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What is that?
This resource upgrade for the default resource pack of Minecraft aims to improve the appearance of the game without the use of mods, while staying faithful to the general style of Minecraft. All features included in this resource pack work with vanilla Minecraft.
What are the main features of this pack?
It adds a bunch of improved textures (water, lava and fire animations, several blocks and items, GUI elements, the sun, moon, paintings, armor, ...), some of them with increased resolution. It also adds a better readable HD in-game font, makes the dull biome colors a bit better to look at, tweaks several mobs and other entities, adds random terrain textures for more variety and proper 3D block and item models for some blocks and entities. Furthermore, it replaces the most annoying in-game sounds with improved or new ones and gives some blocks, items and entities better fitting names. For a more detailed list of features, see below.
How do I install the pack?
Simply copy the whole "Better than Default" zip-file to the resource packs folder of Minecraft, un-zipping the file is not necessary. Then start the game, open Options / Resource Packs, select "Better than Default", click "Done" and enjoy!
What about other texture features like connected textures?
Older versions of this pack (pre-1.9) supported a bunch of additional texture features like connected textures, custom colors, random mobs, better glass rendering and a custom HD skybox, which only work when using mods like MCPatcher or Optifine. Due to the (slowly) increasing amount of resource pack functionality in vanilla Minecraft as well as uncertainty about future updates for the required mods, those features are no longer kept in the pack and won't receive updates anymore.
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Recent changes:
- Updated und converted everything to work with MC 1.20.4, added all the new things and fixed a lot of old stuff
- Renamed a bunch of blocks, items and entities within the US/GB language files, to make names more consistent and more meaningful across the board. Notable examples are “Graystone” instead of simply “Stone”, “Carved Log” instead of “Stripped Log”, “Acorn” instead of “Oak Sapling”, “Octopus” instead of “Squid” or “Explosive Charge” instead of “TNT”.
- Added hunger, armor, health, poison and air "preview icons" to several items, like food, armor, potions, etc.
- Countless UI updates and improvements
- Added new/improved 3D models for dripstone, most crops, saplings (now fruits!), lightning rods, wall torches, damaged anvils, sunflowers, lily pads, cacti, frog spawn and spyglasses
- Added a simple "bushy leaves" feature to all leaf blocks for a much better in-game appearance
- Completely overhauled droppers, dispensers, hoppers, pistons (new direction and status icons!) and noteblocks (incl. tuning display!), making them significantly easier and more practical to use
- Iron golem damage stages as well as frogs got a new appearance
- Added carvings to the renamed Carved Logs to make them more useful as decorative building blocks
- Completely overhauled the appearance of Smithing Templates
- Many sound and background music updates and improvements
- Changed all music discs to play Minecraft's most iconic background music tracks instead of the mostly weird-sounding mono-channel vanilla record tracks
- Remade the moon phases from scratch to give them a more natural appearance
- Overhauled the font character sets – again
- Added support for Minecraft-styled color emojis
- Updated main menu splash texts, added ~150 additional ones
- For a complete and detailed list (very long!), see the Readme file within the pack.
List of implemented features:
● Adds better readable in-game font with 16x resolution
● Adds new SGA font to Enchantment GUI (2x resolution)
● Adds support for several Minecraft-styled color emojis, using the following unicode characters: Creeper Face 😈 U+1F608, Pig Face 🐷 U+1F437, Cow Face 🐮 U+1F42E, Zombie Face 🧟 U+1F9DF, Skeleton Face 💀 U+1F480, Steve Face 👨 U+1F468, Alex Face 👩 U+1F469, Villager Face 😐 U+1F610, Enderman Face 👽 U+1F47D, Iron Golem Face 🤖 U+1F916, Ender Dragon Face 🐲 U+1F432, Ghast 👻 U+1F47B, Slime 🦠 U+1F9A0, Pumpkin Face 🎃 U+1F383, Chest 🧰 U+1F9F0, Target 🎯 U+1F3AF, Diamond Sword 🗡 U+1F5E1, Diamond Pickaxe ⛏ U+26CF, Axe 🪓 U+1FA93, Shovel U+E00C, Hoe U+E005, Trident 🔱 U+1F531, Shears ✂ U+2702, Bow and Arrow 🏹 U+1F3F9, Arrow ↗ U+2197, Firework Rocket 🚀 U+1F680, Fishing Rod 🎣 U+1F3A3, Bucket 🪣 U+1FAA3, Bottle/Potion 🧪 U+1F9EA, Honey Bottle 🍯 U+1F36F, Apple 🍎 U+1F34E, Golden Apple 🍏 U+1F34F, Melon Slice 🍉 U+1F349, Potato 🥔 U+1F954, Carrot 🥕 U+1F955, Sweet Berries 🍒 U+1F352, Bread 🍞 U+1F35E, Raw Porkchop 🥩 U+1F969, Cookie 🍪 U+1F36A, Red Mushroom 🍄 U+1F344, Roses 🌹 U+1F339, Sunflower 🌻 U+1F33B, Tulip 🌷 U+1F337, Oxeye Daisy 💮 U+1F4AE, Oak Sapling 🌳 U+1F333, Spruce Sapling 🌲 U+1F332, Bone 🦴 U+1F9B4, Feather 🪶 U+1FAB6, Iron Ingot U+E006, Gold Ingot U+E007, Copper Ingot U+E008, Netherite Ingot U+E009, Brick 🧱 U+1F9F1, Diamond 💎 U+1F48E, Emerald 🪙 U+1FA99, Redstone Dust U+E00A, Glowstone Dust U+E00D, Coal U+E00B, Fire 🔥 U+1F525, Book 📕 U+1F4D5, Nametag 🏷 U+1F3F7, Totem of Undying 🗿 U+1F5FF, Painting 🖼 U+1F5BC, Bell 🔔 U+1F514, Chains ⛓ U+26D3, Ladder 🪜 U+1FA9C, Red Wool 🟥 U+1F7E5, Orange Wool 🟧 U+1F7E7, Yellow Wool 🟨 U+1F7E8, Lime Wool 🟩 U+1F7E9, Blue Wool 🟦 U+1F7E6, Purple Wool 🟪 U+1F7EA, Brown Wool 🟫 U+1F7EB, Black Wool ⬛ U+2B1B, White Wool ⬜ U+2B1C, Noteblock 📻 U+1F4FB, Sponge 🧽 U+1F9FD, Dirt U+E00E, Cobblestone 🪨 U+1FAA8, Goat Horn 📣 U+1F4E3.
● Adds some new splash texts and removes boring ones (reduces overall amount to ~250)
● Changes HUD icons and bars to be in 8x resolution
● Adds a better looking hover effect to menu buttons
● Adds better looking pop-up notification windows
● Adds countless minor GUI improvements
● Adds scountless tweaks to the english language files (US/GB), including many renamed blocks, items and entities.
● Adds hunger, armor, health, poison, air and XP "preview icon" characters to all food, armor and several potion bottle and tipped arrow items, giving more detailed information about how they affect the player when used/consumed.
● Improves the descriptions of several advancements to be less vague and more helpful to new players. Challenge-type advancements also show a clear "Challenge" designation and the reward.
Environment:
● Adds a more natural looking sun (4x resolution) and moon (16x resolution)
● Adds new rain and snow particles (4x resolution)
● Adds a less dull color palette to grass and leaves
● Adds high-resolution water blur (4x resolution)
● Changes darkness blur to allow a slightly better view in dark areas and underwater
● Changes pumpkin blur to make more sense and allow a slightly better view
Blocks:
Terrain:
● Adds better looking textures for Limestone, Tuff, Ice, Mud, Glowstone, Copper and Iron Ore Blocks, Cobwebs, small and giant Mushrooms, Ferns, Sunflower Heads, Cacti and Dripstone
● Adds minor improvements to leaf colors and transparency (leaf blocks in fast graphics mode, azalea bushes, darker dark oak)
● Adds new side textures for snowy Podzol and Mycelium blocks which actually fit the blocksBuilding, Decoration, etc:
● Adds better looking textures for all types of Glass blocks and panes, Carved Logs, Chiseled Deepslate top/bottom, Beacons, Glazed Terracotta, Bricks, Explosive Charges, Lapis Lazuli Blocks, Lodestones, Brewing Stands, Smithing Tables, Jukeboxes, Soul Campfires, End Rods, Iron and Oak Wood Doors and Trapdoors
● Adds more crystalline-looking Diamond Blocks and properly colored diamond corners to Enchanting Tables
● Adds several improvements to the Sandstone textures: Regular sandstone showing the cracked/cobbled texture on all sides, better seams for the decorative variants, tweaked Smooth Sandstone texture to reduce lattice effects
● Adds proper slab, double slab and stair side textures for all blocks with a seam
Farming:
● Adds better looking melon textures as well as proper bottom textures for pumpkins and melons
● Improves the growth stages of Wheat, Beetroots, Carrots, Potatoes and Sweet Berries to make them more realistic and distinctive
● Adds different textures for the moisture levels of farmland
● Adds different textures for the age levels of Chorus Flowers
● Adds different textures for the honey levels of Bee Nests/Hives
Redstone:
● Slightly improves the appearance of Redstone wires and torches, Tripwire and Detector Rails
● Adds improved input and output textures, arrows and symbols to Repeaters, Comparators, Hoppers, Dispensers, Droppers, Observers and Pistons to make redstone contraptions significantly easier to build and troubleshoot
● Adds proper instrument and tuning displays to Noteblocks, making them a lot more straightforward to use
● Adds more useful, high-contrast Redstone Lamps
Block Animations:
● Adds better looking animations for water, lava, fire and portals
● Adds fire and glowing animations to lit furnaces
● Adds red pulsing animation to Monster Spawners
● Adds tweaked, animated Command Block textures
● Adds bubble animations to bottles inside a Brewing Stand
Block Models:
● Adds new 3D block models for Sugar Canes, Crops, Lily Pads, Frog Spawn, Furnaces, Dispensers, Droppers, Jukeboxes, Observers, Daylight Sensors, Glass Panes, Iron Bars, Rails, Ladders and Pointed Dripstone
● Adds a simple "bushy leaves" feature to all leaf blocks for a much better in-game appearance
● Adds backface rendering for normal and tinted glass blocks, Beacons and Monster Spawners
● Adds 6-way connecting borders for mushroom blocks
● Fixes several issues of big dripleafs, the shading of potted plants and the saw blade animation of stonecutters
Random Blocks:
● Randomises the textures/block models of all stone types including their polished variants and slabs, all mineral blocks, all dirt, sand and ice variants, Mud, Packed Mud, Moss, Grass, Mycelium, Podzol, Dirt Paths, Gravel, Clay, Limestone, Tuff, Obsidian, Crying Obsidian, Pointed Dripstone, all mushroom blocks, Tall Grass, Dead Bushes, Hanging Roots, Cobwebs, Lily Pads, Lapis Lazuli Blocks, Bookshelves, Soul Sand, Shroomlights and Glowstone, for more variety in-game and to reduce lattice effects
Items:
● Adds better looking items for Doors, Signs, Paintings, Glowstone and Redstone Dust, Gunpowder, Sugar, Ender Eyes, Nether Stars, all kinds of bottles and potions, Compasses, Clocks, Shears, Paper and Maps, Lava Buckets, Pink/Purple/Light Blue/Lime/Gray Dye, Melon Slices, Pumpkin Pie, most seed types, Wheat, Sugar Canes, Sunflowers, Pitcher Plants, Nether Warts, Rotten Potatoes, Cooked Fish, Firework Rockets, Totems of Undying, Spyglasses, Tridents, Phantom Membranes, Music Discs and Smithing Templates
● Improves the colors of all coal, diamond and gold items as well as Copper and Iron Ore, Dried Kelp and arrow tips
● Changes Tree Saplings to show their respective fruit/seed instead, which make more sense to drop from decaying leaf blocks
● Adds small preview icons onto Banner Pattern items
● Adds better looking armor and elytra items and fitting armor/shield inventory slot icons
● Centers many oddly placed items for a better appearance in inventories
● Adds 3D models for all block and entity items that don't show them by default
Item animations:
● Adds smooth dial/needle movement to clock/compass
● Adds animated XP orbs inside XP Bottles
● Slightly improves the bow texture and its pull animation
Entities:
Static entities:
● Adds better skins for Trapped Chests, Enderchests and colored Shulker Boxes
● Adds a better looking HD enchantment book with readable SGA text to the enchanting table
● Adds a better looking, cleaner front texture to the signs
● Adds properly colored flint tips to arrows
● Adds better looking Ender Crystals and more decorative Decorated Pots
● Adds better looking beams for active Beacons and End Crystals
● Adds better looking Ender Dragon Fireball texture from Minecraft Bedrock Edition
● Adds better looking, high-resolution XP Orbs (4x resolution)
Mobs:
● Adds tweaked skins for Cows, Red Mooshrooms, Chickens, Wolves, Skeletons, Endermen, Blazes and damaged Iron Golems
● Adds new, better looking skins for Creepers, Slimes and Ocelots
Armor:
● Adds new, better looking player armor (2x resolution)
● Adds new, better looking horse armor (2x resolution)
● Adds new, better looking elytra (2x resolution)
● Adds shields and shield overlay patterns with doubled resolution
● Adds better animations for charged Creepers and Wither Armor
Particles:
● Adds a more realistic explosion animation (2x resolution)
● Removes the annoying white "sweep effect" animation and damage hearts popping up when attacking mobs
● Adds a smaller, less obtrusive glint particle seen when fertilising plants and feeding baby animals
● Doubles the resolution of the SGA particles emitted from bookshelves around an enchanting table
● Fixes breaking particles of wooden chests showing the wrong texture (MC-65915)
Sounds:
● Adds new, less annoying and more varied weather sounds (rain and thunder)
● Adds better explosion, lavapop, water, mud, flint and steel, bow shoot and bow hit sounds
● Improves the Nether Portal humming sequence
● Drastically reduces the volume of the player attack sounds
● Drastically reduces the volume of several zombie/husk banging, breaking and conversion sounds
● Re-adds the old, funnier cow sounds from Alpha/Beta
● Adds additional chicken and zombie sounds for more variety
● Changes the headache-triggering bat squeaking to a more realistic, higher-pitched sound
● Changes the weird Sniffer hurt and death sounds to be lower pitched and better fit this large creature
● Re-arranges and adjusts some of the background music to make more sense and be less annoying
● Changes all music discs to play Minecraft's most iconic background music tracks in full-quality stereo, instead of the mostly weird-sounding mono-channel vanilla record tracks
(Partially outdated)
More screenshots here:
Comparison Default / Better than Default
Better sugar canes, smooth needle and dial movement for compass and clocks, better rain:
Comparison Default / Better than Default
Better distinguishable crops and growth stages:
Comparison Default / Better than Default
Better looking glass:
Comparison Default / Better than Default
Slightly improved Redstone Wires, better Repeaters and high-contrast displays!
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Comparison Default / Better than Default
Snow and ice revamped!
Comparison Default / Better than Default
Enjoy Kristoffer Zetterstrand’s original artwork in 4x resolution!
Blowing up some houses is more fun now!
Better armor and random ores:
Comparison Default / Better than Default
More natural-looking moon:
Comparison Default / Better than Default
Camouflaged Creepers!
Also did some improvements to the End!
Comparison Default / Better than Default
Even hell is better than default!
Comparison Default / Better than Default
You can change or use the included features in any way you want, you don't have to ask me for permission. I'm OK with people using my pack to make texture presentation videos or even to make their own texture/resource packs, but please add a reference including my name and a link to my forum thread!
You're not allowed to ...
... make any money with anything containing my stuff! (no donations, no adf.ly links, ...)
... upload my pack anywhere else (distribution is only made via this forum thread!)
... use any features I took from other texturepacks without the permission from the authors!
I've permission to use textures from the following texturepacks:
- Misa's 64x64 Realistic Pack Used parts: Water, lava and fire animations (downscaled, colors changed), rain and snow textures, HD water blur, the Minecraft logo, the XP/boss health bars, map icons, XP orbs, a tweaked version of the HD Wither painting, the explosion animation (downscaled from 4x to 2x resolution), the charged creeper and Wither armor animations.
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1. Jump
Jumping and attacking gives you a critical, dealing more damage. The only downfall is you take increased knockback.
2. Potions
In PvP, potions can be pretty helpful. I personally recommend a few strength II potions, as they allow you to rack up some damage, or some healing potions, as you want to stay alive. Speed potions are also fairly good, especially if you just need to get away from your enemy for a second, whether you just don't want to battle or need to get away to drink some other potions.
3. Enchant
Now, this one may be a bit obvious, but its still necessary. For swords, you don't really need looting, bane of arthropods, or smite. Knockback is good if you want to 'toy' with your opponents, but if you just want to kill, or they are running away, its just counter-productive. Sharpness and fire aspect are the ones you really need. For armor, it depends on what you are doing. If you are on a server that has generic kits to choose, you will probably just need protection, feather falling, and projectile protection. If you are playing on a normal survival server, though, you MIGHT need blast protection. Fire protection COULD be useful, too.
4. Enderpearls
Enderpearls are fairly hard to come by, but they can also be pretty useful for PvP. They make a good but expensive alternative for speed potions. If you are worried about death by the damage it gives you, enchant your armor with feather falling. Enderpearl damage is fall damage, and feather falling will block most of it.
5. Bows
Bows are another obvious choice. There isn't really a bad enchantment for these, unless you don't want foes to be knocked around. In that case, you might want to ignore punch.
6. Crouching
This one is good if YOU are getting knocked around. Crouching on a block reduces the amount of knockback you take. The only downfall is you can't get the crits by jumping.
7. Keep Moving
You obviously don't want to just stand in place, just getting wailed on. Two useful moves are rushing and strafing. Rushing is something you should do when you are low on health, maybe around 3-4 hearts. Its a bold move, and a highly dangerous one, but in 1v1 battles, if it works, the opponent may run away, giving you a moment to drink a few potions. Strafing is also good to do in battles, as you 'dodge' the attacks. This is a very good tactic when someone is using a bow at close range, as you can dodge the high-knockback arrows.
For a bit of a starter, this is a little melee guide, but not by me:
Well, those are all the tips I have. I will add any more I can think of later, but farewell for now.
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