Resource Pack Creation Guide

Making a Resource Pack

Resource Pack Folder

Now you want to find the location your resource pack needs to be. You can find it with the table below.

Operating System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\.minecraft\resourcepacks
MacOS	~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/resourcepacks
Linux	~/.minecraft/resourcepacks

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You can also get to it by clicking Open Pack Folder in Minecraft.

Creating the folders

Open blockbench and View the asset browser. Copy the folders without the files. This can be done my making the folders and naming them based on the asset browser.

You can alternatively follow this folder structure.

pack name
└───assets
    └───minecraft
        ├───models
        │   ├───block
        │   └───item
        └───textures
            ├───block
            └───item

Making pack.mcmeta

Minecraft needs pack.mcmeta to know that your pack is a resource pack and not a folder.

Create the pack.mcmeta at the root of the pack, in the folder with the assets folder.

pack name
├───pack.mcmeta
└───assets
    └───minecraft
        ├───models
        │   ├───block
        │   └───item
        └───textures
            ├───block
            └───item

pack.mcmeta requires two features. A description and a pack format.

The pack format tells Minecraft which version your pack is for. You can find the format number in the table below.

Format	Releases
1	1.6.1 – 1.8.9
2	1.9 – 1.10.2
3	1.11 – 1.12.2
4	1.13 – 1.14.4
5	1.15 – 1.16.1
6	1.16.2 – 1.16.5
7	1.17 – 1.17.1
8	1.18 – 1.18.2
9	1.19 – 1.19.2
12	1.19.3
13	1.19.4
15	1.20 – 1.20.1
18	1.20.2
22	1.20.3 – 1.20.4
32	1.20.5 – 1.20.6
34	1.21 – 1.21.1
42	1.21.2 – 1.21.3
46	1.21.4
55	1.21.5
63	1.21.6
64	1.21.7 – 1.21.8
69.0	1.21.9 – 1.21.10
75.0	1.21.11
84.0	26.1

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You can set the max value at a really high value like 9999.

The bare minimum you can put in the pack.mcmeta is shown below.

{
  "pack": {
    "description": "",
    "pack_format": 84
  }
}

I would recommend using this instead as it works for 1.21.5 and above.

{
  "pack": {
    "description": "",
    "pack_format": 84,
    "min_format": 55,
    "max_format": 9999
  }
}

Mr_Expence's Tips

I use

{
  "pack": {
    "description": {
      "text": "Summary",
      "type": "text",
      "extra": [
        {
          "text": "\nBy: Name ",
          "color": "blue"
        },
        {
          "player": {
            "name": "IGN"
          },
          "hat": true,
          "color": "white"
        }
      ],
      "color": "yellow"
    },
    "min_format": 55,
    "max_format": 9999
  }
}

Replace Summary with your pack summary and change IGN to your Minecraft username and Name to the name you go by. This will Make your head appear.

The last text file in this folder is README.md. If you plan on keeping it, open it in Brackets and edit it to be what you want. I like to have information about the pack and any relevant links for that specific pack and a credits listing everyone who has worked on it. This entire guide has been written in Markdown, here is the raw code. Here is a guide to Markdown. Having a README file is especially useful if you have your resource pack on GitHub, as it is what people see when they look at your repository.

Once you are done with that, go into the assets folder, then into the minecraft folder. Right-click and hover over New then select Folder, name this folder textures like this:

Next, you are going to go into the textures folder and make a new folder inside it, called block, like this:

After that, go into the block folder. Now we are going to minimize this window down and go extract the Minecraft .jar file.

Open up the window you minimized earlier. In the resource pack folder, click the up arrow to get to the .minecraft directory:

Once inside your .minecraft folder, you will want to go into the versions’ folder:

Once inside, you will see a folder for each Minecraft version you have installed. You will want to go into the folder for the version you are making the resource pack for. We will be using 1.16.4 for this guide:

Once inside you are going to see the Minecraft .jar file. This is where all the default assets are for Minecraft:

You are going to want to extract it. If using 7-Zip, right-click the .jar file and hover over the 7-Zip submenu, then click Extract to 1.16.4\.

Wait a few seconds for it to finish, then go into the folder it made:

Most of these files are pointless to you. The only thing we care about is the assets folder at the top; go into it:

Starting to look familiar? Go into the minecraft folder: