Better Leaves Lite Wiki

Welcome to the Better Leaves Lite wiki.
This documentation aims to help you create your own flavour for any texturepack or mod.

Getting Started

First of all, you need to download the contents of the GitHub repository.
To do so, you can either download the zip file, or just execute

git clone https://github.com/TeamMidnightDust/BetterLeavesLite.git

in a terminal window.

Texturepacks

You can easily create a build for any texturepack.
Just add the pack to the input/texturepacks/ folder.
After that, follow the Building section to get your flavour!

Mods

In simple cases, it is enough to put the mod file in the /input/mods folder and continue with the Building section.
If you see missing textures when trying your freshly-built pack, the mod has a more complicated asset structure.
In these cases, you unfortunately have to manually configure exceptions in the /input/overrides.json file.

{
    // Leaves that should not be tinted based on the biome they're in
    "noTint": [
        "minecraft:azalea_leaves",
        "minecraft:flowering_azalea_leaves"
    ],
    // For mods that add leaf carpets/piles, you need to map them to the respective leaf block
    "leavesWithCarpet": {
        "terrestria:sakura_leaves": "terrestria:sakura_leaf_pile"
    },
    // If a mod uses a different texture for the block compared to the item
    "blockTextures": {
        "biomesoplenty:rainbow_birch_leaves": "minecraft:block/birch_leaves"
    },
    // For leaf blocks that use multiple textures (typically used for fruit leafs)
    "overlayTextures": {
        "biomesoplenty:pine_leaves": "biomesoplenty:block/pine_leaves_overlay"
    },
    // For blocks that are named differently from their texture
    "blockIds": {
        "terrestria:japanese_maple_leaves_dark": "terrestria:dark_japanese_maple_leaves"
    },
    // Define the respective Dynamic Trees addon namespace for any mod
    "dynamicTreesNamespaces": {
        "minecraft": "dynamictrees",
        "aether": "dtaether"
    }
}

Building

To build your flavour of the pack, you need to have Python installed on your system.
You can get it on any modern operating system.

winget install -e --id Python.Python.3.13.1

pacman -S python

brew install python

Now that you have python installed, head back into the BetterLeavesLite directory.
Here, you should now open a terminal window and run

python3 gen_pack.py yourversionname

And in no time, the script will generate a ready-to-use zip file with your specified name.