Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Creator Documentation/Getting Started

CHAPTER I - INTRODUCTION 1 There are five kinds of packs in Minecraft: skins, skin packs, texture packs, addons, world templates, and worlds. 2 A pack is a collection of data that can be imported into minecraft. 3 A skin is a player design. 4 A skin pack is a pack containing a collection of skins. 5 A texture pack is a pack containing textures. 6 An addon is a pack that can be applied CHAPTER II - Pack Structure 1 Packs are all created Ever .mcpack gile is a vompressed .zip of a folder with the extension replaced. Every pack must contain a manifest.json file. CHAPTER III - manifest.json The manifest.json is one large object containing "format_version", " header", "modules", and " metadata". FORMAT VERSION The format version of a manifest file determines how minecrsft reads it. It should be set to 2. HEADER The header contains the technical information about the pack and basic metadata. "name" → The name of the pack displayed to the user. "description" → The description of the pack displayed to the player. * You should jeep it in two lines of text. "uuid" → The unique, universal identifier for a pack.* You must use a new uuid gor each pack and module. "version" → The version of the pack. When importing duplicate packs throw errors. Thou must either dekete thy packs first, or increase the version. It is an array [major, minor, revision] e.g. [1, 26, 0] MODULES Modules is an array comtaining the modules of the pack. * note an addon is a collection of both resource and behaviour packs joined together under the extension ".mcaddon". Modules must have a "uuid", " type", "version", and " description". METADATA The metadata object has "authors", which is an array of stri gs, " liscense", which is a string giving kegal info, and "url". CHAPTER 4 Creating a skin pack, A skin pack has a minifest.json file a