Resource pack

The resource pack system is an API replacement for texture packs and a way for players to further customize their Minecraft experience.

Resource packs eventually allow players to customize music, sounds, language files, end credits, and fonts without any code modification. Ultimately, every mod/plugin will be its own resource pack, with vanilla incorporated as a resource pack by itself; users will be able to apply multiple resource packs at once. Old Texture Packs won't work with the new updated version of Resource Packs.

Texture Packs

All texture pack functionality has been incorporated into resource packs as of 1.6. All prior texture packs must first be converted to be usable by the game. A tool called Minecraft Texture Ender is available from Mojang to manually convert "unstitched" (1.5 compatible) texture packs to resource packs. "Stitched" packs, which are texture packs meant for versions prior to 1.5, must first be unstitched with Unstitcher. Converted packs function as texture packs when loaded in the game.

Additional functionality

Resource packs include a new metadata format that allows plugin developers in addition to Mojang themselves to easily include whole new types of resources such as sounds, language files, music, etc. with minimal difficulty. The new format will also allow Minecraft to more easily detect out of date packs, while still being able to load them. Resource packs use the entire assets folder in the minecraft directory and "1.6.jar" (a new version format in the new launcher) for usage of additional resources, and include pack.mcmeta (used to describe the resource pack like pack.txt before 1.6.1), and pack.png (a picture for the resource pack, same as texture packs).

Designing a Resource Pack

Resource Packs are much simpler to make than Texture Packs were. To make a Resource pack, copy everything from another Resource Pack, and delete all of the textures in the folder. Deleting the textures folder itself will ruin everything. To change the texture of items, rename the PNG file of what you want it to become (let's say a Raw Porkchop for example) to, for example porkchop_raw.

To rename items themselves, just go into the .lang files and edit the language you want to edit. For instance, if you wanted to rename Raw Porkchop to Bacon, just locate where it says "Raw Porkchop" and change it to "Raw Bacon."

Usage

This function would be great for adventure maps where you'd want to change the music of a certain disc, or if you'd want to change the end credits to something more user-friendly. You could even change the name of the item itself in Survival maps, so changing Birch Wood to Zebra Wood so you could have a unique back-story. And of course, changing the textures of things like texture packs have done. Keep in mind that you can also change the words of the Death Messages, Title-Screen options and more.

It seems as if the possibilities are, in fact ... endless.

Folder structure

/ pack.mcmeta - MUST. Metadata for this package. pack.png - Thumbnail image. assets minecraft lang [Language Code]_[Country Code].lang - Text-based language files. texts credits.txt - Credit. Translatable, should be written in UTF-8. end.txt - End Poem. Translatable, should be written in UTF-8. splashes.txt - Splash text. Translatable, should be written in UTF-8. textures font ascii.png - Glyphs for non-unicode languages. Instead of its name, this file contains non-ascii characters. As of 1.6.1, this file must be 256×256 pixels.(16×16 pixels for each character) History r 1.6Tropical fish also have assigned names that can be seen after capture. In Java Edition, the smaller text under the item name is displayed showing the fish name, similar to the text that displays enchantments under enchanted items. In Bedrock Edition, the item name is displayed showing "Bucket of <fish name>". Their colors are mostly named according to the colored block names, though with a few exceptions: White Silver Gray Black Brown Red Orange Yellow Lime Green Teal Sky Blue Plum Magenta Rose The base color comes first, and if the pattern color is different, it comes after that. Lastly, the fish bucket is given a name according to the shape and pattern of the fish: Flopper Glitter Betty Stripey Blockfish Clayfish Kob Snooper Brinely SunStreak Dasher Spotty Some tropical fish don't follow the normal naming system, and instead, reference real-life fish species. Apart from these names, these types of fish aren't different from regular tropical fish in terms of design or behavior. These varieties are: Name Type Anemone Orange-Gray Stripey Black Tang Gray Flopper Blue Dory ‌ Gray-Sky SunStreak Blue Tang ‌ Gray-Blue Flopper Butterfly Fish ‌/Butterflyfish ‌ White-Gray Clayfish Cichlid Blue-Gray SunStreak Clownfish Orange-White Kob Cotton Candy Betta Rose-Sky Spotty Dottyback Plum-Yellow Blockfish Emperor Red Snapper White-Red Clayfish Goatfish White-Yellow Spotty Moorish Idol White-Gray Glitter Ornate Butterfly ‌/Ornate Butterflyfish ‌ White-Orange Clayfish Parrotfish Teal-Rose Dasher Queen Angel Fish ‌/Queen Angelfish ‌ Lime-Sky Brinely Red Cichlid Red-White Betty Red Lipped Blenny Gray-Red Snooper Red Snapper Red-White Blockfish Threadfin White-Yellow Flopper Tomato Clown ‌ Red-White SunStreak Tomato Clownfish ‌ Red-White Kob Triggerfish Gray-White SunStreak Yellowtail Parrot ‌/Yellowtail Parrotfish ‌ Teal-Yellow Dasher Yellow Tang Yellow Flopper 13w21a Resource packs officially mentioned on Mojang website. 13w24a Added resource packs. References