Locations

Minecraft expects certain parts of your project to be in certain locations, such as textures and JSONs.

All locations and items covered in this page are relative to your ./src/main/resources/ folder.

mods.toml

The mods.toml file is in the ./META-INF/ directory.

Blockstates

Blockstate definition files are in the JSON format and are in the ./assets/<modid>/blockstates/ folder.

Localizations

Localizations are plain-text files with the file extension .json and the name being their language code in lowercase such as en_us.

They are located in the ./assets/<modid>/lang/ folder.

Models

Model files are in JSON format and are located in ./assets/<modid>/models/block/ or ./assets/<modid>/models/item/ depending on whether they are for a block or an item, respectively.

Textures

Textures are in the PNG format and are located in ./assets/<modid>/textures/blocks/ or ./assets/<modid>/textures/items/ depending on whether they are for a block or an item, respectively.

Recipes

Recipes are in JSON format and are located in ./data/<modid>/recipes/.