Quick Start

Thanks for trying out Multipacks! Multipacks is a pack bundler that is capable of bundling multiple packs together. For the sake of simplicity, we'll make a single pack.

Prerequisites

• Java 17 or higher
  • You can use Eclipse Adoptium binaries, which is available for all platforms
• Multipacks CLI 220708.1526+
  • Multipacks can be downloaded at our Releases page.
  • Make sure that you've downloaded Multipacks CLI. Multipacks Spigot requires you to run it with Spigot or its fork and well, we only want to make a simple pack.
  • See Installation Guide to see how you can install Multipacks CLI.
• Any text editor
  • On Windows, Notepad is pretty much enough. Note that you can't use Office Word or Wordpad, simply because they tends to save as rich text format.
  • There are a lot of text editors on Linux, so I'm not going to tell you which one to use. Best bet for Linux beginners is to use nano.

Creating Multipacks pack

On your terminal, type multipacks-cli pack init path/to/packdir to generate a new empty pack at path/to/packdir. We'll call our pack "Hello, World!":

$ multipacks-cli pack init hello-world
Fill informations to initialize: (some fields are optional)
Multipacks pack ID (hello-world):
Pack name (hello-world): Hello, World!
Author: nahkd123
Pack description (optional): We are creating Multipacks pack!
Pack version (1.0.0) [NOT game version]:
Game version (>=1.18.2): >=1.19
Initializing Multipacks pack in 'hello-world'...
Done!

In this case, your pack contents will be stored inside hello-world/ folder. You can add various stuffs to it, such as assets/minecraft/textures/item/diamond.png to change Diamond appearance.

Building the pack

On your terminal, type multipacks-cli pack build pack/to/packdir to build the pack. This will generates a new .zip file, which can be loaded to Minecraft:

$ multipacks-cli pack build hello-world
Preparing bundler...
(File will be written to /home/nahkd123/hello-world-v1.0.0.zip)
Bundling...
Done.

You should see the path to your generated .zip file on the terminal output. In this case, it is /home/nahkd123/hello-world-v1.0.0.zip. By default, Multipacks will generate the .zip file at the current working directory (if you don't touch the cd command then it is the folder that you opened the terminal).

And... that's it!

Congratulations, you've created a Multipacks pack in 100 seconds (maybe more if you're too busy installing Multipacks CLI). Your next steps is to add more assets to your pack, share it with everyone and maybe trying out the Multipacks dependencies system or post processing passes.