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Hey, it's this pack again! Been a while since we've seen a completely bog-standard bucket fill pack on the forum. Good to know horrible design is alive and well on the forum!

But in all seriousness, this isn't very good. Bucket-fill packs are never well received. This is partially because they've been done to death and back a thousand times, but also because they're not interesting to look at. How's the grass texture? Green. Just... green. How's the dirt texture? Uh... brown. How's the brown wool look? Also brown. So what's the difference between the dirt and brown wool? Uh... slightly different shades? I guess?

You see the problem here. It's difficult to tell things apart in bucket-fill packs like this. It removes all of the interesting elements from the pack and replaces it with bland, boring colors. It's marginally OK for making pixel art, but you don't really have a good palette for that either. It's horrible for survival since you've removed all of the identifying features from your blocks making it hard to tell things apart at a glance.

As I always do for people who make these, I strongly suggest that you rethink your concept. What you have isn't going to be well received, and isn't really useful for anything. More than that, there's a million of this pack out there. I would be well within my rights to just remove this thread for plagiarism since there's so many packs almost exactly like this one out there. Even if you say that you personally like this kind of pack, and that's fine if you do, there's no reason to make another one when there are thousands of them to choose from.

I hope that helps you, and I hope that you move forward and make something better than this.

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I'm sorry. I just like everything smooth and simple. It also helps people with laggy computers.

No it doesn't. Not even a little. Even if all of the pixels are the same color Minecraft still has to render every one of them. The only way to make a pack that improves performance is to lower the resolution. Unless this is an 8x pack, it's not going to do squat for performance. Trust me, the regulars here have done the tests and crunched the numbers.

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I think I have gotten to the point where I can release it and let the community view it. When I originally started creating the pack about a year ago, I intended it for my use only. When I had completed it, I had sent it to my friends, and they loved it. That's why I decided to post it here. If people don't like it, then go find another one. I can potentially make it even better after it's released.

Let me give you some advice for living: When you have an idea, don't run it by your friends if you want honest feedback. Most people will give their friends positive feedback on things they're doing, or ideas they have, even if whatever it is is awful. This is doubly true for parents. They are an unbridled source of positive feedback... not realistic feedback.

I'm sorry if I came off as being a bit harsh, but I meant what I said. You stated that you posted it to see what the community thinks, and I told you. If you want to know what a community thinks about something, you have to open yourself up to the possibility that they will not like what you're doing. That's the nature of a public forum: by posting here you automatically invite both praise and criticism and will usually get one or the other but rarely both.

You are fortunate, though, in that you've not only been told in detail why we don't like your work, but also how to improve it. You have been given a chance to improve what you've done, grow as an artist, and create something unique. You can choose to do that, or you can sit on this boring bucket fill that you like and really nobody else does. The choice is yours, of course, and I wish you the best in whichever option you choose.