# ViaBackwards

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**Allows older Minecraft client versions to connect to newer server versions.**

Requires [ViaVersion](https://hangar.papermc.io/ViaVersion/ViaVersion) to be installed..

Supported Versions
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As a plugin, ViaBackwards runs on servers on releases 1.10-latest. Versions from the dev branch will also support the
latest snapshot. You can also use ViaBackwards in ViaFabric or ViaFabricPlus.

See [HERE](https://github.com/ViaVersion) for an overview of the different Via* projects.

Releases/Dev Builds
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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
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* 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](https://github.com/ViaVersion/ViaBackwards/issues/326))
* <1.19.4 clients on 1.20+ servers won't be able to use the smithing table, this can be fixed by
  installing [AxSmithing](https://github.com/ViaVersionAddons/AxSmithing)

Other Links
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**Maven:** https://repo.viaversion.com

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

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

License
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This project is licensed under the [GNU General Public License Version 3](LICENSE).

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