About MineSpecs

The calculators don’t each carry their own maths: they call one shared set of formulas, so the same rule gives the same answer on every page. The next experience level, for example, costs 2 × your level + 7 points below level 16, 5 × level − 38 from 16 to 30, and 9 × level − 158 from 31 on — so going from level 30 to 31 takes 112 points.

The enchanting tool runs a port of the game’s enchanting-table procedure — the level offered in each slot, the weighted pick of an enchantment, and the rolls for extra ones — 30,000 times per slot from a fixed seed, and counts what comes up. The rules are the game’s; the percentages are the share of those simulated rolls, so they are reproducible and close to the true odds rather than exact.

We put a mod, shader or pack on our own servers only when its licence permits redistribution: both the licence its author gives it on Modrinth and the licence and notice files shipped inside it. If any part of a file is kept “all rights reserved” — often the artwork inside an otherwise open jar or pack — or its terms forbid re-uploads, we don’t host it, and the download button goes to the author’s own page instead. A jar under the LGPL-2.1 or GPL-2.0 has to come with the exact source code it was built from, offered from the same place, so each one we host, and each such library bundled inside one, has that source as a download beside it. When we can’t find the exact source, the mod links out too, and so does any file over our 24 MB per-file limit. In all, 55 of our 360 mods, 51 of 405 shaders and 15 of 123 resource packs link to the author. 305 of the 305 mod files we host are byte-for-byte the same as the author’s release on Modrinth, matched by their SHA-1 checksum. If you find a file that breaks these rules, tell us and it comes down.

Skins sent in by visitors wait in a queue until a moderator approves them; nothing goes into the gallery automatically. Only the image data is kept from each file, and submissions nobody has reviewed are deleted after 30 days.

Each game has a score ceiling, worked out from its scoring rules where they set one. The server refuses scores above it and hides any stored entry above it, and names are filtered every time they’re shown.