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 .mcmeta frame-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.