Guides
Resource pack guides
Everything here comes from questions people actually ask — mostly some version of “I made a pack and Minecraft won’t load it.” No fluff, no filler, and every file path and format number is one you can check yourself.
How to install a Minecraft resource pack
Where the resourcepacks folder lives on Windows, macOS and Linux, how to turn a pack on in Java, and how .mcpack import works on Bedrock.
4 min read
Why your texture pack isn't working
The purple-and-black checkerboard, packs that never appear in the list, and the zip mistake that causes most of both.
6 min read
pack_format numbers, version by version
What pack_format does, the number for every supported Minecraft version, and what changed when 1.21.9 introduced min_format and max_format.
5 min read
Making animated textures with .mcmeta
How Minecraft animates a texture from a vertical strip of frames, what frametime and interpolate actually do, and how to control frame order.
6 min read
Java vs Bedrock resource packs
Why a Java pack dropped into Bedrock does nothing — different folder layouts, different manifests, and what has to change to support both.
5 min read
Want to skip the theory? Make a pack in your browser — the editor handles the formats, folders and manifests described in these guides.