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Recorded with tools/showcase/record.ps1, straight from the manager window and the terminal (how).

Three headless games, one manager window

A test script drives three headless Minecraft instances at once. The games have no windows of their own: the manager window shows each one live, with its instance, pid and whether input is arriving.

Every line, live in the game

Send-BeDDKey E opens the inventory, Send-BeDDMouse hovers and moves the sword, ESC closes it, in a game you never touched.

Your input stays yours

Your input goes to your apps; the script drives three background games over one pipe each

Your mouse and keyboard go to your apps; the script reaches each game over its own pipe and gets an answer once the game has handled the input.

Chat commands, typed for you

Send-BeDDText types '/summon sheep' and '/summon cow' into chat

Send-BeDDText types /summon sheep and /summon cow into chat; the game runs them like a player typed them.

Hover and click where you aim

A virtual cursor brings up a tooltip in the inventory

A virtual cursor brings up tooltips and clicks slots; this picture is Save-BeDDScreenshot of a window that was off the screen.

One window for every game

The manager window with three headless games next to the terminal running the script

No game windows, no taskbar buttons, nothing takes the focus: the games of every run show up in the manager window, and closing it closes them all. Each game runs from its own cheap clone of the instance.