Optimum Manifold
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Resource packs restyle every loading screen: custom art, animated backgrounds, progress bars, percent readouts, status lines, and rotating tips.
Your loading screens, from a resource pack
Optimum Manifold turns Minecraft's loading screens into a resource-pack format. Any pack
that ships a manifold.json takes over the boot screen, world loading, world upgrades,
server connects, and every other loading or waiting screen. No config files, no menus:
install the mod, enable a pack, done.
What packs can do
- Full-screen custom art for every loading screen, with a solid-color fallback
- Animated backgrounds using vanilla's own
.mcmetaframe-strip convention - Animated progress bars from PNG frames, with automatic masking to the real progress
- Live percent readout drawn from pack-styled digit images
- Progress-keyed status lines ("Compiling atmospheric shaders...") as styled images
- Rotating tips with per-session shuffle
- Hot-swapping: change packs in-game and the reload screen itself already shows the new theme; F3+T re-reads an edited pack instantly
Screens without measurable progress (connecting to a server, waiting on a response) get a sweeping bar instead of a fake percentage, automatically.
Get a theme or make your own
Three official themes are available: Synthwave, Cinematic Dawn, and Frontier Edition (fully animated: a minecart rolling into a badlands sunset).
Making your own theme needs no code — it's a folder with a JSON file and some PNGs. The complete guide: PACK_AUTHORS.md. Packs you make are entirely your own work.
Notes
- Fabric API is not required. Client-side only; safe to leave installed on servers (it simply doesn't load).
- One jar covers Minecraft 26.1.2 and 26.2.
- Conflicts: mods that fight for the same screens (Puzzle's splash module, Remove Reloading Screen).
Credits
Inspired by icehunter. Provenance record: attribution.
The Optimum Manifold Team
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