Adding Overrides

Overrides are directories or files that will be bundled with your modpack on exporting.

For example, this can be the config directory, or CraftTweaker/KubeJS script directories.

An override can also be a single file, in the case that you want to bundle a README.md or other files with your modpack.

Overrides must be added to the config file's overrides, server_overrides or client_overrides properties for Pakku to be able to recognize them.

Overrides configuration accepts the glob pattern format as input.

Open the config file (pakku.json) and create or find a property called overrides.
Add the name of the directory, in our case " config ", to the overrides:
{ "overrides": [ "config" ] }

Open the config file (pakku.json) and create or find a property called client_overrides.
Add the name of the directory, in our case " resources ", to the client_overrides:
{ "client_overrides": [ "resources" ] }

Pattern Format

The following rules are used to interpret glob patterns:

The * character matches zero or more characters of a path name component without crossing directory boundaries.
The ** characters matches zero or more characters crossing directory boundaries.
The ? character matches exactly one character of a path name component.
The backslash character \ is used to escape characters that would otherwise be interpreted as special characters. The expression \\ matches a single backslash and \{ matches a left brace for example.
The [ ] characters are a bracket expression that match a single character of a name component out of a set of characters. For example, [abc] matches a, b, or c. The hyphen (-) may be used to specify a range so [a-z]specifies a range that matches from a to z (inclusive). These forms can be mixed so [abce-g] matches a, b, c, e, f or g. If the character after the [ is a ! then it is used for negation so [!a-c] matches any character except a, b, or c.
Within a bracket expression the *, ? and \ characters match themselves. The - character matches itself if it is the first character within the brackets, or the first character after the ! if negating.
The { } characters are a group of subpatterns, where the group matches if any subpattern in the group matches. The , character is used to separate the subpatterns. Groups cannot be nested.
If the first character is the ! character, any matching file included by a previous pattern will become excluded again.

Example	Description
`*.json`	Matches a path that represents a file name ending in `.json`.
`.`	Matches file names containing a dot.
`*.{json,conf}`	Matches file names ending with `.json` or `.conf`.
`foo.?`	Matches file names starting with `foo.` and a single character extension.

Last modified: 25 April 2025