Making a cutom resource pack

If you want to customize visual elements of the mod, you can create your own custom resource pack.

Doing so will enable you to change or translate every text line used by the mod, and also change to default skin that is applied to all players (if the gamerule showSkins is set to true).

First steps

First, create a folder with your resource pack name (it can be whatever you want!). Then, inside of this folder, create a file named pack.mcmeta. This file is very important: it tells the game that it is indeed a resource pack.

Now, edit the pack.mcmeta file with your favorite text editor, and write the following:

{
  "pack": {
    "description": "An awesome description for an awesome resource pack",
    "pack_format": 34
  }
}

You can now close the pack.mcmeta file. Now, inside your resource pack's main folder, create a folder named assets, and inside it make another folder name molehunt.

You file tree you look like that:

📁 MyAwesomeResourcePack
├── 📄 pack.mcmeta
└── 📁 assets
    └── 📁 molehunt

Adding a custom skin

To add a custom skin, first you need to make one. You can either use your own skin, or make a new one using a minecraft skin editor (there are a lot online).

Then grab your skin file (make sure it's a .png file!), name it skin.png and put it inside a textures folder, inside the molehunt folder. It should look like that:

...
📁 assets
└── 📁 molehunt
    └── 📁 textures
        └── 📄 skin.png

Now everyone in the game will be wearing your custom skin!

Changing the mod's text

Finally, if the mod's text doesn't suit you, or if you want to translate it to another language, you can!

First, create a new folder in the molehunt folder named lang, then create a en_us.json file.

Now copy the content of the default en_us.json file in you language file, and start editing the lines you want to change!

Finally, your file structure should look like that:

...
📁 assets
└── 📁 molehunt
    └── 📁 lang
        └── 📄 en_us.json
        └── 📄 en_pt.json
        └── etc.

(You can have only one, or multiple language files, it doesn't matter)

Minecraft formatting codes are supported in titles and subtitles.

Final file tree, and installing your resource pack

If you followed every step of this tutorial, the final resource pack should look like this:

📁 MyAwesomeResourcePack
├── 📄 pack.mcmeta
├── 📄 pack.png (optional)
└── 📁 assets
    └── 📁 molehunt
        ├── 📁 textures
        │   └── 📄 skin.png
        └── 📁 lang
            └── 📄 en_us.json
            └── 📄 en_pt.json
            └── etc.

To install it on your client, simply put your awesome resource pack in the resourcepacks folder of your .minecraft folder.

If you want, you can zip it to make sharing it easier, but it is not required.

Default `en_us.json` language file

Here's the default en_us.json file. You can use it as a template to customize the mod's text lines.

{
  "commands.molehunt.error.game_not_started": "The Molehunt game has not been started yet.",
  "commands.molehunt.timer.show": "Showing Molehunt timer.",
  "commands.molehunt.timer.hide": "Hiding Molehunt timer.",
  "commands.molehunt.role.mole": "§cYou are a Mole.\nKill all the survivors before the timer runs out.",
  "commands.molehunt.role.mole.list": "§eThe moles are: %s",
  "commands.molehunt.role.survivor": "§aYou are not the Mole. \nSurvive until the timer runs out, and try to discover who's the Mole.",
  "commands.molehunt.role.survivor.mole_count": "§eThere are %d §emoles among you.",
  "commands.molehunt.stop.success": "The Molehunt game has been stopped.",
  "molehunt.game.end.suspense.title": "§eAnd the winners are...",
  "molehunt.game.end.winners.moles.title": "§cThe Moles!",
  "molehunt.game.end.winners.survivors.title": "§aNot the Moles!",
  "molehunt.game.end.winners.subtitle": "§6The Moles were %s",
  "molehunt.game.start.suspense": "§eYou are...",
  "molehunt.game.start.mole.title": "§cThe Mole!",
  "molehunt.game.start.mole.subtitle": "§eGet the list of moles with §6/molehunt role§e.",
  "molehunt.game.start.survivor.title": "§aNot the Mole!",
  "molehunt.game.start.survivor.subtitle": "§eTry to survive and find out who's the mole!",
  "gamerule.molehunt:gameDuration": "Molehunt: Duration of a game",
  "gamerule.molehunt:molePercentage": "Molehunt: Percentage of Mole",
  "gamerule.molehunt:moleCount": "Molehunt: Number of Mole",
  "gamerule.molehunt:showNametags": "Molehunt: Show players' nametag",
  "gamerule.molehunt:showTab": "Molehunt: Enable the tab",
  "gamerule.molehunt:showSkins": "Molehunt: Show players' skin",
  "gamerule.molehunt:initialWorldSize": "Molehunt: Initial world size",
  "gamerule.molehunt:finalWorldSize": "Molehunt: Final world size",
  "gamerule.molehunt:borderMovingStartingTimeOffsetMinutes": "Molehunt: Time before moving the borders"
}

Last modified: 18 March 2026