Minecraft Add-Ons: Does Bedrock Now Have Mods?

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The Bedrock Marketplace now has add-ons. These are essentially Mods for Bedrock edition.
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[@YawningYeti512]

As a bedrock player, this has been a thing for years. Sites like mcpedl have had thousands of free addons and texture packs for years that you can download for free and add to any world. The difference is that it was easy to download on mobile and for computer players but not for console players. The difference Mojang is making is bringing more awareness to addons, monetizing them on the market place, and making it easy to download for console players.

[@BuildersHorizon]

It also helps to support the creators on the Minecraft Marketplace, it helps pay their bills, and helps them to keep creating amazing content.

[@ITFNBiteBayKon]

Not to mention that there are people like FoxyNoTail that has made a STACK of add-ons and other amazing things for worlds, and there is Bedrock vanilla tweeks too.

[@nicholasfitzgerald5482]

This needs to be the top comment. This isn't a new feature, it just makes purchasable add-ons separate from the map it comes with (this should have been done years ago). Also, you can even learn to make your own add-ons with the help of online tutorials from Microsoft or wherever else.

[@kamitsu2352]

Yeah. this comment should be pinned

[@GSBarlev]

Okay, thank you-I thought I was losing my mind. I think the file extension is literally .mcaddon, and I've always been jealous about the fact that they bundle resource and data (behavior) packs together.

[@Herobrine64]

I have played bedrock edition for a good 3-4 years now (actually switched over from Java), and I make addons for fun myself. Just want to make a few things clear here: Addons have existed on bedrock for a while now- since 1.10 or earlier, even! They’ve steadily gotten better over the years, and with the recent addition of Script API in that environment, they can only get better. Addons are currently free, and can be downloaded by PC & mobile players on sites like MCPEDL. They’re made by community members, and anyone with a device can make them for themselves. The addons available on marketplace are made by professional teams and are a paid product, whereas the ones online are free and made by hobbyists. They’re two completely different environments and offer two very distinct styles of addons.

[@iano3354]

I also make smaller addons for Bedrock, though I’m yet to upload them for the public.

[@Mr_Mando7220]

Hello there

[@Hufflepuff_cookie]

Hi! I was looking into some of the stuff on MCPEDL (haven't heard of it before) and was wondering what the difference is between a RP and BP download file? I couldn't find and answer, and most of the add-ons I looked at had the different versions.

[@randomguyonyoutube5875]

​@@Hufflepuff_cookie RP is Resources Pack, and BP is Behavior Pack. You need both to install the add on.

[@Hufflepuff_cookie]

@@randomguyonyoutube5875 thank you!

[@uQuez]

as someone who’s played bedrock my whole life, at this point ill take anything even close to mods

[@user-vm5eh4wt4q]

Exactly I play bedrock on Nintendo switch witch sucks because I would love to have mods

[@uQuez]

@@user-vm5eh4wt4qyeah, fr i play on xbox and mobile and since i was like 6 i’ve watched java edition players download awesome mods and i’ve always been sad i couldn’t

[@Middyman43]

Neat

[@toothbrush752]

Our days of being disappointed by the aether portal not being real are gonna be over

[@redthunder6183]

what do you mean? there are "real" mods that actually modify the code of the game like trapdoor (same thing as carpet mod), and betterRTX. But honestly the addons are just as good, theres one called structura, which is basically the same thing as lightmatica, or whatever the schematic mod is called.

[@hughchester]

This is huge for console players, not so much for PC players. Add-ons have been around for a long time, but on 3rd party website filled with ads and possible malware. Xbox used to have a file exploration system so it was a bit of effort making those work in game. I used to play on console and I've checked out the marketplace but the biggest bummer was all the cool things you could buy were tied to a world download and were very limiting. Uncoupling add-ons from the world download *instantly* increases the value of everything in the marketplace.

[@allison6883]

I got enough mods on my Xbox through that file system, and later FTP, I essentially turned Minecraft into a zombie survival apocalypse game with guns and a shader pack. It was good times

[@User92742]

Also use realm to transfer maps with addons I do this add a addon on one device then transfer it through real, to my console

[@urbeatle]

Speaking as a (very very new) Bedrock content creator that writes some of my own amateur addons to use in my videos, I'm glad to hear this. The problem with Bedrock addons has been that pretty much everything breaks any time there's a minor version update, like 1.20.0 to 1.20.1. The more pro-level addon creators like FoxyNoTail complain that they have to fix their addons several times a year and can barely get any work done. If Mojang is allowing addons unattached to a world, it may mean that things are stable enough that most addons might only need minimal maintenance, unless it's something like the new Javascript features.

[@nikkibrowning4546]

Thanks for the context. Had raged before about there not being mods apart from worlds in bedrock. Had no idea it was such a pain to support.

[@urbeatle]

@@nikkibrowning4546 To be clear, I'm not necessarily the most knowledgeable on this, since I'm not a marketplace partner. But I've heard Foxy rant about it in his podcast, and I've had a couple of my own homemade things fail suddenly when I forget and update my version.

[@RealValkor]

Oh I've seen that happen, some guy is remaking fnaf in minecraft with a lot of work and detail, but recently a version update of bedrock edition broke everything.

[@timohara7717]

​@@urbeatlefoxy is a name for the evil side Is she the savior of the breed

[@cericat]

@@RealValkorit's a common experience and we're already playing catch up with every update anyway since you can't be guaranteed what worked on previews will be what is actually released so it's do we work on what is currently stable or build for the preview and potentially run into extra issues? I had to completely redo my world gen after the deep dark was added again after Caves and Cliffs had already required significant alterations. And sometimes there's just stuff with vanilla that is buggy which causes us additional headaches because we're blamed for behaviour the core team broke, ie not being able to use/interact with things reliably on worlds was a Bedrock bug last year that made it harder to debug if something was wrong with our work and definitely add-ons got blamed for behaviour that wasn't entirely their devs' fault. *sighs*

[@jkst4268]

Imo this won't really affect Java modded. Modded devs have a hard enough time making fabric ports and different versions ports on forge that adding the effort to learn an entirely new system of add-ons is simply an effort many won't go though. Although I do expect some larger groups will get in on it such as FTB

[@CERISTHEDEV]

From what i now people were already porting java mods to bedrock mainly simpler stuff like origins this was not official but was endorsed by the original team

[@nmills3]

i believe bedrock is also a different programming language. Java edition mods are coded in java and bedrock runs on c++ but the add-ons are made with javascript. Javascript is nothing like java, so some mod makers might just not want to learn another language to port their mods over

[@Yasser-444]

this wouldn't really affect anyone because the crazy requirements of the marketplace.

[@kmb600]

The issue might be theft, like what happened with the Aether mod and the Faithful texture pack, which got reuploaded onto the Marketplace without the creators' permission

[@Yasser-444]

@@nmills3actually addons are mostly Json and Molang. JavaScript has only recently been added to addons.

[@timbrown7539]

Foxynotail has been making add ons for bedrock for several years for things like chunk locators and lighting levels

[@Alylica]

there is more of us then foxynotails lol

[@schildkroet0596]

Not to forget Mob Heads, Player Heads, Mini Blocks, one Player sleep, etc.

[@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad]

Those are like datapacks

[@ZNVH]

I have yet to find a working light level add-on

[@emilydavidson8844]

@@ZNVHdebug screen addon

[@Yasser-444]

add-ons existed since forever now, the only change is that the marketplace supports standalone add-ons where previously, you had to download them from the internet or make them yourself.

[@thebush6379]

Theyve also upgraded a lot since back then. From just replacing items and functions, to adding entirely new things. I expected a lot of bugs or weird graphics. But the ones ive seen impressed me and are pretty solid. Only some things are not working due to many being incomplete addons.

[@tylerdoesdumbstuff]

yeah but consoles didnt have addons until now

[@swaefr]

​​@@thebush6379 yeah I remember back then(like 7-10) years ago we would get car addons that would replace the pig and the key would be a carrot on a stick now we get addons where you can do some dragon ball z shxt or even avatar it's crazy how far addons have come even crazier that im using them on my phone & I'm happy that minecraft actually started supporting the creators (even on console)it just makes the game overall better unlike many console games where they're so against modding

[@zorls]

Which you couldn't do on console before.

[@xKingDark]

Bedrock Edition has actually had add-ons for years now, they only just allowed creators to sell them on the Minecraft Marketplace. The reason they’re not mentioned as mods is because they don’t modify the game directly and are somewhat limited.

[@wrjtung3456]

Only for pc and pocket but for consoles there were never Minecraft mods

[@tehbeard]

Tried them out. The installation process was a bit more involved. On Java with the various mod launchers, you pick a pack or mod, and it'll download and set it up. With this, I had to "Buy/get(free)", then go thru a separate process to actually download it. (You also need to enable it per world, but I don't count that against it as we have to do the same with datapacks). As for the addon content... the ice pick thing is kind of neat, but it's shown a LOT of the limitations of Bedrock's addons. Honestly, I'm more intrigued about news from the end of last year from Fabric, that Mojang's Java team had added Block Codecs during one of the 1.20.x snapshots.... the first step on moving blocks from being "hard coded", to a data driven (definable by JSON in datapacks) resource... Blocks need textures, we've seen the integration of data and textures with the custom armour trims. The dream started by Spoutcraft... may let live.

[@shadow_b0itrash415]

I tried the free tnt addons it was nice

[@HaxTheCharizard]

Try looking outside the marketplace. The addons on marketplace are substantially more limited than what is actually possible.

[@tehbeard]

@@HaxTheCharizard People keep saying to do that, but miss that isn't an option for the console portion of the fanbase... And it gets away from Mojang's "quality control" of atleast ensuring the download button is a download button for the addon and not malware.

[@streakgaming6106]

​@@HaxTheCharizardconsole can't (if I had a phone or pc available for that set up I wouldn't be on console now would i?

[@gaborfranko3673]

it has a lot of limits, thats why in bedrock never will has tech modpack, like most popluar modpack in java

[@Slidepool]

The bedrock marketplace always rubbed me the wrong way because thats all the “mods” we get and had to pay for, plus there’s hardly any free things worthwhile there. Meanwhile mods on java could be downloaded for free a majority of the time for years. Its difficult and frustrating to be on console sometimes with all the fun stuff java has/gets with mods and such.

[@Trojan073]

Dog you can get them for free on external sites

[@Clinohumite]

@@Trojan073mcpedl is one example where there are free addons

[@Tsukimireu]

Many modder has patreon or some way they gain money though

[@HreahProductions]

As someone who has made add-ons for worlds for educational purposes as a job, this is cool! I might try my hand at making one for fun nowadays.

[@DanielPereira-ey9nt]

Awesome, I hope you do well man : )

[@timohara7717]

Free or paid?

[@HreahProductions]

@@timohara7717 If you're talking about the ones I made as a job, they were specifically education edition content and as such they were not offered paid. As for any future content, I'm probably gonna do something free, something else paid, no plans yet.

[@PetrosTotskas]

Ex-mapmaker here. If you're looking forward to buying these Add-Ons, you should know that many Marketplace creators do it for the money (not to mention the technical/creative limits you have on Bedrock). Many have little to no passion for what they're doing and this usually reflects the quality of the Add-Ons. There still is some amazing stuff you can find (usually from bigger teams coming from Java) but the better quality and passion for creations in Java Edition still remains.

[@wither_tm]

About Java modders on the bedrock store, spark pets is made by Spark Universe, who are java modders! also Another Furniture is also a Java mod

[@freddykun897]

Another furniture are the only good addon that marketplace offer at this moment. It will be great if you combine it with other furniture addon like Furnideco and unofficial Mrcrayfish's furniture PE.

[@vexathon2624]

@@freddykun897 i wouldn't say its the only good one but its def the best one. the pets one is cool, same with the dragon even though elytra is faster and the dragons annoyingly pawn everywhere so im not using it.the wool add on is cool sparkly wool, rainbow wool, a wool garage door forget what its called the actual item, a wool car

[@megacraftbuilder1850]

they also made lost infinity stones for ssundee

[@wither_tm]

@@megacraftbuilder1850 yep and essential

[@wetlandkeeper]

Thank you, X! This is good to know. I had to switch to Bedrock on my old computer because it could no longer play Java. I really missed the mods but loved how easy it was to have friends join you in a world. I am now back on Java, and I don't think I would have considered going back without you sharing this. ❤

[@mooing_cowmilk]

at least people are less likely to get scammed now. There was content advertised on there to work on any world, so it was the one feature plus the bare minimum of a spawn build to pass review. Emerald armor, x-ray, mini blocks, furniture, etc are examples I seen people get upset after spending real money on with no chance of refund. Additionally due to bedrock's DRM (unlike java), it not possible to export the datapacks/mod/feature with the game files.

[@xanderplayz3446]

Bedrock has DRM? I am so annoyed at Mojang.

[@mooing_cowmilk]

@@xanderplayz3446 has for the longest time, if your internet goes out, you are locked out of your singleplayer worlds. Also content code is encripted

[@bumblebeegamerreal]

@@mooing_cowmilk But a group that goes by the pillager bay managed to crack the DRM called MC Decryptor, which allows you to decrypt the content you own into mcpack and mcworld files. This is when their pirate bay replica actually was made, but was obviously shut down by Mojang The tools still exist, but they are currently undercover now

[@m.artifex2001]

Something I don't see many people mentioning is that marketplace add ons now give console players more customization of their experience. Previously, only pc and mobile bedrock players could utilize the online mods.

[@Billcipher_fan5]

Exactly and while they technically are available for mc its not really add-ons it's download packs downloaded from sketchy sites that you have no real reason to trust when you can actually get them in the base game without needing to go online to a browser and search for content that's probably dropped in a zip file which can contain any number of other sketchy files

[@thebarbiter4644]

*remembers the Orespawn on Xbox fan-made screenshots*

[@anthonycory2116]

We've already had stuff for Bedrock that can add new items, textures and mobs to any world. we've already had add-ons for as long as I've been playing and I've been playing for about 5 years now The complaint with bedrock is that we can't have the kind of mods that y'all have on Java I can't play vault hunters on bedrock it's not even possible in the mods that even come close to that only work on servers I can't even get them to work on private worlds or realms. So yeah this isn't game-changing because it already exists they're just trying to reskin it and sell it as a new which makes no sense because behavior packs are already referred to as add-ons. In fact the biggest person I know who makes add-ons for Bedrock is foxynotale

[@50KsubscriberGoal]

*You have me inspired to start making vids. Much love and major props to you* Sumoo

[@fizzle7421]

Thanks for making this video, x. I had no idea this was a thing, so I checked it out because my daughter plays bedrock on the switch. I got her the ones you mentioned, one of which has a car you can drive around in. It's pretty neat and she loves it. Thanks to you, my daughter is a very happy little girl right now lol

[@TheSnailKing.]

Thing is though is that Bedrock Add-Ons are FAR more limited than is possible with Modding on Java. Not to mention there a very few free bedrock addons on the marketplace propper. *[Scratches back of head]* There are very few addons on bedrock that I would ever consider better than most mods on Java. My hope is that Mojang will eventually add more capabilities with Add-Ons, but given that this hasn't changed much in years I dont see it as likely to change. If anything this feels like a money grab on Mojang's part. Trying to get a bunch of kids addicted to buying addons they most likely wont help foster the growth of anytime soon. Who knows though. I certainly hope I'm wrong, Id love to hear what others think if you happen to read my comment. Peace. (Edits are mostly formatting and spelling)

[@daenite2480]

I've been making my own custom addon to add a bunch of ridiculously fun and powerful bosses, but it was always for fun rather than profit. Now I'm going to have to figure out how to get into the Marketplce community.

[@CERISTHEDEV]

Juust a small thing to add From what ive saw the marketplace devs get a exclusive dev kit so you can make even better stuff when affiliated with them

[@n0vanox]

i’m pretty sure you will still be able to put it on mcpedl instead of the marketplace if u want

[@rarephoenix]

Please don't charge. They're trying to squeeze money out of a game that doesn't need to make any more money than they already do.

[@dialont]

​@@rarephoenixI think it's more about the creator wanting profit for their mods than giving money to Minecraft

[@rarephoenix]

@@dialont That's fair. A lot of devs charge for pro editions of mods on Java already. I'm happy to pay them directly but I don't want to give a cut to Microsoft. I already purchased the game for Switch twice, Java three times. And windows once. Also PS3. I want an optional or sliding fee schedule. Hell I'd even barter. Microsoft is gaming this for sure. As soon as Java and Bedrock are merged we'll see their true plans.

[@Psychodog_]

Addons have been a thing for many years now, I even created vertical slabs, vertical stairs or custom chests. The 1.16.100 had probably the most features added, but I use the newest versions for stability. The best thing about is, that it gets better and better everytime, especially in minor updates 1.20.70 for example.

[@mikul2646]

Two things: This whole add-ons thing is a disgusting move by Mojang. I'm not mad about the fact that mods are accessible (or even that they're profitable) on Bedrock, because of course that's awesome; I'm infuriated that they would make these a PAID, FIRST-PARTY FEATURE, then turn around and explicitly state in their terms that Java mods are FORBIDDEN from being paid products in exactly the same way. I don't understand why Mojang seemingly hates their Java creators so much. We've been given absolutely nothing, and we've just had to be thankful that we're at least allowed to make mods at all. Second, I really, really hope that Mojang holds these people accountable when they copy Java mods for Bedrock without the creator's permission. That whole scandal with the Aether mod will certainly not be the last we hear about this happening, and I hope those people get what they deserve.

[@Step-by-step-transform]

I've played on bedrock only. I can finally spice my game up. This will open so many more doors.

[@speedhacked_]

It's a bit confusing because addons existed way before, especially on PC where you can just download or make your own then add it to your world. Also no need for decrypting files just to have them in a Bedrock Dedicated Server. Main highlight for this is the addon not being locked in a world. Some marketplace addons (those prior to the announcement) are world-specific so you really can't easily mix and match features, or add them on the fly. I'm guessing those ones are going to be updated as actual add-ons.

[@cericat]

Hopefully they will be updated, we'd been begging for the decoupling for years, now if they'd just stop breaking custom terrain gen thanks.

[@MandaTori]

Would love to see a short Xisuma series on bedrock, even if it's between hermitcraft seasons 🥰

[@baskra]

There was a side tab for add ons ... if you don't play on PC but only console this is huge AND the biggest add on IMO is the gravestone add on which makes it so you don't lose your stuff which is insane and I know I have only ever seen it on modded java packs I hope we will get a few sort of packs that I don't know FTB or some other teams have out that are cool and get implemented like create and mekanism that would make me more inclined to play more minecraft

[@arkane1732]

I hope we get some decent terrain generation mods for Bedrock, that's what I'd happily pay for!

[@Yasser-444]

get ready for Gaia dimension addon when it drops.

[@SilverWoIf77]

We had some a couple years ago, but since caves and cliffs update, making custom biomes and terrain gen have been broken and mojang hasn't fixed them to this day unfortunately.

[@DanielPereira-ey9nt]

It's not even that bedrock is incapable of good world generation, it's just that cross platform games have to be coded for the least common denominator aka mid-range smartphones

[@ahmed4363]

​@@DanielPereira-ey9ntmore like the switch, how does it even work on there

[@DanielPereira-ey9nt]

@@ahmed4363 barely and poorly. The switch is still more powerful than your average smartphone though, the port just sucks

[@xRsBuiltx]

Hey X! Myself along with other bedrock players have been making mods for a while. Just on our SMP (Project Bedrock) alone we have multiple developers such as myself which made Freecam BE for bedrock. Sinevector which developed Voice craft which is proximity chat for bedrock. TheAlienDoctor who makes a ton of other packs to name a few! Unfortunately we are still extremely limited on the code side on bedrock. But it's always improving! There is also a new modded launcher similar to Java so I look for it to continuously keep growing. Hope you are doing well my friend! Thanks for all the amazing content.

[@giddledude]

Hopefully this new feature added to the market place makes coding mods for bedrock have more features to play with in the future as now it's a priority

[@MaskMagic_]

I have been modding bedrock for quite a while now its nice to see console be able to experience some of it too

[@averagezing]

I do agree, though, that this has a lot of potential. I've already used it for porting Decked Out 2, and I already know that the technology exists for major things like Inventory Transfer Buttons in Chests, Custom Seating/Furniture, ReplayMod, a Sort Button in Inventories, and more. In fact, we're only a couple of steps of world-data-saving away from porting the create mod over. So, it's very doable. I, personally, have quite a few friends who have been making a living off of the Marketplace for several years now, and these changes are very exciting for them, as they've been pushing (and lawyering) for it for years.

[@smgaSMGAsmga]

I just hate the fact that it disables achievements on existing survival worlds, weapon mods yes, but furniture and decor mods don't give you an advantage in beating story mode, I just want a cosy home with lots of homely things in it 😂😂

[@princesslemmy]

This is gonna make addons have to be payed for. There are current ways to do it for free

[@AugAug989]

Half of them are currently free. But also coding takes time. I think we should pay for them tbh.

[@EnormousApplePie]

@@AugAug989 No mods should stay free. Bringing in money can transform a modding scene for fun into a business. Modding should be done out of love, not turn it into another type of profit generation. Just look at the other stuff on the market place and Roblox I suppose 🙂

[@princesslemmy]

@@AugAug989 even free they makers still get money. You have to watch adds. Paying for it will onlynmake microsoft money not the creators

[@kingoftherevolution4855]

This can't disable anything you can do b

[@apollo4950]

@@EnormousApplePie wait until you see the plugin scene on java, it's a shitshow of paid stuff lmao

[@harrymanleyhaz]

something that has aways been very interesting to me is why addon creator opt to make blocks static entities rather than actual blocks. it could be a technical limitation? hopefully we see this change now and addons open up for more possibilities now that they are easier to access! edit: you can see an example of this in the wool addon. 3:10

[@Yasser-444]

yes, it's a technical limitation, as blocks are very limited and mostly experimental, you can't edit vanilla blocks, and you can recreate most of them. the same applys for items although they aren't as limited because scripts can access them

[@jigarbov]

adding blocks certainly has limitations and honestly is still pretty new tech wise. but i would not have been able to make "all the wool" if all of these wool blocks were entities, but some of the other things like the furniture are not blocks because players need to be able to sit and interact with them, and as a result cant be blocks. but i agree as the tech gets better we can move more things to blocks and thats a good thing

[@widdlepocketmarcy]

I'm a little confused why they did that myself, as i'm pretty sure they could've just made that a flipbook texture.

[@Yasser-444]

@@widdlepocketmarcy it's not that, up to until recently custom block models/ particles/functionally were impossible, experimental, or very limited and buggy.

[@cornbreadbutcringey5723]

it's because custom blocks are currently less stable than custom entities. as i understand it, they've been a beta feature for a while. that being said, i'm pretty sure the wool add-on uses blocks. you can't highlight entities like that.

[@Rocketcraft]

Yes xisuma! It would be great to see you and possibly some of the other hermits trying out a bedrock survival experience and discovering all the odd quirks and differences 😊

[@benjrobrt9029]

They really should have done this a long long time ago but I'm so glad they did it

[@EnormousApplePie]

While I for sure think adding mods to bedrock is a good thing, I personally would not want them to be something you can pay for. I never truly liked the market place as it turned content generated out of passion into content generated for profit. I understand it has become a norm but looking at it, as well as say Roblox, I don't think it creates an inviting atmosphere. Modding has always been a thing out of passion and personally I think turning it into another business type ruins it. Having monetized mods for Minecraft feels like companies get yet another foot trough the door to start monetizing the concept of modding. If you are really passionate about modding and want to do something more with it, I recommend making your own games (like hytale)!

[@Those2menoverthere]

Still waiting for proper custom blocks/tools through data packs in Java though. This would be nice for better retail mod support that doesn’t require you to grab an alternate launcher just to use them. Personally I use the MultiMC launcher and can set up my mods very easily. However, I still believe it would be nice to have proper native support for things like that. Imagine just launching regular Minecraft and you can hop in a sever and it automatically downloads the custom content for you, and you never had to lift a finger.

[@geekjokes8458]

yeeeeeeees! today people have to do some kind of "hack" with unused items, but it's almost never some "usable" item

[@cericat]

That'll probably not happen when services like Curseforge try to restrict your ability to download specific mods to via their site and package manager. And I'm never going back to their PM after the headaches it caused me while coupled with Twitch.

[@WhispurrG]

custom blocks, items and mobs (+ more down the line) through data packs is my dream, it could really launch a new era of content creation inside the game !

[@Those2menoverthere]

@@cericat What do those services have to do with a first-party Mojang feature that'd be implemented completely into the game engine itself?

[@2-Way_Intersection]

I mean, regular mods are not hard to use at this point, especially with things like the curseforge launcher. It's probably not super high priority. I'd love for it to happen, but I'm not waiting for it. It will when it does

[@nathanielcarey9619]

Yea we had this a while like bedrock tweaks which is bedrock version of vanilla tweaks that xisuma made for java.

[@GlossyBees]

Ive played mc for 11 years on console this is absolutely groundbreaking

[@RENF2024]

...it's been possible the whole time, mate. This just makes it's simpler and adds money to the mix.

[@legna.7]

​@@RENF2024console players couldn't access mods like mobile and pc players could

[@RENF2024]

@@legna.7 - That's not true. I've used them on console the whole time. There are many KZbin videos showing how it can be done. 😉👌🏻

[@user-kr6nl7xn5g]

Idk if you're aware that add-ons exist outside of the Marketplace for a long long time. Sites like MCPEDL have tons and what's strange is that almost every big name youtuber religiously avoids talking about it.

[@xisumavoid]

Oh interesting! Thats not legit/microsoft tho right?

[@zauls.]

@@xisumavoid Not OP but yeah MCPEDL isn't a Microsoft site, but it is free and generally fine, some people just upload their addons to annoying file hosting sites that make you download potentially dodgy stuff to unlock the link. Also as someone who has dabbled in making Bedrock addons, they are very limited and buggy. I think Mojang need to address a few things for marketplace addons to really take off.

[@cericat]

​@@zauls.I won't disagree, since caves and cliffs world gen has been a constant headache, and my read of the current restrictions on marketplace content is those of us that do custom worldgen are out in the cold because we change base game behaviour.

[@tomeastwood2284]

As a Java Modder I feel there's a very clear reason that they're called "Add Ons" not mods. Java modders aren't allowed to charge for most mods, and this feels like a way to keep that policy in place with only their marketplace being the only way to have any form of monetisation. I myself don't want to charge but it is certainly unfair for models who potentially would like to add some paid features to allow them to keep working on stuff.

[@FleetinDream]

If the modding capabilities are anywhere near Java, this is incredible, though I really, REALLY doubt it. The performance of Bedrock on PC has always caught my eye as I'm a huge modded player and once I finished my Enigmatica 2 Expert world, there were areas of my base where I was dipping to around 60 FPS on 10 chunks render distance, but the weird movement that still exists on Bedrock and my pessimistic view of the extent this can reach doesn't quite get my hopes up.

[@lugiamastero13]

Yeah the only major problem is that we would have to wait for everyone to migrate over to bedrock otherwise stuck waiting for that one mod you enjoyed so much to finally be made then there's the mod loader problem to like some wanna just stick to forge or fabric or quilt or any of those other obscure ones and never learn to port their mods over anywhere else but I have always been curious as to how optimized the games could get with bedrock until then ima stick to Java

[@DRRADSTONE]

This could be great for the Bedrock Edition.

[@giddledude]

The difference between mods and addons is there is features coded into Minecraft for addons to work and mods directly change it at a fundamental way from the base. Addons are somewhere in between data packs and mods for a simple explanation. Im most excited for this change as hopefully it opens some doors in the addon creating scene and adds new features for creators not possible yet such as adding new dimensions and things like that.

[@Wind_Blaze]

My favourite mod so far is The Spark Portals mod. You can essentially colour-code your portals. And this allows you to go to any of the three dimensions or across said dimensions. I also like The Mutant Mobs addon.

[@2-Way_Intersection]

Yooooo they got mutant mobs ported?

[@atmmachine11]

@@2-Way_Intersectionit’s not the same mod sadly lol just shares the name

[@RaiderAvian]

I wonder if Xisuma and his team would consider adding their Vanilla Tweaks on the bedrock market place? Even if it would be a generalised pack where players can give it a shot, and they can make their own custom packs on the vanilla tweaks website. I have been enjoying using that alongside other addons on bedrock, as well as the java equivalent for years.

[@astrobaconyt]

Anyone else remember when Mojang said they would never add chairs or furniture because “It limits creativity” Well.. now they did , and charge for it.. But meh I don’t care I use Java I can get free mods

[@IDKisReal2401]

You can using the offical blockbench addon make bedrock addons for free stupid easy, and there are bedrock addons outside of the marketplace it's just that all the sites that host them are scummy and there isn't as much of a stable community Also the furniture thing is both free and is third party marketplace content follow different rules to the actual game

[@whateverIwasthinkingatthetime]

Pretty sure Mojang devs did not deveop and put chairs in the base game, mode and addons are different

[@F2PAlius]

The chairs add on: - is free - isn't made by mojang

[@CrazyBrosCael]

It took 6 years but they finally did it lol Still, it will never pass Java. Microsoft’s hold on the games code will inhibit add-ons.

[@jess648]

java community have had years to figure out code injection techniques that don’t alter or reverse engineer the actual game source code but not on bedrock since it’s on an entirely different codebase in a different programming language entirely

[@2-Way_Intersection]

Bro, what does that even *mean*? I s2g yall make Microsoft this massive boogeyman when they're probably only responsible for funding and marketing. It just feels like a scapegoat to not hold mojang fully accountable. I know it's not, that's ridiculous (mojang gets their share of flak too, deserved or not), but it sure feels like it.

[@budcsizmazia]

​@2-Way_Intersection if they were only responsible for funding and marketing, then we wouldn't have to migrate to a Microsoft account. Microsoft isn't just funding them, they own the entire game

[@2-Way_Intersection]

@@budcsizmazia dumbass, you had to migrate because mojang accounts were getting old and it was the easiest move for security. Minecraft fans blame anyone but microsoft challenge [failed on the drive here]

[@Trojan073]

This could be good as it could make them implement more features into addons. Currently it is impossible to mess with what tools can mine blocks. This could make them actually implement things.

[@MeigetsuNoSeishin]

Just went and downloaded the free ones, as a test for me to try out. Looking forward to playing with them soon!

[@USTSCA]

mods on mcbe have existed for years

[@TheBMGGaming4182]

Indeed

[@andoisgoated]

I remember I actually had an app that put addons into the game and one of them was a girlfriends add on. It basically just reskinned villagers and could let you marry them with a diamond

[@anything_but_the_bagels8166]

I’d really love to see xisuma look at some of the mods of sites like mcpdel the addons there have been made for a while and it’s completely community made

[@therealquade]

if we can get things like applied energistics, Tinker's construct, Buildcraft, industrialcraft, EE2/EE3, Thaumcraft, Big Reactors, dimensional doors, and Galacticraft, I'll be very happy. The specific features that need to be available for this that I haven't seen mentioned is, adding stored values (the different power sources for applied energistics, buildcraft, industrialcraft, big reactors, and galacticraft, as well as stored oxygen levels for galacticraft), The ability to transfer said values (pipes & stuff), The ability to change the number of blocks a tool hits (tinker's construct, EE2), adding new functionality to blocks (tinker's construct for pouring molds, or using templates), Multi-block structures (big reactors, tinker's construct, buildcraft, industrialcraft, Applied energistics) adding new values to existing blocks (used for applied energistics, EE2/EE3, and thaumcraft), and databases (applied energistics, EE2/EE3, Thaumcraft) Upside is, new dimensions should be possible, so that aspect of galacticraft would be viable, as should most of dimensional doors.

[@ireallydontknowifiamhonest]

i doubt it will kill modding for java, you cannot compete with full on source code modification as opposed to whatever lua sort of thing bedrock has

[@fusionwing4208]

yeah Java modded will remain king, unless they just straight up give us full access to bedrock editions source code. If they did that, honestly, that alone may outright kill Java entirely (outside of the most dedicated players)

[@ireallydontknowifiamhonest]

@@fusionwing4208 if they are already so stingy with just sharing the mappings for java edition, i kinda doubt they would share the source for bedrock

[@cericat]

Not Lua (I wish), addons are JSON for most of the block and entity logic including worldgen, and Javascript for the scripting side.

[@danielgrundy7475]

I'd love to see a hermits try bedrock out mini series. Until recently I'd only played bedrock on PC and addon's give the options similar to some of the hermitcraft mods (heads, mini blocks armour stands) I'm sure the truly bedrock SMP players like Zloyxp and foxynotail would be happy to help and join you guys.

[@z30_HUNGARY]

I was a Bedrock player for years, back when I didn't have a good pc to run Java. I found an app on play store that let me create my own addons and I had a lot of fun with it, I probably made 50+ addons for myself at this point... It wasn't (or isn't) that hard, but now to download other addons you don't have to leave the game, I think it really is a game changer. Since then I switched to Java and trying to make mods work, unsuccessfully for now, but I'm getting there 😅

[@Masked_One_1316]

I didn't know this! This is massive!! (I'm a bugrock player)

[@desiregibbs945]

TY for supporting Bedrock ❤. I play on Playstation, yet only watch Hermits. Still watching everyone's season 9 before i start season 10. Love your work there and your snapshots.

[@hitchicker42]

You may not see this Xisuma, but I would love to see a more fleshed out version of Vanilla Tweaks for bedrock

[@Edan_TheTraveler]

Though I don't know the logistics of how all the datapacks all the hermits use work. I hope that one day, they may be able to be used as add-ons for Bedrock.

[@riztiz]

Check out bedrocktweaks. They have ported most of the content of vanilla tweaks to bedrock edition.

[@cornbreadbutcringey5723]

i know one of the data packs they use adds extra mob heads by taking advantage of java edition's custom player heads. bedrock edition doesn't really have custom player heads the same way, but it does allow for custom blocks with custom geometry, which basically means that it would definitely take more effort to port over but would also allow the shape of the heads to adhere to those of the mobs it comes from. like, if piglin heads didn't exist in vanilla, a custom piglin head could theoretically look much closer to how the actual heads do on piglins, what with being wider and having ears and all that. an issue with a block-based implementation would be that custom blocks and custom block geometry (like most things) have been in beta for a few years and blocks themselves are currently undergoing massive technical changes through the flattening. but since some of the current marketplace add-ons use custom blocks, i'm hoping this means they'll get a proper stable release soon. or i guess an entity-based implementation could work, but it'd be a little weird.

[@zorls]

They are add-ons

[@Edan_TheTraveler]

@zorls only to java. Not to bedrock. we don't have the ability to have the data packs

[@cornbreadbutcringey5723]

@@Edan_TheTraveler bedrock edition has behavior packs, which allow for fully custom entities, blocks, and items

[@BobzBlue]

Hopefully this'll allow the ray tracing features as well

[@Kthenerd14]

I've purely played modded until I started playing with friends. I set up a Bedrock Server because they only have console. It was a bit of a struggle to get used to it for me. I've been looking at places that offer add-ons for bedrock but sometimes they just don't work which really sucks. On one hand, this will be good (especially if they can put in some structure or terrain generation add-ons into the store) because then I know they will work and I don't feel like I'm going to get a virus (I'm on PC). On the other hand, it probably won't have most of the add-ons that I currently have on the server (no fog, unlock villager trades, lower shields, obvious suspicious sand, different recipes for certain items, accessibility features, etc) because they either are too small to make money off of or they would go against the normal progression of the game. Time will tell I guess.

[@Alylica]

for what its worth, addons have been avaliable for a while, this is just the first official way, and the easiest way to access them on console

[@BobzBlue]

A simple idea would be a budded piston recipe, a piston with a redstone dust ontop.

[@Segrub]

On Athoscraft server we use a rangr of packs including mob heads, player heads, armour stand mods and even a custom currency which are all on bedrock. Its all there, just takes some no how to get it working. Thankfully our admins are superb!

[@AppleProGamer74]

As several others have said Add-ons that you can add to your own worlds have been on Bedrock for several years now. I even made a few small Add-ons myself a couple years ago. Suddenly Minecraft is marketing them as a new thing but they aren’t actually new

[@ms1-Alex]

Mojang doesn’t want mods like Quark or Create in bedrock Addos seems to be meant to be just additions

[@fusionwing4208]

which sucks cause I think bedrock players should be able to experience the absolute insanity that is Java modded (primarily console players), by now consoles are far more than powerful enough to handle a heavily modded minecraft experience. the old method of modding bedrock (on pc/mobile) was a bit of a pain and the mods werent exactly great due to limitations, add-ons really should give full creative freedom, just as Java's own modding community can pull off

[@ms1-Alex]

@@fusionwing4208 Agree, I would pay even double the price of Minecraft to have Java on mobile and consoles But apparently it’s not just that they don’t want to. There are technical reasons due to java frameworks (and economic reasons)

[@BungusThe3th]

As someone who makes datapacks for java this kind of thing is really frustrating. Java edition really is getting left behind feature-wise. There are countless tools and commands awarded to bedrock players which a blatently missing from java making it so much less accesible. I know its because they haven't figured out how to bleed the java player base dry of their money. Its very sad to see the lost potential of art from people that, given the tools would make great things.

[@davidmarker8576]

Thank you SO MUCH for covering this! Add-ons being offered separately via the Marketplace will be a huge thing, in my opinion. The APIs available currently for addons will only get better and closer to the capabilities available via java modding if the modding community and content creators push into the space and request more development focus on it.

[@thepandaposse1875]

Omg Thank you for the PSA Xisuma I'm so happy to hear bedrock is finally getting mods/add-ons

[@riztiz]

Bedrock has had addons since its early days. This just means that console players will finally have access to it and marketplace addons not being tied to a specific world

[@laurenmoods6288]

Would love to see Vanilla Tweaks on the marketplace!! I’ve wanted to try it out for so long (on bedrock console)…. Here’s hoping 🤞🏻

[@Aka60thChip]

I play console so modding hasn’t been something I can do. I guess my main question would be is will there be some that don’t disable achievements? I’m working on collecting those on my main world, but there’s some changes I would like to apply. Mostly ones that don’t effect or make the game easier. Ones like more engaging combat, shaders (though this’ll probably never come to console), animated leaves, full grass blocks without the dirt on the side, and block textures that are vanilla but with the addition of variety like grass having the occasional pebble (there are texture packs like that but haven’t found one subtle enough where it just overhauls the entire og game esthetic)

[@quagsire413]

theres also a free pack with loads of custom dragons. im currently challenging myself to collect all the dragons and make buidls for them.

[@TheTrekkie12]

I play on bedrock on switch and Java roughly equally (tho I’ve been on bedrock for about a year and a half longer). I don’t usually play with mods in Java (I make good use of vanilla tweaks tho). Don’t do a lot in the marketplace but I might have to look into this. It sounds fun.

[@averagezing]

These can actually be technical, Xisuma. Check out maps like Spellcraft, Dungeons and Dragons DLC, which both use javascript scripting to create fully custom experiences. I recently did this in my port of Decked Out 2 to bedrock, even adding a fake simulated player to hold the map for me. The game engine is open, but it's in its infancy, just waiting for teams to dive into it.

[@dreadedworld8864]

For anyone wanting to know with the pets one the spawn eggs are in items and look like the actual animals instead of an egg

[@heyheyitsjae2475]

One thing I'm curious about is version compatibility. A big problem with Java mods is that it can take months, if ever, for them to be brought up to speed with the current version. If you're being charged real life money I'd expect (and hope) that the content could be a permanent addition. If a version of Tinkers or Create would be added to Bedrock without a need to wait for a release and then redownload or update them separately from the main game that might be the push I finally need to swap versions.

[@Ghostookas]

I used to use addons all the time before moving to Java. Some were great but I felt like most were unpolished and buggy. I hope this will encourage higher quality addons and I might even play more on bedrock (it’d be super cool if they expand the tools for addon making)

[@Cinnamon_Shaey]

Honestly I almost never play Minecraft vanilla but but modded yea, I can't wait for create simulated for those livin under a rock it's the create mod with real physics, so boats, planes, wheels, even gonna be space stuff

[@JamesOfEarth]

The things I want the most: 1. To be able to see light levels like lightmatica has 2. To be able to see chunk borders Does these exist already or do you think add-ones could offer?

[@bigtasty5526]

YES!!! Please.

[@riztiz]

There are a few addons for chunk borders. Madhatter and FoxyNoTail are the creators you're looking for. *Note:* This is for PC and Mobile. Accessing addons outside of the marketplace isn't easy on consoles.

[@atmmachine11]

Although it costs money on bedrock addition, Naturalist is a free mod for Java edition that I have loved since it came out and add to almost all of my modded worlds. I bit the bullet since I own Bedrock as well (back when it was free if you had Java already), so I purchased the bedrock port of Naturalist since I already use it for free in Java and love it so much.

[@kitkatjerkins3268]

I'm hoping at some point the ores+ mod gets to be "officially" added to the add ons in Minecraft because I love that mod pack

[@canaxican5328]

This genuinely makes me upset. As a player on Xbox I can tell you that we had easy access to mods a while back. There was this app that you could install onto the console which would allow you to download any content for MC in like three clicks. However, Microsoft then decided to remove that app which dealt a huge blow to the console mod player base. In response, players kept trying to find new ways to download mods and Microsoft kept patching them out. This is when I left MC so I can’t speak to the current state of things but watching Microsoft take away our ability to mod freely just to give us back a worse version of what we had that we now have to pay for is complete corporate BS.

[@BANCLAMOFFICIAL]

Can't wait for the new episode tomorrow!

[@ChangeForNoReason]

In a program named blockbench that is being used by mojang they have worked together to make your own addons, we have entity, block and item wizard.

[@ezekieldaniels5846]

One time I played stoneblock on bedrock, it was definitely the “we have stoneblock at home” version, but it was pretty cool and fun

[@krishrox1015]

for something like this to work well, we should be able to choose which version to play. as versions update most addons stop working so being able to choose the version can keep the addon working

[@cornbreadbutcringey5723]

i think there might be a way to have a specific world emulate a specific older version, but idk how

[@santiagocain9599]

Ive got some mods and me and my friends coudnt put them on our main world so when we saw this we were really happy

[@cosmiccrazy3935]

This could be a way for bedrock players to play on modded Java servers, like with the geyser plugin which allows the 2 languages to translate into each other, and could be the same with mods and add-ons, but the process seems so tedious that it would probably up to an individual to make their mod work for both, but😢I don’t think anyone would take the time do that

[@PNAPE]

I’ve own a bedrock server for years now and I just wanted to clear up how addons actually work on here. My server, inspired by hermitcraft, also has a lot of the same mods you all use, just a bit less powerful I guess. Some examples being the armor stands + features, a similar replay mod like camera addon for timelaspes, player heads and mini blocks. And the player head addon was created by a member of my server. So we have had mods/addons on bedrock for many years now, the only thing that changed is now Mojang and marketplace teams are selling some on the marketplace. Not trying to be rude or anything, I just think there’s a lot of misinformation due to a lot of Java peeps not being in the know of this stuff.

[@MTGApollo]

The video literally says everything you’ve said

[@riztiz]

​@@MTGApolloNo it does not. Addons have already existed for a long time. Xisuma just talked about the ones on the marketplace.

[@somerandompersonintheinternet]

Something that needs to be mentioned is that not anyone can create add-ons for bedrock. You have to be in the partner program. For that to happen you have to be "approved" by mojang according to some criteria. This is as opposed to Java, where I for instance, in theory could create a mod today and have it uploaded to modrinth or curseforge in minutes.

[@Alansaad_]

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[@afandy4324]

addons and mods are 2 different things as mods change the code while addons add code on top of what already exist, these differences sound small but are huge which is why addons are much more limited in what they can do fundamentally compared to mods also why you never see anything truly crazy come out on bedrock compared to java because of limitations and lack of documentation, well the documentation exist but certain parts are outdated and important things aren't explained such as Mojang's Api which is very important depending on what your creating.

[@Axelpvz2030]

so, let me tell you addons have been around for years now, is juts that now you can buy them in the marketplace but there´s a tons of free cominity made content already, and even if we are somewhat limited, addons can do most of what java mods do now on days, we can´t still do stuff like port the controls from super mario 64 in the game but we are prettu close to java mods, without the issue of having to wait for an update for the addos every time a new version comes out

[@jeaninecarminati5885]

Love the add-ons hope they get heads and the armstand book One of that for years

[@aliasd5423]

The push to monetize everything is really disappointing, part of the reason I love Minecraft is that you get all these wonderful experiences for free, I get supporting the creators, but it shouldn’t be forced, some people just don’t have the kind of money to buy every single mod they use

[@queeniemarigold]

As a console player, this has been so cool! This has been great, for me at least, sure they can have some issues sometimes, but honestly, having them at all makes me happy! Console people rarely get the fun stuff, so I'm happy getting just about anything new bro.

[@timwoods2852]

Please take your time, and I hope whatever you've got going on irl isn't too stressful/urgent.