By Jim Rossignol on December 14th, 2010 at 8:18 pm.
I’ve been installing texture packs on and off for a while now when playing Minecraft, but this one is definitely going into the library for regular use: Via IndieGames, we have Scribblecraft, the hand-drawn texture pack. It’s lovely. Full of colour and character, while still getting across all the necessary information. It uses the HD texture fix, too, of course. Illustrative informational video below!
There will probably be no other Minecraft posts today. Carry on!
14/12/2010 at 20:23 Anarki says:
Needs more cell shading
14/12/2010 at 20:23 Brian Manahan says:
I think I speak eloquently for the masses when I say DO WANT
14/12/2010 at 20:27 Amasius says:
Ahaha, awesome. I really should play Minecraft again now.
14/12/2010 at 20:28 abhishek says:
Excellent.
14/12/2010 at 20:34 Navagon says:
That’s something special. I’ll have to give that a try.
14/12/2010 at 20:38 starclaws says:
Still haven’t found a pack I like yet…
14/12/2010 at 21:41 Urthman says:
Have you seen the super-cool Painterly Pack Customization page?
http://painterlypack.net/customizer.php
It lets you pick and choose from among hundreds of individual textures to customize the look of Minecraft, all in the default 16×16 resolution, and then spits out a zip file all ready to plug-and-play.
Other great 16×16 texture packs include LAR’s (http://www.largames.com/lartexture), Eld’s (http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=37621), the AxePack (http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=51657), and the Bright Cleanse Pack (http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=103131) which uses all-solid colors to make Minecraft really look like plastic LEGOs.
At 32×32, my favorites are JohnSmith’s Pack (http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=29164), Navarre’s (http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=64729), and Shiny’s (http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=68333)
And for very-high res, Misa’s (http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=73861) is one of the best. I also like cferrill’s (http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=67932).
14/12/2010 at 22:36 v.dog says:
I use I modified version of the Gerdoku texture pack (32×32), mixing it up with a little bit of Painterly and other art I found (the biggest difference is replacing Doku’s cobblestone with Painterly’s ‘light brick’) .
You can get it from here
14/12/2010 at 23:01 MadTinkerer says:
Eld’s is my personal fave.
15/12/2010 at 00:14 Vae Victus says:
I’m a huge fan of Frenden’s pack.
Simple. Great design.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=46707
15/12/2010 at 05:26 Flatfingers says:
Thank you very much for the texture pack links, Urthman!
I’ve been using the Doku (and now GeruDoku) pack, but Misa’s is so astonishing that I might actually try switching.
14/12/2010 at 20:46 mlaskus says:
The flowers look brilliant, the water is nice too.
14/12/2010 at 20:47 Callum says:
As much as I like the look of this one I keep going back to the original textures. They just have a charm to them which makes it difficult to use anything else.
14/12/2010 at 20:48 Wilson says:
I think it would be better if the cracks when mining a block actually followed on from each other instead of changing all the time, it just looks a bit odd. But a beautiful pack, make no mistake. Just needs some animals and player skins in the same style.
15/12/2010 at 12:56 Malibu Stacey says:
I agree it’d be a little nicer if the cracks start in the centre & then increase across the block. It doesn’t look far off from that already though.
The animals do jar a little still being the default models in the video but I guess it’s a work in progress.
15/12/2010 at 17:16 Urthman says:
Yeah, that’s weird. I’ve seen at least a dozen variations on the cracks animation and this is the only one that wandered around like that instead of just making the same cracks get steadily larger.
(That solid color pack I linked to has a very cool animation that’s hard to describe — like the block is being deleted instead of broken.)
14/12/2010 at 20:50 Brumisator says:
I love the tic tac toe on the workbench.
14/12/2010 at 20:59 DevilSShadoW says:
Absolutely lovely. I might just fire up minecraft and give this a try.
14/12/2010 at 21:01 Collic says:
I think lovely is about the only appropriate way to describe that.
14/12/2010 at 21:28 8-bit says:
Cant stand to play with the standard graphics nowadays and one of the updates seemed to break all the texture packs I have been using so I haven’t played in about a month. I also kind of ran out of ideas, built my water slide, built my floating island, built a big underwater complex and a big lava lamp, this looks very nice though so I might try to install it just to see what everything looks like.
14/12/2010 at 21:50 8-bit says:
I would also like to say thank you for the links to the forums I haven’t been on in a while and what is the first thing that comes up, someone is remaking Nos Astra from mass effect 2! some people just do amazing things with this game.
15/12/2010 at 08:59 Lightbulb says:
Time to start playing multiplayer then. :)
14/12/2010 at 21:53 Tei says:
I am looking forward for the Tron texture a dude is making.
15/12/2010 at 07:46 mlaskus says:
Trone texture? That sounds awesome, but I’m sceptical. To make Minecraft look like Tron, he would have to change more than textures. I fear that it will be a bunch of grey blocks with coloured, neon borders. :/
15/12/2010 at 10:17 Tengil says:
Are you talking about this?
14/12/2010 at 22:04 mwoody says:
I wish servers could initiate a download to the client and set a texture pack for everyone who joins. It would really serve to differentiate between worlds, and would sidestep my biggest problem with these packs right now, namely: who cares what my creations look like to me in a multiplayer game?
14/12/2010 at 22:51 pupsikaso says:
Wow, this might actually get me playing again. For a short while, anyway.
Too bad the animals aren’t hand-drawn too =(
14/12/2010 at 23:04 9squirrels says:
That looks awesome!
15/12/2010 at 00:17 Malawi Frontier Guard says:
I always wanted to exchange the simplistic textures of Minecraft with even worse ones.
15/12/2010 at 01:29 belstaff says:
so smart post
15/12/2010 at 03:40 Strykary says:
Excuse me, but your water looks like Listerine.
15/12/2010 at 07:29 tachyon says:
Absolutely beautiful. Thanks for pointing this one out!
15/12/2010 at 08:47 CakeAddict says:
It’s not a style of texture pack I like or would use myself but I can see that is very well done, I just don’t like the style itself.
15/12/2010 at 08:49 Gamedragon says:
A “HD” texture pack for minecraft that actually uses it’s resolution for something meaningful?
I must say that i’m intrigued. It looks pretty amazing, I may have to bid farewell to the idea that the texture packs bigger than 16×16 are cop outs.
15/12/2010 at 09:11 RogB says:
ugh. Seriously? IMO This looks utterly appalling.
its not even particularly well done, the colours are horrible.. its just .. lazy crap. Theres no charm.
its like the rash of ‘doodle’ games on iphone.. ugly
Personally I like the Doku RPG texture pack. Clean, nice palette (similar to snes zelda), consistent in embracing the 8-bit stylings of Minecraft.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7IG3br0LXY&feature=player_embedded
15/12/2010 at 10:05 Barman1942 says:
How do I install this? They didn’t exactly optimize it for the new texture menu. It doesn’t even show up.
15/12/2010 at 11:11 Noumenon says:
It’s the bad graphics on Minecraft that kept me from ever playing it, so this would get me much closer to trying it.
15/12/2010 at 12:50 Malibu Stacey says:
Wow. Just wow dude.
15/12/2010 at 13:54 Jonathan says:
This is really pretty. I like the pale sand very much.
15/12/2010 at 18:53 Eschatos says:
This is lovely but it kills my framerate.