diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 289b1e2..2d2ab5d 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ use crate::mc_server::{MinecraftAPI, MinecraftServerHandle, ServerDeploymentStat
 use crate::opaque_error::OpaqueError;
 use crate::packets::clientbound::status::StatusStructNew;
 use crate::packets::serverbound::handshake::Handshake;
+use crate::packets::serverbound::login::LoginStart;
 use crate::packets::{Packet, SendPacket};
 
 mod kube_cache;
@@ -111,7 +112,15 @@ async fn process_connection<T: MinecraftServerHandle>(
         packets::ProtocolState::Status => {
             handle_status(&mut client_stream, &handshake, api).await?;
         }
-        packets::ProtocolState::Login => handle_login(&mut client_stream, &handshake, api).await?,
+        packets::ProtocolState::Login => {
+            // This block of packet parsing is needed here, so the span with the
+            // username is correctly propagated due to the async nature of things
+            let packet = Packet::parse(&mut client_stream).await?;
+            let login_packet = packets::serverbound::login::LoginStart::parse(packet)
+                .await
+                .ok_or("Failed to parse login start packet".to_string())?;
+            handle_login(&mut client_stream, &handshake, login_packet, api).await?
+        }
         packets::ProtocolState::Transfer => {
             return Err(OpaqueError::create(
                 "next state is transfer; Not yet implemented!",
@@ -169,6 +178,7 @@ async fn handle_status<T: MinecraftServerHandle>(
             let _pong = Packet::new(9, vec![0; 8])
                 .ok_or("failed to create empty pong packet?")?
                 .send_packet(client_stream)
+                .instrument(span.clone())
                 .await
                 .map_err(|_| "failed to send pong packet")?;
             let _guard = span.enter();
@@ -176,7 +186,7 @@ async fn handle_status<T: MinecraftServerHandle>(
             match _ping {
                 Ok(_) => tracing::info!("sent status with error"),
                 Err(err) => {
-                    tracing::warn!(err = OpaqueError::from(err).context)
+                    tracing::error!(err = OpaqueError::from(err).context)
                 }
             };
             return Ok(());
@@ -212,10 +222,11 @@ async fn handle_status<T: MinecraftServerHandle>(
     return mc_server::handle_ping(client_stream).await;
 }
 
-#[tracing::instrument(level = "info", fields(server_addr = handshake.get_server_address(),server_port = handshake.server_port.get_value()),skip(client_stream, handshake, api))]
+#[tracing::instrument(level = "info", fields(server_addr = handshake.get_server_address(),server_port = handshake.server_port.get_value(),username = login_start.name.get_value()),skip(client_stream, handshake, api, login_start))]
 async fn handle_login<T: MinecraftServerHandle>(
     client_stream: &mut TcpStream,
     handshake: &Handshake,
+    login_start: LoginStart,
     api: impl MinecraftAPI<T>,
 ) -> Result<(), OpaqueError> {
     let server = api
@@ -244,6 +255,13 @@ async fn handle_login<T: MinecraftServerHandle>(
                 .await
                 .map_err(|_| "failed to forward handshake packet to minecraft server")?;
 
+            login_start
+                .send_packet(&mut server_stream)
+                .await
+                .map_err(|e| {
+                    "failed to forward login packet to server before splicing".to_string()
+                })?;
+
             tracing::info!("proxying with splice");
             let traffic = tokio_splice2::io::SpliceBidiIo { io_sl2sr, io_sr2sl }
                 .execute(client_stream, &mut server_stream)
diff --git a/src/packets/serverbound/login.rs b/src/packets/serverbound/login.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3f4f38e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/packets/serverbound/login.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+use tokio::io::AsyncWriteExt;
+
+use crate::{
+    packets::{Packet, SendPacket},
+    types::VarString,
+};
+
+/// id: 0x00
+pub struct LoginStart {
+    all: Vec<u8>,
+    pub name: VarString,
+    // TODO: implement uuid parsing
+    // uuid: Vec<u8>,
+}
+
+impl LoginStart {
+    pub async fn parse(packet: Packet) -> Option<LoginStart> {
+        let mut reader = packet.data.clone();
+        let name = VarString::parse(&mut reader).await?;
+
+        Some(LoginStart {
+            all: packet.all,
+            name: name,
+        })
+    }
+}
+
+impl SendPacket for LoginStart {
+    async fn send_packet(&self, stream: &mut tokio::net::TcpStream) -> std::io::Result<()> {
+        stream.write_all(&self.all).await?;
+        stream.flush().await?;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/packets/serverbound/mod.rs b/src/packets/serverbound/mod.rs
index 9651198..acd006e 100644
--- a/src/packets/serverbound/mod.rs
+++ b/src/packets/serverbound/mod.rs
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 pub mod handshake;
+pub mod login;
 pub mod status;