How to install add-ons in Minecraft Bedrock Edition

A Bedrock add-on is a set of packs: a behavior pack that changes how things work and, often, a resource pack that changes how they look. You import the file once, then activate it world by world. This guide covers Windows, Android and iOS; consoles only take Marketplace add-ons.

Add-ons come in a few file types. All of them are ZIP archives with their own extension:

Download add-ons only from the Marketplace or from the creator's own page, and check which Bedrock version they were made for. A .jar file is a Java mod and does nothing in Bedrock Edition: for those, see how to install Fabric.

• Windows: double-click the file. Minecraft opens and shows Import started..., then Successfully imported with the pack name.
• Android: open the file from your downloads and choose Minecraft.
• iOS and iPadOS: open the file in the Files app, use Share and pick Minecraft.

Duplicate pack detected means that version is already installed. If double-click does nothing on Windows, install it by hand: rename the file to .zip, extract it, and move each pack folder (the one that contains manifest.json) into behavior_packs or resource_packs, in the com.mojang folder. Paste this path in the address bar of File Explorer to open it: %appdata%\Minecraft Bedrock\Users\Shared\games\com.mojang

1. Press Play, then either Create New World or the edit button of an existing world.
2. Open Behavior Packs in the side menu.
3. Under My Packs, select the add-on and press Activate. It moves to Active.
4. Open Resource Packs and check that the matching pack is under Active too. Activate it if it is not.

Make a copy of an existing world before you add packs to it: removing an add-on later can leave broken blocks or items behind.

Some add-ons use features still in development. Their page then tells you which toggle to switch on under Experiments in the world settings, most often Beta APIs. The game warns that experiments cannot be turned off after the world is created, so use a new world or a copy.

If the packs or experiments you chose block achievements, the game shows: If you start playing with these settings, achievements will no longer be earnable in this world. Continue only if you accept that, because it cannot be undone for that world. Without this message, achievements stay on.

When two resource packs change the same thing, the one higher in the Active list wins. Move the add-on's resource pack above other packs if its textures do not show. Then load the world and check the new content: a block in the creative inventory, a new mob, a new recipe. If nothing changed, go back to the three usual causes: resource pack not active, experiment off, wrong version.

On a Realm, activate the packs on the world in the Realm settings, or upload a world that already has them. On a Bedrock Dedicated Server, copy each pack folder into the server's behavior_packs or resource_packs folder, then list it in world_behavior_packs.json (or world_resource_packs.json) in the world folder with the uuid and version from its manifest.json, and restart the server. Players get the resource packs when they join.