Minecraft: Education Edition – Slim Skin MCPACK Skinpack Creator

Minecraft: Education Edition – Slim Skin MCPACK Skinpack Creator

Skin Pack Creator for Minecraft

Game players love creating and customizing their character skins – their appearance. This guide shows you how you can customize your appearance in Minecraft: Education Edition.

If you want to do this on your iPad see the guide HERE

If you want to make a skin with Slim features use the form HERE

Minecraft Education Edition requires you to create a MCPACK file which contains all the files required for your custom Minecraft skin. Use a Minecraft Skin creator like Skindex or Tynker to create a PNG image file.  Then use the online forms on the links above to create the MCPACK file required by Minecraft. Without this form you will need to create a handful of pages using JSON – which for most Minecraft users in schools is a bit too hard.

Minecraft: Education Edition – How to add custom images or photos

Minecraft: Education Edition – How to add custom images or photos

How to add custom images and photos to Minecraft: Education Edition

One of the first activities teachers often ask of students in Minecraft: Education Edition, is to open a new world and create a house.

It’s not long before students have created a wide variety of dwellings with all sorts of swimming pools and farm animals around the place – but here’s how you can put your own image onto the wall of the house – well, on anything.

Importing a custom image or photo into Minecraft: Education Edition can seem technical at first – but after you have done it a couple of times you’ll see how easy it is.

As a teacher you can easily create worlds containing numerous custom images for students to explore – recreate art galleries; graffiti examples; billboards; fancy world signage; guides – anything.

Here are the steps to follow to import images and photos into a Minecraft: Education Edition world

1 – Download free Image Map 3

Image Map 3 is a free app to turn your custom image into inventory items for placing in your Minecraft world.
Download the ZIP file, extract and run Image Map 3.exe and you will see the app open like the image below:

Minecraft custom image map import

2 – Drag and Drop your Minecraft: Education Edition world folder onto Image map 3 so it learns your Minecraft worlds location

On a PC your worlds folder will be located here: C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Minecraft Education Edition\games\com.mojang\minecraftWorlds

On a Mac your worlds folder will be located here: HD > Users > [USERNAME] > Library > Application support > Minecraftpe > Games > com.mojang

To identify the world before you drag and drop it – navigate using Finder or File Explorer to your Minecraft world folder following the paths above for PC or Mac (you will need to enable viewing Hidden Files), open the folder and then open the file – levelname.txt to confirm the world you want to place the custom image into.  If you have lots of worlds just open the world you want to use, then in File Explorer sort by date last modified – the most recently opened world will be at the top of the list.

world name custom minecraft image

After identifying the correct world drag and drop the folder to Image Map 3 – this wont move it, it is only learning the location of your world so it can copy the image files into your Inventory in Minecraft.

custom minecraft image map

3 – Drag the custom image or photo you want in your world to the Image Map 3 window

Browse your PC to the location of the custom image or photo and drag it onto the Image Map 3 window. Modify the Width and height settings to your preferred scale. The preview window shows how many blocks will be used in your world. In my Stormtrooper image I went with 2 by 5 to make it bigger and in proportion. Click Confirm

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Image map 3 will now create individual inventory items which you can place to rebuild your custom image in Minecraft: Education Edition

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4 – Check the box – Add new maps to inventory then click Send All to World.

That’s it.

Just open your Minecraft: Education Edition world and the Image map items will now be in your inventory. They will need to be placed on an Item Frame to be viewed (add these to your Inventory as well) so just place some blocks, add enough Item Frames required to display your image then place the individual map images onto the item frames in the right order!

item frame minecraft education

 

 

Minecraft: Education Edition – How to add a custom skin on Apple Mac

Minecraft: Education Edition – How to add a custom skin on Apple Mac

If you’re playing Minecraft: Education Edition on a Mac computer, then here is a guide on how to add your own custom Skins to Minecraft Education Edition.

See this alternative guide for installing custom skins to Minecraft Education Edition on a Windows computer

Install Custom skins for Minecraft Education Edition on a Mac computer

  • Using the Minecraft skinpack creator form (click here to open Form in new Tab), give the Minecraft Skin and Skin template a name and give it any version number
  • Then browse and select your custom Skin .PNG file from your computer and click submit
  • Download and Save the MCPACK file created by the form
  • Open Finder and double click the downloaded MCPACK file
  • In the File drop down choose All Applications then scroll the Applications and select Minecraft Education Edition, then click the Add button

add custom skins to minecraft education on a mac

Minecraft Education Edition will then open and import your custom skin on your Mac computer.

 

How do I delete a custom skin for Minecraft Education Edition on a Mac Computer?

You just need to navigate with Finder to the Location where the Skin Packs are Stored and Delete the Skin Pack that you dont want.

Skins are stored in (replace [your user name] with your own username):

MacintoshHD/Users/[your user name]/Library/Application Support/minecraftpe/games/com.mojang/skin_packs

To get there, open a Finder window and from the menu click Go and Go to Folder

then type in:

~/Library/Application Support/minecraftpe/games/com.mojang/

Open the skin_packs folder and delete the Folder for the skin you no longer want

Minecraft: Education Edition – How to add a custom skin on your computer

Minecraft: Education Edition – How to add a custom skin on your computer

Skin pack Creator for Minecraft

Game players love creating and customizing their character skins – their appearance. This guide shows you how you can customize your appearance in Minecraft: Education Edition.

If you want to do this on your iPad see the guide HERE

If you want to make a skin with Slim features use the app HERE

Minecraft Education Edition requires you to create a MCPACK file which contains all the files required for your custom Minecraft skin. The PNG image file and a couple of JSON files.  Matt’s work means you only need to have the PNG image and his online tool will create the JSON files and package those with your image into the MCPACK file required by Minecraft.

So now only a couple of steps are needed – lets get into it.

Step 1 – Create your Custom Minecraft Education Edition Skin

  • go to The Skindex – create, edit and download the PNG file required for your new custom Minecraft skin
  • (you can go to any site that has PNG files of skins, also see https://mcpedl.com/)

Step 2 – Create the MCPACK File

minecraft skinpack creator
  • Complete the Form with the Name of your Skin, Name of your Skinpack and a Version number for your Skinpack (can be any number)
  • Browse to your custom skin PNG file and select
  • If you want to add more Skins to your skinpack click the Add another Skin button.
  • Save the generated MCPACK file containing everything for Minecraft Education Edition to your computer
  • double click the file which will trigger opening Minecraft Education Edition and the import of your new custom skin will happen automatically or open Minecraft Education Edition and choose to Import the MCPACK file.

After your MCPACK Skinpack file is imported it appears in the Skins section of Minecraft Education Edition for you to select

skin pack creator for minecraft education edition custom skin

The Skindex how to add Minecraft Education edition customskins
Minecraft: Education Edition – Skin MCPACK Skinpack Creator

Minecraft: Education Edition – Skin MCPACK Skinpack Creator