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Beginner's Guide

Start here: what add-ons are, how a pack is built and how to make your first item, block and mob.

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Guide

  • What is an add-on? - Learn what a Minecraft Bedrock add-on is, how behavior packs and resource packs work together, and what you can change with them.
  • Tools you need - The free tools for making Bedrock add-ons by hand, where the com.mojang folder is on Windows, Android and iOS, and how to do it all on a phone.
  • Your first pack - Build the folder layout for a Bedrock behavior pack and resource pack, write both manifest.json files, link them together and add a pack icon.
  • JSON in 5 minutes - A quick beginner guide to JSON for Minecraft add-ons: objects, arrays, values, namespaced identifiers and the mistakes that break packs.
  • Export and play - Turn your pack folders into .mcpack and .mcaddon files, import them on Windows, Android and iOS, and turn them on in your world.

Extra

  • When it breaks - Fix broken Bedrock add-ons: turn on the content log and solve missing textures, missing items, duplicate UUIDs and packs that do not load.

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