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Translations

Minecraft has a directory in the assets where translations are provided. This will allow the name of a backpack to be displayed in the language players set in their game. There must be at least a US English translation (denoted by en_us) as this is the default and fallback langauge. Adding support for more languages is completely optional, you can find a list of the locale codes on the Minecraft Wiki.

  1. In your assets directory, create the directory structure: assets/<namespace>/lang/. If you downloaded the Base Addon Pack from the Assets page, the directory should have already be created, just make sure to change the example namespace as mentioned in the Getting Started section.
  2. Create a file named en_us.json in the lang folder, then open the file with a text editor and simply add {} to the contents.
  3. Save the file.
Example

If the namespace for your addon pack is more_backpacks, the directory would be assets/more_backpacks/lang/. Any translation files would have the path of assets/more_backpacks/lang/<locale_code>.json.

Defining Backpack Translations​

Every backpack has it's translation key created based on the namespace and the name used to register the backpack. If the namespace of the addon is more_backpacks and the name of the backpack is panda_bag, the translation key would be generated as: backpack.more_backpacks.panda_bag

Steps​

  1. Open the en_us.json file from the lang folder in a text editor.
  2. Enter your backpack translation keys as described above, and provide a value to them as shown in the code block below.
en_us.json
{
    "backpack.namespace.your_backpack_name": "Backpack Name",
    "backpack.namespace.another_backpack_name": "Another Backpack Name"
}
  1. Save the file, and verify the translation are working by starting up the game with the addon pack loaded. The translation values should be visible in the backpack customisation menu, and it should no longer show the translation keys.

❌ Untranslated backpack:

Test

✅ Translated backpack:

Test

Next Step​

It's time to add a challenge to unlock the backpack and give the player a fun goal!