resourcepacks.md

Resource Packs

Brief

To further improve the portability and extensibility of this game, we introduced resource packs to the game. Each resource pack has its own purposes, and are strictly unrelated and distinct from each other. Each has its own name, and neither has even the tiniest possibilities of conflicting with each other.

Defining a resource pack is easy, extending one is hard. You will have to create your own textures, create your own entities, in order to make your very own resource pack.

Definition

First we look at an example of resource pack definition. Upon the first look you may think that one resource pack is relatively easy to create. But you are wrong. Technically, resource packs are composed of entities, so creating a resource pack of 100 entities is equally hard as creative 100 entities.

{
    "Name" : "Minecraft2D"
}

The hierarchy of the resource pack folder lies below.

exponential_chaos\
    maps\
    textures\
    ...
    resources\
        default_respack\
        somebody_s_respack\
        ...
        newest_respack\
        my_pack\
            entities\ (Mandatory)
                ...
            textures\ (Mandatory)
                ...
            resource.json (Mandatory)

Entities in one resource pack, only has permission to access its own textures. This guaranteed that no mixing up would happen between resource packs. Entities would, further, not at all mix up.

The "Name" given in resource.json defines the entity type name prefix. The prefix is the resource pack name plus two colons. Such as an entity called Brick under the texture pack NewPack in the folder npack\ would have an actual name called NewPack::Brick. This is why the name of the folder does not matter.

Notes

• For maximum compatibility, please do not include Unicode characters, spaces, carriage return characters et cetera, which includes special control sequences that may cause some systems to fail.
• Avoid using long resource pack names, either in the JSON or the folder name. Using long folder names might cause the file system to malfunction, and using long resource pack names will cause severe redundancy in the game saves, which occupies larger disk space.
• If you have useful resource packs that will visibly improve game playability, you can contact me and I will after careful consideration post a link to your file or directly host your resource pack.