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Guides and technical notes on Minecraft Bedrock NetherNet.

Reading a friend’s Minecraft world over NetherNet: Xbox signaling, PmsgId and ICE candidates

How a Bedrock client reaches a friend’s open world through Microsoft’s cloud signaling service — discovering the world via Xbox handles, why the JSON-RPC endpoint and PmsgId matter (and the numeric NetherNetId fails), the offer/answer/trickle exchange, and how the ICE candidates come back.

RakNet vs NetherNet: how Minecraft Bedrock’s transport changed

A clear comparison of the classic RakNet UDP protocol and the newer WebRTC-based NetherNet transport in Minecraft Bedrock — how each connects, ports, encryption, identity, NAT traversal, and what it means for server operators.

Set up a Minecraft Bedrock server with NetherNet on Debian/Ubuntu (with HTTPS via nginx)

A step-by-step guide with copy-paste commands to run Bedrock Dedicated Server on the NetherNet transport on Debian or Ubuntu, open the right ports, run it under systemd, front the signaling with nginx + Let’s Encrypt, and verify reachability with iceFetch.

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