Addons Maker for Minecraft PE vs Blockception Minecraft Bedrock Development

Addons Maker for Minecraft PE is a visual editor and add-on library for Minecraft PE and several other supported games. Users can customize mobs, structures, blocks, weapons, armor, recipes, sounds, particles, functions, and Script API hooks without writing code; the app generates source code and resource files from those edits. It supports behavior and resource packs, imports.json and.bbmodel files, and exports creations as.mcaddon files for compatible Bedrock platforms. The community library contains more than 1,000 add-ons, with one-tap installation into Minecraft PE. Supported games are Minecraft PE, Craftsman, Mike Craft, Crafting and Building, and Eerskraft on iOS and Android. A profile stores and syncs add-ons across devices, and the app includes more than 20 languages. The free plan costs nothing and includes core editors, a template library, and export, with ads. MAM Premium costs $3.99 a month after a first three days free; it removes ads and unlocks advanced editing tools, and auto-renews. The maker says the tool is unofficial and is not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.

Blockception Minecraft Bedrock Development is a free extension for developing Minecraft Bedrock Addons and Minecraft Education Edition content. It supports .mcfunction, .json, .lang, and .molang files, with tools specific to each format. JSON features include validation, completions, hovers, signatures, code lens, code actions, and schemas. For .mcfunction, it provides completion, formatting, diagnostics, definition navigation, regions, symbols, syntax highlighting, and validation files; .lang tools include formatting, diagnostics, regions, symbols, and syntax highlighting. The extension can read .mcattributes, .mcdefinitions, and .mcignore project files. A setting adds Education Edition items, blocks, entities, and commands to suggestions and debugging. Other settings toggle diagnostics and selected completion options. During debugging, inline values can show variable lookups in mcfunction and Molang files, but are off by default. The extension is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Its earlier repository was archived on September 28, 2025, and points to Minecraft Bedrock Language Server as its successor.