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Installing a Data Pack on your Minecraft ServerStill have questions?
Jay Miller
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How to Install Data Packs on your Minecraft Server
Data packs are a feature available for Minecraft worlds in versions 1.13 and later. They can add or override existing advancements, structures, recipes, and more.
Data Packs
The data pack system is a feature that is exclusively available to Minecraft Java Edition. To add similar customizations on Bedrock Edition servers, refer to this guide: How to Install Behaviour Packs on your Minecraft Server.
Data packs can be added to single-player or multiplayer worlds, and the installation process is the same.
#Installing a Data Pack on your Minecraft Server
To install a data pack, you must upload it to your datapacks folder found within your world files.
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Download the data packs that you would like to use.
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Navigate to your Control Panel and Shut Down your server.
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Access your server files and navigate to
/world/datapacks.
Note
This step assumes that you have not changed the name of your world. If your world has a different name than world, you will want to navigate into /datapacks instead.
- Upload your datapacks to this folder.
Data packs are distributed in a ZIP format. If the data pack is from Vanilla Tweaks, you must unzip the file first before uploading it to your server.
- Start your server.
After installation, you may view and manage your data packs by using the /datapack command.