By default, advancement edits made with Reliable Advancements are stored inside your world's datapacks folder. This means they only apply to that specific world. If you want edits to apply to every world, like for a modpack, you can easily export the edits into a format that a global datapack loader can pick up.

Where Edits Live

When you save an advancement through the editor, Reliable Advancements writes it to:

<world>/datapacks/reliable_advancements_edits/data/<namespace>/advancement/<path>.json

For example, an edit to minecraft:story/obtain_armor would be at:

<world>/datapacks/reliable_advancements_edits/data/minecraft/advancement/story/obtain_armor.json

The folder also contains a pack.mcmeta:

{
  "pack": {
    "pack_format": 48,
    "description": "In-game edits from Reliable Advancements"
  }
}

This is a fully valid Minecraft datapack. You can copy it anywhere a datapack loader can read it.

Using Open Loader

Open Loader loads data from config/openloader/packs/ as a global datapack applied to every world.

1. Copy the contents of reliable_advancements_edits/ (the data/ folder and pack.mcmeta) into:
   config/openloader/packs/reliable_advancements_edits/

2. The structure should look like:
   config/openloader/packs/reliable_advancements_edits/
     pack.mcmeta
     data/
       minecraft/
         advancement/
           story/
             obtain_armor.json

3. Restart your game (or run /reload). The advancements will now load for every world.

Any time you make new edits in-game, copy the updated files from the world datapack to the Open Loader folder and reload.

Tab Visual Properties

Tab customization (custom backgrounds, tab names, etc.) is split between two places:

• Server-side — Tab properties are stored in the better_tab field inside the root advancement's JSON file in reliable_advancements_edits/. This is included when you export the datapack.
• Client-side — Tab properties are also cached locally in config/reliable_advancements_layout.json. This is what your own client reads for display.

When another player connects to a server that has better_tab data in the advancement files, the data is available from the server but the player's local layout cache starts empty. The visual properties (custom backgrounds, etc.) will appear in the Tab Editor when they open it, and saving from the editor once will populate their local cache.

To distribute visual properties to all players without requiring them to open the editor:

1. Export your config/reliable_advancements_layout.json and distribute it to other players (in a modpack zip, for example)
2. They place it at the same path: config/reliable_advancements_layout.json