Cauldron Authentication

This Documentation is correct for version 1.3.1 of CauldronAuthentication

What does this do?

Cauldron Authentication is responsible for authenticating Minecraft Users using the Microsoft Authentication System which is the only way to log in to Mojang now. This package provides all the tools needed to acquire a Minecraft Access token from an oauth token.

Setup

To Install the package, run the following command

npm i @jackcooperdev/cauldronauthentication --save

Using Cauldron Authentication

Information

To use this package, you need to provide a way to get an access token. To do this, you need to create an Azure application. See here for more information.

Wiki.vg was a great resource that provided lots of information on how various parts of Minecraft works. It has been merged into Minecraft Wiki and can be viewed here

Functions

startAuthenticationFlow (access_token)

This function performs the authentication flow turning a microsoft access token into a minecraft access token and getting the profile information for the user.

It takes the following parameters

• access_token - Microsoft Access Token Acquired through oAuth flow.

On completion, the function will return an object that can be used to launch a Minecraft Instance.

Sample Output

{
    "profile": {
      "uuid": "069a79f444e94726a5befca90e38aaf5",
      "username": "Notch"
    },
    "xui": "0000000000000000",
    "access_token": "ACCESS_TOKEN",
    "user_id": "aaaaaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaaaaaaaa"
}

Additional Modules