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Loading Screens

A Loading Screen restyles the screen Minecraft shows while resource packs load: normally red, with the Mojang Studios logo and a white bar. Yours can have its own colours, your server's name and logo, an effect like falling snow or rising embers, and a progress bar to match.

Six Loading Screens made in Studio: a pastel marshmallow, a Halloween pumpkin, a beach sunset, a winter snowflake, an arcade joystick and a racing flag

Making one#

Press Add asset and pick the Loading Screen tab. Either:

  • Describe it ("a spooky Halloween server called Grimfall"). Studio designs the colours, effect, words and bar, which costs 5 AI Credits and takes a few seconds; or
  • Pick a look, which is free: Winter Night, Nether, Starfield, Firefly Forest, Thunderstorm, Royal Gold, Ocean, Clean, or Recoloured (Minecraft's own screen and logo in a colour of your choosing). The name you give it becomes the title on the screen.

Either way it opens in the editor.

The editor#

The screen plays live, as the game draws it: the effects move and the bar fills. A Loading Screen is made of layers, listed on the left; click one (or click it on the screen) to change it on the right. Press + (or N) to add a layer, drag layers in the list to reorder them, and press Delete to remove one.

  • Words: a title, or a smaller line such as your server's address, as many as six with the pictures. Each has its own font (Chunky, the default; Classic; or Tiny, which keeps lower case), size, colour or two-colour gradient, outline, bold and letter spacing. They stack top to bottom in the order listed.
  • Pictures: your logo as pixel art, up to two. Best up to 128 by 64 pixels and 12 colours; bigger ones are shrunk to fit.
  • Effects: snow, rain, stars, embers, sparkles, fireflies, bubbles, petals, hearts or confetti, in any colour and amount, up to three at once.
  • Minecraft's logo: keep the Mojang Studios logo and restyle the screen round it.
  • Background: one colour, a gradient (top to bottom, out from the middle, or corner to corner), or a pattern of two colours (stripes, a checkerboard, or a sunburst that slowly turns), with an optional glow behind the logo.
  • Bar: the frame and fill colours, solid, a gradient along the bar, moving stripes or segments, and an optional colour for its empty part.
  • Logo: the size of the whole logo, how high it sits, the pictures beside the words instead of above them, and a shadow under everything, from a drop shadow to a deep 3D edge.
  • Looks: switch to another ready-made style. Your words and pictures stay.
  • Edit with AI: say what to change ("make it purple", "add fireflies") and the layers change. Nothing is saved until you press Save, so you can undo it.

A pack shows one Loading Screen. If it has several, the card marked Shown is the one in the pack; press Use this on another to switch.

When players see it#

It works on Minecraft 26.1, 26.2 and 26.3. Older versions see Minecraft's own screen. On 26.1 the effect stands still, because that version gives the loading screen no clock; it moves on 26.2 and 26.3.

A player sees it whenever the game reloads resources while your pack is already loaded:

  • pressing F3+T;
  • turning packs on or off in the Resource Packs menu;
  • a server sending a second pack, or leaving a server whose pack is then taken off.

When a player joins your server, the load starts on Minecraft's red screen, because the game hasn't read your pack yet, and switches to yours part-way through. The very first screen when the game starts is always Minecraft's own.

How it works#

Minecraft reads the Mojang logo from its own files only, so a resource pack can't simply replace it. Instead your pack overrides the two shaders the loading screen is drawn with, recognises the background, the logo and the bar by where they are, and paints your design over them. Everything else drawn with those shaders is left exactly as it was. The shaders only load on the versions above, so a newer or older Minecraft falls back to the normal screen rather than breaking your pack.

Sharing it#

Publish in the editor's header puts it in the Gallery, where it plays live on its page. Anybody can add it to a pack of their own, where it becomes that pack's Loading Screen, and edit it like any other; pictures in its logo go with it.