📦 PackDrop - Resource Pack Manager for Calagopus

Drop a pack. Ship it to every player.

Setting up a server resource pack shouldn't mean hunting for a direct-download link, calculating SHA-1 hashes by hand and editing server.properties - only to find out your players get "Failed to download pack" because the zip was packed wrong.

PackDrop turns all of that into one tab in your panel.

✨ How it works

1. Drop your .zip into the panel - or paste a link.
2. PackDrop checks it the way the Minecraft client will - before any player sees it.
3. Click "Ship it". Link, SHA-1, pack ID, prompt and "required" setting are written to server.properties automatically. Restart, done.

🚀 Features

Two hosting modes

• Hosted - upload directly; PackDrop stores and serves the pack (local storage or your S3/CDN). No Dropbox, no file host, no broken links.
• External - already have your own host? Link it; PackDrop verifies it and wires it up.
• Mirror - turn any external link into a hosted copy with one click.

A real pack checker

• Detects packs zipped as a folder (the #1 mistake) - and fixes them in one click
• Strips __MACOSX / .DS_Store junk
• Catches compression Minecraft can't read (7-Zip LZMA/BZip2), encrypted zips, broken pack.mcmeta JSON
• Checks the pack format against your server version - including the new min_format / max_format system
• Warns about the 250 MB limit (100 MB on clients before 1.18)
• Recognizes links that are really web pages: Google Drive, MediaFire, MEGA, OneDrive, expiring links - and auto-converts Dropbox & GitHub links into direct downloads

See it like your players do

• In-game preview of the accept screen players see when joining - with your custom colored message, "required" or "optional"
• Preview of the pack as it appears in the resource pack menu (icon + description)
• Rendered with the real Minecraft font, pixel-perfect at any display scaling

Live control

• See which pack is live right now
• Verify download - re-downloads the pack and checks the hash, so you know it works before players complain
• Edit prompt & required, or remove the pack, without touching any file

Pack library

• Every pack is kept - roll back with one click
• Download counter per pack
• Rename, copy link, download, delete
• Per-server limits with automatic cleanup of old packs

Made for hosts & networks

• Restrict PackDrop to specific eggs ("Select Minecraft eggs" in one click)
• 3 granular permissions for subusers: view, manage, apply
• Tracked download links (revocable, with stats) or direct storage/CDN URLs
• Custom public base URL for CDNs or separate domains
• Size limits, storage quotas, allowed hosts, https-only, defaults for new packs
• New Minecraft versions can be added in the settings - no update needed
• Only touches the resource-pack lines in server.properties - nothing else
• Activity log entries for every upload, apply and delete
• Deleting a server automatically removes its pack files

📋 Requirements

• Calagopus Panel 1.2.0 or newer
• Minecraft Java Edition servers (Vanilla, Paper, Purpur, Fabric, Forge, … - anything that uses server.properties)
• For hosted packs: your panel (or your configured public URL) must be reachable by players

📦 Installation

1. Upload at_nickcloud_packdrop.c7s.zip under Admin → Extensions
2. Open PackDrop → Configure to choose eggs, hosting mode and limits
3. A Resource Pack tab appears on your Minecraft servers

Made by NickCloud with the help of AI. Not affiliated with Mojang, Microsoft or the Calagopus project.