Fractal Block World Packages

Basic Guides

A "package" is an additional world or mod you can install into the Fractal Block World program. It can have its own areas, monsters, and weapons. You can create your own packages. There are standalone packages, which must be installed in Data/Packages. There are also packages (mods) which modify standalone packages, which must be installed in Input/Packages.

Guide to Installing Packages/Mods: This is what you need to know about installing packages (which could be mods).

Beginners Guide to Creating Packages/Mods: Read this first if you want to create either your own standalone package or a mod for a standalone package.

More Info, Guides, and Some Select Packages

All Guides. A page full of guides for creating your own packages.

Example Mod. Here is an example mod that you can download to test out the mod system. It makes text boxes yellow until you have read them for the first time.

Texture Pack Guide. See here for how to make your own "texture pack" package which overrides the textures in Data/Packages/xar (you can override any texture you want).

Music Guide. See here for how to add custom music to a packge.

Xar Block Overrides Guide. Blocks of the xar package are generated by C++ code that modders do not have access to. However you can have it so that specified (C++) xar block types are replaced with Lua block scripts.

Xar Chunk Edit. This package is used to edit a chunk while in game (there are simple tools for creating blocks). Then you can run the command "snap" to take that chunk and auto-generate Lua code for a block script for that chunk.

Package Categories

"Playable" means standalone.

Fundamental. The base package.

Playable Main. The xar package.

Playable Tutorial. The packages package_tutorial1 and package_tutorial2.

Playable Stub Packages. Copy these instead of creating a standalone package from scratch.

Miscellaneous Playable.

Miscellaneous Base Mods. Mods for the base package (so they can be used for the xar package also).

Experimental Packages. These are not ready for the general public.