An ancient favorite of mine is Aageon's Bumpmaft, started in alpha 1.1, shortly? before the Halloween update and was one of the first 128x packs. Assets were used in other HD packs at the time. Unfortunately the last version for 173 is impossible to find, and the only remnant is a beta 1.4 version.
Oh. My. God. I remembered that there was a site where you could make your own texture pack back in the day, but I absolutely forgot how it was named. Thanks man for a huge nostalgia blast
Honestly it's so easy to start a pack. The only thing keeping me from creating my own is my lack of talent in drawing. I'm great at pixel art but when it comes to natural fades in textures like wood or grass I'm at a total loss.
I dont understand why Minecraft🤣 But fortnite is the old school game. Minecraft came after when Pewdiepie played it. All these new kids will never understand Seasons 1-10
Jolicraft is still one of my favorite all-time texture packs. It brings me so much nostalgia and has impacted my life, even. It influenced some of my own art.
I remember using a pack called "the end is extremely nigh" for an adventure map that eventually became a book, both the map and book are called "letters from a dead earth". the texture pack still gets updates
I remember that back in old days almost every parkour plater was using oCd while playing... great times And also many old feature films used dokucraft because of its... dark theme I guess... I really miss those times. I remember that first texture pack I found and installed was some weird STAR WARS texture pack back in 2011 🤣🤣
Man, i remember the days of John Smith, Painterly Pack, and the like. One pack that is especially nostalgic to me that wasn't mentioned is Honeyball's MeineKraft texture pack. It's a 64x64 pack that started all the way back in Beta 1.3, right around when i started to play. The reason it's very nostalgic for me personally is that Gronkh (one of Germany's biggest RU-vidrs at the time) actually used this modpack, which made it super popular at the time, as everyone and their mother watched his Let's Play series. Surprisingly, the Texture Pack is actually still going, with Honeyball updating it to this day. I think they even made a special version for Gronkh, in which, for example, the shears were a glove (the reason it was a glove is that he used to have this running gag where he would shear sheep by spanking them with a shovel, back before shears were added)
Dragon's Dance was my favorite pack, it was cartoony but fantasy. Most commonly used by SlyFoxHound, someone took over the pack but it's only updated to 1.17
Monkeyfarm's custom john smith texturepack that he used for pretty much all of his letsplays has always been my main texturepack. I still use it now, and to me its what minecraft should look like. I grew up watching him and I loved the look of it, so when I first got the game I immediately went to get it for mine because it just didn't feel like minecraft without it.
i forget about this modular texturepack/page completely ... and now you unlocked this memory ... OMG ... it even reminded me my old world and all memories attached to it ... THX!!!!!
“Conquest” was of my favorite texture packs for a long time. It worked well enough for survival, especially with optifine, but what made it really good for building was all the alternate block textures available using metadata and biomes. Unfortunately with 1.12 metadatas were removed, so a lot of features were moved to a modpack version, but the texture pack version is still being updated.
i honestly even dont know like what u talk about most time in this video, cause when this all happend i was just kid, but, i spend so much time with og faithful, hits so much nostalgia
The Painterly Pack is just pure comfy. I remember Zisteau using different variations of it for all his series, especially his Super Hostile map playthroughs. If Mojang had decided Minecraft was to look like that when the texture rebranding happened, I would've been fine with it.
I didn't remember what it was called, but the moment you showed LB Realism I was smacked with nostalgia. I used that texture pack SO MUCH way back in the day. I have vivid memories of playing the game looking like that. The zombies were actually really freaky looking.
I remember DokuCraft from the Herobrine Lake series!! When i found that pack as a kid it felt like i was stepping into the world from the videos. So fun!!
first MC youtube series i ever watched was Rendogs' back in 2011-12, for that reason John Smith is still my favourite texture pack and i'm yet to find a better one
As a kid i remember loving candy themed packs, it was the only pack we had on the xbox 360, the scribblenauts pack that we for some reason had on the old version of java, and i liked simplistic 8x8 packs not sure why
You forgot to mention GeruDoku, probably the most popular DokuCraft spinoff, which had more of a saturated palette and was made famous mainly because of Yogscast’s Shadow of Israphel series.
I remember Misa (realistic pack), Soartex, Ovo's Rustic, HerrSommer and PureBDCraft. I used Grunge BDCraft for a while. A bit of a spinoff. About 7 - 8 years ago I started to create my own pack, first making the GUI textures myself, then adding a mixture of textures from other packs. There are some textures I made myself as well. I can't really release it because it contain a lot of textures from other packs.
The only ones I'd heard of as someone who only got into minecraft a few years ago as the OCD remakes and Jolicraft. Always love seeing content about things that are nostalgic to others in minecraft as it sends me down a rabbit hole of researching these things
Worth mentioning that for some of us who are autistic or suffer from photosensitivity, texture packs are friendlier to use than shaders which are often too bright or too dynamic and distracting. Absolutely cannot play with shaders. I use some simple textures that make the game look nicer without changing the feel too much or ruining the gaming experience
I'm also a default textures kind of guy, but I've gotta wonder if, in an alternate universe, one of these texture packs was the default look for the game, I would want to download and use the default textures instead. Anyway nice video! I ended up downloading the continuation of the "ocd" pack despite my earlier statement. It's kind of wild how back in the day everyone was using texture packs and now they're not really as common (in the videos I watch, at least.).
I remember there was a 128x128 texture pack I was obsessed with, called Asa's Arid Pack or something. This was before high-res texture support was in vanilla Minecraft, so I had to use a patch to get it to work. I think the only reason I even liked it was because it was 128x128.
Crazy to hear about Dokucraft again. I had instantly remembered it when I saw the textures, but I forgot how I had heard about it. But then I you mentioned the Aether and it unlocked so many memories. Yes, I found the texturepack because it had mod support. And because it had mod support, I began making my own personal textures of other mods in the dokucraft style. I was 12 and had no artistic ability, but it was a fun project I remembered all the way back then haha. I made like, the portal gun and gravity gun from iChun's mods into magic staffs with coloured orbs at the end. It was funny.
I almost forgot Dokucraft, it was a great texture pack! Also you should cover Soartex Fanver I fell in love with that texture pack back then, it was great texture!
There will never be a texture pack I've used more than Misa HD Texture pack, I was sad when Misa abandoned it, and had to use other things that hit my "realistic but minecraft" texture packs, I am very happy Misa came back from the dead when corona came back.
Oh man i remember playing with the John Smith Legacy Ressource pack back when ftb ultimate was the cool stuff... nowadays i play mostly with only shaders aswell but i would love to have john smith for atm8!
In my early days in Minecraft I also used a lot of TP, but at some point I realized that in none of the TP different block types fit together as well as in the vanilla TP.
I love the fact that Dokucraft is still available, always been my favorite style, but I do miss the compatibility pack for Immersive Engineering. I don't really use resource packs anymore because I use a lot of mods lately and most don't have compatibility with any resource packs and look pretty out of place next to the different textures.
Ooooooooh I remember using LB back when it was new, I used for quite some time and then never found it again, I'm actually very happy to relearn it's name after all these years. Nowadays I actually use dokucraft and I have been using it for so long that I kind of see it as the standard Minecraft texture pack for me XD
i think the reason for shaders becoming more popular than texture packs over the years is mostly due to technology becoming more accessible and minecrafts playerbase (sort of) becoming older. I always wanted shaders as a kid but my shit family pc couldnt run them, but now that im an adult and can afford a good pc i only play singleplayer minecraft with shaders
omggg I've used BDCraft, LB Photorealism, and Dokucraft in increment. For the loooooongest time though I used to favor a texture pack called Equanimity!
8:40 I remember using this pack, I think it had multiple variations as well if I remember correctly. I think it was marketed having RPG style textures. I liked that it didn't do anything too crazy while still adding a unique twist to MC. I used it for quite a while back in the day.
Yep the best one of them all, not any of the x16 medieval/realistic smears I never liked and they all look the same so I still see a lot of them and still hate them. Soartex always bring me nostalgia every time I see it
I actually used painterly for a time when I first was getting into texture packs, OMGCraft did a video on it and I tried it out but ultimately didn't stick with it since it just felt too different iirc. Sad to hear the original is gone tho
One of my favorites was TEiEN, or "the end is extremely nigh". A beautiful stylized 32x32 pack with a (post) apocalyptic feel and some really creative texture ideas. It had comparatively many finished textures before it was discontinued by Santiago, the original creator, and came with around 250 textures of the over 1000 needed in 1.19. That's probably another reason not many people tackle making resource packs. If you want a complete pack you really need to put in time and effort, doubly so if you're going for a specific style or want to take over a discontinued pack and match the original textures. The grass block of John Smith for example looks very good. I bet making tuff or deepslate with a texture quality to match is not easy and the chance of the new block sticking out like a sore thumb therefore high.
"texture packs" phrase won't appear in google search trend anymore because only old players type it that way, now it's called "resource packs" :p with this name change now the search results are split in two, old players still typing the old name and new players typing the new name so it would only be natural shader packs seem much larger in trends
jolicraft is still one of my favorites lol, really like the general color palettes OCD is used in so many mashup pvp packs as a base, but in the pvp community they think the textures originally come from a PotPVP pack which is kinda disappointing funny when you mention LB that way, i recall seeing LB being used in a fair amount of Minecraft playstore clones (that i personally played as a kid) dokucraft dark is all ill say about dokucraft best part about John Smith Legacy for me is that it has a clean port for Bedrock Edition without being on the marketplace in the case of OG pvp packs like Infinite, instead of one whole community being made to revitalize a texture pack instead there are many individual pvp pack makers who have made revamps of their own for newer versions
Now you try to find a good x16 medieval pack that doesn't try to weirdly go for either grimdark or unnecessarily complex looking item sprites and it's impossible
Holy shit thank you so much for this video! I had been looking for Dokucraft for so long, but I couldn't remember the name, and even after 2 hours of searching, I couldn't find anything. Great video!
Oddly enough, LB Photo Realism makes me think of RPG Maker horror games; not necessarily something "realistic", but instead gritty and mildly unsettling, humble. Things like Purgatory come to mind, or Skinwalker. P. S. ― DokuCraft is my favourite texture pack of all time!! I remember spending lots of time with it, admiring its textures, which were really neat and detailed without stifling my old PC's performance much, if at all. Fond memories! I in particular like its mix of timid yet vibrant colors with its blue accent it likes to use for furniture, alongside the gilded ornament. Strong use of color! I recall some piece of headgear being modeled to look like googles, and I really liked it for that, giving a steampunk vibe.
Flows HD is still a remarkable pack I use in vanilla, and it's super nostalgic from the og Keralis build showcase videos. it started my love of modern architecture and design, and its such a pleasant pack to use even in survival. some of the texture conversions unfortunately make it so builds sometimes do not translate well to vanilla or other packs (things like cracked stone bricks being thin black tiles in Flows).
I remember not understanding how to install MCPatcher so the fire and stuff like that never quite worked for me because I was a dumb kid I really like the wacky texture packs that turned your weapons into like candy or something Also best mod from the time imo: More Creeps And Weirdos
Of course OG John Smith is on here. Well joke's on you, I've been rolling with JSL since OG stopped updates, and I maintain my own personal pack of modifications (I lowkey miss the old customizer, but I spent the effort to make a pack with all my favourite variations for the ones I could find, some seem to be potentially lost to time, as well as some custom textures of my own including netherrack variant textures and a new obsidian texture, among others. I really liked the old John Smith netherrack and I hate the new beef-looking texture that's standard). I'd release it but I don't actually have permissions and since a lot of those textures aren't my work it don't feel right to do so, and I don't know how to contact John Smith himself so it ain't happening. I still need to do something about that atrocious iron golem texture.
