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"Are you sure you want to load this pack?" | A Guide on Updating Your Resource Packs

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Published Jan 27th, 2024, 1/27/24 8:37 pm
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Hippopotamoss
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A Guide on Updating Your Resource Packs

If you've downloaded old resource packs, or just updated to a new version of Minecraft, there's a good chance that you'll get a popup when you try loading a resource pack, saying "This pack was made for an older version of Minecraft and may no longer work correctly."

Don't worry though... we can fix that!


Usually, the pack will still work if you just click past the popup (sometimes it won’t, in which case something the pack uses has changed within Minecraft itself).

However, if you want to remove this popup and/or find it annoying (I know I do lol), there is a simple solution.

This popup is caused by one single number inside the resource pack being out of date. To fix this value and remove the popup, you simply need to go into the resource pack and change the number!

You can do this by going into the resource pack folder, opening the file called “pack.mcmeta” in a text editor (eg. notepad, wordpad) and changing the number next to "pack_format" to the current number being used. After that, just save the file and the popup should be gone!

Additionally, if you use multiple versions of Minecraft frequently, and do not feel like changing the pack format value every time you switch, you can add a parameter to pack.mcmeta called “supported_formats”. This parameter will remove the popup for every version you specify (make sure the pack will work properly in every version you specify first)

There are a few formats usable with this parameter, but the suggested one is using “min_inclusive” and “max_inclusive”. These sub-parameters define the minimum and maximum supported versions, respectively.


Here is an example of a full pack.mcmeta file with the “supported_formats” parameter:
(Text inside parentheses is additional info, leave this text out of your version)

{
  "pack": {
    "pack_format": 22, (Main version of pack)
    "supported_formats": {
      "min_inclusive": 18, (Minimum supported version)
      "max_inclusive": 31 (Maximum supported version)           
    },                  
    "description": "Description of the pack"            
  }                        
}                                 


The current pack format value is 55 for full release and 58 for snapshots


List of All Pack Formats by Version (Full Releases in Bold)
1
13w24a–1.8.9 (1.6.1–1.8.9)
2
15w31a–1.10.2 (1.9–1.10.2)
3
16w32a–18w47a (1.11–1.12.2)
4
18w48a–19w46b (1.13–1.14.4)
5
1.15-pre1–1.16.2-pre3 (1.15–1.16.1)
6
1.16.2-rc1–1.16.5 (1.16.2–1.16.5)
7
20w45a–21w38a (1.17–1.17.1)
8
21w39a–1.18.2 (1.18–1.18.2)
9
22w11a–1.19.2 (1.19–1.19.2)
10
N/A
11
22w42a–22w44a
12
22w45a–23w07a (1.19.3)
13
1.19.4-pre1–23w13a (1.19.4)
14
23w14a–23w16a
15
23w17a–1.20.1 (1.20–1.20.1)
16
23w31a
17
23w32a–1.20.2-pre1
18
1.20.2-pre2–23w41a (1.20.2)
19
23w42a
20
23w43a–23w44a
21
23w45a–23w46a
22
1.20.3-pre1–23w51b (1.20.3–1.20.4)
23
N/A
24
24w03a–24w04a
25
24w05a–24w05b
26
24w06a-24w07a
27
24w09a
28
24w09a-24w10a
29
24w11a
30
24w12a
31
24w13a-1.20.5-pre3
32
1.20.5-pre4-1.20.6 (1.20.5-1.20.6)
33
24w18a-24w20a
34
24w21a-1.21.1 (1.21-1.21.1)
35
24w33a
36
24w34a-24w35a
37
24w36a
38
24w37a
39
24w38a-24w39a
40
24w40a
41
1.21.2-pre1-1.21.2-pre2
42
1.21.2-pre3-1.21.3 (1.21.2-1.21.3)
43
24w44a
44
24w45a
45
24w46a
46
1.21.4-pre1-1.21.4 (1.21.4)
47
25w02a
48
25w03a
49
25w04a
50
25w05a
51
25w06a
52
25w07a
53
25w08a-25w09a
54
25w10a
55
1.21.5-pre1-1.21.5 (1.21.5)
56
25w15a
57
25w16a
58
25w17a
CreditScotsmiser for idea on list of values, Awoolanche for idea on info about supported_formats parameter
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Weekly Snapshot Update : by Hippopotamoss 04/23/2025 8:12:25 pmtoday

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Fox551175
• 02/02/2025 2:47 pm
• Level 1 : New Miner
it saves it as txt
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Hippopotamoss
• 02/02/2025 4:16 pm
They/Them • Level 62 : High Grandmaster Blueberry Botanist
Sorry, do you mean your pack.mcmeta is saving as a txt file instead? If that's the case then you should be able to just rename the extension to mcmeta. It might give you a warning when you do that but it's fine to ignore.
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Awoolanche
• 01/22/2025 4:01 pm
• Level 65 : High Grandmaster Collective
At this rate we'll see pack version 100 before they start making substantial updates.
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Hippopotamoss
• 02/02/2025 4:17 pm
They/Them • Level 62 : High Grandmaster Blueberry Botanist
lol yeah they've really changed their philosophy for when to update the version
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ScotsMiser
• 08/30/2024 2:40 pm
• Level 60 : High Grandmaster Miner
per www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-24w35a

Technical Changes
The Data Pack version is now 51
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Useott
• 04/18/2024 7:38 am
He/Him • Level 55 : Grandmaster Procrastinator Modder
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I usually set the minimum version to 15 and the maximum to an number higher than the current snapshot one (who knows when it is getting changed again?)
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Hippopotamoss
• 04/18/2024 8:44 am
They/Them • Level 62 : High Grandmaster Blueberry Botanist
The snapshot one got updated two days ago (to 32); it gets updated every time they change anything with resource packs, which has been tending to be about once a week with recent snapshots.
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Useott
• 04/18/2024 12:13 pm
He/Him • Level 55 : Grandmaster Procrastinator Modder
I have Sonic Bumpers' max pack version set to 40
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Hippopotamoss
• 04/18/2024 12:46 pm
They/Them • Level 62 : High Grandmaster Blueberry Botanist
So you'll probably be good for a while lol. I tend not to set a number higher than what's come out just cuz I want to double check that the pack actually works in that version, but most of the time nothing important changes so it's all good anyway
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Useott
• 02/13/2025 7:19 pm
He/Him • Level 55 : Grandmaster Procrastinator Modder
awesome birch forests' pack version supports up to 100, and we'll reach that number before 1.23
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