LCE Emerald Workshop

Central registry for community-driven content used by the LCE Emerald Launcher.

About

The Workshop is a free, open-source alternative to the Minecraft Marketplace for LCE. It allows the community to share:

• Skins Packs
• Texture Packs
• DLCs: Expansion packs, maps, etc.
• Mods: Using mod loaders, of course.
• Worlds

How to Contribute

We welcome contributors! To add your content to the workshop:

1. Fork this repository.
2. Upload your content: Create a subfolder with your mod ID and place your assets (zips, thumbnails).
3. Make sure your content follows our simple rules.
4. Update meta.json in your subfolder: Add your item to the list following the schema below.
5. Submit a Pull Request: Our team will review your submission for quality and safety.

Submission Rules

• No NSFW content.
• Give credit where credit is due.
• Use proper categories (multiple are okay).
• Try avoiding half-finished or low-effort/quality content.

Schema Details

Your meta.json must follow this structure:

Field	Type	Description
id	String	A unique identifier (kebab-case).
name	String	Display name of the item.
author	String	Your Github username.
description	String	A short summary of what the item does.
extended_description	String	A complete description in markdown of your project, it can include all available markdown features. This field is required but may be left as "" (empty), although it’s not recommended, for more information on how to structure your markdown look into this, for complete documentation look at this MarkdownGuide
category	String or String[]	Must be Skin, Texture, World, Mod, DLC, or multiple ones in a list.
thumbnail	String	File name for your image (PNG/JPG/SVG/GIF) for the preview.
zips	Object	Names of your .zip files to extract.
version	String	Semantic versioning (e.g. 1.0.0).

Example meta.json (jsonc, remove comments)

{
  "id": "my-amazing-mod", // ID
  "name": "My Awesome Mod", // Name
  "author": "neoapps-dev", // Github username
  "description": "Adds back Ruby items", // Short Description
  "extended_description": "# Markdown", // Detailed Description
  "category": ["Mod", "DLC"], // Category
  "thumbnail": "thumbnail.png", // Thumbnail filename
  "zips": { // Object ("file-name.zip": "path/in/the/game/directory/to/extract/it/in)
    "ruby.zip": "", // empty means the root of the game directory
    "texture.zip": "{MediaDir}/DLC" // placeholders are handled by Emerald
  },
  "version": "1.0.0"
}

Supported Placeholders

• {MediaDir}: Path to the Windows64Media, or Common/Media for 4JCraft
• {GameHDD}: Saves directory
• {DLCDir}: Path to {MediaDir}/DLC
• {MobDir}: Path to Common/res/mob (contains default skins)

License

By contributing to this repository, you agree to license your manifest entries under the MIT License. The content itself (skins/packs) must be compatible with FOSS distribution.