Cenerator

A Minecraft data pack creation utility

Features

• Procedurally generate Minecraft data packs with Python
• As this is just a fancy way of writing to files, it is fully customizable, for example with functions
• Some convenient shorthand features
• Outputs everything in a data pack, ready to go

Installation

Installed with pip, something like

pip3 install -U cenerator

Or perhaps on Windows

py -m pip install -U cenerator

Example usage

See examples/ directory for more examples.

Hello, world!

import cenerator

p = cenerator.Pack('hello_world',
    default_namespace='hello_world',
    description='A hello world datapack made with cenerator',
    pack_format=71,
)


@p.func(tags = ['minecraft:load'])
def hello_world(c):
    c('say Hello, world!')

This outputs a data pack which executes the command say Hello, world! on load.

Macros

The power of cenerator becomes more evident in more complex programs that need branching logic and complicated /execute chains.

The following example showcases use of functions that take c and use it to output commands (referred to as "macros")

def say_with_all(c, format_str, values):
    for v in values:
        c(f'say {format_str.format(v)}')


@p.func(tags = ['minecraft:load'])
def macro(c):
    values = ['John', 'Joe', 'Jane', 'Jill']
    say_with_all(c, 'Hello, {}!', values)
    say_with_all(c, 'Goodbye, {}!', values)

This results in a mcfunction file with some otherwise tedious-to-write code:

say Hello, John!
say Hello, Joe!
say Hello, Jane!
say Hello, Jill!
say Goodbye, John!
say Goodbye, Joe!
say Goodbye, Jane!
say Goodbye, Jill!

This is extremely useful for situations where a lot of code must be repeated with different but constant parameters.