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My first-ever texturepack. The whole time I've played minecraft, I've preferred the default texturepack over any others. Mainly because of the fact that I like keeping minecraft vanilla.

But recently, I've gotten into spriting, and I decided to give a shot at making my own texturepack.

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Although it's made from scratch, you may notice that it is similar to the default texturepack. This is because I've tried to keep certain traditions from the default texturepack while using my own style.

And keep in mind this IS my first texturepack. I'm new to the whole business, so it's 16x cause I like to keep it simple.

If you have problems with the texturepack, or you would like to help improve it, I take all criticism and feedback. I'll try to respond to most of the posts, and keep you up to date with my progress!

The forest. In my honest opinion, it's the simplest. It has trees and grass. Sometimes stone and lava. A normal amount of regular mobs spawn there, and it's usually flat with a lot of lumber to be had.

There is a current way to brew several different types of potions. It requires you to delve into the nether and find "blazes" in the nether.



On death, blazes usually drop blaze rods. You then put the blaze rod with three cobblestone in a crafting bench, like so.



Once you place it down, you can brew three potions with one reagent.

For a potion of instant health, first you must make a bottle of water.

You craft a bottle of water like you do a wooden bowl, only with glass. It gives you three each time you craft it. Then you right-click on a body of water and fill up one individual bottle.

Next, delve into the nether and find a netherbrick fortress. You'll know when you see it. A big, square complex.

Now find nether wart. It looks like a plant growing inside of the fortress. Once you acquire these, move on back home. Insert the nether wart into the top box, and three water bottles into the bottom three. It will start to brew an awkward potion. Now you get watermelon slices and gold nuggets (made by crafting one gold ingot) into Glittering Watermelon, and brew the potions with that reagent.

Now you have a potion of instant healing. There's a LOT more potion combinations for brewing, use this wiki page as a referrence.

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Brewing

This suggestion is for a life cycle to least describe it. A whole system of the world "cycling" before your character.

First off, the cycle happens through every "Tri-day Cycle". Every three days, things should change.

If water is touching dirt or grass, over three days, the dirt or grass changes to sand. This should make sand another renewable resource.

Next is dirt. If water is touching cobblestone or smooth stone, over a period of three days it will turn into dirt.

The same would happen if lava would be touching sand or dirt. Every three days, the liquid block turns blocks into something else. One renewable resource for another.

Next is natural leaf decay. Every three days, a tree sheds it's leaves and regrows them in another three days. The whole cycle would take six days to work. Three days to decay, three days to regrow and repeat.

Now for wildgrass growing on it's own. Unlike the others, this happens randomly. Wildgrass will 'spread' from another wildgrass block. Sometimes flowers would replace a wildgrass block.

And that's it. A lot of the easy-to-get blocks (dirt and sand, specifically) aren't renewable. This system wouldn't make them easy to get, it would just be a cool little thing to have.

Survival Islands. It may be overused, but that doesn't mean it can't be fun, right? There's little resources, a few secret chests and I'd recommend having the difficulty above peaceful.

It's a small map with a few islands. I don't know what to say since this is my first map I've ever made.

I made is using MCEdit by deleting every chunk and placing a few blocks, then I used Creative mode for everything else.

There one rule is do not cheat using mods or inventory editors.

Here is the link to the map. Have fun and enjoy!

Sorry if the topic isn't good enough, or anything. Really, this is my first map finished.

And one last thing, at the time I was making this map, I hadn't realized This one was being made. It's a coincidence, I swear :biggrin.gif:

Although now that you do think about it, they are really similar. What a weird coincidence indeed.

SMP is not as user-friendly as many of us would like. It's buggy, laggy and it disconnects a lot. Part of the whole minecraft experience was to share it with others, but it's hard to do that with something that shows it's still in development.

I mean no offense, though. It's still pretty awesome itself, but there's a lot of problems with it and I think SMP should get a little love in the next update.

Although this is my opinion. Do you agree or disagree, and do you have any opinions about it yourself?

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1a: The reliance on the wiki/community.









1b: How to fix it.







2a: The difficulty.







2b: How to fix it.

-Make health and mob damage the same across all difficulty levels.

-Remove the ability to change difficulty modes mid-game.

-Do more things like the "zombies can break down doors in hard". THIS actually makes for difficulty- mob intelligence. Preferably, make zombies able to break down doors in normal.

-Add more mechanics that are changed via difficulty.

-Make normal harder than the current game, and hard truly difficult. Easy should be about as easy as it currently is (which is actually very easy).

-Give mobs a lot more abilities. Zombies that can turn villagers into zombies, make zombies not de-spawn in hard, allow spiders to hang upside down, etc. Then adjust whether these abilities work or not depending on game-mode.






3a: The mobs.










3b: How to fix it.

-Give mobs a longer sight range. WAY longer. If I can see them, they should be able to see me. Like, 128 blocks long. Automatically, they become more of a threat with this- besides, it's just a stupid generic MMORPG thing where mobs only see you within X distance. KILLS the idea of them being threatening.

-Make zombies- at the very least- faster. They're such a joke right now. And I don't mean on "hard" difficulty, I mean for ALL difficulty modes. They should be as fast as the player.

-Make creepers only spawn underground. Having them spawn aboveground is just... it kills tension, and ruins the image they have of "scary" even more. They're only remotely threatening underground- keep them this way.

-Make it so mobs only spawn in a light level of 4 or less, rather than 8 or less. This makes it so they only spawn in dense areas of forests, jungles, or underground. I've personally played around with this myself, and holy crap it feels great.

-Make spiders able to crawl upside down, and also make them actually change their image when they're doing this (as well as crawling upside down). Seriously, they look upright when crawling up walls... that's just silly, and lazy.

-Put in those planned mob prefixes- as in, mobs that randomly spawn with special effects/abilities. Things like being faster, able to light the player on fire, able to jump higher, able to be 3x as big, able to bounce projectiles back at the player, etc... there's tons of ideas for this. They shouldn't spawn ALL the time, but maybe a 1-in-10 chance to have a prefix (where the prefix itself is random). In of itself, this makes the world more dynamic.

-Make more biome-specific mobs. As in, enemy mobs- not more pets. They should have a use, but then it's not like zombies have any real use. I'd suggest that new mobs be able to drop items used for new potions, or something. This'd make biomes waaay nicer to go to, and is in line with the next section.

-Make slimes spawn above-ground, holy crap. They're important mobs, but tediously searching for them underground is INSANELY ANNOYING. I'd suggest making them spawn in swamps- the "only spawns in certain chunks" thing is alright, but still. They should spawn aboveground.

-Make new mobs drop items useful for the general game- again, ingredients for unique potions is a fantastic idea. Or just... other things that are truly unique (instead of more variations of the same crap).






4a: The biomes and terrain in general.








4b: How to fix it.

-Have more unique, biome-only rewards. Things like ingredients for new potions- USEFUL new potions. Hell, lilypads could be used for a "Potion of Water Walking". Things like this make biomes useful to travel to.

-As per above, more biome-specific mobs. Not "SssSand creeper (:", or mummies that are zombies with a different skin, or something equally dumb. I mean a mob that's really different from the other ones still, and give unique item drops. Snakes that are the size of silverfish, but can poison you, and only attack you if you get pretty close to them. Sharks that only spawn in ocean biomes, and drop shark fins used for... some water-based potion. Things like this. I could go on for hours, but I'd rather make a mod to show how it can be done.

-Make trees taller. Seriously, they look like crap. I've already doubled the height of oaks and birch, and they look great (like they always should have looked). Pine/spruce look alright, though.

-Make use of the extra space you now have. This just infuriates me. First off, make the earth deeper- make it ~90 blocks instead of 63. This means, yes, making everything generate higher to match this, but this is fine. Then, make mountains (extreme hills) generate higher than just 64 blocks from the sea level (127 - 63 = 64). With the average sea level of 90, the average mountain should go up to ~200 (110 rather than 64 blocks from sea level). This still gives 56 blocks for players to build on top of the mountains. This is plenty to build a multi-level mansion with roof space. From the peak.

-Make a proper pre-requisite system to biome generation- right now, it's pretty much entirely random where biomes spawn, so you have taigas next to deserts, etc. They should use a flowchart of sorts- getting which biome is there, then deciding which biome(s) to generate around it depending on whether or not it would be appropriate to place it there. This wouldn't be too hard to implement, and would make things look a lot better. This also relies upon more biomes being put in (for more "transitional" biomes, like savanna between plains and desert), but that's kind've a given.

-As mentioned above, more biomes. Not just for the sake of having them, of course- but by now, that should also be a given. Things like Savanna's, Bogs, Marshlands, Hills (Just hills, not extreme hills... which should be renamed to mountains, anyway), Badlands, and plenty more. All of which have some use, and all of which should look different.

-Variations of existing biomes. Things like spruce forests (not just in taiga's anymore), rocky mountains (all stone instead of grass/dirt), forest mountain (think eastern United States) and so on would be nice. Variations of stone types would help, as well- brown, dark grey, etc. Similar to the variations in wood.

-Make plains more flat. Right now, they're basically hills, and that's a little silly. Make a hills biome, splitting it from the plains biome.

-Deserts shouldn't have pools of water in them. This is just stupid. Players should have to use desert wells for water here.

-Make dirt/grass slabs (again), then use it for generating hills. It's silly that I have to jump up just to go over a hill. Just have the slabs generate every other block on hills, or something, and it'd work fine.





5a: Lack of equipment choice.














5b: How to fix it.

-Add in "Knockback" as a weapon stat. At the same time, add "knockback resistance" to armor, with heavier armor having more knockback resistance. Mobs should also have varying levels of knockback resistance- skeletons could be easy to knock back, but zombies would be harder. Generally speaking, it should be harder to knock things back than it is right now.

-Add an attack speed stat for weapons. The fastest should be the default attack speed (which is 3 per second IIRC). Pretty straightforward-

-Make new weapons. Battle axes, maces, spears, crossbows- all of that, and preferably more. Give them unique levels of of those 3 stats (Damage, knockback, and attack speed). Then, give them unique secondary abilities (right click)- spears can be thrown, maces can stun, and so on. Maybe even make different weapons have another ability- spears could hit 1 block farther than regular weapons, etc. Tons of ideas, and as long as they're balanced, they'd be fantastic.

-Increase default sprint speed. Then, divide armor into different "armor classes", or assign them different "weight" levels. The better the armor, the heavier it is- heavy armor would make you sprint slower, and after a certain point, you'd be unable to sprint with really heavy armor. It should also disable certain other abilities (again, more on this later) after certain points. This would make going without armor fairly viable- just the same, going in full armor would mean you'd not be knocked back nearly as easily (and plus still be a juggernaut).

-Add more material types. Not just "dragon ore! better than diamond, but is really hard to get (:", because mods that do this are stupid as hell. I mean things within the bounds of iron or diamond- with unique uses. A "fire" ore that makes your weapons able to set things on fire with a set chance. Or tools that allows you to cook ores/etc you mine with a certain chance. And the armor can reduce fire damage, and with the full set can make you immune to it. But it'd be slightly worse than iron- better than stone/leather, but still a bit worse than iron. And that's just one new material type- there's so many more ideas. GOOD ideas, not just ideas that add more to "hurr tier 6 elite ultra dragon equipment!1".





6a: Lack of player abilities







6b: How to fix it.








7a: The community is terrible.












7b: How to fix it.


















"Use mods."


"Minecraft is not an RPG."


"Players should be given the choice to play the game exactly as they want to."


"The game is about building, not fighting."


"The game is fine."


"Your changes are crap. They wouldn't make the game better."

I uploaded a review on youtube:

cause I think this texture pack rocks

Someone needs to make a sticky for forum ranks or put them in the FAQs

Out of the Water 1
Dirt Miner 2-9
Wood Miner 10-29
Carpenter 30-69
Coal Miner 70-149
Lava Miner 150-239
Copper Miner 240-339
Demolitioner 340-599
Gold Miner 600-899
Build Master 900-1399
Mining God 1400+

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