YogCraft and Server Texture Packs
Note: This post was originally published on iamianwright.com it’s been moved here for archival purposes. I have been running a private Minecraft server for myself and some friends for a while now. We have been playing through a variety of Modpacks, starting with Tekkit then Voltz and yesterday we switched over to YogCraft. On Minecraft servers you have the option to force users to download and automagically install a texture pack when they join. I’ve never tried this before but I thought I’d give it a go as I was starting a new server. The way it works is that you need a zip file containing the texture pack somewhere publicly accessible on the internet and you modify the server.properties file to tell it where to find it. I tried this but immediately realised that there is a limit of 10Mb for texture packs served in this way and the one I had was 38Mb! ...