Bedrock and Cross Play

Bedrock Edition & Cross-Play

GoCraft includes a native Bedrock adapter backed by the same canonical simulation as Java Edition. Both editions share the same world, entities, players, chat, combat, block changes, and time — with no external proxy required.

Current network compatibility target: Minecraft Bedrock Edition 1.26.45 (protocol 2169).

Enabling Bedrock

bedrock:
  enabled: true
  address: 0.0.0.0:19106   # UDP port for RakNet connections
  online_mode: true        # require Xbox Live authentication

Open the UDP port on your firewall / Pterodactyl egg. Bedrock clients connect using the standard "Add Server" flow.

What's shared between editions

Feature	Shared
World (blocks, chunks, terrain)	Yes
Players — position, movement	Yes
Players — visibility and despawn	Yes
Chat messages	Yes
Commands	Yes
Combat, health, death, respawn	Yes
Block break and placement	Yes
Basic inventory (held item, drops)	Yes
Time of day	Yes
Mob spawn, tick, despawn	Yes
Equipment and armor	Yes
Sleeping	Yes
Permissions and ranks	Yes
Custom items (resource/behavior packs)	Yes — see Custom Items

Not a translator

GoCraft is not a protocol translator like Geyser. The Bedrock adapter does not consume Java packets and re-encode them. Both adapters read from the same canonical game core independently — see Architecture. This means GoCraft can evolve both protocol implementations without the coupling issues proxy-based translators face.

Item registry

Bedrock clients receive the Pumpkin/BDS complete item registry (≈1,976 entries including data-driven components) and a grouped Creative catalogue. Custom items defined in packs/ are appended to this registry at startup — see Custom Items.

Resource and behavior packs

Bedrock packs can be pushed to clients at login. Supported formats:

File	Description
.mcpack	Single Bedrock resource or behavior pack
.zip	Same as .mcpack but with a .zip extension
.mcaddon	Archive containing multiple sub-packs (resource + behavior)

Configure in server.yml:

resource_pack:
  bedrock:
    enabled: true
    paths:
      - packs/MyTextures.mcpack
      - packs/Ore_Boost_V1.2.mcaddon
    forced: false   # kick players who decline

.mcaddon files are automatically extracted — every sub-directory containing a manifest.json is loaded as a separate pack and sent to connecting clients.

Known limitations (beta)

• Advanced container transactions (e.g. Bedrock-specific crafting screens) are incomplete
• Some villager and mob AI behaviours differ between editions
• Not every vanilla UI element, particle, and sound has full cross-edition parity
• Biome palette exact-match is still in progress
• Behavior-pack server-side logic (custom loot tables, AI overrides) does not run — GoCraft is a Go server, not a vanilla Bedrock engine