Overview

A provider is one way for players to log in, such as with a password or with their premium Minecraft account. Identica itself handles accounts, sessions, usernames and routing; each provider decides whether a player may continue. A network runs the providers it needs, side by side.

Official and community providersCopy Anchor Link

• Official providers are maintained by Identica's developers and documented here: Credential for passwords and Premium for premium accounts.
• Community providers are made by others. They may follow their own release timing, support and documentation; review them before you install them.

Adding a providerCopy Anchor Link

1. Put the provider's jar into the providers/ directory of Identica's data directory, next to the official ones.
2. Add an entry for it to providers/providers.yml with its id, enabled: true and a priority. Identica loads a provider only when it has an enabled entry.
3. Start the proxy, or restart it. The provider writes its files into its own folder below providers/.

Which provider a joining player gets is explained in How a provider is picked. Players can move their account from one provider to another; see Moving between providers.

To write a provider of your own, see Writing a provider.