Connecting Bedrock Edition to SQ-STF

Minecraft Bedrock Edition runs on laptop and desktop personal computers running Windows 10 and a variety of consoles, phones, and tablets. Bedrock allows the most cross-platform play (play with your friends on any device), but it is very limited in terms of mods.

You might have seen on the web that Bedrock and Java Edition can’t play together, and since we’re using Java Edition on our server, you might be wondering how you can join and play. We accomplish this through a plugin called Geyser that makes our server mimic a Bedrock server for those not using Java Edition.

While Geyser lets Bedrock players join, there are a couple of limitations:

1. Since the Geyser proxy has to translate everything from the server to your Bedrock client, slower Internet connections may experience lag or glitchy map sections.
2. Currently, you can’t bring your skin with you. There’s not anyway at this point for Bedrock skins to be loaded into the game through the Geyser system, but we’re hopeful that functionality can be added soon. You will likely appear in the game as the Minecraft default skin of Steve or Alex and you might even appear as one on your device, but another to everyone else, depending on how defaults are set.
3. Things may look different for you. Since we use tutorials and texture packs specific to Java Edition in our development, things might look slightly different for you as you play and learn.

None of those things are a deal-breaker for most users, but if you think they’ll bother you, you might consider connecting with Java Edition instead (though you’ll have to install the software and buy an account).