Essential
A customisable server software for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition written in PHP, based on PocketMine-MP

What is this?

Essential is a customisable server software for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, maintained by BakuTeam. It is a fork of PocketMine-MP and keeps its powerful plugin API while extending protocol support.

Supported MCPE/Bedrock versions: 1.16 – 1.26.45

• 🧩 Powerful plugin API — API-compatible with the PocketMine-MP ecosystem
• 🌐 Multi-world support
• 🏎️ Performance — built from scratch in PHP
• ⤴️ Extended version support — up to the latest Bedrock release (1.26.45)

Getting Started

• Building and running from source
• Contributing Guidelines

Because Essential is a PocketMine-MP fork, most upstream resources apply:

• PocketMine-MP Documentation
• Plugin repository (Poggit)

Credits

Essential is built on top of PocketMine-MP by the PocketMine Team, licensed under LGPL-3.0. Huge thanks to the PocketMine-MP developers and community for their work.

Licensing information

This project is licensed under LGPL-3.0. Please see the LICENSE file for details.

Essential and BakuTeam are not affiliated with Mojang. All brands and trademarks belong to their respective owners. Essential is not a Mojang-approved software, nor is it associated with Mojang.