How to Make a Custom Resource Pack for Minecraft (Custom Texture Pack)

How to make your own resource packs without any additional tools hello everybody and welcome to omg craft i’m your host omg chad one of my favorite things about minecraft is that you can use resource packs to change the game it’s a really easily built in thing to the client that doesn’t really

Require any coding or modding or anything all you have to do is drop a file into minecraft and then bam the whole game looks completely different now how do you make your own resource packs you may think that you need some special program or some special knowledge but everything is actually

Built into the files already given to you by minecraft so let’s jump in and make your own template to start building your own resource pack so the first thing that you’re going to want to do is head on over to your launch options right here and find the version of

Minecraft that you’re going to want to be editing and go ahead and click on that version so i’m going to do this 1.11.2 and then you’ll see this game directory right here and it kind of has this long path to your dot minecraft folder there’s an arrow

Just past the folder and if you click that it will actually open up the folder that that directory is in it’s much easier to go there than it is to type app data percent app data and then go the minecraft too difficult this is much easier in the

New launcher now you’re going to want to go to versions and find the version again that you’re going to want to be editing this one is 1.11.2 go ahead and open that up and you’ll see a json file and a jar file this jar file you’re going to want to

Copy that and then go make another folder for you to work in to create your pack now i’m just going to go ahead and put it right here in the minecraft.minecraft folder and i’m only doing that just because we’re kind of already here anyway you could make this in the desktop or

Really anywhere that you want so once you’ve made that go ahead and paste that same file that you got before it’s going to do it and then i have to refresh for it to show up and then you’re going to need to use another type of program to

Extract this jar and i like to use 7-zip this 7-zip right here i like to use it because it can extract rars it can zip up rars it can do all sorts of stuff and it’s also add some nice handy shortcuts right here in the

Menu because all i have to do is do this extract to and in quotes it’s going to name a folder already for me so i don’t have to do really anything it’s just a that’s just a handy tip of uh my favorite uh zipping application so we’ll let it unzip here

And it’s finished and so we have this 1.11.2 uh area and all of this is what runs minecraft in the jar but we only need one folder and that is this assets folder so i’m going to do control a to select everything in this folder and

Then i’m going to unselect that file and then we can go ahead and delete all of this now inside of this assets folder you have a minecraft folder and you have all of these different things now inside of here you’re going to find a lot of

Json files so this you might think oh models block models this is what i want well these json files are what tells minecraft how the outside structure of a block should be a lot of these uh if you were to open this up will just be

Just end inside textures and it’s a cube and that’s all it is it’s just a block basically but you can change this you’ve seen resource packs that might have bark that has detail and block detail into it and things like that well naming these json files and editing these json

Files is what does that if you want to get to the actual textures it’s just this single file down here that says textures and then you have all of the blocks in here you have some doors now they’re very small because of course minecraft is a very small uh game

So uh these are not very large it’s kind of uh kind of funny in fact uh just how uh itty bitty they are but let’s uh let’s find something that we can edit like let’s say this brick dot png uh let’s go ahead and edit that so

That we can uh show that this is actually going to edit something and it’s itty bitty sorry my uh photoshop is not quite um sized correctly but that doesn’t matter all we’re going to do is add this sort of uh sideways black line to it and we’ll be able to

Tell that this is changed and add some red over here let’s add a red little smiley face there we go amazing go ahead and save that and close out of photoshop and this brick texture should be updated now now that we have edited our texture

Pack there are a few steps that we need to take in order to make sure that this will actually show up in our game first we’re going to create a new text document don’t rename it just yet but you are going to edit this text document and you’re going to add

A just an itty-bitty amount of code let me grab that code it should be in the description below and all this is that this is a pack this is pack format number three and the description of it now this pack format number three is actually very important

If this is a pack that was that is going to be used in uh 1.9 or before 1.9 so 1.8 or 7. uh it’s pack format number one if it’s going to be made for 1.10 it needs to be pack format 2 and currently for 1.11 it’s pac format

3. if you’re watching this video after 1.11 i would suggest checking the link in the description it goes to the minecraft wiki will which will explain any additional pack formats go ahead and save that and close that out and we need to rename this this is right now at txt

And that is no good so uh once you rename it make sure you actually grab the dot txt at the back of the name and name this pack dot mc meta m c stands for minecraft and meta stands for metadata i assume and hit enter and windows will tell you are you

Sure you’re going to you’re changing away from txt i’m not going to know what this file is you say yes and it’ll become a file that doesn’t look really like anything next you can add a image that is a 128 pixel by 128 pixel png file and i already have one made for

This pack so let me go ahead and add it refresh there it is and it looks like that it’s that little omg craft logo it’s itty bitty down there so now we have our assets which we have changed around and obviously if you’re creating your own texture pack you would change a

Little bit more than i did now we have our pack.mcmeta so that the game can actually read that this is a texture pack and we have an icon and those are the base things that you need in order to set up a pack now in order to get this into a zip grab

These three files and using 7-zip you can say add to archive and then we can name this archive anything we want i’m going to name it my pack you can name it anything you want hit enter and it’s going to zip it up and there it is

Now one thing that you want to make sure is that if you open this zip you are you’re given the assets the pack and the pack icon right there in the first folder uh something that you might want that you need to avoid is i’m going

To just go ahead and make a new folder here and then place all of these things into the folder and then refresh that and then zip this folder up add archive we’re going to name it my second pack and you have a zip here now if you open this

You can see that it’s inside of a folder this is no good you need this is basically the root of the zip is you need both all of these three things to be the first thing that you see when you open up the zip if it’s inside of a

Folder it’s not going to work so now i’m going to go ahead and copy this go back into my minecraft folder and remember if you’re having trouble finding that go over to your launcher go to launch options and click that little arrow and it’ll take you to the same place

And you’re going to go find your resource packs folder already have a whole bunch of packs in here we’re going to go ahead and paste this in and there it is my pack has been added and let’s go ahead and launch minecraft now inside of minecraft you

Can go to your options your resource packs and you can see my pack.zip is here let’s move this over and hit done it’s going to load up the texture pack it doesn’t take that much to load because uh we’ve already uh you know so not a lot has been changed

And we can go and find our block that we changed which was these bricks and in fact it even changed it on the brick slabs and you can see the slash that we created and the little happy face that we created you can even see that on top of

The brick slabs so we just created a resource pack although it doesn’t it’s not that exciting i’ll be i’ll be real honest with you not incredibly exciting of uh of a resource pack but we did make our own and that is the steps you have everything on your computer except for

Maybe 7zip uh you have everything on your computer right now to go ahead and make a resource pack of your own of course the next step is to go crazy with customizing the textures the block json files all of that to really make this pack your own i hope that this is a

Great first step for somebody to make a great resource pack getting started can be the hardest part of any creative endeavor thanks so much for watching this episode of omgcraft if you enjoyed it please subscribe for future videos give this video a like if you enjoyed it

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