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Addon Creation

This page outlines a guide to creating your own addons.

Basics

Everything in your addon goes in a folder with your addon's name. Depending on what content you want to add, you'll need to create one or more of the following subfolders inside.

  • Biomes - Data for biomes
  • Blocks - Textures and data for blocks
  • Items - Textures and data for items
  • Models - Models for blocks
  • Particles - Textures and data for particles
  • Recipes - Crafting recipes
  • SBB - "Structure building blocks," data and blueprint files for the generation of structures

Most data is stored in zig.zon files. Data in these files are written as fields, each field prefixed by a .