Tutorial:Models

This page details the mechanics and specifications of models and their uses in resource packs.

Block models are used to depict all the blocks in the game, whereas item models are used to display the items in the player's hand, on their head (helmets and hats), on the ground, in the inventory, in item frames, and on armor stands. As there are different variants of some blocks, block states are used to link these with the corresponding models. Each model and each block state has its own file, which is of the .json format. Even the icons used in the inventory are defined in these files.

In JSON files of models and block states, the resource location in the form of namespace:path (the minecraft namespace can be omitted) is used to represent the local file path. See also Resource_location#Locating_contents_in_packs.