Every packet.Byte by byte.

Round-trip clock synchronization. The server returns its loop count while keeping the retail client one simulation tick ahead.

Requests a Miner dynamite placement. The server validates tool, stock, range, and support before creating entity type 10 and owning the fuse and blast.

The 30 Hz unreliable snapshot stream for remote players, moving entities, and rocket turrets. P is the player count, E contains variable Entity records, and T is the turret count.

A separate moving-entity delta stream retained in the retail protocol surface. BattleSpades currently carries entity changes through other active paths.

Buffered client input applied at its matching simulation tick. Bit 7 of the player byte enables the palette; bits 0–6 hold the player ID.

Sets local health for spawn, healing, or damage feedback and supplies a source direction for presentation.

A client firearm request. The server validates cadence, origin, orientation, weapon state, and penetration before resolving authoritative hits.

Requests a block colour mutation. The server validates the paint tool, range, and voxel solidity, then journals the authoritative RGB change for late joiners.

Replays a remote firearm shot for observers, producing the native muzzle, gunshot, and character animation without duplicating the shooter's local prediction.

Reports an authoritative player hit. All observers can show blood, while only the matching local shooter receives the hit-confirm sound and crosshair response.

Uses an oriented item such as a legacy grenade-family object. The server validates the active tool, cadence, and stock before accepting or relaying it.

Updates the selected palette colour for block, flare, and Block Cannon tools. The sender already applies its UI choice, so the server broadcasts to observers.

Toggles the retail user-generated-content editor mode. The layout exists, but BattleSpades does not currently activate the UGC editor workflow.

Submits a class, equipment list, prefab selection, and optional UGC tools as one life-boundary loadout transaction.

Legacy roster-entry shape. BattleSpades intentionally sends CreatePlayer (28) for roster state because this packet stores pickup verbatim and has no safe 0xFF sentinel path.

The client's join announcement. Names are normalized to a case-insensitively unique 15-byte wire value before any CreatePlayer response.

Applies one server-owned entity mutation: state, position, velocity, carrier, forward vector, target, fuse, or ammo.

Changes an existing player's presentation state. Active modes use action 8 for a through-terrain/high-minimap marker.

Moves the client's point-of-interest focus marker to a world position.

Removes an entity previously announced to the current GameScene.

Invokes the visual impact callback for an authoritative hit on a damageable entity.

Creates a map entity, light, deployable, pickup, or projectile. I and F are the integer- and fixed-property counts carried inside the record.

Registers a map-owned ambient controller. Empty point lists create a global bed; authored points create local emitters.

Plays a one-shot or looping positional/UI sound, including pickup, round, kill, and observer-only block-tool cues.

Starts the streaming ambient GameSound registered by packet 22 and supplies its playback flags, volume, time, position, and attenuation.

Stops the looping sound associated with a loop ID.

Starts a named music track at an encoded playback offset.

Stops the current music track.

Creates a player character and also serves as the active roster format. Class, loadout, and all selected prefab names come from one committed selection.

Signals the builder that a queued prefab placement has finished.

Requests a bounded KV6 prefab expansion. The server validates selection, stock, world contact, reservations, orientation, and cell range.

Requests a UGC prefab carve over a bounded block-index range, ultimately using the verified Damage (37) block-destroy path.

Places one voxel using the player's current colour and the specified build type.

Places one voxel with explicit RGB, used for prefabs, observers, terrain repair, and persistent Block Cannon impacts.

Marks one voxel as occupied by a player/building workflow.

Requests liberation/destruction of one voxel, primarily through the spade dig path.

Requests the client to gib/explode a player's corpse for death presentation.

Broadcasts authoritative block or player damage. Damage type selects exact-cell, area, melee, drill, snowball, and other native expansion behavior.

Carries BlockManager damaged, occupied, and user-owned dictionaries—not VXL topology or a removed-voxel resynchronization stream.

A server-authored batch of compact block items. The recovered retail client path is currently a no-op stub.

The retail 1.x client's normal multi-block placement request. The server rasterizes and validates the line between both voxel endpoints.

Creates a coloured, optionally tracking billboard/icon on the minimap.

Clears a minimap billboard by entity identifier.

Creates a bounded minimap zone and icon. BattleSpades uses it for the CTF base area at mode start and during late-join replay.

Clears the minimap zone matching an exact six-coordinate voxel bounding box.

The per-spawn GameScene snapshot: lighting, physics, mode, teams, class locks, prefabs, static entities, screenshot cameras, and rollover state.

Broadcasts a death/kill event and its native HUD metadata.

Opens, updates, closes, or casts into the native kick/next-map vote overlay.

Requests the start or cancellation path for a player kick vote.

Carries player chat and server announcements. Types 0/1 are player channels, type 2 is a private system reply, and type 3 is the global top-screen CHAT_BIG presentation.

Displays a string-table announcement with positional parameters and optional parameter localization.

Selects the retail mesh-environment manifest used for sky, clouds, mist, waves, sun, transforms, and UV animation.

Triggers the native full-GameScene rollover boundary after end-of-round presentation and map preflight.

Opens the native end-of-round game-statistics screen when a compatible level screenshot exists.

Begins the legacy map-data transfer family. The active BattleSpades path uses MapSyncStart (55).

Starts the active VXL map synchronization stream, normally under wrapper prefix 0x32.

Carries one chunk in the legacy map-data transfer family.

Carries one bounded chunk of the active VXL map stream.

Terminates the legacy map-data transfer family.

Terminates the active VXL map stream and advances the loader handshake.

Exchanges the map file CRC. The server answers with its authoritative file checksum before streaming.

Starts a legacy resource-pack transfer with its byte length and checksum.

Acknowledges or rejects the pending resource-pack transfer.

Carries raw resource-pack bytes. No inner length prefix is present; the decoded packet boundary supplies the length.

Removes a player slot from the current roster and scene.

Configures a generic capture/build progress bar with current progress, rate, and a two-colour gradient.

Describes one or more rank/score changes for end-of-match progression presentation.

Builds the end-of-round scoreboard/statistics widget for a team and a list of typed player-stat rows.

Defines custom UGC objective identifiers and integer values for a mode.

Refills one player resource category. Type 0 is full-life/general restock; physical ammo crates must use type 3.

Confirms an authoritative objective pickup and initializes the carried tool and burden state.

Requests and replicates an objective drop with authoritative identity, position, and capped throw velocity.

Forces the scoreboard overlay open or releases that override.

Selects one of nine hard-coded end/mode messages for a fixed duration; it is not an arbitrary-text packet.

Overrides the active fog colour and persists that override into later spawn/rejoin snapshots.

Changes the GameScene time-scale multiplier for a mode rule.

Requests a reload and confirms its completion/state to clients.

Requests a team switch for a player slot.

Requests a class switch for a player slot.

Locks or unlocks joining a team.

Locks or unlocks class selection for a team.

Locks or unlocks score changes for a team.

Enables or disables infinite block stock for a team.

Toggles team radar/minimap visibility while an authoritative radar station exists.

Updates the native HUD round countdown in seconds.

Applies a lightweight mid-game team or player score update to the HUD.

Requests use of the nearest valid interactive object; BattleSpades uses it to mount or dismount an unoccupied machine gun.

Requests placement of a type-7 mounted machine gun. The server owns yaw, team, health, occupancy, and join persistence after validation.

Requests an Engineer/Rocketeer turret placement. Target selection, projectile creation, health, and persistence remain server-owned.

Requests a landmine placement. The server validates it, then owns the four-second arm time, buried proximity detection, and blast.

Requests a type-30 MedPack placement. The server owns its three team uses, 25-HP increments, health, and destruction.

Requests a type-36 radar station placement. The server owns its lifetime and team minimap reveal.

Requests an oriented type-38 C4 placement with server-owned stock and ownership tracking.

Requests detonation of only the sender's currently live C4 charges.

Replicates sanitized Block Sucker state while the server performs the authoritative timed voxel pull and block grant.

Requests a loadout/tool-gated disguise state, later replicated through WorldUpdate state bit 0x02.

Disables an entity without destroying or removing its scene record.

Places or removes a UGC object at a literal voxel coordinate.

Transfers an initial batch of UGC scene objects.

Requests the UGC entity set for a game mode. The retail class name preserves its original `Reqest` misspelling.

Carries a compact UGC workflow message identifier.

Reports UGC map-loading progress from the host.

Carries length-prefixed PNG map information/preview data for a UGC map.

Carries one player's voice-chat frame.

Requests the flare tool's ten-block-cost voxel light placement. The server validates tool, range, contact, colour, and late-join persistence.

The retail client's first application handshake packet. It carries the opaque Steam session ticket that a Steam-enabled game server must validate before accepting the player's identity.

Updates a territory/base ownership and capture state for territory-control modes.

Draws temporary development primitives. Type 0 is a box, type 1 a sphere, and types 2–4 carry only the common header.

Constrains a player or mode to a six-coordinate voxel zone.

Schedules one or more retail help/tutorial localization IDs after a delay.

Reports whether the client is currently in a menu for handshake and idle gating.

Carries a NUL-terminated server password in the legacy authentication family.

Requests that the client provide a server password.

Submits the requested NUL-terminated server password.

The first loader packet: server identity, mode copy, map filename/checksum, presentation capabilities, rule toggles, disabled equipment/classes, movement multipliers, and ground palettes.

Forces the receiving player onto a team, optionally immediately.

A position-only input shape retained for compatibility tooling. The targeted retail 1.x client does not send it in normal play.

Displays objective progress for a team as either a percentage or a numerator/denominator pair.

Sets a counted per-team/per-surface ground-colour palette.