Minecraft Resource Pack Tutorial [1.20-1.16] (READ DESCRIPTION!)

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to make a resource pack (which is what texture packs have been called since 1.6.1, get with the times people!) I’ll be showing you How to get the default resource pack without going through 3 outdated planetminecraft posts first.

How to download and install GIMP, which is a free, open-source image-editor that’s very popular for pixel art. (and it’s available on Linux and mac!) And finally, how to package up your resource pack all nice and stuff for publishing, or just sending to your friends. You ready? Let’s go!

To start out we’ll need to get Minecraft’s default resource pack so that we can make changes to it! This is much easier than most people think it is. Start opening minecraft, going to resource packs in your options, and clicking “Open Pack Folder”. Navigate

Up one level to your .minecraft folder, and then open versions. Find the folder for the version you want to make a pack for and open it. Inside here is a jar file. This is the core of minecraft, it contains all the code, all the textures, and anything else needed

To make the game run. Ok, copy the jar file, then go back and paste it into your resource pack folder. Now, making sure you have file name extensions turned on, change the extension from .jar to .zip so that we can open it. There 3 things in here that we want, but they’re

Hidden behind a whooooole bunch of class files. We can find what we want by pressing [P] to jump to the files starting with P. Select pack.png, pack.mcmeta, and then scroll back to the top to select the folder called “assets”. Copy all those and paste them into a new folder.

I’ll create one called “Default Resource Pack” because an art tutorial is no place for creativity. Once you’ve pasted your files in here, your default resource pack

Is ready! Oh by the way, now it’s safe to delete those files you created. You can now go in game and play the game exactly as normal, and no one will know that underneath all your clothes you are actually wearing a resource pack 😉.

That was terribly annoying and boring wasn’t it? Lets make sure we never have to do that again by always working in a copy of our default resource pack. Make a copy and call it something insanely cool, like xXLegit+i+mooseXx ℙ𝕧ℙ 𝔼𝕊𝕊𝔼ℕ𝕋𝕀𝔸𝕃𝕊 v0.0.1 … .biz

I mean really anything will work as long as it ends in a filename and does not fit on the pack selection screen. Ok where were we? Oh yeah, inside the assets folder you have everything that can be changed with a resource pack (with one exception,

Stay tuned for that.) If you want to change an items texture, go to minecraft -> textures -> item! I’m gonna retexture the acacia sign so- [background] CUUT, cut cut cut cut! Moose: huh? BG: you have to do the diamond sword. Moose: what? Why? BG: Everyone does the diamond sword, it’s

A texture pack tutorial. M: actually they’re called resource packs now- wait where’s that music coming fro- [NCS music starts] Whaaat is up guys my name is Legitimoose and I’m gonna be showin’ you how to use GIMP, to make the best resource pack ever. I’m also going to include a bunch of actually

Useful tips during this dumb skit, so make sure you put on your listening ears and SMASH THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON.

After downloading and installing GIMP from gimp.org (Link in the description along with 45 social media links!!!11) find the diamond sword texture and right click it, choosing open with GIMP. You can zoom in with CTRL or CMD + scroll-wheel and hold

Space to pan your view around. The default tool is the paintbrush which is all blurry! You can access the pencil tool by clicking and holding on the brush icon, or by pressing N for pennncil. To change your brush size you can use the square bracket keys [ ] or

Use this slider over here on the side. After choosing a color using this box over here, you may notice you’re unable to paint any color that isn’t already in the image! This is because all these images are set to indexed color so that they take up slightly less file space.

Most image editors would ignore this, but GIMP is very fancy and supports practically everything. To fix this go to Image -> Mode -> RGB. Now we can use whatever colors we want! I am going to make an awesome recolored diamond sword by going to

Colors -> Hue-Saturation, selecting only cyan, and then changing the hue until it looks totally sweet and more different-er than vanilla does looks like. Wow! Now let’s make our sword comically small. Go to the eraser tool by pressing Shift+E, and make sure to enable Hard Edge on the sidebar.

Now start erasing until your sword looks short enough. Now go back to your peNNNcil tool. To get the color of this pixel, click on it while holding control. Now we can cover up that unsightly eraser edge. The tiny sword texture is essential for optimum performance, so that

We can see slightly more of our surroundings. In fact, maybe this sword is still a little too big, let me shave it down a bit… mmm almost almost- Mmmm I’m just gonna get rid of this… Perfect.

Come on guys by this logic the best sword texture is no sword texture. It’s just the natural endpoint. Or should I say the… unnatural endpoint… [shriek] To save your masterpiece, it’s actually not CTRL+S. That saves as an XCF which is a GIMP-specific file.

To save over the original file you have to go to File -> Overwrite diamond_sword.png or whatever. If you need a hotkey, you can set one, or do CTRL+Shift+E to open the export menu. Absolutely none of these settings should matter to you, so press enter for all three

Dialogs and your file will be saved. Ok, that’s it for GIMP, except for the pepper brush, now there’s nothing else you need to- GIMP comes with a pepper brush and now that you know you’re forced to use it in every project until the end of time *sharp inhale* OKAY!

There’s a ton of stuff you can retexture, just poke around in the textures folder and have fun. You should go test out your textures in game now. By the way, if you make changes to something and want to reload quickly, press F3+T (or Fn+F3+T) to reload all textures.

Now, let me show you how to pack up your resource pack and ship it off to the people. You may have noticed that this resource pack takes forever to load. That’s because it’s reloading literally every file in the game. There is no way you changed all of these,

So we should go through and delete the ones you didn’t use. Also, I like to make a copy of my resource pack for this purpose, since I never know what I might add in the next version of the pack. If you only changed textures, you can delete every file in assets that isn’t

Textures. You should also go into textures and delete any texture you didn’t change. This will make your resource pack wayyyyyy smaller, and make it load super fast (relatively speaking). Chances are, 95% of these files can go. You can probably also delete the entire

“realms” folder. It only contains GUI and language files for realms. You can also get rid of .mcassetsroot and gpuwarnlist. Those don’t even do anything. Once that’s done, we only need to add the finishing touches. That’s right, pack.png and pack.mcmeta! Pack.png is very straightforward. It’s just the picture that gets shown next

To your resource pack. I’ll leave it up to you to make a masterpiece of graphic design to go here though. By the way if you want your title screen to not look horrible and gray like this, go into textures -> gui -> title and then delete this thing called “background”.

Ok that works, back to the tutorial. The pack.mcmeta file contains the description and version information for your resource pack. You can open this with any text editor, such as notepad or notepad++. You can change the description part to whatever you want, and you can even use color codes

With this special character (link to the wiki page for color codes is in the description.) Be aware that without this file your resource pack won’t work at all and won’t even show up in the list. If you’re having issues with that, pack.mcmeta should be the first

Place you check. Ok I’m gonna do something new here, hopefully it’s not too weird. If you don’t know what to do after the video, I’m gonna give you some homework ideas! If you are an advanced user who is just watching this for fun, consider

Messing with fonts. All the cool guys are starting to use fonts, and it’s crazy what you can do with them. If you’re just starting out, go retexture yourself an item, a block, a mob, and maybe even your hotbar or health bar. Then try opening up the “lang” folder and change the

Names of items and menu buttons! This is a looot of fun. You can also add your own splashes to the title screen under texts -> splashes.txt! Finally, if you have some real extra time on your hands, learn to make

Custom models with Blockbench! I go over custom item models and making custom mob models with OptiFine in this ullltimate tutorial. That’s the stuff that’ll really impress people if ya know what I’m sayin’. Thanks for watching all the way to the end,

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