---
title: "MC Datapacks"
kind: coding
state: inactive
order: 8
lede: "Two datapacks for Minecraft 1.21: quality-of-life crafting recipes, and a hunter-vs-hunted PvP minigame."
etymology:
  word: "mine + craft"
  gloss: "Old English cræft — skill, strength, cunning. Burrow plus know-how."
links:
  - label: "PKPack"
    href: "https://github.com/pknull/PKPack"
  - label: "HideAndGoKill"
    href: "https://github.com/pknull/HideAndGoKill"
---

Two datapacks for Minecraft 1.21 servers.

**PKPack** is the quality-of-life pack — extra crafting recipes for dyeing, material conversion, and a few of the conveniences that should arguably be vanilla. Drop it in `world/datapacks/` and `/reload`.

**HideAndGoKill** is a hunter-versus-hunted PvP minigame. One side hides; the other hunts. Includes scoreboards, role assignment, a respawn queue, and the bookkeeping to run a clean round on a public server without a moderator on duty. Built in mcfunction with command-block scaffolding for the parts that don't fit cleanly into the data-pack model.

Both are public; both work on a stock 1.21 server with no Forge/Fabric.