Minecraft Downloadable Contect

Main article: Minecraft mods

A wide variety of user-generated downloadable content for Minecraft, such as modifications, texture packs and custom maps, exists and is available on the Internet. Modifications of the Minecraft code, called "mods," add a variety of gameplay changes, ranging from new blocks, new items, new mobs to entire arrays of mechanisms to craft.[122][123] The modding community is responsible for a substantial supply of mods from ones that enhance gameplay, such as minimaps, waypoints, and durability counters, to ones that add to the game elements from Pokémon, Portal, and The Hunger Games. To make mods easier to create and install, Mojang announced in November 2012 that it planned to add an official modding application programming interface (API).[48]

Texture packs that alter the game's textures and HUD are also available, as created by the community.[124] In July 2013, texture packs were replaced with "resource packs", which have the same role as texture packs, but allow custom audio as well.[125] Players are also create their own maps, which often contain specific rules, challenges, puzzles and quests, and share them for others to play.[41] In August 2012, Mojang added "adventure mode"[42] for custom maps and in October 2012, Mojang added command blocks,[44] which were created specially for custom maps. In February 2016, Mojang added 2 new versions (Repeat, and Chain) of the classic command block, which were also created specifically for custom maps.[126][127]

The Xbox 360 Edition supports downloadable content, which is available to purchase via the Xbox Games Store; these content packs usually contain additional character skins.[128] It later received support for texture packs in its twelfth title update while introducing "mash-up packs", which combines texture packs with skin packs and changes to the game's sounds, music and user interface.[129] The first mash-up pack (and by extension, the first texture pack) for the Xbox 360 Edition was released on 4 September 2013, and was themed after the Mass Effect franchise.[130] Unlike the PC version, however, the Xbox 360 Edition does not support player-made mods or custom maps.[131] A cross-promotional resource pack based on the Super Mario franchise by Nintendo was released for the Wii U Edition worldwide on 17 May 2016.[132] A mash-up pack based on Fallout was announced for release on the Wii U Edition.[133]

In June 2017, Mojang released an update known as the "Discovery Update".[134] The update includes a new map, a new game mode, the "Marketplace", a catalogue of user-generated content that gives Minecraft creators "another way to make a living from the game", and more.[135][136]