ScreenCraft

Screencraft

Watch videos and browse the web inside Minecraft, on screens you place in the world or in a mini player that follows you while you play.

Client-side only. Works on any server, including Paper and Spigot, and nobody else needs to install anything. Only you can see your screens.

Screenshots

Required: MCEF Modern

Screencraft needs MCEF Modern 0.3.3 or newer, which provides the Chromium browser. It is not on CurseForge, so download it here and put it in your mods folder next to Screencraft:

• MCEF Modern on Modrinth
• MCEF Modern on GitHub

On first launch it downloads Chromium (about 150 MB). The older "MCEF" mod on CurseForge is a different mod and does not work with Screencraft.

You also need Fabric API.

Features

• Several in-world screens (3 by default, up to 5 in the settings, more through the config file). Hang them on walls, stand them on the floor or let them float in the air. Each one has its own browser, so they can all play something different.
• Touchscreen controls. Left-click a screen to click on the page. Right-click it to get your mouse cursor and click, drag, scroll and type right on the screen.
• Address bar on every screen, plus back, forward, reload and home buttons.
• Tabs on every screen (up to 8). Click a tab to switch, + to open one, and x to close it. In control mode, Ctrl+T opens a tab, Ctrl+W closes it, and Ctrl+Tab goes to the next.
• Volume slider on every screen, and the same control in the panel you get by right-clicking a screen (and in the settings list).
• Camera for sites that ask for one. Turn it on in the control panel or in Screen Settings. It is not a real webcam: the feed is the game itself, with terrain, players, mobs, weather and shaders, so video calls and photo sites work with the game as the picture. It shows your own view of the world. A camera mounted on the screen is planned for a later update; it needed a second render pass that conflicted with Sodium and Iris and could crash the game, so it is not in this release.
• Microphone for sites that ask for one. Turn it on in the control panel or in Screen Settings. It uses your real microphone.
• Speaker and mic input in Screen Settings, so you can pick which devices site audio and the microphone use.
• Bring here is in the control panel and the settings list. It puts that screen in front of you.
• Full browser window. /screencraft opens a browser with an address bar: type a website or anything you want to search.
• Mini player. Press K to keep the video in a corner of your screen while you walk, fight and build. Press Left Alt to click and type on it without stopping.
• Settings menu with performance profiles (Low, Balanced, High), sharpness (720p to 1440p), address bars on or off, screen sizes and keybinds.
• Your screens are saved per world and server, and come back when you rejoin.

How to use

1. Hold a stick (you can pick another item in the settings, e.g. if you use Litematica) and right-click to start placing a screen. Aim at a wall, floor or the air and click again to place it.
2. Click the screen's address bar and type a website or a search, or run /screencraft.
3. Press K to show the mini player.

All keys can be changed with the "Keybinds…" button in the settings menu, or in Options > Controls > Screencraft.

More than 5 screens: open config/screencraft/settings.json, set "screenHardLimit" to the number you want (up to 64), restart the game, then raise "Max screens" in the settings menu. Each screen is a full browser, so many screens need a strong PC.

Performance

Each screen is a real browser. Screens you are not looking at slow down automatically, and the Balanced profile (default) keeps several screens smooth. Pick High in the settings for full 60 fps everywhere and the best video quality on a strong PC, or Low on a weaker one.

Notes

• Works on Minecraft 1.21.10, 1.21.11, 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2, 26.2 and 26.3. On CurseForge there is a separate download for each (including one file per 26.1 patch). Use the MCEF Modern file made for the same Minecraft version.
• On 26.3 with the Vulkan renderer, far-away screens are a little less smooth-looking than with OpenGL.
• Screencraft is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google or YouTube.