NEWNEW Conventions

Smithed imposes conventions for pack creators to follow allowing for a compatible pack ecosystem. These conventions are highly recommended to help . They allow for pack interoperability both within and without the ecosystem (i.e. they are designed to work in normal worlds).

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Namespacing

How to name your tags, scores, and more!

Pack IDs

Extra metadata to include in your pack.mcmeta

CMD ID Prefixing

What format to choose for the custom_model_data component on items

Vanilla Overrides

How to properly override vanilla assets to be Weld compatible

Tag Specification

A set of custom tags to respect while interacting with blocks, entities, and items

NEWNEW Data Pack Menu Dialog

The "mod menu" for data packs!

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Credits

Many of these ideas were curated and refined from the Minecraft Datapack Discord Server. The current set of conventions were completely created from scratch from the learnings of this project.

MC Datapack Server Conventions