Why the NEW Minecraft Textures Are Really Bad 

*Jasper's new textures appear to fit only in isolation of each other. Within the context of Minecraft as a whole, there are too many inconsistencies to permit a fluid and effortless playing experience. The art styles seem reactionary rather than self-fulfilled, and from a business point of view, what are they trying to do? Is this the right business move - creating a problem that was never there?* This video details only my opinions and is to primarily provide feedback. Download the NEW Textures (BETA): minecraft.net/en-us/article/try-new-minecraft-java-textures

This is why Mojang released the textures to the public, so that they could criticize about what needs to be improved. Videos like this are necessary for this update to actually work.

The entire modern creative community of minecraft is about to die just because of that glass

The overall CO2 of the planet is increasing : I sleep Net neutrality is at risk : *real shit* Minecraft textured are being changed : *A S C E N D E D*

This is weird in retrospective, I remember being quite loud in my little group of friends about these new textures, but 3 years later I think the new textures are pretty good, and mojang was good enough to not just delete the old textures :>

this textures will divide the comunity in two and i do not want that

"Snow is supposed to be white not blue *correct me if i'm wrong* " -Phoenix SC 2017

There are a few I like but I dislike most of the new ones. I like the ones that didn’t change much like iron blocks (And I am VERY relieved they didn’t change concrete). I don’t like any of the new mob textures, at least they didn’t even try to change the creeper because you can’t really do that. I hope they make it optional but even then that would split the community even more than it already is.

I feel like the textures have been turning into something... "cartoony". but its only like half of them, some are "realistic" then the other half is something from a cartoon.

Why make the other blocks fit with the terracotta? Why not make the terracotta fit with the other blocks?

Looking back, I kinda like the Diamond Blocks at this stage of the game. Reminds me a lot of Terraria's crates.

I really don't like the new textures I hope they leave it as it is A TEXTUREPACK NOT VANILLA Edit: this comment is literally 3 years old, please stop replying it's old news xP Also I'm fine with the textures now, but at the time of making this comment the textures weren't as refined, and to be honest my original comment came off a bit strong

Honestly, i don’t understand why they thought changing the textures would be a good idea. I mean, come on! The look of minecraft is iconic, and... nothing fits.

4:12 it really does look just like mario blocks! just recolored.

I agree, the game isn’t about detail, just because terracotta looks different definitely means yup make everything that everyone has known and loved for a long time, I never though yup definitely needs a texture change for everything that people love to a huge out rage. They need to revert this. Guess what every Minecraft video you’ve ever seen look outdated now, all the Minecraft merchandise you have ever bought like plastic figures with armor, irrelevant, completely outdated. Good marketing mojang

I was hearthbroken by the lack of head of the poor snownan

You're really upfront with your opinions, but you're validly judging these textures as if they were just another texture pack. I agree with you, most of these are terrible.

I used "NostalgiaCraft Alpha & Beta ResourcePack". Now i waiting for "NostalgiaCraft BEFORE 1.13 ResourcePack"...

Honestly, I'm glad that they updated the textures again after this, I do like the new new textures over the original textures and especially these ones too

so many people are annoyed with you phoenix but honestly i agree, especially with the glass, it needs fixing as it just looks like an outlined barrier block

They can't change the apple. It's like notch's signature on the game.

If this is all about Terracotta, they really should just change the terracotta.

How can you be okay with cocoa beans? They look like.. like.. err........ *A pile of poop.*

I like how people say "they killed pvp, building" and now they killed the whole community WITH STUPID ASS MODERATION.

No, put that face back on that snow Gollum NOW!!!

These new textures COULD work well with a 2D pixel game (an example would be Terraria), but Minecraft isn't that. It's the exact opposite: A 3D blocky game. Additionally, I *CANNOT BELIEVE* that he removed the snowman's face and made the -Redstone- I mean Brownstone Lamp texture so bad. I give it an A for effort, D- for execution.

I don't think this video aged quite so well

i think the textures looked so bad until i really looked at them. now they are incredible.

I don't understand why they decided to rework all of the textures just because of one set of blocks, especially when they were specifically designed to stand out from the rest of the blocks. It wouldn't be as irritating if Jasper tried to stick to the original grainy look the original minecraft textures have, instead he created a brand new art style that is basically the polar opposite of the current one (also, I have about an inch of snow on the ground outside, and there is no blue, it's all white)

This texture should be an option, then, everyone can be happy

Glad we didn't end up with those textures. Horrible dark lines and such that don't even make sense for MC.

I can agree with almost everything in this video. I really hate these new textures and prefer the old ones

These textures are just too blurry, unblendable, and cartoony... That just might be me though, I’ve been playing for 7 years

The best Christmas gift would to be that this re-texturing was a joke.

change terracotta blocks to fit - X change entire texture pack except terracotta to fit - ✔

It's so obvious that they're trying to scrub all traces of Notch from Minecraft.

I hope they make the resource pack optional, cuz there's no way I'm playing the game with these textures. And yes I know I could "just download a resource pack that contains the old textures", but that will affect my fps in-game, which isn't great to begin with on my potato laptop. Just my opinion though

Honestly, I feel that there should be 2 official texture packs that can be changed. It would make both sides happy, and the ability to swap texture packs without having to download anything extra would be great.

When I saw new textures, I shutdown the Minecraft and deleted 14.1 version. Now I am playing only on 12.2

Now when we turn on programmer art we look back and see how bad the old textures really were!

why the hell are the blocks getting retextured in the first place? if its not broken, don't try and fix it!

I think you said it a bit harshly, but I agree with most of what you said. lol The TNT and restone lamps look awful, the Redstone lamps look like they have a sepia filter on and the TNT looks like you spiked the contrast. And yes, the precious blocks do look... just wrong. :s I do have to say though, some of the new textures are much better, I like gold armor, I LOVE the new ores, they basically look the same, but are vaguely glowing. I think these new textures are going in the right direction for the most part I'd say, but some reeaalllyyy need work.

is their a way to download a texture pack that's the 1.12 update because if their is i'll keep it that way forever

It's already been 4 years

Does anyone else feel the whole thing just looks dim and dull?

He could just change the terracotta to fit the current textures and if not he might as well change birch trees to "Blurch trees"

Is there going to be an official default pack? Not this new one,old one? Will they still work on old textures if they change them? I saw twet that we will have an option but can't find it :(

7:47 THEY REMOVED THE SMILY FACE!?! THOSE MONSTERS!!! I just realized how far behind i am...

Most of the new textures only work well in a vacuum. I much prefer the consistency of the old textures. The only things that I would really like to see changed are the hardened clay (to make them a bit more dyed and less orange-tinted) and the prismarine blocks (I really like the look of the new ones.)

@Phoenix SC -- First off I wanna say I love your technical content, you do some super interesting things with the game. As far as this videos and videos like it go, I think that the point of them releasing these textures for us to play with is exactly for videos like this where you show your opinion, and offer advice ect. However, I think you should try to be a bit more mindful when making videos like this, to make the video about the textures, and not the person. I think it's a bit unfair to bring up Jasper the way you did a few times in the video, we have to remember he is still a person, and he's just a guy trying to do his job (and a very hard job at that considering how passionate people are about this game). So when you said "I'm not sure where he's got this knowledge from" and "I really pity him but for this to be added into the game really shows some incapabilities on his part" at around the 4:40 part. Maybe you didn't intend for it to come off as a personal, but I felt it was getting a bit to close to a personal attack of sorts. I'm sure that's not necessarily what you intended, but like I said, I just think it should be something to be mindful about. All that said, I'm a bit in the middle as far as the textures go, I think your comment summed it up to some degree, "new textures appear to fit only in isolation of each other". But again, maybe don't lean to much on Jasper. Having that say "Mojang's new textures" goes a long way :)

I remember in 1.7 when they changed the Rose to become a Poppy, and to have a different texture. Without then changing the other original flower, the Dandelion, that made the Dandelion stick out to these newer flowers. It was still usable, and noone would bat an eye, but in retrospect, they should've changed the Dandelion to fit in with the new flowers. I also quite miss the single rose texture, because, like the dandelion, it is an iconic and nostalgic texture of Minecraft as a whole. These new textures from Jasper is like the flower situation scaled up to the rest of the textures. And just as a side note, the less shaded textures were very nice to make pixel art from, and these more blurry textures kind of kill that in some areas- but, it's not really anything to consider given all of the other reasons for texturing a certain way to look at.

The new textures were 4 years ago now?!

I feel like by changing the apple something isn't quite right considering mojangs logo is the apple

i think the issue is jasper not knowing when to tweak and when to change. kind of makes me wonder if he even gets any input from the other devs or if hes doing it completely solo. anyways, thanks for the video phoenix, its interesting to see all the different opinions on this

I'm glad the actual 1.14+ textures look better than this.

Honestly, the textures by themselves are lovely. I love em, and this is coming from a non-micraft player, a non-biased view. The only problem I see if the consistency. I don't mind mostly blury, filtered textures. I don't mind sharp textures. But unless it's for a point, the textures should follow a theme. Like, plants shouldn't be mostly smooth except for ferns, for example, unless the ferns are sharp for a reason. I'll give an example of good texturing. Half Life 2. In Half Life 2, all of the textures for the combine all are very themed, and dark, and different to the rest of the game. The stone textures are very clear cut, and unless they are damaged, are very smooth. The nature textures are very blurry. Pretty much all of them. There's almost 0 sharpness. These new textures aren't themed. The nature textures can be rough or sharp or smooth, and there's nothing in common between them, for the most part. The stone textures can be blurry or sharp, and there's no reason why. This is my problem with the new textures.

Why don't you send this video to jasper then?

As an artist myself I don’t love the new textures for the most part, except for the soul sand, which I think is an improvement, and the TNT, which I love the look of on its own, but with the art style it looks really out of place. (Really I just abuse the “I’m an artist” excuse so I sound like I have authority to back up my arguments most of the time, but here I’m just reinforcing what everyone else thinks)

I don't think it was needed for all of the blocks, just a slight change to things lik bricks, I do like most of the new textures but just don't like how they go together in a build, I think I just need to get used to it though, however there are also quite a bit of textures I really dislike, glass, redstone lamps and I really hate the change to food.

idk how to get jaspers new texture pack... can someone please help me and tell me how to get it

Dunno why this was recommended to me... I don't even play Minecraft anymore. Uhhh... the textures still look worse, though.

Wait... The snowball wasn't a diamond? Legit thought it was XD

The blue on snowballs are realistic, because the snowballs in Minecraft can hurt someone, so the blue must be ice.

Why is this only showing up now?

I like the new glass, you can see through the center without the dashes in the middle.Also the new gold, emerald, and diamond blocks look great, I love the shading, I disagree that shading does not work on minecraft blocks, there are many minecraft blocks that have already had shading, cobble for example.

EWWWWW W I'm offended by that red stone lamp and chainmail

I remember thinking something similar when the new items were introduced, like rabbit parts.. they just looked SO out of place

looking back at this, I think that all of the anger was misplaced, and that the insults going towards jasper were uncalled for and a very very bad part on everyone's behalf.

Their getting to real almost unlike Minecraft

R.I.P custom textures in future maps.

Snow shades with a blue tint irl, and even if it didnt, its fairly common for artists to give a cool color tint to shades and a warm tint to highlights.

Ngl i was happy they changed it what it looks rn

Most straight forward video I have seen about this and I agree whole heartedly. My opinion on the matter is why did the textures need to change. Everything for together it felt like one complete game the terracotta fit in with the style of the game already it worked as a block and brought it's own unique properties as well. Everyone was fine with the textures as they were and if they were really against theme they would find or make a texture pack for themselves that fit how they wanted the game to look. Another thing is that some items and blocks are too iconic to change like the diamond the change they did and any change they can do will make the game feel different because it is no longer "the diamond" same with the oak wood every player has done a survival world and most of the time the first thing they do is plant their face into a oak tree and get the logs but it won't feel the same and it won't be the same as it has been for years. I think that instead of doing EVERY texture all at once they should do something similar to what they did with gravel for 1.3 I think it was where ONE texture changed because it wasn't the greatest texture and people were saying hey can you do something about it like if this update just changed the bricks it would be well accepted because the bricks have been a problem area for a lot of people and the new texture fits well. its not only listening to the fan base it is making the game better instead of drastically different. If they must change the textures I think they should do it slowly instead of everything at once, that they should leave some blocks and items unchanged, and make them work together. That's my two cents on the matter

I do accept this change, but I'm really getting mad at how they are trying to slowly make the game more realistic. Water physics change, removal of pumpkin and snow golem face, more realistic fishing rod physics, realistic and HD textures, and more. Minecraft was never meant to be realistic, it was meant to be fun, and changing things just for the sake of making the game more realistic is just disappointing.

I agree on some points, but overall I do think these new texture look better than the older ones. And if you don’t like them you can change back to the older ones in the resource pack menu. No download needed.

I would give it an F because Jappa ruined Minecraft, the blocks looks too faded and the crops looks rotten. But the good news is that we could get the old textures back

I apologize but I only partially agree with what you are arguing. Yes the diamond and emerald are hideous, but I actually think that the wood is great! You showed the inconsistencies of the new textures but I feel the need to remind you, this texture pack is NOT FINAL. Yes it is off in some places but it could all change at any point. The artist has clearly shown that he wants community feedback, and has shown that he will listen. The diamond block and the emerald block are very hard things to texture, they are not going to be perfect! The reason this texture pack is released is for the community to voice their opinions! You have done exactly that, and I'm sure that if lots of people agree, like with the glass being horrendous, he will try his best to fix it to how the community wants it. Yes he wants input but you must understand, this is a very very hard job to under take. He has been working on these textures for almost half a year now I believe, and the textures look much much better than when he first started. Yes the textures have some problems, but he is trying his best. That's just my opinion tho so ignore this if u want

I personally think the mineral blocks looks good Not too happy with the snow golem tho

why did this get recommended to me 3 years after it was uploaded

Thank goodness this got changed. Looking back on this I can’t believe some people were supporting these textures

Here's what it boils down to. These new textures go way beyond the face of the game. It affect the whole of RU-vid. Here's how. 1. Minecraft is one of the most viewed genres on YT. 2. People have clearly defined that they are very sensitive to the new textures. 3. If you prefer the Old (cough cough better) textures, then odds are odds are they *won't* watch somebody who uses the new textures. It goes the other way to. 4. Put 2 and 2 together. If say 60% of viewers stop watching this one YTer, say PrestonPlayz who has 5M subs, do the math. 5M - 60% = 2M. A 3M subscriber drop is HUGE. These textures either must be enforced or can't be implemented. Otherwise the entire Minecraft fanbase would be ripped in two. So, we should do a poll on Twitter to see whether these textures stay or GO DIE IN A HOLE ONCE AND FOR ALL!!! @Daxius889

I think most people will just be nostalgic.

Why is this getting recommended to me lol

4 Years later...

I see no comments... O_O

Anyone willing to make or look for a reversion resource pack for undoing it?

Has mojang ever heard of the phrase “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?” They always pull stuff like this

I'm so confused what's so wrong with the diamond/gold/emerald. "It just doesn't work" ok but why? What's wrong with 3d esque shading?

So, is this ironic? Some people are saying that the texture changes will kill the game and no one will be interested in watching or even seeing Minecraft with the new/old textures. I don't see where all of this hate is coming from. What type of person would stop watching a RU-vidr because some textures are different? This all seems absurd and way too exaggerated. (I know this isn't going to be accepted the best here but, please don't hate me too much.

I still hate this new texture, its not like minecraft, its like a blocky game with fluid texture,not with pixelated as it should be, they are to detalied. And the worst is that mojang doesn't add programmer art texture to the new updates so if u play with programmer art some blocks won't match. Fortunately some nice people are making programmer art textures that look really good to the new blocks but the current texture of minecraft are something that i really hate, the next one is the lag which came with update 1.17, im still playing on 1.16.5 and i will till i get a new fresh laptop but the lag and the optimisation is something that mojang should fix, not force us to spend money for new pc and mods like optifine aren't help us anymore with new updates, they should fix they're issues instead of just make stupid mob votes and add too many useless things just for minecraft estetic

Why are you making a video on textures in 720p and not high bitrate?

I really hate the old glass why are there lines in the middle of the glass the ONE reason i put glass down is to SEE through it i cant do that with the old glass

THANK YOU. you said things that NEEDED to be said. like this inst just us going "Ew its new I hate new" like everyone does with every update THESE TEXTURES are actaul problems that don't make sense and seem jumbled. they kinda look like some textures I once made... LOL

with the bubble wrap glass and how oak looks like acacia I can agree that those look bad but with the gold emerald and diamond block i like the idea of shading

This really goes to show how much Jappa has improved. In this version of the texture pack, it looks like he didn’t really know how to make connected blocks work well with each other, but now he gets it really well.

Everyone thought that the 1.14 textures sucked when it first came out, but after 1.15ish everyone just got used to it.

I will say that the way the soul sand blends together looks really good. This was the one positive change. And the leaves look nice too.

ah yes youtube algorithm

"I'm not sure where he's got this knowledge from-" He's a pixel artist. I don't know his background with Minecraft, but with normal pixel art, you tend to add shadows and depth just like you would with other art forms. I'm not saying I love the new textures, but consider.... If the guy's background leans more towards pixel art, and less towards MC, of course it's gonna have shading and be a bit inconsistent. You say his textures only work in isolation, and honestly that's probably exactly how they were made. Spriting tiles for a 2D pixel game doesn't work quite the same in a 3D game, and he's probably used to 2D where you CAN add shading. As for the Snowballs, blue is commonly used to shade white things in a lot of art, pixel art especially. Usually to make it stand out from more silvery things that use grey for shading. As well as to make it more visually interesting to look at. I kinda hate to say it, but personally I think I could throw together a better texture pack. In fact I used to do just that back when I still had a working PC. I'd go in and modify textures that I thought could use some touching up. If I had access to a PC, I'd actually take a shot at it. (I'm mostly just trying to explain the reasoning behind some of the choices.) Side note. I'm curious how the new default textures will work on the Bedrock Edition. They said as far as Java goes, that the old textures will still exist. So I wonder if, whenever the new textures work their way to Bedrock, if they'll give out a free texture pack of old textures, or maybe make the new textures optional. I could imagine people being pretty upset if the texture change was forced, and you can't make custom texture packs for console.

And it all ended fine and well