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Quote from AztecEmp

Awesome, Sheep!

Horses look great (though it bugs me a little that the dark brown one the donkey have the same colors), the slime block looks quite interesting and the fire is very nice.

Keep up the good work, as always!

Hmmm, it's actually a different colour with a white belly too but I'll make the colour a bit lighter and maybe more tan, see if I can make it look more obviously different from the horses. Thanks for the feedback!

Quote from GreenPeas

As always, everything looks lovely!

I especially like the slime blocks. (Those are slime blocks right? The swirly, green ones?) Do they look good tiled?

Yup, that's them, and yes, they look fine when tiled. Very obvious that they are tiled but still looks nice because they're mostly see through and also are unlikely to be used as a floor or something where you see 60 of them tiled next to each other

Quote from Fuzzball

Ah new things! Do you remember the ideas we were chatting about on Skype a little while back? Regarding the hue changes in the slime?

Now that you mention it, yea I do!

I'll add some randomobs slimes in a couple of different colours too, otherwise the random slimeblock colours might seem a little strange too.

Now I'll have to find that list of suggestions/ideas I wrote up...

Just a little update:

I've finished two of the four horse markings so far, still have yet to start on the armour but I'll get there, trust me! Just need a tiny bit of a break from horses as they're a pain in the **** to texture, the model is really complex and it maps rather strangely.

Anyways, even though I'm taking a break from that I'm still working on stuff - this time it's paintings. Going to have a mix of utility type decorations as well as actual pixel art paintings that I'll make in the coming week.

Here's what I have so far:





Some of the paintings used in a tavern like environment:



Still got crossed swords/axes and shield, billboard/noticeboard with bounty notices and random notes on it, animal pelt (wolf or bear, still yet to decide on which) and possible another painting for the kitchen, maybe with stacked pots or some hanging pans or something.

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Out of curiosity, will you be doing a paintings add-on pack with actual paintings as well?

Not initially, but yea, once I've done horses and everything for this update I'll have one with paintings.

For this release at least it's going to have roughly 40% utility stuff like billboards and notices and swords, 60% actual pixel art which I'm currently making.

Alright, got back to the horses and finished off all the patterns. Lots of variation for the horses and none of them look like they've been scribbled on with a pencil which is a plus. I also added a couple more paintings, tweaked cobble for better tiling, made a new jungle log and a new iron block texture. I still have a couple of things on my list before I update: horse armour and the item icons, finish the paintings, new lapis block, new brick block and ctm for slime blocks, the new brick block and a new cobble ctm, most likely repeat (with LOTS more variation).

Seems like a lot but the ctm and new blocks won't take very long. My time is mostly gonna be spent on making the armour suit the player armour (iron will be heavy plate, very knightly, gold will be more lightly armoured, trying to imitate a more greek style to fit the hoplite-esque armour and diamond will be light and elegant, not super heavily armoured but enough to provide good defence) and also finishing the paintings as I have to make new pixel art for all the pictures that aren't turned into swords or shields or something (which is roughly 60% of them, including most of the really big pictures).

Now to do horse armour!

Thanks guys!

Witch will be coming soon actually, I can base it off the villagers so it shouldn't take too long to do. I'll add it to the end of the list up there^

As for the dragon, it'll be one of the last things I do unless it becomes more important to the game somehow (rideable?)

Quote from GraczWilliam

Cool Can u also create addon pack with 'vanilla looking' enderman and ender pearl? Personally, I don't like Voidwalkers idea Btw. I still can't accustomed to new stone, it reminds me of the gel or something, maybe it isn't enough sharp? Granite, Diorite and Andesite created by you looks amazing!

Well I probably won't be making a vanilla looking enderman and enderpearl (sorry, just not a priority!) but I did redo the stone, it's a lot more rough now:

Quote from DarkohGrubb17

defenatly giving this a look. your lore is quite interesting too

Thanks! Reminds me that I should upload some more... I'll post more lore when I update the pack next methinks!

Woah! MSchwaa! Definitely long time no see, really is good to see an old face around here again though!

Really weird issues with your pc and minecraft too, never heard of anything like that before... Won't let you make any new worlds either?

As for the format change, kahr and dinnerbone both released converter tools to automagically change the format of your texture pack so it fit the resource pack but of course neither did the job perfectly so there was lots of manual fixing - not a huge issue though. The new format is also not too bad now that I'm used to it but terrain.png will always be my favourite. Just really nice seeing all the textures on one big sheet...

Anywho, thank you and I still plan to for the near future anyways. No plans on stopping anytime soon!



PS: people, progress is being made on horse armour:

Quote from Cynips

Good job! I especially love the gold one! And stones are great!

Thanks cynips!

Quote from MSchwaa

Yeah, in terms of organization, and convenience the terrain.png will be a dearly missed asset.

Am able to create new worlds, but after quitting the game, the save becomes locked and inaccessible. Will have to go to the Microsoft store to figure the situation out. Might have to contact Mojang through their error progress site.

To stay on point, where would you say your inspiration for this new art comes from? I see influence from Doku's old works. Dokucraft was damn nice up until he redid the colors. Everything desaturated worked for him. No color consistency in the Saga Continues pack. Really like your choices.

Also suppose, John Smith's old pack shines through, and the work of other successful pixel artists on these forums. So, where do you go for inspiration?

Hmmm, that really is a strange error... I think trying to contact mojang or making a thread in the support or computers & tech sections of the forums are probably your best bet with that.


As for inspiration, I'm taking most of my inspiration nowadays from pixel art I see on pixel joint actually. Really like some of the art there! As well as that there's always inspiration from eld, levaunt, wayuki, steelfeathers, siikikala, frenden/meringue, etc. Basically all my favourite pixel artists and packs on the forums. They're always going to influence me in some way too.

Oh lawdy, sorry guys! In the middle of my exams for uni which is why I've been a little silent - they finish next thursday so I'll post some pics of new stuff then or before then. Still working on it though!

I have completed the gold horse armour completely, steel/iron is about 60% done, diamond I've only done a little bit. As for blocks, I've made a new tallgrass, new brick, new mycelium side and also have a texture ready for the sea lanterns as well as ideas for the prismarine block too. I'm gonna wait till there's a snapshot before I show them though, I wanna make sure the textures I've made for them will actually work in context with where they're found.

I need to finish a new double tall grass, new red sand and the horse armour/icons for them and then I'll release the update. So it will be very soon, within 2 weeks (giving myself a bit more time due to exams).

Oh, just quickly, here's the new bricks and tall grass. Pretty similar to the old ones but much more refined.

Almost there now guys! Just fixing up ctm for new blocks that I've made/changes that I've made. Then I just need to finish up the diamond horse armour and the icons, double tall grass and we're good to go.

Here's the new cobble ctm:

Okay, bit of a picture dump. Just some stuff you may or may not have seen that's also done for the update.