diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 015fc5891..86d4b0cf6 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@
       "pocketmine/nbt": "^0.2.1",
       "pocketmine/math": "^0.2.0",
       "pocketmine/snooze": "^0.1.0",
-      "daverandom/callback-validator": "dev-master"
+      "daverandom/callback-validator": "dev-master",
+      "adhocore/json-comment": "^0.0.7"
    },
    "autoload": {
       "psr-4": {
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index 25003db99..ccb0db0dd 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -4,8 +4,52 @@
         "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#installing-dependencies",
         "This file is @generated automatically"
     ],
-    "content-hash": "2d120a3dd7d68958809c3662d1cb7c99",
+    "content-hash": "d3fb809caf4d5a5c99054f47f28ff271",
     "packages": [
+        {
+            "name": "adhocore/json-comment",
+            "version": "v0.0.7",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/adhocore/php-json-comment.git",
+                "reference": "135356c7e7336ef59924f1d921c770045f937a76"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/adhocore/php-json-comment/zipball/135356c7e7336ef59924f1d921c770045f937a76",
+                "reference": "135356c7e7336ef59924f1d921c770045f937a76",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "php": ">=5.4"
+            },
+            "require-dev": {
+                "phpunit/phpunit": "^4.8 || ^5.7 || ^6.5"
+            },
+            "type": "library",
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-4": {
+                    "Ahc\\Json\\": "src/"
+                }
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "MIT"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Jitendra Adhikari",
+                    "email": "jiten.adhikary@gmail.com"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "Lightweight JSON comment stripper library for PHP",
+            "keywords": [
+                "comment",
+                "json",
+                "strip-comment"
+            ],
+            "time": "2018-08-01T12:27:26+00:00"
+        },
         {
             "name": "daverandom/callback-validator",
             "version": "dev-master",
diff --git a/src/pocketmine/resourcepacks/ZippedResourcePack.php b/src/pocketmine/resourcepacks/ZippedResourcePack.php
index 35849d698..c381a36bf 100644
--- a/src/pocketmine/resourcepacks/ZippedResourcePack.php
+++ b/src/pocketmine/resourcepacks/ZippedResourcePack.php
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ declare(strict_types=1);
 namespace pocketmine\resourcepacks;
 
 
+use Ahc\Json\Comment as CommentedJsonDecoder;
+
 class ZippedResourcePack implements ResourcePack{
 
 	/**
@@ -86,10 +88,13 @@ class ZippedResourcePack implements ResourcePack{
 
 		$archive->close();
 
-		$manifest = json_decode($manifestData);
-		if($manifest === null){
-			throw new ResourcePackException("Failed to parse manifest.json: " . json_last_error_msg());
+		//maybe comments in the json, use stripped decoder (thanks mojang)
+		try{
+			$manifest = (new CommentedJsonDecoder())->decode($manifestData);
+		}catch(\RuntimeException $e){
+			throw new ResourcePackException("Failed to parse manifest.json: " . $e->getMessage(), $e->getCode(), $e);
 		}
+
 		if(!self::verifyManifest($manifest)){
 			throw new ResourcePackException("manifest.json is missing required fields");
 		}