There are many, many resources, websites, mods, discord servers, and other links that people playing technical minecraft might find useful. This is an attempt at collecting and categorizing some of them.
Starring or bookmarking this gist may be useful :)
Contents:
- Specialized Resource Collections
- Learning/Informational Resources
- Educational Video Playlists
- Tools
- Infographics
- Programs
- Code
- Lists of mods
- Scarpet App Repositories
- Discord servers
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Resources to learn advanced Redstone | Collection of Resources to learn advanced Redstone by pwouik |
| TNT Archive Resources | An updated version of the TNT Cannoning Resources gist, compiled for the TNT Archive discord. This version by intricate |
| fnseedc | Collection of resources for Minecraft Seedcracking Scene |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Minecraft Wiki | The (no longer official) Minecraft Wiki. |
| Technical Minecraft Wiki | Also "Technical Minecraft Documentation Repo" or "TMC Wiki" |
| Minecraft Snapshot Reverse Engineering | by Tis_awesomeness |
| Minecraft Game Phase | Game Phase List and History |
| Sl1m's Optimal Every Platform Timeline (Of Doom) | "Minecraft Complete Optimized Timeline & Guide": a Version History information sheet and world conversion guide. |
| Storage Tech Dictionary | |
| On redstone timings and piston mechanics | Document By Space Walker. |
| 1.14.x Chunk Loading | An overview of chunk loading mechanics in Minecraft 1.14, tested empirically in 1.14.4. Document by Drocolon. |
| Beginner's Guide to Update Skipping | An explainer and walk-through for how to use Update Skipping |
| Minecraft Mob Spawning | An article/writeup on the mechanics related to mob spawning in 1.19 |
| TNT Archive | A compilation of TNT cannon-related tech. |
| Discontinued Features Wiki | Wiki for information on discontinued features from all editions of Minecraft. |
| Minecraft Parkour Wiki | A wiki documenting the mechanics of parkour, mainly for Minecraft Java Edition 1.8 |
| Threadstone Wiki | A respository containing articles explaining bugs and mechanics related to minecraft falling block and threadstone. |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Dissecting Minecraft | 16-part Video Series by LogicalGeekBoy & Methodz. |
| Fun Farms | Video series on farm making by Gnembon, which also convers a lot of the design process and explanations of mechanics. |
| Practical Redstone | Video series on the basics of redstone components by Emdy |
| Practical Redstone Reloaded | Revamp of the series above, also by Emdy |
| Learn About Redstone! | Video series on redstone basics, geared towards computational redstone, by iPlayGames |
| Compact Redstone: A Piston Door Making View | by MYuen22 |
| Learn Logical Redstone | A video series on logical/computational redstone by mattbatwings |
| Logical Redstone Reloaded | A revamp of the above "Learn Logical Redstone" series, also by mattbatwings |
| Redstone... QUICK | Introductory series by Nico is LOST |
| Encoded Storagetech | A (mostly unstructured) playlist containing videos on the topic of Minecraft encoded storage tech, and related (splitters, mergers, box processing or other stuff commonly used in encoded storages). |
| Explaining minecraft | Technical explanation videos of how complex game mechanics work. By amplitude |
| Lets Learn Redstone | Accessible introductory redstone course, aimed at casual survival gameplay |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Minecraft Property Encyclopedia | A repository of information on blocks, entities and items in minecraft, displayed in a filterable and sortable table. Very biased addition :P |
| Minecraft.tools | Tools for Creative mode, including command and datapack generation |
| Mapmaking.fr | Give command generator, +some mics tools |
| MCStacker.net | Comprehensive command generator |
| Online Litematic Viewer | Web-based 3d renderer for .litematic files |
| Carpet Rules Database | Searchable index of all the rules available in Carpet Mod and its extensions |
| Carpet Config Creator | A searchable list of carpet rules that lets you customize and generate config files. |
| RSEditor | Online 2d redstone drawing |
| MCUUID.net | Website to lookup, convert, and resolve Minecraft Usernames and UUIDs |
| Chunkbase | Various seed maps for different structures, biomes and slime chunks, among others. |
| Dimension datapack generator | Custom dimension datapack generator |
| Online NBT Editor | Tool to edit any .nbt, .dat, or .dat_old file online |
| Amethyst tool | Tool to maximze in-range budding amethyst blocks |
| Minecraft enchantment ordering tool | Opimizes for number of levels used |
| Minecraft Enchant Order Calculator | Optimizes for amount of xp used |
| Enchant optimally! | Optimizes for number of levels used. Supports both simple single-enchant combinations and multi-enchant item merging, as well as a mode for 1.14-1.14.2 "God Armor" |
| anvil-calc | An enchantment order calculator written in rust and interfaced with through yaml. |
| Hopper clock timer calculator | Calculate the necessary amount of item to reach a desired time on a hopper timer. The original link ( |
| Portal Model | A technical writeup and 2-dimensional interactive model of Minecraft's nether portal finding algorithm. By enbyd |
| Misode Data Pack Generators | Many different data pack generators, including loot tables, predicate and worldgen. |
| Linkie | A tool to look up classes, methods and fields in various different code mappings, with support for translating to other mappings. |
| Minecraft Trim Generator | "Design your own armor trim setup with ease and make it match your skin. You can also read how to find all the trims futher down." |
| ArmorTrims.com | Armor trim selector/viewer, similar to the above. |
| Rebane MapartCraft | A mapart schematic and map.dat generator |
| MCBE Essentials | A number of editors, generators, visualizers and converters, aimed primarily at bedrock edition |
| Block Break Times | Block breaking time calculator |
| Breaking Time Calculator Spreadsheet | Note: click File>Make a copy to edit values |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Optimal MC Enchant order for anvils | Optimizes for number of levels used, by BKraker & Deego |
| Trading and Bartering Guide | From the Minecraft Wiki |
| Brewing flowchart | From the Minecraft Wiki |
| Ore distribution sheet | From the Minecraft Wiki |
If you wish to read the decompiled source code of minecraft then you mainly have three different options:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Fabric example mod | Lets you set up a template mod environment for the fabric mod toolchain and explore the code though that. Uses Yarn mappings by default, but can be configured to use Mojmaps too. |
| DecompilerMC | Allows you to decompile any minecraft version that was published after 19w36a, using Mojang mappings. |
| MCP-Reborn | Uses Modcoderpack (MCP) mappings |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| "A list of (almost all) mods for fabric" | |
| Server-side Fabric mods | |
| Archive of Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 mods | |
| OptiFine Alternatives | An introduction to why OptiFine is no longer regarded as the go-to utility/performance mod, and a list of alternative mods that can replace its various features |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| CommandLeo's mods | |
| CommandLeo's mods, forked by SandyS | |
| Krebs' mods | |
| Storage Tech Mod List | A list of only the mods which are useful for storage tech, by KikuGie |
TMC Catalogue - "TMCC"
Mob Farm Archive (dead) - "MFA"
Autocrafting Archive - "ACA"