ViaBackwards

Allows the connection of older clients to newer server versions for Minecraft servers.

Requires ViaVersion to be installed..

Supported Versions

As a plugin, ViaBackwards runs on servers on releases 1.10-latest. You can also use ViaBackwards in ViaFabric or ViaFabricPlus.

• in ViaFabric, put ViaBackwards into the mods folder
• in ViaFabricPlus, put ViaBackwards into the ViaFabricPlus/jars folder

See HERE for an overview of the different Via* projects.

Snapshot support

ViaBackwards will only be released a few days after a Minecraft update unless the protocol changes of the update were trivial. If you want early-access, usually days or even weeks before the final release, you can subscribe to either:

• GitHub Sponsors (preferred option. Use the /verify command on this Discord after), or alternatively
• Patreon (see the highest tier and make sure to link Patreon to your Discord account under Settings->Connections) This also includes access to a private repository with the code, which will be pushed to the public repository after the given delay on a Minecraft update.

Releases/Dev Builds

You can find releases in the following places:

• Hangar (for our plugins): https://hangar.papermc.io/ViaVersion/ViaBackwards
• Modrinth (for our mods): https://modrinth.com/mod/viabackwards
• GitHub: https://github.com/ViaVersion/ViaBackwards/releases

Dev builds for all of our projects are on our Jenkins server:

• Jenkins: https://ci.viaversion.com/view/ViaBackwards/

Known issues

• 1.17+ min_y and height world values that are not 0/256 are not supported. Clients older than 1.17 will not be able to see or interact with blocks below y=0 and above y=255
• <1.17 clients on 1.17+ servers might experience inventory desyncs on certain inventory click actions
• Sound mappings are incomplete (see here)
• <1.19.4 clients on 1.20+ servers won't be able to use the smithing table, this can be fixed by installing AxSmithing

Other Links

Maven: https://repo.viaversion.com

List of contributors: https://github.com/ViaVersion/ViaBackwards/graphs/contributors

Building

After cloning this repository, build the project with Gradle by running ./gradlew build and take the created jar out of the build/libs directory.

You need JDK 17 or newer to build ViaBackwards.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 3.

Special Thanks

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