Deepslate Protocol

Minecraft protocol primitives for the Deepslate proxy.

This crate provides zero-copy packet encoding/decoding, VarInt utilities, and type definitions for the Minecraft Java Edition protocol. It is intentionally I/O-free and async-free, operating only on byte slices and buffers.

Modules

Module	Description
`codec`	Packet framing codec (length-prefixed frames, compression)
`packet`	Packet type definitions for each protocol state
`types`	Protocol data types (chat, identifiers, NBT wrappers, etc.)
`varint`	VarInt and VarLong encoding/decoding
`version`	Minecraft version constants

Protocol States

The State enum represents the five phases of a Minecraft connection:

Handshake — initial packet that determines whether the client wants status or login
Status — server list ping
Login — authentication and encryption
Config — configuration phase (1.20.2+)
Play — gameplay packets

Usage

This crate is used internally by the deepslate proxy crate. It can also be used independently if you need to work with the Minecraft protocol at a low level without any async runtime or I/O dependencies.

[dependencies]
deepslate-protocol = "0.3"

Licence

Deepslate Protocol is licensed under either of

Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

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