Plushie Friends Data Pack Guide

This guide explains how to create a data pack to add custom pre-defined plushies with unique textures and lore, and how to inject them into loot tables.

Data Pack Structure

Your data pack must follow this exact folder structure:

my_custom_plushies/
├── pack.mcmeta
└── data/
    └── mymodpack/
        ├── loot_tables/
        │   └── chests/
        │       └── abandoned_mineshaft.json
        └── plushies/
            └── salad_plushie.json

Replace mymodpack with your own unique namespace using lowercase letters.

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1. Pack Metadata (pack.mcmeta)

Create a file named pack.mcmeta at the root of your data pack folder.

{
  "pack": {
    "pack_format": 15,
    "description": "Custom Plushies Data Pack"
  }
}

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2. Defining a Custom Plushie

Create a JSON file inside data/<namespace>/plushies/. The name of this file will be your plushie ID.

Example file: data/mymodpack/plushies/salad_plushie.json

{
  "owner_name": "SaladSyrup",
  "lore": [
    "This guy is a piece of Lettuce",
    "Why is the picture a goose"
  ]
}

Fields

• owner_name: The Minecraft username of the player skin you want the plushie to display.
• lore: A list of text lines that will appear as a gray tooltip description under the plushie’s name when hovering over the item.

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3. Adding Plushies to Loot Tables

To make your pre-defined plushie drop from chests or blocks, you must use the custom loot function plushie-friends:set_plushie inside a loot table.

Example file overwriting the vanilla abandoned mineshaft chest: data/minecraft/loot_tables/chests/abandoned_mineshaft.json

{
  "type": "minecraft:chest",
  "pools": [
    {
      "rolls": 1,
      "entries": [
        {
          "type": "minecraft:item",
          "name": "plushie-friends:plushie",
          "functions": [
            {
              "function": "plushie-friends:set_plushie",
              "id": "mymodpack:salad_plushie"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Loot Function Details

• function: Always set this to plushie-friends:set_plushie.
• id: The full resource identifier of your plushie definition file (<namespace>:<plushie_id>).