StreamCraft Live 🎥

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

Webcam feeds float above player heads with fullbright rendering (visible even at night), desktop screen shares from any 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, no admin password)
• Cross-Platform Broadcasting — Publish from Windows, macOS, or Linux. Download the JAR for zour platform — all native libraries are bundled inside, nothing to install or configure
• 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.

Download the JAR built for your platform (Windows, Linux, macOS arm64, or macOS x86_64). Everything needed to broadcast — FFmpeg, OpenCV, the LiveKit FFI, and (on macOS) the audio bridge — is bundled inside. No runtime downloads, no separate installers. On macOS, grant Screen Recording permission once and you're done.

Try It Without Setting Up a Server

Want to test the mod end-to-end before installing it on your own server? Join The Block Survival — an official Fabric 26.1.2 server running StreamCraft on vanilla Minecraft. No whitelist, no kitchen-sink modpack, just StreamCraft.

In Minecraft: Multiplayer → Direct Connection, then enter theblocksurvival.com.

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 or NeoForge
• 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. It costs money to provide streaming services. One license per server.

Community

• Website: https://theblock.academy
• SMP: theblocksurvival.com (Fabric 26.1.2)
• Discord: https://discord.gg/cdsspRR5mu