Troubleshooting guides
Minecraft guides filed under Troubleshooting.
454 splash texts, 453 unique — and the one duplicate is "Déjà vu!"
Minecraft ships 454 splashes. Exactly one appears twice, and it is the joke you would pick. 407 end in an exclamation mark and the shortest is four characters.
Reading level.dat: hardcore status, spawn point and what you can actually fix
A hardcore death is one boolean in level.dat. Here is what the file holds, what a corrupted save looks like, and the honest limits of what inspection can recover.
Converting .mrpack to a normal modpack zip — and why extractors fail
A .mrpack is a manifest, not an archive of mods. Unzipping it gives you a JSON file and no jars. Here is what is actually inside and what a converter has to do.
pack.mcmeta: pack_format numbers and the "incompatible" warning
One wrong integer makes Minecraft grey out your pack. Here is the format-to-version mapping, the supported_formats range that avoids the whole problem, and where the file must sit.
Datapack not loading? The folder structure and the three names that must match
A datapack that does not appear in /datapack list has a path problem, not a code problem. Here is the exact tree, the namespace rule, and the folders that got renamed.
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