MCREATOR TOOLS

MODELING SOFTWARE

There is many programs for making models, the MCreator community mostly prefers to use Blockbench, however there are some other options for model making software as well.

BLOCKBENCH

• Support:
  Can be used to model MCreator Blocks, items, entities, and projectiles.

• ​OS:
  Linux, Mac, and Windows

• Price:
  Free

• Website:
  LINK

MR CRAYFISH'S MODEL CREATOR

• Support:
  Can be used to model MCreator Blocks and items

• OS:
  Linux, Mac, and Windows

• Price:
  Free

• Website:
  LINK

BLENDER

• Support: 
  Can be used to model MCreator blocks and items.

• OS:
  Linux, Mac, and Windows

• Price:
  Free / Open Source

• Website:
  LINK

CUBIK STUDIO

• Usage: 
  Can be used to model MCreator blocks, items, and projectiles.

• OS:
  Linux, Mac, and Windows

• Price:
  €19.90

• Website:
  LINK

AUDIO​ EDITORS & MAKERS

Most mods will not require these but there may be a time where you may want to make your own music or compile sounds into OGG audio format for use in your Minecraft mod. I own FL Studio and Audacity and both are great programs however LMMS is another option for an alternative for FL Studio for making music.

AUDACITY

• Usage: 
  Editing audio tracks or export to OGG format.

• OS:
  Mac or Windows

• Price:
  Free / Open Source

• Website:
  LINK

LMMS

• Usage: 
  Can make your own music.

• OS:
  Linux, Mac, and Windows

• Price:
  Free / Open Source

• Website:
  LINK

FL STUDIO

• Usage: 
  A basic program for editing or creating images.

• OS:
  Linux, Mac, and Windows

• Price:
  Free / Open Source

• Website:
  LINK

IMAGE EDITORS

Making textures for your mod is an important part of making mods. These programs allow you to make textures for pretty much anything and are great for making great quality images. I personalty prefer Paint Dot Net and use this for everything from making my video thumbnails to resizing images or texture making for Minecraft.

PAINT DOT NET

• Usage: 
  A basic program for editing or creating images.

• OS:
  Windows Only

• Price:
  Free

• Website:
  LINK

GIMP

• Usage: 
  A basic program for editing or creating images.

• OS:
  Linux, Mac, and Windows

• Price:
  Free / Open Source

• Website:
  LINK

ARCHIVE SOFTWARE

I have used both of these archive programs in the past I personalty prefer 7Zip due to it not having any popups, both will do the same thing with no major difference in speed or performance. You will need this to access JAR files to obtain Minecraft's resources.

7ZIP

• Usage: 
  Can open JAR files and compress folders in to ZIP or 7ZIP files

• OS: 
  Windows

• Price: 
  Free / Open source

• Website: 
  LINK

WINRAR

• Usage: 
  Can open JAR files and compress folders into ZIP or RAR files.

• OS: 
  Linux, Mac, and Windows

• Price: 
  Free / Popup is for a disk with other software on it.

• Website: 
  LINK

SOURCE EDITORS

These editors are made for editing source code such and can help assist you with editing JSON file files and more. I use Notepad++ however from a quick overview on ATOM it looks like it would be also a good alternative for Mac and Linux users.

NOTEPAD++

• Usage: 
  Designed for editing code like JSON files.

• OS: 
  Windows

• Price: 
  Free

• Website: 
  LINK

ATOM

• Usage: 
  Designed for editing code like JSON files.

• OS: 
  Linux, Mac, and Windows

• Price: 
  Free / Open source

• Website: 
  LINK

WEBSITE CREATORS

Maybe one of the most important things is having a nice looking website for your wiki, recipes and gallery. If your looking for a free way do promote your mod you can do that with the two sites below.

GOOGLE SITES

• Usage: 
  A fast and easy way to many a website, but it has limitations.

• OS: 
  Any

• Price: 
  Free / Free + domain

• Website: 
  LINK

WIX

• Usage: 
  Requires very little knowledge of websites and has a bit more features.

• OS: 
  Any

• Price: 
  Free with Wix ads / Paid + domain

• Website: 
  LINK