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

RequiresViaVersion to be installed.

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

• inViaFabric, put ViaBackwards into themods folder
• inViaFabricPlus, put ViaBackwards into theViaFabricPlus/jars folder

SeeHERE for an overview of the different Via* projects.

ViaBackwards will only be released a few daysafter 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.

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 forall of our projects are on our Jenkins server:

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

• 1.17+ min_y and height world values that are not 0/256are not supported. Clients older than1.17 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 byinstallingAxSmithing

Maven:https://repo.viaversion.com

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

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

You need JDK 17 or newer to build ViaBackwards.

This project is licensed under theGNU General Public License Version 3.

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