Extension Pack for MC Datapack Devs

These are the extensions I would recommend you to use to develop Minecraft: Java Edition projects (Datapacks, Maps, etc.), from a personal perspective.

What's Included and Why

Datapack Helper Plus by Spyglass

The best data pack language support you can find, providing you with real-time error reporting, auto-completion, semantic coloring, and code navigation tools. This includes mcfunction and JSON files in data packs.

Syntax-Mcfunction

A dependency of Datapack Helper Plus that provides syntax highlighting. It does not provide any auto-completion or syntax validations on its own. Nice to have it installed because the above does not activate on individual mcfunction files.

MC Datapack Utility

Provides you with some extra features on data pack development, like creating data packs from template, converting formule into scoreboard commands, creating function files without typing the .mcfunction extension name, etc.

Shader languages support for VS Code

If you need some shader magic for your project, then you'll probably need an extension to provide support for the glsl language.

NBT Viewer

This extension lets you view and edit nbt binary files. It also shows a 3D block view for sturcture files.

Mcdoc Syntax Highlighting

Datapack Helper Plus now allows you customize NBT auto-completion by writing a .mcdoc file. Be sure to take advantage of that!

Misc

Disclaimer

The creator of this extension pack is not necessarily involved in the development of any of the extensions included. If you have an issue with a particular extension, please visit them instead.

If you have any issue or suggestions related to this extension pack, please submit an issue in the githun repository.

Happy coding.