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Which files will need to be updated?
Which files will need to be updated for this project? I am planning on possibly updating it myself, but which files will need to be updated/contain protocols
That would be proto.py. Updating would require you to include all changes made since 1.8 according to the protocol documentation at http://wiki.vg/Protocol_History. It would probably also require that your write custom decoders for new primitives (maybe? I didn't check to see if there is anything new). It's quite fiddly and no easy task.
Seems quite complex, would it even be possible for an absolute noob at coding like me? Also, what is a primitive?
To be honest: Probably not. It requires quite a bit of bit-fiddling (in case there are new data types) and a solid sense of how network protocols work and how to debug them in case the decoding goes wrong somewhere. If you have no experience with that, you're in for a rough ride.
Ah right. Well I probably won't do anything then. Sorry for wasting your time, and hopefully you will possibly update it in the near future.
Don't worry. No time wasted :-)
I hope to find the time to update it at some point. But I haven't touched Minecraft in a while (:sadface:), so motivation is a bit low at the moment.
I have found this, and am wondering whether or not this is similar to what needs to be updated. It is on the latest version of minecraft, I am just wondering whether it will be compatible, or is similar. https://github.com/ammaraskar/pyCraft/tree/master/minecraft
Not compatible. The API seems fairly different. But it's looks like it is able to parse newer version of the protocol. Nice find.
Well, since it does include all of the newer protocols, would it be possible to change the format of protocol that fastmc reads?
Not really. It might help if things differ from the documentation on wiki.vg, but that's all. I can't use it directly. Its approach to parsing it quite a bit different.