Pocketmine 0.14.3

If you are reading this article in 2024 or 2025, you might be tempted to run 0.14.3 for nostalgia. While that's fine for a local LAN party, do not expose a 0.14.3 server to the public internet.

Security Risks:

Modern Alternatives:

Migration Path: If you have a world from 0.14.3, use tools like MCEdit Unified (old version) to convert McRegion to LevelDB, then import into a new PocketMine 5.x server. Your old plugins will not work; you’ll need modern equivalents like BedrockEconomy or GroupManager. pocketmine 0.14.3

One ironic benefit: Because 0.14.3 predates the explosion of entities, block states, and complex redstone, it runs extremely fast on a Raspberry Pi 3 or a $5 VPS. You can hold 50+ players with 512 MB RAM – something modern Bedrock servers cannot claim. If you are reading this article in 2024

But again, this performance is only theoretical, as you will never have 50 players with old clients. Modern Alternatives:

PocketMine-MP is a third-party server software written in PHP. For MCPE 0.14.x, the recommended PocketMine version was actually 1.4.3 (released May 2016). Key features of that server build included: