wooden sword just black

[gentle bane]

!faq java-1.19.3-textures

[astral atlas]

General Information:
The game creates a "texture atlas" (combination of all textures into one file) for block/item models.
For performance reasons as of Java 1.19.3 the game by default only loads textures from within textures/item and textures/block (and any folders within those two folders) into that atlas instead of reading through every model for the relevant textures.

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Making the game load from custom directories
If you want the game to add textures from other directories (that are still somewhere within the "textures" folder) to that atlas you will need to create a blocks.json file in YourPack/assets/minecraft/atlases:

Example blocks.json

{
    "sources": [
        {
            "type": "directory",
            "source": "custom",
            "prefix": "custom/"
        }
    ]
}```
This example would make the game add _all_ textures that are within `textures/custom` to the atlas. This **even** applies to images that are not used by your models, so keep your pack clean for better performance and smaller size!.

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**Additional/more specific information**:
If you have several custom directories you can add several json objects in the "sources" list/array.
blocks.json's of different packs combine btw, so you don't need to worry that one pack will stop another pack from loading their textures.

Here is also an example pack from a Minecraft dev (boq) with some more specific examples (like only using the face part of the default pig texture instead of loading all entity textures or the whole pig texture): <https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/593812273164976166/1042452631743901756/sprites.zip>

The official blog post with the changes (you will have to scroll down quite a bit for the relevant information): <https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-22w46a>

[nova tundra]

its 1.20.1

[gentle bane]

Yeah, and that change is as of 1.19.3, which 1.20.1 falls under

[nova tundra]

oh okay

[nova tundra]

it didnt work

[gentle bane]

what did you do exactly?

[nova tundra]

do i do blocks.json for everything?

i did item.json

[gentle bane]

item.json is not a thing

it needs to literally be called blocks.json

[nova tundra]

even if i didnt do a block

[gentle bane]

because it's the blocks atlas (which both block and item models use)

[nova tundra]

ohh

[gentle bane]

they all use the same textures, so they share the same atlas and it had to be named after one of the two (which happened to be blocks)

[nova tundra]

it just looks like a shadow in the hotbar

oh i have it laying sideways in blockbench