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This has been a decent week. Actually ran out of space for the banner image to include it all. Mostly I've been polishing existing textures.

Oak and birch planks have changed... again. Stonebricks got some much needed definition although I didnt get a chance todo the cracked varient. Bricks have finally been replaced, not sure what the old one was even doing in the pack, bleh. This is much better. Also had another shot a doing the sheep. The sheared version still needs some work but I believe the face looks better on this one. Also done my first shot at some of the GUI, the Inventory hotbar thing that's always at the bottom of the screen is in.

Side note: I'm probably going to redo jungle planks again, keeping the mossy but making them look more worn an aged.

Also a shout out to the massive amount of french traffic I've been getting the last few days. Enjoy.

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Very beautiful,

I might use this when I do my Minecraft video's somewhere in June.

You did a lovely job.

-Asthunally

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Oh my, this is lovely! The colors are very nice without being too bright, and it has that cute cartoon-ish feel that reminds me of old school rpgs! Going to try this right away

Thank you very much.

Okay, so sad update this week. Had very busy 7 days. All that's new are those 5 icons you see above. Not really even worth downloading. But I didn't want to break my weekly update streak so here it is. Updates are back to normal this coming week.

For the moment I think I'm gonna go with the mossy planks. I get that it makes it less universally applicable to builds but my reasoning is that there's, what, 4 other plank types you can use for builds? But my opinion may change if I think that having mossy planks will make it too unusable.

Slow and steady. Jungle Leaves really need some loving at some point. Anyway, enjoy!

Okay new week done. Smooth stone versions for Andesite, Granite and Diorite are now in. I'm also planning on making each plank type have it's own original texture as opposed to a recolouring of the oak planks. So there's a new spruce planks now. A lot of the 'blocks of...' blocks have been improved. I think I did, gold, coal, iron and diamond, also adding in the emerald block. And I've changed birch foliage colours... again.

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Some updated screenshots with more details c:

Oh lord, look at all those textures still needing to be done. Thank you muchly, I'm very slack at the taking of screenshots. I think I'd prefer to avoid using screenshots that show the vanilla textures in them though.

Anywho, another week done. This one's pretty boring unfortunately. Busy week with uni and moving house. The plus side is that you may notice that there's now an add-on sections with the blue stone version available. I'm a little unsure on it. The colour isn't as rich as in the olden day pack but I think this better fits the other soft textures. But yea, let me know what you think.

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A few blocks I'd like to comment on are the prismarine blocks / lamps which you haven't touched yet, not trying to rush you or anything, just saying and for the diorite / granite stuff I really like the way it blends with the stone but one thing I liked about them was the color, so maybe keep them as they are but make the polished diorite white.

Your 4th screenshot in the main post has some outdated blocks.

Also I don't yet have the updated version but I don't think you have a texture for burning furnaces. There's other stuff like that for example the minecart rails have the original texture in the corners and the trapped chest have the original texture too.

But otherwise fantastic work on the updates, in fact i just created an account to say this, lol. Keep on the good work

Oh jesus! I keep forgetting about diorite, granite and anthessisissis- whatever it is. I keep reverting back to 1.7 Minecraft for mods and forget about many of the new textures. As for the polished blocks, yes I'll be making them more unique with bolder colours, it was just for the unpolished ones that I wanted to try to keep the differences subtle-ish so as to merge better with smooth stone. Having said that I want to improve the unpolished blocks a bit too so they're more easily identifiable as what they are.

I'll bump those up on my priority list, thanks for reminding me.

As for prismarine stuff, they'll probably be done much further down the line along with nether blocks. Can happily say the the furnace texture finally has a burning texture now too. Thank god. I had put that one off for far too long. Minecart stuff I haven't really got to. The basic rail texture is only there because of a test I was doing. Since the texture exists I thought I might as well leave it in the pack. But I should be getting to the minecart stuff in the next few weeks, so not too far away. As for the trapped chest I didn't actually realise that had its own separate texture. I'll fix that now, thanks.

Thank you very much. I'm glad you like.

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Anyways, I think it's just that you've changed the style as to why people seemed to like the old stuff, and the blue stone was pretty unique. So perhaps 'somewhat' to your question on quirkiness.

As to add-on packs, that's good to hear. I really want to see what you can do with a different theme, though I will say blue stone and your current oak plank colour don't match well.

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That being said, I really like the current colour choices too, it's definitely a lot more cosy than it was before. Anyways, keep up the great work, I'll be keeping an eye on this thread...

Wait, if the mushrooms are blue and pink. What colour is the mushroom soup gonna be?

Edited to add : Forget what I said about the 3D furnace. The furnace looks perfect in 2D rather than 3D.

I thought I'd give you guys a progress update on TC5.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to work on it much the past 2 weeks thanks to RL work stuff. I have however managed to work out how to render most TC4 stuff in the MC 1.8 renderer, though some sacrifices had to be made. It is also not possible as far as I know to do certain kinds of animations in the new engine - goodbye wand waving animation.

Essentia Tube rendering turned out to be a real PITA, but I have that mostly figured out as well.

All in all I would say I am about 50% done, but things will hopefully go faster now that I have figured out the quirks with MC 1.8. Making old blocks and items work in 1.8 is mostly just boring dog-work and not particularly taxing. What takes the longest is redoing their models - often I even need to redo their textures.

Major changes I have implemented so far is the removal of the "scanning for RP" mechanic and the changes to the aura and nodes. I still need to implement a new scanning mechanic and fiddle with the Thaumonomicon GUI's quite a bit to allow for more addon tabs and some other stuff.

I also still have a big rework of golems left to do as well, but I am going to leave that for very last.

While I could release some teaser videos, there is honestly nothing to tease at the moment. Almost everything I have done so far is just to make old stuff work in 1.8. The only "new" stuff is the arcane levitator changes which I have already shown, and the new nodes which isn't quite ready to be shown yet. Don't worry, once there is more to tease I will start teasing it

Edit: Oh, also with the changes to the aura and such vis costs in wands and other things have been completely redone and rebalanced. I also removed the concept of CV - wands (on average) hold 10x the vis they previously did, but costs obviously increased as well to compensate.