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SKD Menu

Fully customize your Minecraft main menu with custom backgrounds (images, videos, colors), repositionable buttons, custom action buttons, and image overlays via an easy JSON config

🖌️ SKD Menu

Fully customize your Minecraft main menu — backgrounds, buttons, logos, and overlays.

NeoForge Minecraft 26.2 and 1.21.1 Client only JSON config




✨ Overview

SKD Menu lets you completely redesign the Minecraft title screen without touching a single line of code — everything is driven by one JSON config file. Set a fixed background with a smooth "breathing" zoom (or a solid colour, the vanilla panorama, or an animated frame sequence); add two fixed corner logos and a title image; reposition or hide any vanilla button; add your own custom buttons with their own images and actions; and overlay images anywhere on the screen. It also restyles the loading screen with a matching background and progress bar.

A client-only mod by Stalking Dragons. It changes only the menu and loading screen — no gameplay content.

Codex Stalking Dragons


🎯 Features

🖼️ Fixed Background with Zoom

A single background image with a smooth, continuous zoom ("breathing") animation — no jarring slideshow. Aspect-ratio preserving (cover fit) so it never distorts on small windows. Solid colour, the vanilla panorama, or the classic animated frame sequence are also available.

🏷️ Two Corner Logos + Title Image

Independently configurable top-left and top-right logos, plus a custom title image in place of the vanilla logo.

🌐 Flexible Image Sources

Every image field — background, logos, title, overlays, button images — accepts a mod-bundled asset, a local file path, or a direct http(s):// URL.

🔘 Button Layout

Reposition every vanilla button (singleplayer, multiplayer, realms, options, quit, language, accessibility, mods) with X/Y coordinates. Pre-filled with all recognized IDs out of the box; Realms and the dev-only "TW" badge hidden by default. Hide any button you don't want.

➕ Custom Buttons & Button Images

Add your own buttons that run commands, open the singleplayer / multiplayer / options screens, open a URL, or quit. Assign a custom image to any button, per-button or globally.

🖼️ Image Overlays

Render images at any position with configurable width, height and scale — watermarks, decorations, extra logos.

⏳ Loading Screen (26.2 only)

On Minecraft 26.2 the loading / resource-reload screen gets the same custom background plus a themed progress bar. On 1.21.1 the custom loading screen was removed in beta.4 (it did not render reliably during server resource-pack reloads on large modpacks); NeoForge's vanilla loading screen is used there instead.

⚙️ JSON Config

All settings live in config/skd_menu/menu.json, auto-generated on first launch. Edit with any text editor; re-open the title screen to reload. See the repository for the full config reference.


🧱 Mod Structure

AreaWhat it provides
TitleScreenMixinButton repositioning / hiding / custom buttons, the custom background, logos, title image and overlays on the title screen.
LoadingOverlayMixinThe custom loading-screen background and progress bar.
LoadingConfigThe loading-screen JSON config model (background, banner, logo, progress bar).
TextureResolverResolves image refs (bundled asset / file path / URL) to textures and caches their dimensions.
Config / MenuConfigThe JSON config model and its live reload.


📋 Requirements

Minecraft / NeoForge / Javasee Available Versions below
DependenciesNone
SideClient only


📦 Available Versions

MinecraftNeoForgeJavaLatest buildStatus
26.226.2.0.57+251.2.4Stable
1.21.121.1.249+211.0.0Stable — title-screen customization only

Both versions share this CurseForge project. Pick the file that matches your Minecraft version.


🎮 How to Use

  1. Install the mod and launch Minecraft once to generate config/skd_menu/menu.json.
  2. Edit that file in any text editor.
  3. Set background.type to "image" (default, with zoom), "color", "panorama" or "animated".
  4. Set button positions and images under buttons.defaults; add custom buttons under buttons.custom.
  5. Re-open the title screen to see your changes.




🙏 Credits

Stalking Dragons — development and design.



Codex Stalking Dragons
https://codex.skdragons.com/
Codex Stalking Dragons — Minecraft Modding

The SKD Menu Team

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