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title: Current Limitations
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# Current Limitations

With Geyser being a protocol translator between two different games with two different codebases, there are a handful of limitations that Geyser is unfortunately unable to handle. 
Despite Minecraft Bedrock and Java being quite close in comparison, there are some vast differences in many areas.

## Unfixable

The following things cannot be fixed without changes to Bedrock or the Java protocol in general. As of now, they are not fixable in Geyser.

- Custom heads in inventories
- Clickable links in chat
- Glowing effect
- Crafting in the 2x2 menu while in creative mode
- Distinguishing between left and right clicks in inventories
- Redstone dot blockstates
- "Can be placed on/destroyed" tag for *some* blocks - for example, different colors of clay/wool that don't exist as separate blocks
- Potion colors implemented using NBT
- Various command arguments for any command that doesn't use the Minecraft Brigadier library
- Anything that relies on tab complete or typing in the chat UI (related to the above) - Bedrock sends no packet that indicates they are in this menu
- Unable to see banner layers past 6
- Movement issues around bamboo due to offset differences between Java and Bedrock: [Hurricane](/other/hurricane) can work around it.
- Can't move mounted entities with carrot/warped fungus on a stick. Hurricane also works around this.
- Custom anvil recipes
- Heights lower than -64 or higher than 320 in the overworld with extended height enabled, and heights lower than 0 or higher than 256 in other dimensions
- Dolphin's Grace potion effect visuals (effects should still work correctly)
- Invisible item frames
- Blocks (excluding jack-o-lantern) on entity heads (E.G. armor stands, players)
- Saddled camels unmoveable/unrideable on bedrock.
- Bedrock edition players cannot see the changes to fence block states made by the Java Debug Stick.

## Fixable With GeyserOptionalPack

The following changes **are supported** with the [GeyserOptionalPack](/other/geyseroptionalpack/), which is a Bedrock resource pack you can install for additional functionality for features Bedrock does not natively support:
- Custom armor stand poses
- Illusioners
- Hit particles and other miscellaneous particles not natively in Bedrock
- Offhand animations
- Shulker invisibility
- Spectral arrow texture