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Custom textures

FriendlyNightshade 2/21/26 4:39 pm
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3/11/2026 5:09 pm
im having trouble adding custom a texture to an item in my datapacks. can anyone help me? ive tried following many tutorials with no sucsess. :(
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FriendlyNightshade
Level 64 : High Grandmaster Pixel Painter Procrastinator
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ScotsMiser
02/21/2026 9:54 pm
Level 70 : Legendary Miner
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In what version are you working? (Your previous content suggests java 1.21.? – which would largely leave me out)

What item are you attempting to retexture? (and are you using CIT etc. or vanilla?)

Also, is your difficulty with getting the texture into the game, or with how to include it in the datapack?
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FriendlyNightshade
02/21/2026 10:37 pm
Level 64 : High Grandmaster Pixel Painter Procrastinator
Yeh in 1.21... example: i /give player a heart if the sea called a sculk orb. I would like it to have a custom texture. I have tried following tutorials on YouTube but I must be missing something as I cant get it to show a custom texture. It's just a vannila. I know how add it and replace the vannila icon but not for the custom item.
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Cteklyaxa
03/10/2026 12:55 am
He/Him • Level 39 : Artisan Cat
I found one of my datapacks that use them, try using the corresponding resource pack as a template
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FriendlyNightshade
03/11/2026 5:09 pm
Level 64 : High Grandmaster Pixel Painter Procrastinator
Thanks ill check it out.
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ScotsMiser
02/22/2026 1:13 am
Level 70 : Legendary Miner
Caveat: I'be done little with any of ythe 1.21 droppings and don't work with CIT etc. so take this with a large grain of salt.

It seems to me you could be trying to do one of two possible things:

1) you want the heart of the sea to have a custom tecture under certain circumstances. [This would be a cosmetic change only.]
One of the ways to do this is by using CIT [Custom Item Textures] which came out of MCPatcher [?] and is now dupported by a number of mods (including Optifine)

2) you want to intruduce a new (functionally different) item called a skulk orb. For this you need either a mod or something called a function datapack.
https://www.planetminecraft.com/forums/minecraft/datapacks/function-data-packs-for-dummies-a-tutorial-blog-series-604217/ is linked from pmc's datapack page, but I've not done this so cannot comment on the contents of that tutorial.

Hopefully someone who is actually facile with what you're attempting will respond.
(If you've already gone through the linked tute, listing specific questions might generate more and/or better answers. )
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Cteklyaxa
03/09/2026 3:04 pm
He/Him • Level 39 : Artisan Cat
AY AY AY stop you dont need mods for that. check out some tutorials for using custom model data. Also make sure its a tutorial for the right version, the mechanics of this feature changed in 1.21.2
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Cteklyaxa
03/09/2026 3:05 pm
He/Him • Level 39 : Artisan Cat
i found one for 1.21.2+
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ScotsMiser
03/09/2026 6:27 pm
Level 70 : Legendary Miner
THX, bookmarked against furure need.
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