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Custom World Border Textures Tutorial – How To Make Custom Designs On World Borders!

Hey everybody, it’s UnderMyCap and welcome back to another video! Today I’m going to be showing you something very cool — how to add a custom texture or resource to your Minecraft world border. As you can see, the default world border is pretty basic, consisting of just a few lines, but today I’m going to be showing you how to make it into anything you want!

Please note that this tutorial will only work on Java Edition. I also won’t be covering how to use the world border itself in this post, so if you’d like to learn about that, I have a separate video where I go through every single step and every single command with the world border — you should be able to learn it in about seven minutes!

If you’d prefer to follow along visually, you can watch the full video here: Custom World Border Textures Tutorial!

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What Can a Custom World Border Look Like?

To give you an idea of what’s possible, I’ve actually created my own world border using a custom texture pack. I’ve set mine to blue, and it looks really nice — kind of like a force field when you’re standing a bit further away from it. It doesn’t look too pixelated either, and it pairs beautifully with water. You can set yours to absolutely anything though, so let’s get straight into how to do it!

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Setting Up Your Resource Pack

To get started, you’ll need a resource pack. I’m playing on version 1.17, but this process should work across versions — you just need some sort of texture pack to work with. You can even use an existing texture pack from someone else; you’ll just need to remove everything except the world border texture. Here’s how to do that.

Inside your resource pack folder, you’ll see it’s made up of a few key components. The two essential items you need to keep are the pack.mcmeta file and the assets folder — without these, the pack won’t work. Navigate to assets → minecraft → textures. Your resource pack may contain a whole bunch of folders inside the textures directory, but all you need is the textures folder, so go ahead and delete all the others. Once inside the textures folder, navigate to misc, and this is where you’ll find the world border texture — it’s called forcefield in the game files.

Select everything inside the textures folder apart from the misc folder and delete it. Then open the misc folder and delete everything inside it except for forcefield.png. Now you’re left with just the force field file, and you’re ready to start customising it!

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Editing the Force Field Texture

If you’re on Windows, I’d recommend using Paint 3D — it comes pre-installed so you don’t need to download anything extra. On Mac, you can use Preview, though Paint 3D is probably the better option when available.

When you open the forcefield.png file, you’ll notice it’s made up of a grey colour. Here’s why — Minecraft applies a blue filter over this texture in-game, and the transparency (opacity) of each pixel determines how visible that part of the border will be. The more transparent a pixel is, the more faint it will appear, and the more opaque it is, the stronger and more visible it will be.

A really cool thing to know is that you can also add custom colours to the texture! For example, if you add orange pixels, the result in-game will be a unique orange-blue blended colour. If you add green, the force field will take on a greener hue — it can actually look quite dramatic and eerie! That said, if you’d like to keep that clean blueish look, I’d recommend sticking with a grey colour and simply adjusting the opacity to control how visible the border is.

To create your design, simply use the eraser tool to clear the existing texture, then draw your own custom pattern using your chosen colour and opacity. I quickly made a simple zigzag-style pattern just to demonstrate — but you can put as much effort into yours as you like and create something really detailed and unique!

Once you’re happy with your design, save the file. In Paint 3D, you can hit the X button and select save, and it will save straight back to the folder.

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Adding the Resource Pack to Minecraft

Now it’s time to add your resource pack into Minecraft. Open your Minecraft folder by typing %appdata% into your Windows search bar, then navigate to the .minecraft folder and open resourcepacks. Drag your resource pack folder into this directory. I renamed mine to “forcefield” just to keep things organised.

Once that’s done, open Minecraft, head to Options → Resource Packs, and move your new resource pack over to the active side. Jump into your world, find your world border, and enjoy your brand new custom design!

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Final Thoughts

And that’s about it! It’s a surprisingly simple process that opens up a lot of creative possibilities. Not many people realise you can customise the world border like this, so it’s a really fun and unique touch you can add to your Minecraft world. I’d love to see what designs you come up with, so feel free to share them!

If you enjoyed this tutorial, please consider leaving a like and subscribing to the channel — it’s greatly appreciated. Also, drop a comment letting me know what you’d like me to cover next. I love reading through them all. Thank you so much for reading, and I can’t wait to see you in the next one!

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