Server Friend Request Resource
Friend Request
One of the features in Geometry Dash is the friend system which allows players to add each other as a friend. It is part of a poorly developed social System in which players can send messages to each other.
The server response returns a User String in a response which is structured with a key:value:key:value pairing. Each friend request string is then split with a |
Friend Request Example
1:TheWylieMaster:2:84696119:9:9:10:5:11:3:14:1:15:0:16:9276649:32:45272143:35:aGVsbG8=:41:1:37:1 weekEach key is tied to a component within the client and the value sets data for the specific component.
A list of all known keys can be found in the table below
Friend Request Structure
Note: We will use “other user” to describe the user on the other side of the friend request, be it the receiving end or the sending end.
| Key | Name/Value | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | userName | String | The username of the other user |
| 2 | playerID | Integer | The player ID of the other user. This is different than the account ID |
| 9 | icon | Integer | Which icon the other user is using, starting with 1 as the first icon |
| 10 | playerColor | Integer | The other user’s primary player color, presumably ordered cronologically from left to right per update |
| 11 | playerColor2 | Integer | The other user’s secondary player color, presumably ordered cronologically from left to right per update |
| 14 | iconType | Integer | The other user’s icon type indexing an array of icon, ship, ball, ufo, wave, robot, spider |
| 15 | glow | Integer | Either 0 or 2, might be related to glow |
| 16 | accountID | Integer | The other user’s account ID. This is different than the player ID |
| 32 | friendRequestID | Integer | An ID unique to each friend request. (I’m not 100% certain on this) |
| 35 | message | String | The friend requests’s message, encoded in base64 |
| 37 | age | String | How long ago the friend request was sent (e.g. “2 months”) |
| 41 | NewFriendRequest | Bool | if the friend request is new |
Trivia
- By sending yourself a friend request through 3rd party tools, you can actually block yourself. Doing so doesn’t have any serious consequences as you can see in this video by Cvolton