SplitScreenMod

Local split-screen for Minecraft Bedrock on Windows: up to 4 players on one PC, each with their own controller.

Minecraft Bedrock already contains split-screen (it is used on Xbox), but the Windows version switches it off. This LeviLamina mod switches it back on.

Features

• Choose who plays. Press start on a free controller: the screen splits and the new player's part stays black with a menu until you choose a saved local player (each keeps their own inventory), player 1, or a player whose controller was lost. The menu closes by itself after 10 seconds.
• Split screen menu. The name tag button in the pause menu opens it: pick the layout (top and bottom or side by side), take another player's place, remove a player, or take player 1's controller away so it can choose another player.
• Looks like the game's new UI. Every player has a P1-P4 picture in their own colour, and tags show who is playing, who has no controller and who you are.
• Player 1 keeps keyboard and mouse. A controller only plays as player 1 when you choose that. A controller that is already connected when you enter a world waits for you to press start.
• One controller per player. A controller that reconnects can pick up the player who lost theirs. A player whose controller stays disconnected for 20 seconds leaves; the game's "Controller lost connection" prompt counts down the seconds.
• In your language. The menus follow the game's language: English, Greek, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Italian, Polish and Turkish.
• Made to survive updates. The mod finds the places it needs by the shape of the game code, not by fixed addresses, so a new game version normally needs only a rebuild against the matching LeviLamina.

Screenshots

A new controller chooses who plays. The screen splits, and the new player's part stays black with this menu until you pick someone (it closes by itself after 10 seconds):

The Split screen menu, from the pause menu: the layout, the players with their status, swapping places, removing a player (X):

The name tag button in the pause menu opens it:

Requirements

Game	Minecraft Bedrock for Windows (Microsoft Store / Xbox app) 1.26.60
Mod loader	LeviLamina 26.60.5 or a later 26.60 version (client). The easiest way to get it is through LeviLauncher
Controllers	One per extra player. Xbox, PlayStation, Switch Pro and other gamepads that Windows supports

Installation

Easiest: in LeviLauncher, open your instance's Manage Mods, press Import .mcmod and pick SplitScreenMod.mcmod from the latest release.

By hand:

1. Install LeviLauncher and create a game instance with LeviLamina.
2. Download SplitScreenMod-client-windows-x64.zip from the latest release.
3. Extract the zip into a new folder mods\SplitScreenMod\ inside your instance folder, for example %LocalAppData%\LeviLauncher\Instances\1.26.60.05\mods\SplitScreenMod\. The folder must contain manifest.json, SplitScreenMod.dll and the resource_packs folder directly, not inside another folder.
4. Start the game from LeviLauncher.

How to play

1. Start the game and enter a world (with keyboard and mouse, or a controller).
2. Press start on another controller. The screen splits and that player's part shows a menu: pick who plays with that controller.
3. Repeat for players 3 and 4.
4. In the pause menu, press the name tag button under Save & Quit to change the layout, swap or remove players.

To leave, press the red X next to the player in the Split screen menu, or unplug or switch off that controller: the "Controller lost connection" prompt counts down, and after 20 seconds the player is removed. Plug a controller back in before that to pick up the player again.

Troubleshooting

The mod writes a log to mods\SplitScreenMod\splitscreen.log; the run before is kept as splitscreen.prev.log, so after a crash attach that one. If controllers go to the wrong player, press F9 in the game first: it writes which controller belongs to which player into the log. Please attach the log when you report a problem.

Building

You do not need Visual Studio. Every push is built by GitHub Actions; download the build from the Actions tab. To build locally, install xmake and run:

xmake f -a x64 -m release -p windows --target_type=client -y
xmake

Support

I make this mod out of love for the game and the people who play it. For a long time I wanted to play Minecraft with my family on one PC, and Bedrock on Windows never let us, so I built it. The mod is free and will stay free.

Keeping it working takes time: every game update can break it, new versions need testing, and there are always new ideas from players. If the mod brings you and your people together on one screen, a small monthly support on Patreon helps me keep the project going, release new versions and maintain it. Bug reports and ideas on the issues page help just as much.

Licence

GPL-3.0 © SnakyWarrior. This mod is not affiliated with Mojang or Microsoft.

The menu colours and the cross icon come from Spectrollay-OreUI (MIT, © 2020 Spectrollay). The Ore UI button and radio textures come from bedrock-core/ui (MIT, © 2026 bedrock-core; licence in resource_packs/SplitScreenUI/textures/ui/ore-styled/).