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Adding a Picture to Your Mod as a Texture
Save a Minecraft item or block picture straight into a mod project, see the exact path before it is written, and undo it if it was wrong.
Two places the button appears
- Image Creator — a picture made in the MC Item or MC Block style leads with Add to a mod under the result. Other styles do not get it: a skin is a player file and a poster is not a texture.
- The Code Studio chat, in a Minecraft Mod project — when the AI draws a picture in the chat, the result carries Add to mod as texture, with Set as project icon under it.
Saving costs no credits: the picture was paid for when it was drawn. The file that goes into your mod carries no watermark either — that is only added by the Download buttons.
The window, top to bottom
- Which mod? — asked only when you come from the Image Creator, and it lists your Minecraft Mod projects and nothing else. With none, it says You don't have a Minecraft Mod project yet. and offers Start a mod or Download.
- Check the size. A 16 × 16 picture is the right size for Minecraft; a bigger one gets two buttons, Shrink to 16 × 16 (already picked) and Keep the full size. A small preview shows the actual size in game.
- What is it? — Item (held, or in the inventory) or Block (placed). Coming from an MC Item or MC Block picture it is already right: Filled in from the style you picked.
- File name — taken from your request. Small letters and underscores only; anything else is corrected as you type.
- Saves to — the exact path before anything happens, such as
assets/mymod/textures/item/ruby_sword.png. The mod id in it is read from your mod's own files; when it cannot be found there it is taken from the project name, and the window tells you to check it matches. - Press “Add texture”.
A name that is already taken
If the mod already has a texture with that name the window stops and says so: A texture called ruby_sword.png already exists. Nothing is overwritten by surprise. Where it can, it shows the picture that is there now beside the new one.
Two ways on: Replace it, which swaps the file and can be undone, or Save as ruby_sword_2.png, which keeps both.
After you press Add texture
A message confirms it — ruby_sword.png added to My Mod — with the next step as a button:
- from the chat: Show file, Ask the AI to use it and Undo
- from the Image Creator: Open My Mod and Undo
Undo takes the new file back out, or puts back the one you replaced. If the save does not go through, the window says The texture was not added. with the reason, and nothing is saved. The download button only appears when saving textures is not switched on yet: then the window says so and offers to download the prepared picture so you can put it in the folder yourself.
The file alone changes nothing in the game
A texture is only a picture in the right folder. Minecraft shows it when the mod has an item or block that points at it — the code that registers it, and the model file. Without those you see nothing new, or the purple-and-black missing-texture checkerboard.
Ask the AI to use it is the shortcut. It types a ready message into the chat box — "Use textures/item/ruby_sword.png for a Ruby Sword item in my mod." — and sends nothing. Press send yourself when you are ready: that is an ordinary AI run and costs credits. Then build the mod again, so the new jar carries the file.
Where to next
- Next in Minecraft Studio: Overview
- If the button is missing: Styles — The MC Item and MC Block styles that get the button.
- No mod project yet: Mod Generator — The mod project the picture goes into.
- Seeing it in game: Cloud Build — Building the mod again so the jar carries the file.
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