How To Download & Install Data Packs in Minecraft 1.17

Hey everyone and welcome back to the breakdown today i’m going to be teaching you how to download and install data packs which are basically vanilla mods from minecraft 1.17 we’re going to be going over how to install a few different data packs in minecraft 1.17 in this video

So uh yeah it’s gonna be really cool and i think you’ll enjoy it because you don’t need to download anything other than the data packs themselves which is the best part in my opinion of datapack one thing i do want to mention is this video is ready by apex minecraft hosting

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The second link down below that’s going to take you here this is our complete list of data packs for minecraft 1.16. the video you’re watching right now will be here and you can scroll down and look at all these different data packs and really you’re just shopping what do you like

What do you think looks good go through it all and see what you like so i’m gonna go with vanilla tweaks here we’re also going to do a voodoo packs and there are a few different ones down here i mean there are tons of different ones however we’re also gonna do

Sure ships of the ocean so vanilla tweaks is interesting because you can download a few different data packs here and we’ll do i don’t know armor statuses sure unlock all recipes we’ll do durability ping and let’s grab one more as well we’ll do um i don’t know track

Statistics and then you click on the download button over here and it will go ahead and take us off to add focus where stop don’t click anything on this page whatsoever you’re gonna click a single thing on this page just wait just sit and wait and then in the top

Right a red skip button will appear so just wait and then click the red skip button that appears in the top right when you do that it’s going to go ahead and it should start the download in the bottom left and there it goes the download for vanilla tweaks is

In the bottom left voodoo packs has a bunch of different mod pack or not mod packs but two different uh read data packs for minecraft windows 16 as well as you can see there are a bunch of different ones here anti-inder grief is pretty cool we can go ahead and download that

And all these are also going to run through a ad fly side system where you need to wait a few seconds in order to download them so wait five seconds don’t click anything else on this page any buttons you see on this page are lying to

You just wait a few seconds and then click download or skip ad in the top right excuse me skip out in the top right anti-indoor grief and now downloads and we’ll download one more from voodoo pack as well gravestones is usually one i like to get

And let’s go ahead and grab that and again it’s gonna taste to add fly where stop don’t click anything i keep saying it because it’s so important don’t click anything on these add pages except the red or the skip button in the top right on that focus it’s red

On add fly it is yellow but it’s the skip add button in the top right and then it will go ahead and download now ships of the ocean is another one which you can find there and you go ahead and click on the download data pack here and it is going

To go ahead and start the download um luckily there is no ad fly here or anything like that you just have to sit wait for this ad to load and then it will go ahead and start the download after a few seconds once the ad is loaded and played and all that stuff

You have to watch an hbo max ad and then it’ll play once the ad is finished then the download as you can see will pop up and we can click download there it also actually downloaded so we download that one twice by accident now we minimize our browser

And i right click and refresh right like so we will be able to see that we do have uh a bunch of different data packs here right so we have anti-integrity we have extract me right which is uh basically going to be for the ships we have grain stone and then

We have vanilla tweaks which also says unzip me now on these two that say unzip me you might be like why does it say that what does that mean well the reason it says that on these two is because you need to extract them and open them

Up to pull the data packs out now one thing i will say here is that if these aren’t on your desktop like mine even after you right click and refresh what you need to do is click on the little windows icons and you top it up to my

Screen probably the bottom of your screen click on that and then type in downloads and then this downloads file folder here and in here you will find all of the data packs that you want you can drag them to your desktop just for ease of use so

Just take and drag them out here and onto your desktop now on the ones that do say extract me once they’re on your desktop or unzip or whatever what you want to do is right click on them and then click extract all so right click and extract

All and then go ahead and click extract is i’m going to go through and extract that and open this up these are all the data packs we actually want to install so go ahead and select those and drag them to your desktop right like so and then

We can kind of organize them a little bit because yeah we need to keep these organized we’re going to have a lot so that was vanilla tweaks and then we can go ahead and do the same thing with the voodoo mods i think i don’t know

Which one this is oh this is the ship’s mod and go ahead and extract all here and then go ahead and click extract and then it’s going to do the same thing extract it and then open up a folder which is going to have some different options so

As you can see put the context folder in in the folder name data so this one has some different instructions so we’re just going to leave this open and once we get to where we need to do the data pack installation we’ll go ahead and do that so nevertheless let’s go ahead and

Get to where we need to install these well to do that you want to open up minecraft 1.17 so let’s go ahead and open up minecraft 1.17 right so go to minecraft launcher and we’re going to open up 1.17 here just like you normally would in the minecraft launcher nothing too overly complicated

I’m going to do the latest release here however these will work if you have mods installed or anything like that data packs will work right with optifine it’s going to work without fine it’s going to work with all that don’t worry about it you can install that effects with those

As well so anyway we are just preparing and then it’s going to launch on up and i will meet you once we are on the minecraft 1.17 main menu so here we are on the minecraft main menu and now it’s easy to get these data packs installed now remember

That data packs are linked to specific worlds when you install them you’re installing them in a specific world you can’t use them well you can but you have to install them individually for every world you have in minecraft so i’m going to click on single player here and

I’m going to use this first 1.17 world go ahead and edit that and then you want to click on the open world folder so again click on this one time right don’t double click on it or click the play button just click on it one time like

Over here and then click on the edit button then you want to click on open world folder in the world folder that’s going to open up here you will be able to see there are a data pack folder there is a data pack folder go ahead and double

Click on that data packs folder and this is where you’re going to drag and drop all the data packs that you installed into now we’re not completely done though we still have the ship’s data pack that we downloaded and that one has some additional instructions that it

Kind of works just through here so put my contents in the data packs folder right so the folder name data packs so what we’re gonna do is go ahead and drag and drop that into the data packs folder then we’re not done and it says put this

In the data folder right so put this in the data folder so we’re going to go ahead and do that if we go ahead and go back here into the world folder we’ll see this one says data so i’m going to drag and drop these into the data folder right like so right

Kind of seems complicated i promise it’s not that complicated it’s pretty simple just drag and drop kind of follow the instructions some data packs will require you to install a resource pack as well we do have additional tutorials on how to install resource pack because that’s something that you need

However we’re not going to be going over that specifically in this video just know that some data packs do require that however once you’ve installed your data packs usually by just dragging and dropping them into the data packs folder we can come back over here click save in minecraft and double click

On this world now you can install data packs from the beginning of the world and some kind of do require that in some ways and if that’s the case i’m going to show you how to do that here in one second but if we join on in-game here

We will be able to see that minecraft looks terrible my settings are horrible graphic settings anyway that’s not here or there if we go ahead one of my favorite ones to test and it’s kind of screwed up but is to actually just do the graveyard because it’s kind

Of simple so we go into game mode survival boom and we will fall to our death there we go boom so now if we go ahead and respawn apparently it wasn’t apparently i wasn’t where uh let’s do it right at the spawn here sorry about that so we go into creative

And then we go down right like so boom wait for it wait for it to get high enough to where i know we’re gonna die whenever we fall there we go and you can see the gravestone is there and right there it is if i had stuff we could actually

Break this and get that stuff but i i didn’t have stuff so anyway that is pretty cool and uh that’s the gravestone mod at work or not mod datapack at work there are tons of other ones for example durability pings unlocking all recipes i mean

Believe me as we go in here we can kind of see all the different recipes are here and unlocked even though we hadn’t unlocked them previously the durability pink no way for me to really test that unfortunately and ships i believe will need to generate some new uh some new worlds for that

So let’s go ahead and do that let’s add these to a brand new world and uh just see if we get it going so i’m gonna go and save this i’ll meet you on the single player world generation page so here we are we are on the

Single player world page here go ahead and create a new world and then you can name it whatever you want you can change these things to whatever you want that does not matter that’s not important i’m just going to name this data packs for example however you notice there’s

This data packs button let’s go ahead and click on that and then it’s going to click open pack folder in the bottom left then it’s going to open up a folder where you can install data packs right now the issue is the ship’s data pack can have some issues here

Because it does require you to access that data folder that just kind of isn’t there right it’s just not right so there is no data folder now you can’t really install that one from the start um i know i said that we kind of might

Have to and if you want to you can give it a shot but honestly it’s not worth it right this is going to be here you can then go ahead and if you want to put the data packs part of this over here but it’s not going to work until we exit

Very quickly and kind of get things going so anyway that’s now dragged and dropped over and now we kind of have data packs kind of we have them from the start we can install them right like so as you see there they are we can then go ahead and click

Done it’s going to validate those and then we can create the new world now we join in here i’m going to quit out of this world add in the features we needed from the ship’s mod and then we’ll be kind of good to go so i’m going to go ahead and

Do a quick jump cut to win a game back out do that and then kind of we’re done here here we are in game immediately going to quit no big deal as you can see new recipes unlocked that is uh it’s spamming unlocking all the recipes

That are in game so that’s kind of cool we know that data pack is in fact working we can click on edit here then we can open the world folder and what we want to do is take the data folder from over here and drag and drop that in so we do have

The data packs here we want to go into the data folder and then we want to take the data here and drag and drop right pretty simple stuff we’ve already done this but i’m just kind of showing you how you can do it again click save and then double click on data

Packs now and now we’ll go ahead and in game we’ll start getting ships generated and all the cool stuff that this does if we come over here we can actually see that ships out on the ocean uh guessing it adds ships out on the ocean you can see the different stuff here

I remember looking at this but these always like leave my yeah you can force generation of a ship with the function there we go let’s go ahead uh we could do that if we wanted to but nevertheless there we are we are in game gravestones again

The one that we test at spawn so oh i accidentally uh didn’t turn on didn’t turn on cheats for this world but we can fix that there we go and now we go into game mode creative fly up and then uh ball to our deaths because that’s how you test

The gravestone data pack and then we’ll go ahead and see if we can find a ship because i think that would be a cool one you can see there’s gravestones and uh yeah so now we can fly fly now we can fly to an ocean and

See if we can find ourselves a ship so i’m gonna go ahead and do a quick jump cut until uh do we do that and there we go just in the horizon we do have ourselves a ship very very easy actually to find it once

We found the ocean biome and we can see it there’s an eye going on here we’ve got villager pirates sailors all of this stuff that’s really really cool actually and i think there might even be like different loot and things like that yeah that you can grab here

So uh awesome stuff one of my uh one of my favorite honestly data packs i’ve seen because it actually adds something really cool in game we’ve got another one over here these are kind of dotted everywhere once you do find the ocean aren’t they wow you gotta

Nope i thought that was another one just this one but uh you can see even this is a different sort of style from the last one i believe so cool stuff really really fun mod in my opinion and uh i say mod but datapack kind of feels more like a mod oh

This one’s got pillagers on it really just that’s awesome okay cool google stuff and there you have it that is how you can get the all sorts of data packs in minecraft 1.17 data packs are a great way to add stuff to vanilla minecraft and they can be

Paired with mod for example you could take this ship mod or this ship data pack and add it with forge mods later in the future if you wanted to it’s really really cool there nevertheless my name is nick this has been the breakdown thank you so much for watching if you

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