Add Resource Packs to Minecraft
By adding a resource pack to your Minecraft server you will be able to customize models, sounds, textures, and other custom content. This guide will step-by-step show you how to add Resource Packs to your Minecraft server.
Find and prepare a Resource Pack
Visit a website such as CurseForge
- CurseForge hosts many popular resource packs with information regarding compatibility.
- Download your preferred resource pack from any such website.
Upload the downloaded resource pack to MCPacks
- MCPacks is a website that will allow you to host your resource pack for free.
- Click on Choose Files and upload the resource pack that you downloaded earlier.
- Then, click on the Upload button.
- Upon a successful upload, the site will give you the
resource-pack=&resource-pack-sha1=fields that you need to use in your server.properties file. Note them for future reference.
Configure your Minecraft server
Login to the Dashboard
- See our login instructions guide over here.
Navigate to the File Manager tab of your server
- From your Dashboard, go to the Inventory tab.
- Scroll down to one of your servers, and click on the Manage button.
- Then, choose the File Manager tab from the top navigation panel.
Edit the server.properties file
- Scroll down and click on the server.properties file.
- 1 Replace the lines
resource-pack=andresource-pack-sha1=with the lines that you noted from MCPacks. - 2 Then, click on the Save File button.
Restart the server
- Scroll back to the top of the page.
- Then, click on the Restart button.
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