Have Minecraft's Textures gotten worse? 

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When you said "the largest grain of salt imaginable" my brain instantly started imagining what a Grian of salt would look like. I think I might need help...

@@lightning_11 A Grian of salt.

It has been 4 months and 13 days since I last uploaded a video Hey y'all. Sorry for not uploading for like all of fall. Been pretty busy with college classes, so I haven't really gotten the chance to upload or stream the past few months. But that's hopefully gonna change! I'm planning on uploding once every other day this winter break, streaming 4 times a week, and when the next year starts, hopefully still doing at least 2 videos a week and some livestreams. Taking a break really made me miss uploding RU-vid content, so I'm super motivated to get back to it. Hopefully y'all will still be there for me! Also, I caught covid AGAIN and that's been a pain, so I can't really stream for a bit either. Anyhoo, thanks for coming by, leaving a like and a comment really does help me get back to the platform I used to have! Talk to you guys soon -Omicron

I wouldn't use it, but it is certainly something they should do.

Really tells you how lazy they are, when the most popular game on the planet, owned by one of the most successfull companies ever, can’t even hire ONE GUY to draw some pixelart in a certain style... He wouldn’t even have to actually design new textures, just make alternate version of the generic stuff jappa creates.

agree, the nylium blocks use the new netherrack texture even with the programmer art pack would it really be that hard to ctrl c ctrl v

@@schnek8927 It's almost as if they want to prioritize making features that more than 2% of the fanbase want.

@@schnek8927 They wanna focus on the new stuff but it's not hard to spend 1 hour changing the sprites.

I think that's just because people really liked the more in-depth and detailed Terraria textures. It's what the genre is known for. I also think that mc players want the old look for nostalgia, while terraria has a lot of newer players.

i think the main reason, is the fact that so many textures stayed for so long, and then they just updated them all at once. if they had spent the last 10 years constantly replacing textures with newer better versions, (like terraria) there never would have been a problem. they kinda did this in the first couple of years actually. gravel, grass, and cobblestone, all went through several changes before they became the iconic ones.

Fully agree. As someone who played Minecraft from 1.9 at least on PS 3 and then quit for a couple of years, I still prefer new textures since they look a lot clearer and have less contrast

The new textures are much better the old was were ugly and ive been playing this game for 10 years

Minecraft players can get very whiney when it comes to stuff about their game they don't like

This!!! Building is so much more fun with newer textures. Before 1.14 I made a point of not building with mossy cobblestone because it stuck out so badly that it was almost impossible to integrate in a way that looked good. Now I love all the mossy blocks and use them constantly, and it's allowed me to explore the overgrown building style which is now my favorite style to build in.

And artists as well, especially those who make textures (pixel art). I kind of got into pixel art and Minecraft texturing around a year ago and I agree with your point. I myself also prefer most of the newer textures because they are smoother, have better shading, and for me they are just overall more aesthetically pleasing. Of course, not all of the new textures are an improvement to their older counterparts, but I feel like as someone who enjoys making visual art, I have more of an affinity to these newer textures.

As a colorblind person the ore change is terrible. Also mojang has replaced the confusing ores with glow lichen, which I confuse for diamonds about ten times per ten minute caving session. The confusion even extends to people who aren't colorblind

I'm a builder, and I like that alot of the old textures are more anbiguous as to what the item is, so you can more easilly pretend it's somthing else.

Honestly, I prefer the need textures. They feel cozier and are easier too look at

bippity bime, your opinions are mine. i totally agree. i've played this game for 7 years now, and i still will always prefer the newer textures, but wheat, i will never forgive

Bruh the old wheat texture doesn't look like wheat at all, i prefer the newer texture

@@salvatoremutuale9751 wdym it looked exactly like how wheat should have looked, the new one just looks bland and out of place

@@paperyape Wheat is yellow, not green. Sure, some species are green, but when someone says "wheat" you imagine the yellow stuff.

i 100% disagree with the wheat but opinions are opinions (i love all the new textures btw)

I think some people like old one because they played a lot back then (survival/smp/server), so the old one always got stuck on them.

Sameeee

Wait what? You're saying the Diamond Ore texture is dull but Omicron also dislikes it for the opposite reason of being too saturated. The older texture is definitely paler than the newer one. The only thing I can think of people hating it for other than level of saturation is that it has a gradient into the stone color since it might de-emphasise the overall shape it was recognised for.

@@slantedhorizon1021 Dullness in its brightness moreso than its color, like yeah I liked it better when it was bright and a bit paler

@@cat23176yes

People shouldn’t use nostalgia to trash the best textures.

I can understand the whole “netherrack should look bad because the nether is hell” argument, but I’m already so used to netherrack being an actually DECENT block to use lol

same

Nah new netherrack is dogshit, just recolored cobble

​@@MrTerrorMPolished block of beans

Old netherrack is cool and the new one is shit

yeah omicron literally said that like 5 times in the vid

If the textures would get only better then they would be nostalgic but they would agree, but old textures are better 💪

Finally someone who gets it!

Agreed. This is how I feel as someone who started playing in 2019 right after the update happened. The 1.14 textures are the iconic ones to me, with the old textures feeling pretty archaic.

FIXES?!

Indeed. The new textures are much better. Even tho it's not a big difference. People who like the old textures say so mostly because of nostalgia.

@@insertname9736new textures are blurry and mojang is brainwashing people to think that new ones are better

@_siz2 the old ones were wven more pixelated.

@@sizquirttnobody’s brainwashing anyone, just because most people don’t agree with you doesn’t mean they’re brainwashed lmfao

I don’t understand why people get so angry at people who prefer the old textures. They just have rose-tinted glasses for the new textures because ”new is good”, and refuse to acknowledge that the new textures just look generic and unprofessional. I just don’t see what’s so much better about making everything look muddy and noisy. New textures are such a mess, and show no understanding of the 16x16 format what so ever. Old textures where actually designed, while the new just look like they where drawn by someone who just learned how to draw.

​@Cat Made by the people who were actually making the game, and knew what they wanted things to look and feel like. Its just rude to say that i has no artistic merit. Its like saying that a ps2 styled retro looking game is ugly and should look like GTA.

@@mechamedegeorge6786 yeah you dont want the professionalism everywhere, it often kills the soul

@@mechamedegeorge6786 Made by people who's job is to brainstorm algorithms, build the systems and mechanics, properly structure the code they write to avoid the need of rewriting as much as possible, look for potential and actual bugs, analyze which parts of the code are most needed to optimize if possible and not to sit on a couch thinking "what players are supposed to feel when they look at this sprite". It's not about programmers being tasteless or whatever shit some might say, it's about them having the other, way more important stuff to do. It's not efficient to bother them with designing visual part of the game further than sketches for the design docs, which are a must-have thing for every dev team since it allows for easy understanding and communication on what AND HOW each dev has to do. And yes, artists are a part of dev team unless we're talking about outsourcers which isn't the case for MC. They also "actually making the game" and if they were hired after the plan for the game was set up (or were missing when team discussed their plans on the game), they'd easily get every tiny bit on how the game should look and feel like from properly made design doc and could bring up even more great ideas since they are the artists - people who often have better intuition and understanding on how to make people feel in a certain way. I'm talking as someone who's both studying programming at uni and learning design by himself while modding some simple games and trying to mimic their style. MC included, though I'm not familiar with java yet, so only learning MC pixel art style. Or in short, your first line is so wrong I had a physical pain after reading it

@@dustronyt4565 Well, i will not adress the whole comment but Its true, artists are part of the dev team, but its clear that the art direction and feeling of the original textures compared to the new ones is completely different in their more retro look. What i was trying to say thay overall Jappa was trying to make Minecraft look more like your modern average indie game by making things shinier and with less contrast (i really like the dark outlines btw), as after all it was made after quite some time since Minecraft was released and its popularity grew, while the original ones fit more with what the devs were thinking as the features were added. In my opinion the new cobblestone is the worst offender of them as it looks so lifeless and uninteresting, almost covered in sugar, even the first versions of the new cobblestone looked way better than what is now, which is pretty bad if you consider how cobblestone is one of the more iconic elements of Minecraft world. in fact if you looked at the first version of Jappa "default" many textures like grass, cobblestone and even netherrack look way better than what we got.

while i like the new textures...i agree.it just doesnt really work well if it assumes the lighting is coming from 1 direction

Never looked unusual to me. Not sure why. I think the older textures being just flat made them worse than the new ones. If there's no depth to the textures then it just looks bland.

​@@williamgaston1346 Realism destroys the whole point of what Minecraft is supposed to be though

How though?

​@@Hauntaku not the realistic things, but realism in blocks(not really real) I like the old cobblestone and wood because they have depth and the dark pixels are darker

Iron having literally like 30000 colors on new textures: 👁👄👁

That was the charm they had to them, they were textures that were actually amateurishly made by the devs themselves. The new textures have this "generic corporate pixel-art" look to them.

True

nettherrack is actually the only texture i dont like from the new textures, because i liked the fact that the nether was kind of ugly, and offensive to the eyes.

What about the new glass texture?

@@steamingpileofspaghetti9755 It's supposed to be hell after all.

@@steamingpileofspaghetti9755 A block could have the ugliest texture in the world and you would still have nostalgia? Bruh.

It's literally the "glad I grew up with this, but this is better." meme.

The one objective fact about the texture update, new netherack is undeniably better.

@@jkst4268 small problem, it doesn't accomplish the hellish feeling

i don't know what your definition of everybody is, but it's certainly different from mine. all the "new" textures look so much better than the old ones.

@@petrikhorr well my definition of "everybody" is the 2nd definition where its referring to a group. I am saying everybody cant agree that some textures were better than others. but everyone can agree that netherck is the only change that everyone can agree was good

Agree on every point and zamn, that "nostalgic rage" sentence. Couldn't say better, and to add even more I don't remember anyone to nail it that perfectly

"You dont have to like them, you just have to accept it" is such a dumb mindset Like, in my view the artstyle of the old textures fit the game much more nicely than the new ones. That isnt just some nostalgia i have since the first versions of the jappa ones did look somewhat appealing to me while the final product just repulses me

Ya fuckers build more on newer versions then old ? 💀 I automatically build more the older the mc version is. Idk why actually. Just feels/looks better.

6:08 tbh the new gold stand out wayy more and looks way better too

@@skyrrmish6207 Nah, butter is better

same i played for 2 years before the 1.14 texture changes and i'll just say it new textures are better and now i can go to the nether wthout destroying my eyes and wanting to rip them out anymore!

True

what is wrong with deepslate?

do you mean deepslate or nether blackstone

@@KindlTAS that's not a block. It's been renamed and it's deepslate now.

People just have weak eyes you know

omg

aka your opinion is totally null and void

​@sporeham1674 💯

Old Minecraft is better because there wasn't even a bed back then

Agree

@Fox No, it depends on the game. Also, Minecraft is not meant to be realistic. Everything is a cube, gravity only affects some blocks, there's a dragon...

@Hauntaku Agree, but more realism bought to Minecraft a greater gaming experience, didn't it?

@washed766 I agree, there're always 2 sides to a medal. In my examples, realism gave us more interesting mechanics and experience overall, but in yours, they went for realism too far for real and did not let slide interesting gameplay features.

​@@ABoxedFox no it didn't, it made all boring

nostalgia is the reason you think that, the old textures were made like a decade ago by a single guy, plus, you can always turn the old textures back on

@@WyattP20 i think going for a more realistic style is stupid like he mentioned in the video. And don’t fix what ain’t broke.

@@LookieSpookie the old textures were kind of rough looking, plus you can still just turn on the classic textures

@@WyattP20 yeah but they don’t make old textures for new blocks or anything the art style has changed

@@LookieSpookie well yeah, there’s a reason their called old textures, if you’re on Java there are texture packs that give the new items the more classic looking art style though

:)

For real.

I think you just have rose-tinted glasses for the new textures. Can’t stand how unprofessional and blurry the new textures look, myself. The old textures have a better aesthetic, not to mention how much better they’re made. Distinct designs that not only fit the blocky world and look unique, but also often remain vague enough that they can be creatively used for multiple purposes. Funny how the old textures, drawn by programmers, show a better understanding of art than the supposed ”artist”.

They look like scabs 💀

@@OmicronGaming fax

@@OmicronGaming flesh

@horsa no they were horrible

Nah-huh!

It's called "attention seeping *********"

I remember when I was a kid, I wished that the ore textures all looked different from each other instead of being kinda boring looking recolors. So, like, I get the nostalgia, but the newer ore textures are a long-held personal request I've wanted since I started playing back in 1.3, so they're awesome to me

IIRC the reason they changed it was to better help color blind players differentiate the ores

@@Notelu It was. Jappa went through a ton of itterations and even tweaked the colours ever so slightly as to accomate people with certain colour blindness. The biggest offender was iron and diamond ores because of (I *think*) Red-green color blindness

*no*

oh no what have i done