Potion Packs – Custom Potions

Potion Packs is a lightweight utility mod that adds a flexible potion system to Minecraft. It is designed to work with other mods by generating potions for existing effects, without adding new effects of its own. Everything is driven by external data packs, so you can fully control how potions behave without changing code.

At its core, Potion Packs reads custom potion definitions from a folder in your game directory called potionpacks. These packs use a simple JSON format that lets you define potion families, tiers, durations, brewing recipes, and conditions. When the game starts, the mod loads all valid packs, registers the potions, and makes them available through normal gameplay systems.

The system is built to be modular and safe. If a pack contains errors or references missing effects, the mod will skip those entries instead of crashing the game. This makes it suitable for modpacks where different sets of mods may or may not be installed.

Potion Packs does not add any creative tabs or items by itself beyond the generated potions and their variants. It focuses only on registration and compatibility. This keeps it clean and easy to integrate into existing setups.

Key features:

* Data driven potion system based on external packs
* Support for defining multiple tiers and durations per effect
* Full control over brewing recipes through JSON
* Ability to enable or disable entire potion families, specific tiers, durations, or individual combinations
* Support for partial overrides, allowing packs to change only what they need
* Mod compatibility through effect references using the namespace format
* Conditional loading based on whether other mods are installed
* Graceful handling of invalid data to prevent crashes
* Automatic generation of potion name translations at runtime

Potion Packs is intended to be used alongside other mods that provide effects, such as gameplay or progression mods. It gives modpack creators and developers a powerful way to extend potion mechanics without writing additional code.

This mod is still in development and may change as new features and improvements are added.