“Minecraft” players, wherever they are in the world, know very well that the game has a specific, and more often than not, iconic and on-point art style. The Minecraft world is all about blocks. But what if there’s a way to make these blocks appear better?
Has it ever come to you what those same blocks would look like if they had an excellent resolution, or perhaps if they were made in a whole new, different art style? Welcome to the world of Minecraft texture packs.
What Are Minecraft Texture Packs?
Texture packs refer to a collection of files capable of changing the visuals of the blocks in the game. These blocks range from building materials, items, and mobs to everything else you can see in “Minecraft.” While these texture packs, Minecraft blocks will be in its default. That is, a 16 by 16 pixels resolution.
The Most Popular Texture Packs In ‘Minecraft’
You’ve learned about what texture packs are. Now, let’s head to the most popular texture packs the game has to offer.
1. Bare Bones
Compared to most texture packs on this list, the Bare Bones one is more straightforward. Instead of it focusing on adding more colors and details, this texture pack tends to reduce the elements of Vanilla textures in the game.
As you can see in the photo above, you will notice how this texture pack utilizes just a couple of the primary colors of each texture. Not too much. This makes everything look much simpler and, perhaps, even beautifully cartoonish. Less is better, indeed.
2. Pastel Hotbar
Next on the list of the most popular texture packs is Pastel Hotbar. It may not show changes in a major way, but still, it couldn’t be more perfect as an addition to some of the game’s cutest resource packs and shaders.
Instead, this texture pack just modifies your hotbar, giving an adorable pink aesthetic to your health and hunger, not to mention to your item hotbar, too. Cuteness overload.
3. Better Dogs
If you are an avid “Minecraft” player and looking closely, you will notice that the cats in the game were updated first a long time ago. But what about the dogs?
Dog lover gamer, you will like this. Without this texture pack, Vanilla Minecraft includes just one dog variant: the white wolf. But if you want more dog breed variants in the game, you better be using the Better Dogs texture pack.
Furthermore, as you take those wolves, they change entirely into one of, get this, over 100 different textures. Plus, most well-known dog breeds are perfectly covered. But remember, though, you need OptiFine or Fabric to make this texture pack work.
4. Better Vanilla Building
Meanwhile, this Better Vanilla Building texture pack is touted as an all-time favorite. The restructured and biome-specific mobs, including endearing new pigs, pastel cows, and coral skeletons, as well as the subtly tweaked vanilla textures like flowering trees and bushier plants, are in this texture pack. Did we mention the pack’s connected textures are also present?
With this, you can have it all. You may enjoy the altered textures as they are, or choose to combine various textures to create something new and fun, like, for instance, terracotta walls trimmed with gold or multi-colored redstone lamps. And that’s not all. With this texture pack, you may also rename armor, weapons, elytra, and so much more to reskin your items, giving them a brand-new look. Go ahead and try it.
5. Dandelion X
Another popular Minecraft texture pack that should definitely be on your bucket list is Dandelion X. Similar to the Bare Bones texture pack, this utilizes a limited color palette from each block for more simplicity. You will see that everything here has a kind of warm tone to it, so you get fewer contrasts and smoother transitions. Don’t you just love it?
And that’s not all. Though most blocks with this pack look cartoonish, it still offers very detailed textures, like the beautiful armor pieces draped on the armor stands. Plus, mobs have also been altered to appear different. Note that OptiFun is needed to make this texture pack work.
6. Stay True
As its name suggests, Stay True is loyal to the original Vanilla textures, keeping the same color palette, block surfaces, and mob designs. So what’s the change you will get, you ask? The changes are most ideal for gamers who don’t want to stray too far from the original but still want to see a significant difference nonetheless. See those changes from the bushy tree leaves, the brown birch leaves, and the flowers. Hearts for Stray True.
7. Faithful
On the other hand, this Faithful texture pack, like Stay True, does not deviate much from the Vanilla Minecraft art style. But it has a goal. That is, to turn the Vanilla textures into super detailed ones with high resolution.
Also, the block color palettes and designs have not been modified but rather enhanced. This is why, in this texture pack, you will see more of those block characteristics, like block cracks, loom strings, shadows, highlights, and more.
Those are just some of the biggest and brightest texture packs in “Minecraft.” There are definitely more, such as the John Smith Legacy, RetroNES, Misa’s Realistic, Jicklus, and ModernArch texture packs. You won’t see unless you try.
“Minecraft” is a sandbox game developed by Mojang Studios.
