Frequently Asked Questions - Z5T1/Picket GitHub Wiki

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What is Picket?
How does Picket Work?
Why is Picket Linux Only?

What is Picket?

Picket is a plugin system written in C for the popular sandbox game, Minecraft.

How does Picket Work?

Picket works by examining packets sent to and from the server, allowing it to work in tandem with most mods and preventing it from breaking every time a new version of Minecraft is released (unless of Mojang/Microsoft decides to redesign the protocol yet again).

Why is Picket Linux Only?

Picket makes use of a couple Linux only libraries, most notably pcap (while there is a Windows port of pcap, it doesn't work quite the same way). Additionally, Picket plugins are compiled as shared object (*.so) files. Supporting Picket on multiple platforms would require writing multiple versions of plugins, so it was simplest to support only one platform. Linux was chosen as most servers run Linux.