Addons Maker for Minecraft PE vs Minecraft Bedrock Debugger

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.

Minecraft Bedrock Debugger is a free, open-source Visual Studio Code extension for developers building Minecraft Bedrock behavior packs and add-ons with JavaScript or TypeScript. It connects through script debugger commands, using port 19144 by default, and supports breakpoints, stepping, a Locals pane and watches. Developers can run Minecraft slash commands and keep shortcuts for favorite commands. Performance tools provide diagnostics and a script profiler that saves captures to a configured local path. Minecraft 1.21.10 or later can expose server statistics including entities, chunks, memory, tick time and network usage. Client diagnostics include FPS, memory, entity systems and CPU profiling, but require Minecraft’s “Enabled client diagnostics” creator setting. Scripts can add live diagnostics through the @minecraft/debug-utilities module. TypeScript projects can use source maps through sourceMapRoot and generatedSourceRoot. Dedicated Server debugging requires enabling inbound or outbound script-debugging settings in server.properties, which are disabled by default. Changing variable state and immediate mode are unsupported.