Minecraft Bedrock Protocol Documentation

Documentation for 166 protocol packets.

Packet List

• LoginPacket (1)
  Sent once from client to server at login. About 100k.
• PlayStatusPacket (2)
  Describes the login status of the player
• ServerToClientHandshakePacket (3)
  Server->Client Handshake
• ClientToServerHandshakePacket (4)
  Sets up encryption and authenticates in educational version once at level startup from client.
• TextPacket (9)
  Represents a text message that needs to be displayed in-game
• SetTimePacket (10)
  Set Time
• RemoveActorPacket (14)
  Occasionally, during the server player tick some time is taken to remove nearby actors from the worl...
• ServerPlayerPostMovePositionPacket (16)
  Used to send a player's server position to the respective client at the end of movement.
• TakeItemActorPacket (17)
  A packet sent to the server when deal with picking up an item off the ground in the world.
• MoveActorAbsolutePacket (18)
  This is used primarily for motion updates of all actors from server to client.
• UpdateBlockPacket (21)
  Occasional packets sent from server when blocks update or are ticked. (For example, when digging.)
• AddPaintingPacket (22)
  Sends the information for a new painting actor from server to client.
• LevelEventPacket (25)
  Splash Potions, weather events, global pause, simlock commands, oh my!
• BlockEventPacket (26)
  Whenever a block event happens it is sent from the server to sync client and server, with arbitraril...
• ActorEventPacket (27)
  All kinds of actor state changes (see Actor::handleEntityEvent).
• MobEffectPacket (28)
  Mob Effect
• InteractPacket (33)
  Interact
• BlockPickRequestPacket (34)
  Player picks up a block in the world; client to server.
• ActorPickRequestPacket (35)
  Player clicks on an actor in the world, eg a chicken.
• PlayerActionPacket (36)
  Sent from the client whenever the player performs an action (dashing, un-dashing, use an item, mine/...
• HurtArmorPacket (38)
  Hurt Armor
• SetActorMotionPacket (40)
  This is used for the server to set the velocity of a client actor.
• SetActorLinkPacket (41)
  Sent by both client and server, only received by LegacyClientHandler.
• SetHealthPacket (42)
  This packet is sent to the client when the player is spawned in and when they respawn.
• SetSpawnPositionPacket (43)
  When a player logs in or the SetWorldSpawnCommand is used this is sent from the server to the client...
• AnimatePacket (44)
  Animate Actor
• RespawnPacket (45)
  Sent as a handshake between the client and server to respawn the player.
• ContainerOpenPacket (46)
  Sent from the server so that the client knows to open the container screen and do the chest opening ...
• ContainerClosePacket (47)
  After the game deletes the container manager on the client, the client sends this packet. Then the ...
• PlayerHotbarPacket (48)
  Sent from the server when the player uses pick block on actors or blocks, in addition to the player ...
• ContainerSetDataPacket (51)
  This is sent from the server basically any time that the "cooking" state of the brewing stand or the...
• GuiDataPickItemPacket (54)
  The server telling the client what item slot to hover over in the hotbar.
• BlockActorDataPacket (56)
  Sends the entire user data compound tag and the block position to the client.
• SetCommandsEnabledPacket (59)
  This is used by the world settings screen, cheats, EDU builds for teachers, and various other places...
• SetDifficultyPacket (60)
  Set Difficulty
• ChangeDimensionPacket (61)
  The server sends this packet from the level to kick off dimension changing process.
• SetPlayerGameTypePacket (62)
  Set Player Game Type
• SimpleEventPacket (64)
  This packet is used for enabling/disabling commands and for unlocking world template settings (both ...
• LegacyTelemetryEventPacket (65)
  Sends telemetry events to the client so the client can then send that on to the eventing system
• SpawnExperienceOrbPacket (66)
  Spawn Experience Orb
• MapInfoRequestPacket (68)
  In the case of the client being unable to find map data for a map item it sends a uuid for a map to ...
• RequestChunkRadiusPacket (69)
  The client can't just change the view radius without the server's approval, otherwise there could be...
• ChunkRadiusUpdatedPacket (70)
  Sent when the world is loading. We don't know why it is sent four times. Defines the tick distance.
• GameRulesChangedPacket (72)
  Updates game rules.
• CameraPacket (73)
  Used only in EDU through the tripod camera item or the TakePictureCommand. Sends the camera actor id...
• ShowCreditsPacket (75)
  Starts on server when the credits screen should pop up.
• AvailableCommandsPacket (76)
  Contains all the available commands.
• CommandRequestPacket (77)
  "slash" command execution, client to server.
• CommandOutputPacket (79)
  "slash" command execution output, server to client.
• UpdateTradePacket (80)
  This is used when the player trades with an npc. This sends all of the updated trade info in one big...
• UpdateEquipPacket (81)
  Seemingly only used for the Horse Inventory... More specifically when the player opens the horse inv...
• ResourcePackDataInfoPacket (82)
  Resource Pack Data Info
• ResourcePackChunkDataPacket (83)
  Resource Pack Chunk Data
• ResourcePackChunkRequestPacket (84)
  Resource Pack Chunk Request
• TransferPacket (85)
  Used to kick off transferring the client between online games, or it can be used to cause players to...
• PlaySoundPacket (86)
  This packet is only used via command or script event. This is for 3rd party content.
• StopSoundPacket (87)
  Allows you to stop a sound or all sounds on all clients, only used in a /command
• SetTitlePacket (88)
  Used by 3rd party content for the purpose of showing ui banners
• AddBehaviorTreePacket (89)
  Add Behavior Tree
• ShowStoreOfferPacket (91)
  Used for redirecting a user to the right offer.
• PurchaseReceiptPacket (92)
  Sent from client to server
• AutomationClientConnectPacket (95)
  Initiates websocket connection
• SetLastHurtByPacket (96)
  Any time a player is hit, the id of the last mob that attacked them is sent to the client
• NpcRequestPacket (98)
  Used for a number of interactions with the NPC Component
• PhotoTransferPacket (99)
  There is a camera item in EDU and they can use it to take screenshots and add them to a scrapbook.
• ModalFormRequestPacket (100)
  Modal Form Request
• ModalFormResponsePacket (101)
  Fired in response to third party server request to show the custom UI screen.
• ServerSettingsRequestPacket (102)
  Sent during the initialization of world settings on the client.
• ServerSettingsResponsePacket (103)
  Server Settings Response
• ShowProfilePacket (104)
  Show Profile
• SetDefaultGameTypePacket (105)
  Same as SetPlayerGameTypePacket & UpdatePlayerGameTypePacket, the only difference is that this chang...
• RemoveObjectivePacket (106)
  Using the scoreboard command, users can remove objectives that are tracked on the scoreboard.
• SetDisplayObjectivePacket (107)
  Sent from the server for 3rd party content to display current objectives and status
• LabTablePacket (109)
  For the EDU Chemistry Lab Table block actor.
• UpdateBlockSyncedPacket (110)
  Used to sync moving blocks with clients so they render correctly
• SetLocalPlayerAsInitializedPacket (113)
  Set Local Player As Initialized
• UpdateSoftEnumPacket (114)
  This is used for the scoreboard and tag systems (overwhelmingly used by 3rd party content)
• NetworkStackLatencyPacket (115)
  Ping Packet
• SpawnParticleEffectPacket (118)
  Tell client to spawn a particle effect.
• AvailableActorIdentifiersPacket (119)
  Sends the whole list of actor identifiers at game start from the server.
• NetworkChunkPublisherUpdatePacket (121)
  Tells clients to update the chunk view for the local player.
• LevelSoundEventPacket (123)
  Level Sound Event
• LevelEventGenericPacket (124)
  LevelEventGenericPacket
• LecternUpdatePacket (125)
  This is used for the Lectern Block Actor.
• ClientCacheStatusPacket (129)
  It is sent by the Client once, at login, to communicate if it supports the cache or not.
• OnScreenTextureAnimationPacket (130)
  On-Screen Texture Animation
• MapCreateLockedCopyPacket (131)
  This is fired when the user locks a map item utilizing the Cartography Table in game.
• StructureTemplateDataRequestPacket (132)
  Used to request structure information from a server.
• StructureTemplateDataResponsePacket (133)
  This is used in exporting from load, exporting from save, and querying saved structures from structu...
• EducationSettingsPacket (137)
  Transmits EducationLevelSettings to all clients.
• EmotePacket (138)
  A client sends this to the server to notify other clients about the emote.
• MultiplayerSettingsPacket (139)
  Syncs multiplayer settings
• SettingsCommandPacket (140)
  Requests a setting to be changed through commands.
• AnvilDamagePacket (141)
  Requests an anvil to be damaged.
• CompletedUsingItemPacket (142)
  Send server to client to complete the using item process. An example is when you finish drinking or ...
• NetworkSettingsPacket (143)
  Sends tunable options from host to client (compression threshold and algorithm)
• PlayerArmorDamagePacket (149)
  Sent from server whenever the player's armor takes damage.
• CodeBuilderPacket (150)
  Code Builder Packet
• UpdatePlayerGameTypePacket (151)
  The server will send this back to all clients on receipt of the SetPlayerGameTypePacket so that cach...
• EmoteListPacket (152)
  Allows clients to download emotes that other clients have equipped.
• PositionTrackingDBServerBroadcastPacket (153)
  Server to client packet for server authoratative runtime database (with persistent LevelStorage back...
• PositionTrackingDBClientRequestPacket (154)
  Position Tracking DB Client Request
• DebugInfoPacket (155)
  The system sends debug information via a generic network packet. This enables rendering of any serve...
• PacketViolationWarningPacket (156)
  This is sent when the client detects a malformed packet
• MotionPredictionHintsPacket (157)
  It is essentially a SetActionMotionPacket with a bool indicating if the actor was on the ground at t...
• AnimateEntityPacket (158)
  The AnimateEntityPacket is used to trigger a one - off animation on the client it is sent to.
• CameraShakePacket (159)
  Used to control trigger camera shake movements on the client's player camera
• PlayerFogPacket (160)
  Player Fog Packet
• CorrectPlayerMovePredictionPacket (161)
  Sent to a player when their simulation of movement mismatches enough from the server that it wants t...
• ItemRegistryPacket (162)
  Item data from the server. Contains component information.
• ClientboundDebugRendererPacket (164)
  Used to add/remove debug rendering objects.
• SyncActorPropertyPacket (165)
  Allows us to synchronize Actor properties across the network.
• AddVolumeEntityPacket (166)
  Sends a volume entity's definition and components from server to client.
• RemoveVolumeEntityPacket (167)
  Sends a volume entity to be removed from server to client.
• SimulationTypePacket (168)
  Sent from the server to the client when setting the simulation type for toolbox mode. (Not yet supor...
• NpcDialoguePacket (169)
  Sent from the server to client when remote firing an NPC dialogue window for a client
• EduUriResourcePacket (170)
  Transmits Edu Shared Uri Resource settings to all clients.
• CreatePhotoPacket (171)
  Players now have the possibility to export photos from their portfolios into photo items in their in...
• UpdateSubChunkBlocksPacket (172)
  Packet sent for every set of blocks changed in a sub chunk every tick.
• PlayerStartItemCooldownPacket (176)
  Player Start Item Cooldown
• ScriptMessagePacket (177)
  Used to send custom messages between client and server.
• CodeBuilderSourcePacket (178)
  This is EDU exclusive, used in getInterface() of WebviewSystem
• TickingAreasLoadStatusPacket (179)
  Used to inform the client that the server is waiting for ticking areas to finish preloading.
• AgentActionEventPacket (181)
  packet containing data of Agent Action Type
• ChangeMobPropertyPacket (182)
  packet containing data for changing mob property
• LessonProgressPacket (183)
  Lesson Progress
• RequestAbilityPacket (184)
  Sent from client to server. Used to request an ability change.
• RequestPermissionsPacket (185)
  Sent from client to server. Used to request a new Permissions Levels.
• ToastRequestPacket (186)
  Pushes a UI toast message to be displayed by the client
• UpdateAdventureSettingsPacket (188)
  UpdateAdventureSettingsPacket
• DeathInfoPacket (189)
  Sent from the server to client when player dies (Level::onPlayerDeath).
• EditorNetworkPacket (190)
  General use Editor specific packet - carries a payload of whatever serialized data that the individu...
• FeatureRegistryPacket (191)
  This is the packet that tracks the active feature registry data from the server so that client can p...
• ServerStatsPacket (192)
  Used to send performance and other valuable stats back to the client
• RequestNetworkSettingsPacket (193)
  Requests tunable options from host to client (compression threshold and algorithm).
• GameTestRequestPacket (194)
  Internal Text Packet
• GameTestResultsPacket (195)
  Game Test Results Packet
• UpdateClientInputLocksPacket (196)
  UpdateClientInputLocksPacket
• CameraPresetsPacket (198)
  Used to sync CameraPresets data from server to clients.
• UnlockedRecipesPacket (199)
  Sent from server to client, for all previously unlocked recipes on load and for any newly unlocked r...
• CameraInstructionPacket (300)
  Used to send a CameraInstruction from the server to the specified clients.
• OpenSignPacket (303)
  Sent from the server so that the client knows to open the sign screen.
• AgentAnimationPacket (304)
  Broadcasted to other players when an Agent performs an animation so it gets properly replicated.
• RefreshEntitlementsPacket (305)
  Refresh Entitlements
• PlayerToggleCrafterSlotRequestPacket (306)
  PlayerToggleCrafterSlotRequestPacket
• SetPlayerInventoryOptionsPacket (307)
  SetPlayerInventoryOptionsPacket
• SetHudPacket (308)
  This packet is only used via the set hud command. This is for 3rd party content.
• AwardAchievementPacket (309)
  Contains the ID of the achievement to award
• ClientboundCloseFormPacket (310)
  Sent from the server to client to force close all server forms on the stack and return to the HUD sc...
• ServerboundLoadingScreenPacket (312)
  Sent from the client to the server to message to the server about the state of the loading screen.
• JigsawStructureDataPacket (313)
  Jigsaw Structure data used by client jigsaw structure worldgen. This packet contains a copy of the b...
• CurrentStructureFeaturePacket (314)
  Informs the client of which Structure Feature they are currently occupying.
• ServerboundDiagnosticsPacket (315)
  Sent from the client to the server IF ProfilerLite is enabled AND the creator toggle for additional ...
• CameraAimAssistPacket (316)
  CameraAimAssist
• ContainerRegistryCleanupPacket (317)
  This is used to trigger a clientside cleanup of the dynamic container registry.
• MovementEffectPacket (318)
  These packets are sent to the client to update specific MovementEffects
• CameraAimAssistPresetsPacket (320)
  Camera aim-assist registry presets/categories data sent from the server to clients.
• ClientCameraAimAssistPacket (321)
  Client-side activation of aim-assist
• UpdateClientOptionsPacket (323)
  Sync the player's options (mostly settings) to the server.
• PlayerVideoCapturePacket (324)
  Used by a test command to start/stop video capture
• ClientboundControlSchemeSetPacket (327)
  Set the control scheme that the player should use
• DebugDrawerPacket (328)
  Send debug drawing shape info (from scripting) to the client for rendering
• ServerboundPackSettingChangePacket (329)
  Sent from the client to the server when players change Pack Settings (pack UI).
• ClientboundDataStorePacket (330)
  Sends a list of data store properties from the server to the client.
• GraphicsOverrideParameterPacket (331)
  Sent from the server to the client when a server script changes the rendering settings
• ServerboundDataStorePacket (332)
  Applies a single update to the server data store from the client.