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I want to make my own texture pack, but i don't know how to get the default to edit

Your best bet would be to take an already edited texture pack and edit it for yourself make sure you give credit though!

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Your best bet would be to take an already edited texture pack and edit it for yourself make sure you give credit though!

I agree , starting from a defult terrain is much difficult than starting with a edited one :smile.gif:

You can schearch "how to make your own texturepack" on youtube if that would help.

hmm, I was attempting to find a link to a site that I ran across a while ago that had default templates of all sizes. If you just doing a 16x pack here is what you can do.

Locate the minecraft.jar in the bin folder of the minecraft folder. If you are running windows you can find this folder by clicking the start button and typing run. When the next window pops up type "%appdata%\.minecraft" without quotations and it will open the minecraft folder. Then navigate to the bin folder and open it. Find the minecraft.jar and open it with a decomplier(or unzipper) like winrar or winzip. Then find the terrain.png, which should be about 2/3 down the list (in alphabetical order). Then pull that out. All of the textures for minecraft can be found in the minecraft.jar file

However, it would probably be easier to do what the people who posted above said.

If you want to dig out the default textures to start with, you'll need to install a zip program that can extract from a .jar, i use 7zip. go into your minecraft directory, go to bin, copy your minecraft.jar file to somewhere you can find it easily. right click the .jar, have 7zip extract it to a folder you can find easily. open that folder. sort by file type. delete all the .class files, all the folders that only have .class files, the meta-inf folder, whatever that "null" thing is. If you want to be sure you only include folders that matter, download a popular pack and compare what folders and files it includes to what you have left in your folder at this point. the pack.png file is the icon that will appear in the texture pack menu, and the pack.txt file is the text that will appear in said menu. most of the actual image files at that point should be pretty self-explanatory.

Thanks!