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Saturday, December 1, 2012

Texture Pack Breakdown

 If you are still using the default Minecraft textures this is what you are missing out on. By default, Minecraft uses 16x16 pixel textures for each block, but HD texture packs can cram more pixels into each block, making each block look more realistic and beautiful. 
To put these textures on you need to use either the HD Texture Pack Patcher or a mod called Optifine. The links will be found at the bottom of this post. They basically modify the minecraft .jar to let it use larger images for blocks. Optifine is probably a better option as it adds lots of video options to Minecraft. You should check that out first as it is in most ways better.

The next thing to work out is what your computer can handle. There are many versions of texture packs with different pixel densities. The most common ones range from 16x (default), 32x, 64x, 128x, 256x and 512x. This means that each block is 32 by 32 and 64 by 64 pixels respectively. Start low and work up to work out which version you can run without lag on your computer. Have a look around on Minecraft Forum and Planet Minecraft to find some good texture packs that you like.

My favourites are Sphax PureBDCraft and R3D CRAFT.

Happy Hunting!

          From Fieryaleeco at OcelotsandWolves

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