[SOLVED] compressing jar file for minecraft?

garpu · 08-11-2019, 01:11 PM

So I'm on Minecraft 1.14.4, forge 28.0.45 (check out GDLauncher. It's nifty.) I've got the Treasure Bags mod, and I'm trying to tweak the starting bag loot table.

I uncompressed the jar archive with Ark. I edited the file, then compressed it as a jar archive, also with Ark. It's not being recognized by Forge as a jar archive.

If Ark doesn't work, what should I be using? (OpenJDK is installed.)

ehartman · 08-11-2019, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by garpu

If Ark doesn't work, what should I be using? (OpenJDK is installed.)

A .jar file is a renamed .zip file, so use zip to create it (the info-zip one, not 7zip or ark that can UNzip but do not create the right headers to ZIP it again).

garpu · 08-11-2019, 01:33 PM

Awesome, thanks! I figured it out, though. If I use Ark to replace the file I changed, it works. Next time I'll use zip instead.