I try to create a world and it says unable to validate datapacks. The autogenerated pack spoornpacks is red and says "this was made for an older version of Minecraft"

Do you have logs? Which version of minecraft, Fabric, Fabric Loader, and Spoornpacks?

1.18.2 Minecraft
0.14.8 fabric loader
0.56.1 fabric api
4.2.2 SpoornPacks

Ill send screenshot and check logs when I get home later, it started after I installed dimensional doors.

Try it with that

I was having the same validation error with that mod so I went into their .jar and edited the pack.mcmeta pack_format: to 9 for 1.18.2 and it fixed it for their mod.

Your mod generates the resource pack dynamically if I'm not mistaken, right?

Yes, and it generates the pack.mcmeta dynamically as well using the latest version for the game version: https://github.com/spoorn/SpoornPacks/blob/1.18/src/main/java/org/spoorn/spoornpacks/core/SPGroupResourcePack.java#L28

I'm using the same versions as you as well and don't see any problems, so I wonder if it's conflicting with another mod

Install with https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/dimensionaldoors/files/3732839

4.0.4-1.18.2

Do you have a log that shows the message, or screenshot? And what other mods do you have, or modpack are you using? I can't reproduce this on my end

Yeah, I was able to run with both on my modpack which has a ton of other mods too: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/spoornpack-fabric

Could you send me a full list of your mods, and/or a log file? If you want, you could also ping me in my discord server

https://paste.ee/p/VKTK6

Architects palette was the problem mod, sorry lol. thanks for the help!!