Minecraft guides — page 9 — page 9

The hotbar, crosshair and XP bar all live in one texture atlas. Here is how to make parts of it invisible, what cannot be moved, and the font trick for custom HUD text.

Section-sign codes still work in some places and are ignored in others. Here is the full table, the hex syntax that replaced them, and which contexts accept what.

Maps have 61 base colours, not 16 million — but each has four shades set by block height. Staircasing triples your palette and is why good map art is never flat.

A bossbar survives restarts and a title does not. Here is the create-then-modify pattern, the fade timings people set backwards, and how to drive a progress bar.

Both became datapack registries, so you can add new ones instead of overwriting vanilla. Here are the two files each needs and the sizing rule paintings must follow.

Datapack dialogs give you a proper window with inputs and buttons. Here is the JSON shape, how a button runs a command, and how it compares to the book-menu hack.

A pot takes four sherds, one per face, and the order you place them decides which face gets which. Where every sherd comes from and how to skip the digging.

Two ways to move a camera in vanilla — a ticking teleport function, or the timeline registry. What each is good for, and the smoothing that stops it looking robotic.

64x64, PNG, at the server root — get any of the three wrong and the icon silently does not appear. Plus the JSON-RPC management API that replaced screen-scraping the console.