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I agree with Stuee147 (and many others) on this: Leave the original texture pack alone, and even leave it included with Minecraft, and have the new pack included with it. Minecraft has a pretty good texture pack handling system, so even if they create new blocks down the road, so long as their new pack is the "base" layer, people would still be able to keep the classic textures for everything that existed prior to now, and will just see the new textures for the new blocks. That would be the system working as intended, and it would allow them to keep everyone on both sides of the fence happy.

I mean, this is why we have texture packs, right? Because Mojang wanted to allow everyone to make their MC look the way they wanted it to look! So why force a change to the default appearance when a lot of people like that look?

As a thought, they could even follow the example of the change that added the "auto-jump" feature. Some people liked it, some don't. But when they implemented it, they defaulted it to "enabled." so that everyone would experience it at least once. So they could implement their new textures, make it the "top-level" resource pack so that everyone sees the changes. And those that don't like it can switch the order around in the resource pack screen just like we've been able to do for ages now, and set the "classic MC" pack to be the top level one. Presto, problem solved. None of this "it has to be one or the other" stuff required.

Thanks for pointing out the Nether Wart block. I didn't know about that one. Nice video, too. Informative and to the point.

Well, if they can manage a version that essentially unifies the PE and PC versions into a single game that supports cross-platform multiplayer, then more power to them.

Given the advent of the steam controller, there is probably a lot more interest in building a desktop version that supports using controllers. The fact that in-home streaming is suddenly becoming a household thing might also be seriously contributing to this too.

All that being said, I'm still hoping that this results in some serious optimization/efficiency related improvements. Maybe they'll even fix the MinecraftServer.exe. it's only been broken (aka no GUI) for the past what, three major releases? Four?

When they talk about a "Windows 10 version," I hope they are talking about a full fledged PC version of minecraft that has been programmed to run natively on Windows 10 instead of running through Java. Hopefully this will mean it will run a lot better.