🌍 DynamicPack

A lightweight mod that monitors your resource pack version and updates it automatically.

📖 Documentation

See the GitHub Wiki for full developer documentation, advanced features, and examples.

🎨 Resource Packs Using DynamicPack

These resource packs already use automatic DynamicPack updates:

• CursedEveryday (GitHub)
• ModsRU
• Zelda Music
• PawTotems (SMP, GitHub)
• SPPack (SMP, GitHub)
• Essentially Tweaked
• Vanilla Leaves

⚙️ How It Works

Resource pack developers include a metadata file named dynamicmcpack.json inside their pack.
At game launch, DynamicPack checks for updates and automatically downloads the latest version if necessary.

🧩 For Players

Install the mod and enjoy — DynamicPack will handle updates in the background.

🛠 For Developers

If you’d like your pack to update itself automatically, you can choose one of the integration options below.

Create a file named dynamicmcpack.json in your pack:

{
  "current": {
    "version_number": "7.1"                                   // Current version of your resource pack
  },
  "remote": {
    "game_version": "1.21.1",                                 // Compatible Minecraft version
    "modrinth_project_id": "better-leaves",                   // Your Modrinth project slug or ID
    "type": "modrinth"                                        // Update source type (Modrinth)
  },
  "formatVersion": 1                                          // Internal config format version
}

Create a file named dynamicmcpack.json in your pack:

{
  "current": {},
  "remote": {
    "sign_no_required": true,                                 // Optional digital signature — set to true to disable verification
    "type": "dynamic_repo",                                   // Update source type (Dynamic Repository)
    "url": "https://adamcalculator.github.io/CursedEveryday/" // Remote repository URL
  },
  "formatVersion": 1                                          // Internal configuration format version
}

Next, create a dynamicmcpack.repo.json file like this:

{
  "formatVersion": 1,                                         // Internal schema version
  "build": 10,                                                // Build number of your current release
  "name": "CursedEveryday",                                   // Display name of your resource pack
  "contents": [
    {
      // Metadata block (main information about pack components)
      "url": "path/to/content.json",
      "hash": "5e4d4ad1e9714487263c51f5f83c448c0708773a",     // SHA1 checksum of content.json
      "id": "meta",
      "hidden": true,                                         // Hides this component from user‑facing lists
      "required": true                                        // Marks this component as mandatory
    },
    {
      // Example of an additional content section
      "url": "path/to/content.json",
      "hash": "6e6739297dac80078bbc4890567f05d4015553db",
      "id": "cursed",
      "name": "Cursed content"                                // Optional friendly display name
    }
  ]
}

Next, create a separate content.json file for each content section:

{
  "formatVersion": 1,                                         // Schema version
  "content": {
    "parent": "path/to/parent",                               // Local folder containing the files
    "remote_parent": "remote/path/to/parent",                 // Corresponding path in your Git repo
    "files": {
      "path/to/file": {
        "hash": "ca55daeef2e2d84ccd64608cf889ac321c18d4c2",   // SHA1 hash of file
        "size": 4773                                          // File size in bytes
      },
      "path/to/file2": {
        "hash": "336e9f4e6d7d1400d8a308a33e703e8b33ea5434",
        "size": 54665
      },
      "path/to/file3": {
        "hash": "09dae0777de1705e8acd0ff84c0bb6b7e3e22f63",
        "size": 98592
      }
    }
  }
}

⚠️ Important: These examples use json5, which allows comments (//).
The actual files must be valid .json, so remove comments before use or validate them with this JSON checker.

Advanced features — such as dynamic repositories — are documented in the GitHub Wiki.

💖 Support the Project

DynamicPack is open‑source and completely free under the MIT License.
If you’d like to support the original author:

Bitcoin:
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Every satoshi helps keep things dynamic (and maybe buys some extra coffee ☕).