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Document the upsides and downsides of PCK and ZIP pack formats
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.. code-block:: shell
godot --path path/to/project --export "pck" game_name.pck
PCK versus ZIP pack file formats
--------------------------------
Each format has its upsides and downsides. PCK is the default and recommended
format for most use cases, but you may want to use a ZIP archive instead
depending on your needs.
**PCK format:**
- Uncompressed format. Larger file size, but faster to read/write.
- Not readable and writable using tools normally present on the user's
operating system, even though there are
`third-party tools <https://github.com/hhyyrylainen/GodotPckTool>`__
to extract and create PCK files.
**ZIP format:**
- Compressed format. Smaller file size, but slower to read/write.
- Readable and writable using tools normally present on the user's operating system.
This can be useful to make modding easier (see also :ref:`doc_exporting_pcks`).