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Installing Resource Packs

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Always download resource packs from trusted sources, otherwise they may cause harm to your operating system.

Resource packs are a type of Minecraft mod that primarily changes textures, GUI, etc. These can be installed in Vanilla Minecraft, so no mod loader is necessary.

Installing Resource Packs

  1. Installing Resource Packs is simple, to get started, download your Resource Pack, which should be in the .zip format.
    On macOS, it may be downloaded as a folder, and in that case, simply compress the folder.

  2. Find your resourcepacks folder located in your Minecraft* folder.

    • On Windows this is %APPDATA%\.minecraft\resourcepacks
    • On Linux this is ~/.minecraft/resourcepacks
    • On macOS this is ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/resourcepacks
    * - If you modified your game directory, then you should look for resourcepacks folder in that location.
  3. You can now drag and drop the resourcepack(s) you downloaded into the resourcepacks folder.

  4. To apply your resource packs, launch the game and go to Options > Resource Packs and selecting your resource pack by moving it from the Available section to the Selected section.

You're now done! If you followed the instructions correctly your resource packs should work.