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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.

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:

Releases/Dev Builds

You can find releases in the following places:

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

Known issues

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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