attempted to be spawned multiple times every tick. | The default values vary between 0.0 and 1.0. |
Particle options
The following information needs to be added to this page: | |
The extra data specified in the Particle definitions is missing information to allow the particle to be successfully serialized as NBT. Is it here the best place to define them, or somewhere else? |
Name | Type | Meaning | Values | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
type | TAG_String | The name of the particle. | See protocol particle data. | |||||
value | Optional Varies | Any necessary extra data to fully define the particle. | See protocol particle data. |
Ambient sound
Name | Type | Meaning | Values | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
sound_id | TAG_String | The ID of a soundtrack | Example: "minecraft:ambient.basalt_deltas.loop" | |||||
range | Optional TAG_Float | The range of the sound. If not specified, the volume is used to calculate the effective range. |
Mood sound
Name | Type | Meaning | Values | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
sound | TAG_String | The ID of a soundtrack. | Example: "minecraft:ambient.basalt_deltas.mood" | |||||
tick_delay | TAG_Int | Defines the rate at which the moodiness increase, and also the minimum time between plays. | The default value is always 6000. | |||||
block_search_extent | TAG_Int | The radius used for the block search around the player during moodiness calculation. | The default value is always 8. | |||||
offset | TAG_Double | The distance offset from the player when playing the sound.
The sound plays in the direction of the selected block during moodiness calculation, and is magnified by the offset. |
The default value is always 2.0. |
Additions sound
Name | Type | Meaning | Values | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
sound | TAG_String | The ID of a soundtrack. | Example: "minecraft:ambient.basalt_deltas.additions" | |||||
tick_chance | TAG_Double | The chance of the sound playing during the tick. | The default value is always 0.0111. |
Music
Name | Type | Meaning | Values | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
sound | TAG_String | The ID of a soundtrack. | Example: "minecraft:music.nether.basalt_deltas" | |||||
min_delay | TAG_Int | The minimum time in ticks since the last music finished for this music to be able to play. | The default value is always 12000. | |||||
max_delay | TAG_Int | The maximum time in ticks since the last music finished for this music to be able to play. | The default value is always 24000. | |||||
replace_current_music | TAG_Byte | Whether this music can replace the current one. | 1: true, 0: false. |
Chat Type
The minecraft:chat_type
registry. It defines the different types of in-game chat and how they're formatted.
Name | Type | Meaning | Values | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
chat | TAG_Compound | The chat decoration. | See Decoration. | |||||
narration | TAG_Compound | The narration decoration. | See Decoration. |
Decoration
Name | Type | Meaning | Values | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
translation_key | TAG_String | The translation key representing the chat format. It can also be a formatting string directly. | Example: "chat.type.text", which translates to "<%s> %s". | |||||
style | Optional TAG_Compound | Optional styling to be applied on the final message.
Not present in the narration decoration. |
See Chat styling. | |||||
parameters | TAG_List of TAG_String | Placeholders used when formatting the string given by the translation_key field. | Can be either:
|
Damage Type
The minecraft:damage_type
registry. It defines the different types of damage an entity can sustain.
Name | Type | Meaning | Values |
---|---|---|---|
message_id | TAG_String | Id of the death message. The full message is displayed as death.attack.<message_id> .
|
Example: "onFire". |
scaling | TAG_String | Whether the damage taken scales with the difficulty. | Can be either:
|
exhaustion | TAG_Float | The amount of exhaustion caused when suffering this type of damage. | Default values are either 0.0 or 0.1. |
effects | Optional TAG_String | Effect played when the player suffers this damage, including the sound that is played. | Can be either:
|
death_message_type | Optional TAG_String | Defines how the death message is constructed. | Can be either:
|
Dimension Type
The minecraft:dimension_type
registry. It defines the types of dimension that can be attributed to a world, along with all their characteristics.
Name | Type | Meaning | Values |
---|---|---|---|
fixed_time | Optional TAG_Long | If set, the time of the day fixed to the specified value. | Allowed values vary between 0 and 24000. |
has_skylight | TAG_Byte | Whether the dimension has skylight access or not. | 1: true, 0: false. |
has_ceiling | TAG_Byte | Whether the dimension has a bedrock ceiling or not. When true, causes lava to spread faster. | 1: true, 0: false. |
ultrawarm | TAG_Byte | Whether the dimensions behaves like the nether (water evaporates and sponges dry) or not. Also causes lava to spread thinner. | 1: true, 0: false. |
natural | TAG_Byte | When false, compasses spin randomly. When true, nether portals can spawn zombified piglins. | 1: true, 0: false. |
coordinate_scale | TAG_Double | The multiplier applied to coordinates when traveling to the dimension. | Allowed values vary between 1e-5 (0.00001) and 3e7 (30000000). |
bed_works | TAG_Byte | Whether players can use a bed to sleep. | 1: true, 0: false. |
respawn_anchor_works | TAG_Byte | Whether players can charge and use respawn anchors. | 1: true, 0: false. |
min_y | TAG_Int | The minimum Y level. | Allowed values vary between -2032 and 2031, and must also be a multiple of 16. |
height | TAG_Int | The maximum height. | Allowed values vary between 16 and 4064, and must also be a multiple of 16. |
logical_height | TAG_Int | The maximum height to which chorus fruits and nether portals can bring players within this dimension. (Must be lower than height) | Allowed values vary between 0 and 4064, and must also be a multiple of 16. |
infiniburn | TAG_String | A resource location defining what block tag to use for infiniburn. | "#" or minecraft resource "#minecraft:...". |
effects | TAG_String | Defines special dimensional effects, which includes:
|
Can be either:
|
ambient_light | TAG_Float | How much light the dimension has. Used as interpolation factor when calculating the brightness generated from sky light. | The default values are 0.0 and 0.1, 0.1 for the nether and 0.0 for the other dimensions. |
piglin_safe | TAG_Byte | Whether piglins shake and transform to zombified piglins. | 1: true, 0: false. |
has_raids | TAG_Byte | Whether players with the Bad Omen effect can cause a raid. | 1: true, 0: false. |
monster_spawn_light_level | TAG_Int or TAG_Compound | During a monster spawn attempt, this is the maximum allowed light level for it to succeed. It can be either a fixed value, or one of several types of distributions. | Can be either:
|
monster_spawn_block_light_limit | TAG_Int | Maximum allowed block light level monster spawn attempts to happen. | Allowed values vary between 0 and 15.
The default values are 0 and 15, 15 for the nether (where monsters can spawn anywhere) and 0 for other dimensions (where monsters can only spawn naturally in complete darkness). |
Integer distribution
Integer providers can be either declared as constants with a TAG_Int, or in a structured TAG_Compounds for specific distribution types. For the latter, the following format is used.
Name | Type | Meaning | Values |
---|---|---|---|
type | TAG_String | The type of distribution. | Can be either:
|
value | TAG_Compound | Extra data pertaining to the type of distribution. | Depends on the type of distribution. |
Default Registries
The default registries in the JSON format is available for the following versions: