Description

StreamCraft Live 🎥

Making real-time video streaming into your Minecraft world possible. 🍿

Webcam feeds can float above or overtop player heads with fullbright rendering (visible even at night), desktop screen shares across OS project onto disguisable StreamCraft Blocks, and everything works automatically based on proximity. Now broadcasting from Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Features

Screen Share — Share your desktop onto in-world StreamCraft Blocks (configurable size, tilt, projection distance, and horizontal offset)
Webcam — Your camera feed appears as a fullbright billboard above your player, visible to nearby players day or night
System Audio — Stream your game/music/app audio alongside your screen share. Native WASAPI loopback on Windows; ScreenCaptureKit on macOS 13+ (no virtual audio driver needed)
Cross-Platform Broadcasting — Publish from Windows, macOS, or Linux. Mac/Linux setup is automatic — first menu open downloads a one-time native library bundle (~35 MB) from The Block Academy
StreamCraft Blocks — Disguise as 11 different vanilla blocks: Flower Pot, Cobblestone, Stone, Oak/Spruce/Dark Oak Planks, Iron Block, Bookshelf, Bricks, Stone Bricks, or Smooth Stone
Sticky Settings — Display Block settings (size, brightness, opacity, rotation, pitch, projection, offset) persist across disconnects and chunk reloads. Configure one block to set defaults for all future blocks
Auto-Reconnect — If a streamer disconnects and reconnects, bound Display Blocks automatically pick up the stream again
Dynamic Illumination — Active streams emit light level 12, lighting up the surrounding area
Proximity-based — Streams appear and disappear automatically based on distance (configurable 16–256 blocks)
"Who can see me?" — Live viewer list in your HUD while streaming
Bidirectional — Multiple players can have webcams on simultaneously
Self-view preview — See your own camera feed in a HUD corner overlay
1080p HD quality — Full HD screen-share capture with codecs optimized per platform (VP8 screen share, H.264 camera)
Privacy-first — "How It Works" info modal with consent gate on first use
Zero setup for players — Server owner installs the mod, gets an auto-provisioned free trial with no signup required

How It Works

Press ' (apostrophe) to open the StreamCraft menu. First-time users see a "How It Works" overview explaining privacy and features. Toggle your webcam or screen share on, and nearby players see your feed automatically. Video is routed through LiveKit Cloud (WebRTC) for sub-500ms latency.

Mac/Linux first-time setup: when you open the menu for the first time, a brief download fetches platform-specific native libraries (FFmpeg + OpenCV + the macOS audio bridge) from The Block Academy. The mod itself stays small (~5 MB); the libraries are downloaded once per version and cached locally — second launch goes straight to the menu.

macOS audio: grant Screen Recording permission once and you'll get both screen video and full system audio capture — no BlackHole, no Audio MIDI Setup, no admin password (macOS 13.0+). Older macOS gets mic-only audio.

Requirements

Minecraft 1.20.1 through 26.1.x (Fabric) — 9 supported versions
Multiplayer only — requires the mod installed on both client and server
Fabric API
Java 17+ (Java 21 for most versions, Java 25 for 26.1 — your launcher handles this automatically)
macOS broadcasting: macOS 11.0+ for screen share, macOS 13.0+ for system audio
Linux broadcasting: X11 or XWayland (native Wayland support is future work)

StreamCraft Block

Place StreamCraft Blocks in the world to view screen shares. Configure size (1×1 up to 50×50), tilt angle (-90° to +90°), projection distance, and horizontal offset. Right-click to select which stream to display and choose a block appearance to blend into your builds. Active streams illuminate the area around them. All settings are saved — your blocks look the same every time you log in.

Licensing

StreamCraft works out of the box with a free trial — no registration needed. After the trial, server owners can subscribe for unlimited streaming. One license per server.