Use

Open Options, then Resource Packs, and click Download VT Resource Pack.

Panels

Drag a panel's edge to resize it. Under a 400-pixel window width, Selected packs drops out.

Conflicts

Packs that conflict turn the same color once you've picked both.

Installed

Installed shows the packs in every Vanilla Tweaks zip in your resource packs folder. With more than one zip, chips at the top pick one.

Download

Type a name and press Download. The pack is saved in your resource packs folder.

Share

Share gives you a vanillatweaks.net link to the current selection.

Edit a pack

Click the pencil on a Vanilla Tweaks pack on the Resource Packs screen to load its selection.

Keys

KeyDoes
Click a categoryShows its packs and subcategories.
Click Installed, at the bottom of the sidebarShows the packs in your Vanilla Tweaks zips.
Cmd 1 to Cmd 9Opens the first to ninth category.
Ctrl Tab Ctrl Shift TabOpens the next or previous sidebar row.
Click a packSelects or deselects it.
Shift-click a packSelects or deselects a range.
Cmd ASelects every pack in the list. Again to deselect.
Cmd Shift ADeselects every pack in every category.
Click the arrow on a packOpens its page.
← → ↑ ↓Moves the outline over the packs. Right opens a pack's page.
Space EnterSelects or deselects the outlined pack. Hold Shift for a range.
Cmd FSearches every category, for every word in a pack's name or description.
EscCloses a pack's page, or the search.
Back and Forward, Cmd [ Cmd ], or the mouse's side buttonsMoves through the categories you've visited.
List and grid buttonsSwitches how packs are shown.
Drag a panel's edgeResizes it.
Drag a panel's edge to the window's edgeHides the panel.
Click the arrow on the window's edgeBrings a hidden panel back.

Cmd on a Mac, Ctrl elsewhere.

Commands

They work on any server. Add --reload to any but list to apply it straight away: the zip turns on and the game reloads. Tab completes pack ids, and a chat line fits about 12 of them.

CommandDoes
/vtd listLists your Vanilla Tweaks zips, and which are on.
/vtd list <zip>Lists the packs in a zip.
/vtd create <zip> <packs>Makes a zip from the packs.
/vtd edit <zip> add <packs>Adds packs to a zip.
/vtd edit <zip> remove <packs>Removes packs from a zip.
/vtd load <zip>Turns a zip on.
/vtd unload <zip>Turns a zip off.