What it does
New Project Starter
Start and extend your Minecraft projects from a growing set of GitHub-hosted sources of samples and
content. Start on the
website and select from the gallery of projects. Add new items
from the set of Minecraft samples. With
command line tools, use the
create command to start a new project, and
add to add
additional elements.
Project Editor
Minecraft Creator Tools includes editors for various files including JavaScript and JSON: editing JavaScript or
TypeScript, the Project Editor includes a modern editor with autocomplete and built-in support for Minecraft
types, plus a rich array of code snippets.
Accessibility Support
Where possible, additional capabilities are provided to help make Minecraft Creator Tools accessible to all users.
This section discusses using some of these tools and features.
Tab Trapping
By default, pressing Tab in the JavaScript/JSON editor inserts the Tab character and does not navigate to the next focusable element on the page.
You can toggle the trapping of Tab with Ctrl+M on Windows and Linux and with Ctrl+Shift+M on OSX, and subsequent Tab keys will move focus out of the editor.
Validation and Analytics
Minecraft Creator Tools includes a suite of tests and analytics that can be used to build reports across
projects. It can output reports as an HTML file, in addition to being displayed within the site.
To use the validator, use "Choose file" in the Validate/Inspect Tool to select a zip file from your local device
that contains project files. This can be any typical zip of a Minecraft project: an MCAddon file, an MCPack
file, or a ZIP file where you have behavior packs under behavior_packs and resource packs under resource_packs.
Note that these ZIP files are temporarily stored and locally processed within your browser.
Validation results are displayed in the "Inspector" section of the application. Note that there are different
suites of tests that you can use. You can also opt to download the results in comma-separated-value (CSV)
format or web page (HTML) format.
Apps
Command Line Tools
Command line tools let you access the power of creator tools from a command line. You can also integrate
this into broader processes or project-level tasks.
Command line tools are available via the
@minecraft/creator-tools page on
NPM. To install via NPM, install
nodejs tools and then run
npm -i @minecraft/creator-tools
from a command line. See the
NPM page for more documentation and sample command lines.