Questions
Short answers to the questions that come up.
Does a piece replace the armor trim?
No. A piece of armor carries its trim and its pieces at once, and a skin and a cloth besides.
Can two pieces share a socket?
No. Applying a new crest replaces the crest. Several pieces may be available for one socket (horns and helm wings both fit horns); the choice is the expressive act.
How do I take a piece off?
At the advanced smithing table. Put the armor in one of its four slots, pick the socket’s row and click Remove. What was in the piece’s fittings goes with it. The fitting icons beside a piece take just that fitting out; the armor’s own row holds its trim, skin and cloth.
The pieces on my hands are in the way.
Set "first_person_parts": false in config/armorpieces.json and restart. Only the first-person hand is affected; the pieces are still on your body and on everyone else’s.
Do I need the mod to add pieces?
You need the mod installed, but adding a piece takes no Java: a datapack and a resource pack. Only a brand-new effect type needs code. The editor writes both halves; the authoring guide is the reference.
Does the editor upload my work?
No. The hosted editor keeps your packs in your browser. Nothing leaves it unless you upload a pack to your library, link a folder, or export a zip. Pointing the editor at your copy of the game reads the textures into your browser and nowhere else.
Can I put pieces from the gallery in my own pack?
Yes, where the license allows it: every piece except those marked all rights reserved. Add to selection, then Build a pack. The mod’s own pieces can be composed for your own use and your own server.
Can I sell a pack?
That is between you and the licenses of the pieces in it; the site sells nothing and does not handle money. Within Minecraft’s own rules, sharing a pack at all counts as commercial use, so the guidelines apply to a free pack too.
Does an account change anything in the game?
Nothing, ever. The mod never talks to this site. A composed pack is a file you install like any other.
Do I need an account to download?
No. Every pack in the gallery, every published piece and every public outfit downloads without one, and so does a pack composed in the dressing room. An account is for keeping things - a library, saved packs, your own outfits - and for publishing.
Which version of the mod does a pack need?
The one its page says, under Needs; the same line is in the pack’s own pack.mcmeta, in an armorpieces section the game ignores and the mod reads. Every pack made here needs at least the version the site was built against, and an older mod refuses a newer pack by name rather than loading half of it. The mod itself is on Modrinth and CurseForge, never here.
I installed a pack and nothing shows.
Reopen the world. A pack’s pieces are read when the world loads - /reload does not pick up a new pack - and a resource pack half switched off under Resource Packs draws nothing even when the datapack half is in. See installing a pack.
Why is a piece missing from a pack’s download?
Because it is reserved, or still under review. A piece whose license is all rights reserved is downloadable from its author’s own pack and nowhere else, so a pack or an outfit that borrows it leaves it out and says so; a piece a maintainer has not looked at yet is not public until they have. The pack’s page lists what its public download leaves out, and why.
I uploaded a pack. Where did it go?
Into your library, under Packs. Its own page has the working list, Cut a version and Offer this pack to the gallery; nothing is public until a version is cut and offered, and a maintainer has approved each piece. What is waiting, and what was decided, is on the pack’s page and on your account page.