Minecraft has some of the most recognisable and famous textures in all of gaming history. Present in the game since 2009, they finally saw massive changes in 2019. But which minecraft textures are truly better?
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0:00 - Intro
0:49 - The ORIGINAL Textures
2:24 - The Controversy
5:59 - The Issues
8:20 - Which Textures are Better?
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Old glowstone fits in with leaves 🍃
The old Nether felt more like Hell, whereas the new Nether feels like it’s own new fantasy land, especially thanks to the Warped and Crimson forests and the Piglins.
It looks more like a fantasy land but it’s still really unforgiving lmao
yeah and Imo that's a very good change. Having actual "hell" dimension when You can go to and go back with no consequences, and even with some benefits... was never a good idea.
@@Lyokoheros-KLPXTV The thing is that the Nether reflects an arid, desolate, ominous place. You can have consequences, because if you fall, you lose all your progress. However, at the time the Nether was anything but challenging. But with the 1.16 it's another story. So imo, the hell dimension was a good idea all the way.
@@Uriel4-9-476 the point is that hell is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than just "arid, desolate, ominous place.". And one of the main thing about the idea of hell itself is that there's no comeback. And even in some less "strict" interpretion when You can, it actually has some immense consequence on a being which enters and returns. I'm not saying about possibility of merelly being hurt or dying there. I talk about consequences of BEING there itself. (But their existence would be actually bad for gameplay and Minecraft isn't the kind of game that is about being challenging) This makes the idea of having hell dimension in Minecraft kinda contradictory - and thus it's a bad idea. More or less as bad as really hellish the dimension would be.
To me the nether is no longer hell but a place you were never welcome in
new ones are just more polished, but the old ones always give you that nostalgic feeling.
Netherrack...
I play with the old texters
but old gold block is worth places physically new one is ew
@@undergravitydownforce714 yes 😃
Rip the nethe ack flesh feel
What really made the nether scarier upon it's first inception besides the textures is the lighting that was more similar to the overworld. Meaning it could actually get really dark, and you need torches to see anything. Imagine what the nether would look like today with true darkness.
Agreed its so bright and ruins the horror completely.
@@mattcatt1165 good thing the warden is here
@@cly_Cannot agree more.
True, I always took Stacks of torches to the nether, because it was so weirdly dark.
the lava lights up a bit of the nether
Old netherrack: sharp broken sheets of shale covered in blood New netherrack: smooth river stone but red
@@tylerbingo1022other things can cause erosion like wind also it’s not confirmed but matpat made a theory about water originally existing in the nether
I mean... old netherrack's texture was cobblestone's texture but with a red noise filter on it.
I honestly always thought new netherack looked more like literal blocks of organs. They look like internal body parts that someone has condensed into a block. And I think they look pretty evil in a way.
@@cookiesontoast9981Yeah, it looks like what netherrack was originally called, of bloodstone. And the old netherrack texture doesn’t look like anything, just a bunch of pixels mashed together.
I don’t know why this seems to just be a me thing, but netherrack to me seemed to fit what the nether should be more I always thought new netherrack looked a lot dustier and crumbly, and the newer sound design for it reflects that a lot! It makes the whole place feel brittle and unstable, and like the whole place is incredibly dry and uninhabitable (which makes sense considering the lack of water) I’m sort of inclined to think that’s what they intended for it, given the lack of water in the nether, but that could just be me
The old Netherrack always looked like flesh, bone, and stone to me. I liked that. The new texture looks like red rocks. Nothing too special about that
New texture of Netherrack makes more sense.
@@CrimsonJewel i like more the old netherrack because if im not wrong it was supposed to be called bloodstone at first, so i do like the idea of it being flesh, bones and blood
@@anyeloxx_6296 it still has an awful, AWFUL texture.
Yes its cooler than the new one BUT ITS FUCKING UGLY
@@anyeloxx_6296 I wonder where all of those billions of chunks of rotting meat came from.
I jumped back into Minecraft around 1.14 or 15 after a few years away. I didn't even notice the textures were updated until I saw other videos talking about it long after. Whenever I see the old ones my reaction is always something along the lines of, "This is what it used to look like? It didn't seem like this much of an eyesore."
I started to play in 2011 so whenever i get to play mc nowadays i always feel like i'm playing mods lol
Same :D
But the netherrack hurts to look at, look at that.
Expect for netherack. THAT, was definitely an eyesore
Neither did i
I use the packs “Programmer Art” and “Programmer Art Extended.” It updates all the new textures to look like the old ones.
Same
I feel like while sure old Netherrack fits the old Nether aesthetic where it was supposed to be hell. The texture does look like an eyesore after seeing it a couple of time, and with the current Nether being more focused on exploration instead of just finding a fortress and leave, having a texture with a lot of noise like the old netherrack can get uncomfortable for the eyes after spending too much time in the nether.
nether is no longer hell, but it’s own realm with a few hostile mobs and interesting biomes and structures to explore, and i respect that
@@pixelatedluisyt It's become from looking like hell, to looking like a fantasy realm that has become like hell. Blazes, wither skellies, ghasts and magma cubes were already dangerous, now you can get attacked by piglin brutes who have 50 hp and can potentially 2 shot you if you aren't strong enough. Fucking love it (also the old looking hell was an eye sore).
Yeah, I gotta say, the old netherrack really just looks awful and hurts my eyes. The Nether is plenty scary hearing a ghast cry above your head or the breath of a blaze behind you without needing an ugly texture for netherrack that just makes you feel like never going back.
Bruh y’all don’t understand the concept of the nether and yall want it to seem like some sort of difference planet rather then hell which it’s supposed to be
Yes, it was meant to be hell back when it was first made, but I see no reason they can’t modify what was originally intended. I personally enjoy the shift from just hell to a more varied, otherworldly dimension. It adds a lot more depth to it when there are more structures and biomes, and makes it much cooler to travel in.
Both of the netherrack textures are fitting for their respective versions in my opinion. Pre 1.14 one fit the old nether really well. It was a desolate space with this hellish eye straining netherrack everywhere. Add in the ghasts and other mobs and you get yourself a true hell feeling. 1.14 - 1.16 felt _really_ off. It felt way emptier than before and had less of the hell feeling - nothing but the smooth red block everywhere made it feel like it was a bland, lonely simple biome. 1.16 and forward is when the new textures actually come in really well - with 1.16, the general feeling and meaning of the nether changed a lot, and the smoother, less eye straining netherrack fits it really well. Nether is not just "hell" anymore, its another dimension where many unique creatures live and where many structures and biomes exist for the player to explore. Its way more lively and the old netherrack texture just doesnt fit it at all.
It does fit really well if you use a Pack that adds compatibility to programmers art in the new versions, with a pretty cool contrast between the dark red flesh texture and the bright new alien plants
I think you actually make a great point with the nether. While the new texture is far from the blandest redesign, the environment does no justice to it. The old nether is certainly a different beast too, and there is no way in hell (heh) I would approve keeping it as long as 1.16.
@@mechamedegeorge6786 contrast sometimes fit each other but sometimes destroy each other. Contrast was made to easily differenciate between color and other color. In my opinion it would be cooler to had flesh bione full of flesh block with the texture of old nettherack, toned down obviously.
Wise words
Also I would rather look at real flesh blood and bones on the wall than that old netherack texture. The old netherack texture looks like diorite mixed with cool aid, not unsettling, just ugly…
I remember when the cows made different sounds. Anyone also remember when lava had a different pattern? (It changed from red to yellow rather than being mostly orange.) The old gravel textures bring me back, too. Remember when they were used as villager paths? Ahh… memories!
Lava used to look fcking terrible
From what I remember there is three lava patterns. The one that was just red and yellow with no flow patterns (it didn’t move), the one that was mostly yellow and red that did have a flow pattern (the one that I was talking about), and then the one that we currently have which is mostly orange with a flow pattern. I like the two later textures that we’ve had, but the very first lava texture… it did suck.
@@shinyy8918 Lava's always looked weird, it went from looking like grilled cheese to baked beans.
REMEMBER WHEN THERE WERE TORCHES ON BLACK WOOL?!
@@wakkowarner3716 yup.
I miss the old crop textures a lot too. Wheat in particular. The new one just doesn’t feel right.
ngl i like the old stone brick ones they just look cleaner in my head lol
the old wheat texture did not even slightly look like wheat though, honestly the best texture change they ever did
@@A_d0gg0 who cares though, Minecraft is basically a cartoon where everything is exaggerated.
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@@thewhitefalcon8539 it wasn't exhagerated, it just didn't look anything like what it was supposed to represent. was more like rice or long grass than actual harvestable wheat
Sand is my biggest issue, I honestly cannot tell distance or elevation in a desert biome now but I remember that it was quite easy back before the change.
That's how deserts are in real life
@@vikingursigurdsson bruh
@@mr.cauliflower3536 no hes kinda got a point tho. i didnt really care tbh i just thought sand looked a bit too green lol
@@Empyreiator What I'm saying is, this should not matter, since we have a lot of things that are not how they are IRL
@@mr.cauliflower3536 yeah but when it’s something from real life they typically try and make it look as much alike as they can. anyway, I just thought sand looked way too green before.
Anyone else still nostalgic for the old water and rain sounds? For some reason those embody the nostalgia of Minecraft's golden age for me the most.
The alpha door sounds and the oof are the most nostalgic for me
Oof
Yes
minecraft is more famous now than ever before what is golden age?
@@dejazO0 a golden age is the peak of a thing's life cycle
I like the retro indie feel of the old textures. Goes in line with the fact that the world is made up with cubes.
Yasss
This is what I like. Ivliked that the textures were very pixely, because it's a blocky pixely game.
They are unpolished, rudimentary, repeating, break several rules of pixel art and that's why we love them.
@@jadecoolness101 yeah that’s why I play legacy and not midrock
@@jirikajzar3247Rules of pixel art? That's quite dumb to have.
tbh, i don't understand the modern crusade against jagged, noisy or high contrast art styles. The laser focus on smoothing away all the detail is really silly IMO. I obviously prefer the older textures overall, the new ones aren't bad but they all feel bland and identical, even if some of the old textures were just recolours. I also like the cobbled together indie feel of the old textures more, the new ones just feel more corporate
they look like what mc clones used to look like
Lmao 100%, I literally just thought this a couple of days ago. Every Minecraft clone I used to play back in the day looked exactly like modern Minecraft@@tachikomagaming2451
I don't think it's removing detail. It's adding it. Random noise isn't really meaningful detail. The new textures actually communicate what you're looking at. Before, it was impossible to tell what certain things were meant to be. When you say corporate, I think you mean professional. Which would make sense since Notch wasn't a professional artist, whereas the latest contributions actually come from people who know how to make things look good. I think it's important to be able to identify when you're looking through rose tinted glass. A lot of the charm from Minecraft comes from the time we started to play it. Nostalgia is a very powerful feeling, and the pleasant feelings from that is very different from the feelings we get when identifying objectively visually appealing work. I think people are seeing their nostalgic memories erased with the new art (Even though you can just switch them back on with the Resource pack they provide) and are looking for ways to try and explain how the new look is worse somehow. But you're allowed to acknowledge that something looking better doesn't mean you feel as good looking at it because of the history and charm of the old textures. You don't have to try and justify that the new ones are worse somehow. The way I feel about the old look of Minecraft is very warm, but I don't think it looks good. Artistically it looks awful, but that doesn't change the way I feel about it. I didn't play it for the graphics, I played it because the gameplay was ground breaking for the time.
A lot of the charm of minecraft comes from the time back when it actually had charm, thanks to the iconic art direction among other things @@AliceHalley
@@AliceHalley How can you even say that something is artistically better, its like an oximoron. There was a certain artstyle, and it had changed. People might not like it. Netherrack for example has a whole different color pallete, with less ambigious origin since now its just a red tinted cobblestone. There is so much you can do when creating 16x16 textures, and some people will prefer sharper and noisier with bigger contrast textures over the blended, smooth textures with softer shadows that are more pleasant and less tiring to look at, but are a bit bland in comoarison. Its like with the gravel before 1.3.2 and since. In the newer one you were able to see bigger pebbles, but realistically the one that was all noisy was okay too, since the individual rocks were implied to have been one pixel each. I prefer the OG gravel for that fact, and you cant say that its artistically worse gravel.
A thing I liked about the old netherack texture was that it was kinda ambiguous as to what it really was. Was it a red rock? Red rock with blood on it? Or was it more like flesh and raw meat? The only new textures I like are glass because now you can actually see through it. As for the melon i think just making it a darker green rather than yellowish green would fix the old one. Overall the older textures are better in my opinion.
My favorite texture is the text to image where every block is white and has a name on it, really balanced, really colorful
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lol
saves the eye stain by removing al l that oversaturation on the colors as well as the extra contrast of those noisy textures
I do agree that the new netherrack looks a lot less scary, but frankly, the old texture makes being in the nether feel like stabbing a meat fork into your eyeballs. Maybe some kind of middle ground would be ideal.
i dont think it looks that bad
@@moon-pw1bi it really does.
@@notgood1321 no your wrong im right its not subjective
@@moon-pw1bi ratio
@@moon-pw1bi also you're*
I always liked the old Netherrack. It looked like it was straight out of Doom.
yeah same tbh
how bro old netherrack looks like ground meat💀
@@linuschan1901 You haven't seen the ground beef walls in doom? Damn. Personally, I would say that the old texture looked like bruised, scard, and bleeding flesh. The new texture just looks like flesh. The old texture had more personality at the expense of being an eye sore while the new texture as minimal personality with the moot point of not being good or bad to look at.
@@linuschan1901 Bruh, that;'s what makes it great. It's visceral looking, instead of L U M P Y R E D S T O N E in that obnoxious pinkish color it is now.
@@redstonewarrior0152 fax
"Alter the colors so that they don't cause migraine, keep the original pixel patterns." It's easy, you map out your color shades; medium shade, light shade, and dark shade, pick a color scheme that's easy on the eyes, and then apply it, that way the "old feeling" is kept. Now I know that's not a roundabout solution for everything, but I think it's applicable for a lot of the original blocks (like sand). I think it's a problem with new developers having their own ideas of what Minecraft is, versus what it was initially. Minecraft was a novelty pc game characterized by its retro look and place-setting in a "strange blocky world" without much lore (which gave it intrigue, or that is, the incentive to explore. Not that I'm against the ender dragon and stuff of course) which the old textures perfectly represented. It had an almost "surrealistic-dreamlike" feel (and I'm not using that word out of context, I'm referring to the actual art style "surrealism"). The new developers perceive Minecraft it seems as more of like a typical modern day free-roam rpg kind of game, and while I do think it has a lot of potential as an rpg, it would still require its retro look to differentiate from any other game. They smooth down all the terrain like it's nothing but a backdrop, but a backdrop for what? It's a sandbox game, so it's going to be dependent on interesting terrain to build, craft, and invoke imagination with. With the way they got things going, they make everything boring so that you focus on completing the game rather than choosing to complete it. How you ask? By trying to make it look more like real life. Check it, I'm playing a game to take a break from real life; if I wanted real life, I just would've went outside. If I have an ill feeling I'm familiar with, like I get from the real world, I'm going to try to escape it, that is, go on an adventure, prompting thus the need to follow the plot. The point is, realism does not always constitute immersion, sometimes it can, but not always. If anything, having something not realistic, as long as it's not too absurd, is more effective at providing an immersive feeling because it's unique, and it breaks away from the monotony of ordinary experience. Ultimately, the old look was a personality that came with an original concept, and now new developers are contradicting everything the game stands for by ushering in their own ideas. ( It's good to have ideas, but don't bring them to interfere with another's idea(s). Keep them for your own to share so that you remain original, and so that you don't cause another's beautiful creation to become obsolete)
Only thing about new textures are that some blocks that are supposed to be not flat (stone, logs etc.) are too undercontrasted. If they are a bit more contrasted, you will actually get the feel of their respective surfaces.
Yeah! That's why I always liked the old cobblestone back then, the newer one looked like wall paper with a stone texture
it makes every block with a rough surface look muddy and soft. programmer art works very well in this respect for conveying shape with it's high contrast
Agreed, netherrack and sand are two of the biggest contributors to this problem in my opinion. They're supposed to look rough and rugged, coarse and grainy- instead they look incredibly smooth, like normal stone.
@@cefirodewinter9086 old cobblestone looked like 2 tiddies and a fat stomach
I know they have to work with a 16x16 grid so obviously a balance is almost impossible, but that's one hookup I do have as they probably could taken it down a notch with blurring/blending.
I do like the new textures. But the old villager textures are so versatile for maps. I remember how you could use a white coat villager as a scientist in a map. So a feature that allows you to spawn in the old villagers would be pretty cool.
like a command for maps, minigames or roleplay purposes would be very awesome. (would also bring Dr Trayaurus back)
While they’re more versatile for maps, they were worse for the base game. Having several different careers sharing textures made things more confusing.
@@shaykhmhssi3246 They could merge their accessories with the old colored shirts with no problem
@@ZaHandle I don't think that would mesh well with the biome variants. Also if the reason for wanting old villager textures is map making, a map maker can have a resource pack that goes alongside the map.
@@shaykhmhssi3246 Would be cool to see colored biome variants, now we get even more unique designs
I agree with you on that a mix of both would be ideal, for example the tree textures, the oak logs back in the day DID kind of look like an oak log, the "imperfections" or "noise" in the image gave it the jagged look that you find with the real life bark of an oak tree, the new texture is overly blurry and looks more like an oak tree after drinking to the very verge of being blackout drunk AND squinting your eyes, the jaggedness of the oak bark is smoothed out so much that instead of looking like a tree that you found in nature, it looks like you splashed 9 different brown paints on a 4x4 you'd get at Lowes
It's worth noting that Jappa worked very closely with the community by asking for feedback. A lot of Jappa's textures got several iterations. Thanks to that feedback, we got textures that are new and fresh while being faithful to the original textures.
he ruined minecraft
@@sizquirttWhat a weird way to say improved.
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@@sizquirttbait
@@Braint-lr6uf I don't see it as improved, the charm of the old textures was completely removed.
The new ore textures are helpful for colorblind people! My friend who always had a problem with that in Minecraft can now easily tell them apart just from their textures.
Just see color me boy.
Fuck the blind i want my green forests back
Bruh
@@lordmike9331 Just get some bitches me boy.
@@lordmike9331 argargargargarg
At first I hated the new textures but now I quite like them since they're softer on the eyes and gives me less of a headache
The way the glass looked back then...
how did it give you a headache?
@@Auta5tic I guess from the sharp visuals. I'm not the only one though, it seems many others had the same issue.
Ngl i disliked the new one too, but after a while i started to love them! To me the old ones are disgusting like the Netherrack 🤢
@@ACbino I think that the netherack needs to have more definition to it, it looks like flesh rather than stone from hell
I personally love the old textures because of the nostalgia
What if there's no nostalgia?
@@lckyminer_2256Realistically the new ones. they just look better. Thats the only reason people like the old (Nostalgia)
I love both. I’ll only be upset if they remove the ability to play older versions from the official launcher. I love all the versions in their own unique ways
If they removed that someone would die
I actually think 1.16 was *intended* to make the nether more like just a weird alternate to the overworld because they added a lot of survivability blocks like wood and stone Clarifying edit: I don't think this is a bad thing. I was just refuting a point. I loved 1.16 so much
1.16 gave us the exact resources to be able to play a normal survival only I the nether: wood, stone, farmable animals and different biomes
@@Fefe65800 exactly! So the nether isn't any longer a "hellish dimension" but it is now an "alternate to the overworld"
i mean the piglins gotta survive there somehow
@@elizathegamer413 so you would much rather have an empty wasteland of nothing besides wither skulls
@@Gentleman534 no? I like the change. I was refuting the point made in the video
I totally get what you think about the old netherrack block, but damn, I can't stop thinking "how could people go to the nether looking at THAT?"
Hahaha how could people walk around anywhere with that puke green grass? That neon shade is so... 2010.
It was much more boring
@@anotheryoutubeaccount5259 that's the reason I never got into Minecraft when I was younger. I have sensory issues and I can't consume content that's that bright and jarring for more than a few minutes. when they changed the textures I started playing. definitely a great change on Mojang's part!
@@KassieR329 Haha, yeah, wow, it did look rough, didn't it
@@KassieR329 Could you de-saturate the colors with the built-in shader without installing different ones? Or use a program that de-saturates the entire screen while you play?
It's not just the textures, it's that they've introduced so many new useless blocks like deepslate and increased the world generation size and changed biome spread so much that you can't play survival efficiently anymore, it takes literal days to travel to find cactus to make green dye if you're spawned in an icy world - old Minecraft was varied and interesting to experience, they've veered too much towards realism since Notch left
Yep agreed. SOOO many useless stones like granite, andesite, diorite etc. More inventory cloggers.
You hate em, builders love em. Deal with it.
@@LineOfThy Nahh screw the builders lol
@@TheBMGGaming4182 Screw the builders... in a building game
It is very difficult to decide which one is better because some of the newer textures are a bit too blurry, i think a perfect look for minecraft would be entirely different wood and stone blocks that are in between the current and old looks, I will make a texture pack of this one day because the newer swords and armor look worse but most of the newer textures look toleratable.
There's a pack called "Programmer Art Ultimate" that changes newer blocks and items to match the older styles
Link?
@@mageenderman it's inside minecraft
@@kubbley_5277 I know "Programmer Art" is I presume "Programmer Art Ultimate" isn't
i'm pretty sure that it only changes the classic blocks and not the ones that got added after the new textures came.
@@daemonvanmeir9697 That's Programmer Art, this is an extension to it that also changes the newer blocks.
6:49 New netherack looks soft, like a pillow, rather than the jagged sharp looking stuff in the old version, though I still prefer new netherack it does mess with the feeling the place was originally built to give.
netherrack IS soft. Its meant to be soft. The older texture was supposed to be some bloody pieces of rock put together that barely holds together, and it didnt achieve that look. New one actually looks like just soft rocks, which is what netherrack is supposed to be. Also blood wasnt appropriate anymore so it had to be changed
@@Gravity_304 bro it is hell its supposed to be scary not some fantasy land from your dreams, it doesn't even look like hell anymore
soft like a pillow??? netherrack is supposed to be scary full of blood and make it look like a true hellish feeling. new netherrack doesn't feel scary and it doesn't give that uneasy feeling that old netherrack gave. also netherrack isnt supposed to look soft, because its hell, its supposed to be scary, its because jeb fucked up.
@@ANDREI42697 I wouldn't say he funked up now, just a bit of an oversight and over softening to make it into more strictly a kids game. Basically the oversight of many "fun for the whole family" things.
@@Gravity_304 I meant fluffy soft, not near molten rock soft. There's a difference, one (Netherrack) looks like it would be comfy to sleep on and the other (real world volcanic rock) looks like what rocks would be in the underworld.
I love the new ore textures, I always felt the older ones were lazy and just not that appealing, they kept the best of them by conserving the texture for the diamond ore while also making new ones for the rest, then not making it look lazy and letting players tell them apart just by the shape of the texture instead of the color
Honestly, new ones. They’re so much more natural and consistent, look better, too
minecraft is not supposed to be realistic, it’s a cartoony game. these new textures try to change minecraft forever
@@sizquirtt They are still cartoony, plus the game looks way better with all the textures changes they've been doing over the years, sure some may be worse than their predecessors, but in general terms the game looks better, and honestly, I think it's good to let it evolve visually as time passes on, and even if someone still prefers the old textures, the game is very customizable so adding the old resource packs is easy
@@sizquirtt my bro, they are still cartoony asl. Please go outside for like 5 minutes and recalibrate your eyes.
@@taylorhillard4868 the old ones are more realistic, what are you even talking about
i absolutely LOVE how with the programmer art enabled, crying obsidian is given the texture from when it was an unused block.
the new netherite block always makes me think of meat chunks rather then a "hell" especially with quartz looking like bones in flesh
I think you meant old netherrack. The new one looks like kind of a red stone, the old one looks like a whole cow threw into a shredding machine
@@exotreus no, old netherrack looks like sharp and jagged nether rack, new has a fleshy texture, it's too soft and smooth
If you're inside of a giant meat cave with bones sticking out that sounds like hell to me ngl
I honestly think that's what they were going for since the nether is definitely more alien than demonic after 1.16. Mojang and Microsoft definitely don't want things with religious meaning in their game, let alone literal Hell.
I thought that's what Netherrack was supposed to convey?? Like.. something that looks and has the strength that of flesh while also not exactly being one
I remember Antvenom covered this topic when the new textures were under development. His point still stands out to be the best one to me in my opinion, as it is still the case to this very day. If people really have a problem with the new textures, there are always resource packs for the old textures. That’s what I liked about it. It wasn’t forced, but rather a suggested change. I understand why it was controversial but I think it was a nice change.
I did ask for your anus
the idea of adding a texture pack by default that brings back the old textures is good, problem is they don't add any of the new blocks to that pack, which makes those keep the softer style from the newer updates with or without the pack. good idea but bad execution
@@kingweezel but nostalgia aside, a lot of the old textures kinda suck
@@kingweezel that's the thing tho. There are plenty of resourcepack that aim to fix this issue and are meant to be run on top of the native original texture pack. The texture pack ProgrammerArt+ is a good example of this.
That's both something brought up in this video already AND while bringing up the problem with that idea, being that, that doesn't do anything for new blocks added
I think the only new texture that doesn't improve upon the old ones is the netherrack, for the reasons you mentioned. To me the old netherrack always looked like a kind of stone made out of flesh, the red lines looking like blood vessels, which is appropriate for the hell dimension.
I have a fairly low attention span, but this 11 minute video kept me interested the whole time. +1 sub for you my friend
I was a bit on the fence with the new textures back then, but I remember watching Hermitcraft s6, instantly liked it, it's really good in my opinion. Everytime I boot up 1.8 without a texturepack, it looks so foreign now. I do think the old texture is really nostalgic and still is quite good, but the newer one is more polished and refined.
The old textures are nostalgic but just feel dated and kinda ugly. (Like looking at a website made in the 90's and never updated, not that i like the new age of websites all looking like smartphone apps)
we need a resource pack that not only adapts the new blocks to the old textures, but takes the textures that were made without the context of the older blocks (like moss, deep slate, lodestones, etc) and makes THEM look like they were made before the texture update
Fr! I really wanna do so but i dont feel as if i can capture that feeling, ive always wanted something more reminiscent of 1.7 as i think the new textures changed how the game felt playing for me
There is some out there
@@ukyoize really? I think I would actualli like to try that.
he literally showed examples of THAT in the video
@@Gravity_304 I think he meant official.
I think it’s a matter of preference whether or not you want a more saturated/defined Minecraft or a more neutral/smooth Minecraft. I totally agree with what you said about the Nether though, the Nether should be ugly and unsettling.
It’s up to opinion. I personally like the newer textures, but you can always use the old ones
I’ve always preferred the original textures, I think a lot of them were too iconic to abandon. I really think they should continue to update both texture packs so that players have a choice instead of having to deal with clashing textures for nylium and new ores. For a game so focused on giving options to the player, the complete abandonment of the dev textures feels a bit heavy-handed.
Well, I didn't want my eyes to explode when looking in the Nether.
@@notgood1321 that’s the point of the nether
@@hongfang7869 i dont like old nether textures they make my eyes hurt and gives me migraines sometimes when looking at it for to long
Y’all have the most sensitive eyes if the old netherrack texture are hurting your eyes. Also the dimension should look harsh as it’s literally hell
a complete abandonment would be not including programmer art in the vanilla game
The OG textures weren’t only nostalgic, but better in some cases. Especially for Netherrack, I wish they just had a balance or an in-between design for that block where it’s not too smooth like it is now.
finally, im the first reply to this mad lad.
Why though it literally gives me a headache it was ugly
tbh I didn't really like the old netherack texture, sure, it fitted better, but man it sure did give me headaches
i like the flesh look
@@snekcube107 same
Players are just nostalgic, I think the new textures are much better than the old ones, but when I see them, I get a little twinge in my heart.
I agree with your opinion on old textures. They were indie which may sound bad but it really fit the feel and charm of the game much more (also new brick is terrible). I personally use a beautiful texture pack called "beta continuum" which not only brings back the old textures, but it also brings back old sounds, old mob models for zombie pigmen, and more is even possible with optifine like old lighting and old fog.
I started playing about 9 and a half years ago. The old textures are nostalgic and still hold a special place in my heart. However, as somebody who builds an absolute ton, these new textures blend together so much better. I don't get the eye strain that I used to get when playing for a long period of time. I agree that some of the textures look a little bit more cartoony though. It's very frustrating that every single change or item Mojang adds to Minecraft is a huge point of strain for the community. If they were able to add a way to disable individual items or features to any world, new or old, I think there would be an amazing outcome. Old players who prefer keeping things the same could keep things the same for the most part, while choosing individual features that they enjoy. And people who like the constant change could have tons of new and unique additions to the game. I know that would be very difficult to implement on the developers part, but it would ease a lot of the issues that our community deals with
aint readin allat
This probably took like an hour to write that
Honestly the community really needs a chill pill like blowing up over every insignificant thing has got to take a strain eventually
@@imaboisir7227 das crazy i aint readin dat big man
You can use texture packs in newer versions, and if you're on PC you can pick which version you play on. Already that's a pretty good way to compromise with the player base. And no your comment isn't too long. People just have 0 attention span to read maybe 2 paragraphs
I believe the newer textures are better, but I do agree that netherack needs to be less polished and make you feel uncomfortable (for example making it looks like a flesh block, craftable with four rotten flesh or something, making it much more hellish and giving rotten flesh a use)
i found out that the first version of japa's textures worked great it was like the old one but more fitting with the rest of the textures and overhaul done better
He says the new log looks more cartoony and smoother. If anything the old one has so much smoothed over space in between the log lines that it looks like it’s made out of smooth plastic while the new one looks very rough, as if you took a picture of a real log and downscaled it.
I totally agree with you on having mixed textures between old and new ones, I thought I was the only lunatic out there who thought like that, heck, a youtuber I follow even made something like that by making a server with alpha textures and 1.20 mechanics and stuff in general, but oh well, this really effects me minimally because I'm stuck on 1.12 lol
There is always controversy when such a big change happens in Minecraft! People reacted less about the textures themselves... but just that it was a large change
Obsidian. The new obsidian is way to dark / black so trying to read the cracking animation while braking it is almost impossible. I added a bunch of purple back into it so you can actually see the cracking animation now.
I have nothing to say to that, we need more purple for obsidian, it looks too dark.
It’s really difficult to break even with efficiency v netherite pickaxes so i think you can tell it’s gonna be difficult to break
I haven't noticed an issues, although the old obsidian looks like it was made of flint. (Maybe they could revamp the texture and make a decorative flint block) After they made the texture change i stopped using the dev art pack after only a couple of weeks, the new textures are easier to play with. (The only exception is nether rack needs more contrast, and stone needs its contrast map to have fewer straight lines) And a fun fact about the old textures is that bedrock was just stone with contrast dialed way up.
I think it's better to not have an exact idea when it's going to break. Obsidian is one of the most durable blocks, so it makes sense you cant tell when it's going to break
Netherrack looks like a nice soft carpet now. But as for the rest of the changes, I don't mind too much. Some I hadn't really noticed, maybe because I leave large gaps when I play it.
I will forever be thankful that they allow for the classic textures in vanilla with Programmer Art. Personally, while I don't hate the current textures of Minecraft, I much prefer the classic textures due in no small part to being a nostalgia curmudgeon.
I feel like the newer textures work better, they're pretty close to the old textures but look a bit better also while I do think you're right that the old netherrack texture being ugly helped give more of a dangerous/unsettling atmosphere to the Nether, I feel like that could be achieved without having a block that's awful to even look at just spread everywhere
Thinking about flesh cube definitely makes me uneasy
God it was so bad
I don't understand how anyone can say that the old netherrack made sense, it was just random shades of red. The nether deson't need to be an eyesore to look alien and scary
Doesn't help that older versions had the lowest lighting. Getting in the nether in a nutshell was: > Get in the portal > Can't see shit > Place a torch > Congrats, now you're blind
@@gab_just_gab >stumble into a fortress >never come back
I actually liked the old netherack texture because of the feel it gives to the nether as a whole, someone should make a hybrid texture that is a little less stranding on the eyes then model all of the other nether based textures too fit that same theme.
Bro the old netherack looked soooo shitty
@@anthonybell2985 leave him alone it's his opinion
im sorry but old netherrack gave me an eye strain. it was not good in the slightest
I love old netherack as well. But omg the new testure is so much bette
Look I don't care if you all are going to read the whole comment or not, but if your going to take the time out of your day to leave a reply you might as well.
the old netherack texture doesn't make me feel uneasy, just sick. I still feel like the new netherack looks hellish, it's just easy to look at
I agree with your points in the video for the most part, i wanna see the mixed texture pack now
The ore texture changes is really good for colour blind people as before the 1.17 update people who were colourblind couldn’t tell the difference between pretty much all ores with the exception of lapis and emerald. Nice video by the way! :)
And as a result the become a painful eyesore for people who have sight problems involving blurry smeary images, such as myself. Key example of the Vaseline smear that Motion Blur does to games running constantly above 60fps (120fps or bust in first/third person games!), along with Vignetting and God Rays.
@eLNeroDiablo I'm not sure if the inconvenience of a set of 16x16 pixels on a Minecraft ore block being redesigned is comparable to the inconvenience of intense smeary motion blur 🤨
With texture changes in the ores imo the ores now feel more unique and they have their identity rather than having the same texture on every ore and the changes to the ores for the colourblind people are really good
@@Yoshhhhh ramp up to 120fps then sweep your mouse around in an arc in a cave of ores or - more noticeably - the Nether and it all just becomes a smear frame of lines that can't be distinguished.
@@ElNeroDiablo Dude if the new ore textures hurt someone;s eyes then how the hell did they play minecraft before the texture update it had so much of that
For some reason I love the old netherack texture - it's so nostalgic, along with red beds and all wood types crafting to the oak texture. The changes make sense yet when I came back after a few years (1.12 to 1.14) i forgot they changed it, ended up with an oak door next to a dark oak door.
I fuck with the old textures but man I always hated the texture of netherrack I couldn’t care about any other block but man netherrack was a terrible first design it hurt my eyes while playing lol
@@tarzan8470 I agree, the texture change was a good call
I agree! I never consider my house finished until i've dyed my bed red. I've done this for years lol
Old netherack does look more hellish and fleshy. Very fitting for well... Basically Hell.
Fuck the old netherrack; it made me hate going to the nether.
The only old texture I really miss is the Wheat in the Final Grown stage. That unique yellow/golden color is so beautiful, looks much better than the new one. Luckily for me on Bedrock I have the Old Resource Pack that has this Texture. The rest of them is actually okay.
Wdym its piss yellow
Old netherrack was the original cobblestone texture with a red tint, almost as if it was bleeding or covered in blood. It was a very clever design when it was first added, but I would say that it should have been updated when cobblestone was updated in the late stages of beta, same applies to mossy cobble. Neither were updated, so they always looked terrible in later versions of the game.
I can't imagine going to mine netherite with the old netherrack texture
It’s not clever design it’s just Notch being lazy
As someone who grew up on the old textures i much prefer the new ones, they feel more warm and comfortable compared to the old ones that always felt very desaturated and blocks like the diamond blocks looked a bit Werid especially now compared when compared to the old
The only thinngs good about the old txtures are the netherrack and ores
@@georgetheanimator I agree with the ores but I feel like the new netherack matches the new casual feel of the game
@@kyleprtone Honestly I've gotten used to the new ores, the old ones look a bit off now. New ones have actual depth through shading and shadow.
I actually prefer the old grass. It made the grass seem more diverse and detailed
@@DragonEdge10they look like holes in stone and food.
The old netherack repeating pattern makes me extremely nauseated when traveling long distances in nether tunnels, like on 2B. Other than that block I prefer the old textures.
yeah, themisterepic got this so wrong. the point is to be more playable and nicer, I prefer it becauseit looks more like cobblestone and therefore feels smoother. also, wtf is he on about with the ores? it makes them look more visible, and it helps colourblind people. epic has NO, and i mean ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA on what he's talking about. he's using buzz words to describe stuff. as an ACTUAL texture pack maker, his opinion is DOGSHIT and extremely wrong. edit: i get it's his opinion, but he's outright stating it and saying that it's better. it's like he's saying it's his opinion while trying to convince people he's right.
@@01iver i would say you're wrong, but you're so, so so right.
@@01iver 🤓
@@01iver Bro he did say like, his opinion is biased and its only his opinion tho, therefore is not forcing on anyone.
@@01iver nobody gives a shit if ur a texture pack maker, its his opinion ffs, he even clarified that several times too . Stop being so mad about something so trivial and petty.
There was definitely a balance to be struck between random noise textures and the modern textures, but I don’t think it’s been achieved. Literally every block I can think of now looks too soft, the entirety of Minecraft is a squishy, padded room. Even lava looks inviting, where as some of the old lava textures looked much harsher. Along with the more complex mob models and animations, it’s like the devs don’t want to work on a blocky game.
Honestly, the biggest problem is the attitude that Mojang has towards people who don't like their new textures. Almost implying we're stupid for not "getting it", emperor's new clothes-style. It's a complete lack of respect towards the original textures, as though they have no meaning or significance. Some of the new textures ARE nicer, mainly glass, but when the guy who made the textures says the original ones are horrible, maybe he doesn't appreciate what made people love Minecraft's look in the first place, which makes him unable to make something that's actually faithful to the original. The jaggedness, the amateur nature of it, is its charm. I suppose the new textures fit better with what Minecraft is now, but that's basically a new game, and if someone likes both old and new Minecraft, they just happen to like two games. If eye strain really is a problem for you, maybe you're playing too much at once. Take frequent breaks! I'm under no delusion that modern Minecraft will ever be anything like old Minecraft, and so long as they don't remove our access to the old versions, I can accept that. What I can accept is their total lack of respect for Minecraft as it was. This massive team of unsentimental, greedy, passionless developers is just turning the game into something completely different without any respect for the people (especially Notch) and the game that made their success possible in the first place, as though it's of no value.
Netherrack is actually one of my favourite texture changes they've had tbh. I always found the old texture a bit too much in the context of the nether because of just how vast it all seemed. Pure eye strain to work down there for too long on farms. The addition of the nether biomes and the softening of the texture itself I think was a really good balance. I don't think the new texture makes it any less of an uneasy feeling, especially for players who weren't around for the old one.
The new texture looks a bit to dull and flat in my opinion, but the old ones were just the opposite being too messy and erratic. They should have made it a bit more like the old cobblestone but with a more dramatic pallet and with those iconic darker defining lines to give the texture more of a rough look. I like to think that netherack is very jagged and brittle looking rather than flat and smooth like it looks now.
@@_shadow_1 Yeah. The new texture is easier on the eyes to be sure, but it just doesn't capture the feeling of netherrack at all. Dull, flat, and too normal looking. It just looks like red rock. The old texture looks like it's jagged and has an almost bloody appearance, which really sells the hellish dimension theme.
@@LilacMonarch hell has trees?
@@garvgupta3567 it does now i guess. or mushroom trees whatever those are supposed to be lol
From a lore prespective, I like that the new netherrack texture reflects the growth/ recovery of the nether from whatever devastated it in the first place. We have ruined portals and bastion remnants suggesting the nether was once developed and full of life. Version 1.0 could be after the nether was turned into the hellish landscape, and post-1.16 would be the nether regenerating with new plants and biomes. Netherrack too changes to show that the nether isn't so foreboding anymore.
A lot of the old textures weren't bad except a few noticeable outliers that were total garbage, but those outliers were mostly blocks that you'd see a lot of, so it made the others look worse.
Outside of the netherrack complaints. I think the older cobblestone(not the first) looked better then our current cobble. Just by a bit, since i feel like darker cracks helped sell that feeling of "its a bunch of rocks haphazardly mushed together"
Tbh I kinda miss the old texture but the new ones is just much more better in my opinion.
Looking back at (some of) the old textures, they look kinda rough ngl I'm not hating on the original person who made the original textures, I'm just saying
Same
Same
They look more nostalgic which is why we miss them but the new ones are better
Nowdays when I try to play with the old textures it's just hurts my eyes the new ones are just so clean, so smooth to the eye
I think that now, the two textures, simply match different gamplay styles. For example I tend to prefer one of the two texture on the basis of what game mode i'm playing: the old ones for more competitive and try hard modes, and the new ones for a more relaxing gameplay. The way the blocks appear just give me different vibes
your sense of timing and humor is perfect, never fails to entertain! ️
I really like the old leaves and ores.
There is a classic texture pack
@@KittyTheNerdyMime ik
I'm firmly in the 'old textures' camp. I hate that everything is rounded, washed out, and cartoony now - I prefer sharper, more vibrant, more distinct textures. So, I'm glad I can still use old textures via texture packs! Everyone wins. I'm sure people have even made a better diorite texture.
Yeah agreed, I started playing back in 2012 and I do so love all the snapshots from the early versions of Minecraft. I remember watching this KZheadr, I forgot who he was but he did this series called “The Mole” and it was a bunch of people playing in a reality style show, I also remember his build battles. Songs like”bit by bit” were used… dang those the good days
EXACTLY
personally, i like the new textures, but i respect your opinion
Minecraft always looked cartoony but I agree
@@Maximus20778 There's cartoony, and then there's _cartoony_ . Of the two, I prefer cartoony. =-P (Think Attack on Titan vs Dora the Explorer)
I always liked the old netherack. The new one looks kinda smooth, almost plastic like, and has darker colors with h make it look cooled down which definitely does not describe the Nether. The old one looks very rough, and chipped away at, while having bright coloring to signify that it’s very hot, and just fits with the Nether more.
I feel like the old Netherrack needed polish, but the new one is just not it for me
how i always saw the old netherack was being hot and a bit gory which fit the nether rather well, the new netherack just doesnt fit the atmosphere the nether was originally supposed to give off
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i just made my own resource pack where i copy-pasted some blocks from the old versions and put them in the resource pack for the newer version. that way you can have the textures you like from both versions
I still like the thick black outline of pre-b1.7.3 cobblestone and the overly saturated bricks, yet I think many of the new textures are an improvement. I don’t really play modern minecraft much though
Old Netherrrack looks like a bloody rock for me, like, imagine a cave covered in dry blood while (liquid) blood drops from the ceiling
I feel like the old textures more captured that “retro feel” that the whole game was originally based off of. Not to say that the new ones are bad, they just seem too polished for that arcade style
The old Nether felt like the old doom games so it gave you more of hell feeling where the new one is kinda bland. In that regard, I do agree some of the older texters do look better in some case, but then again I don't use vanilla textures I use Chroma Hills, I've use chroma hills for so long I don't even know vanilla textures so I get confused on what is what with vanilla lol
i just wish they properly implemented the programmer art option, because it’s really glitchy and pretty bad if you want the old textures back. Though i will admit the new textures have grown on me.
I think the reason why the old oak logs look better is contrast. There is that distinction between the light and dark brown that gives your eyes a place to rest. The old texture is good in a vacuum, but not as good in combination with all the other blocks unless you are using it as the block to empathize other things. Basically you are using the oak logs to make your builds stand out, but the new textures are meant to fit in to the background more. Or at least that's what it seems like from what I've seen. I do think the old texture of netherrack is better in the context you provided, but the new texture makes a lot more sense to me. After the initial shock of the nether wears off all you are left with is an eye piercing block. The nether becomes more a part of normal game experience to most people, but most people aren't going to want to interact with the blocks because they look bad. For the first time going into the nether the old texture is better, but for everything else the new texture makes more sense... although it would be nice if they could have struck a better balance between looking good and also making the dimension look unique(Even if I like the textures a lot more).
I will always remember the unique "doom clone" feel of the old textures. The new textures looks like they could come from any indie game
I don't know what you're talking. The new textures look professional, because they are. The old textures look like that of a small indie game, because they are. I have never seen an indie game that looks as clean as modern Minecraft. I have seen many indie games that look as unpolished as classic minecraft
@@danielflanard8274 "Doom Clone" is a reference to the 2D Sprite-based DOOM '93/DOOM II (1994) era of games where devs had a limited palette of colours (often around 256 in 8-bit VGA mode, long-before modern 32-bit RGBA (8-bits each R, G & B giving 16.77 million colours that just about any RGB LED module can produce nowadays, plus 8-bits of Alpha/Transparency)). The newer textures look like they've been abusively hit with a blurring tool in Photoshop compared to the older textures.
@@ElNeroDiablo idk man, they're visually pleasing and are actually really fun to build with. as much as i love the old textures, they suck to build with, ngl. of course, this is purely subjective, but yeah.
to me, the old netherrack texture really scared me because i saw blood in it, so i didnt really want to go to the nether because it was just not the happy and colorful world of the overworld. i have to mention that i was 5 years old and today im not scared by it but its still unsettleing to me ( and yes, i know that my english is bad, im from germany :/ )
I think the oversmoothification of the textures goes against the blockiness of minecraft. this texture pack is good, but the over smoothification and blurriness on some textures, changes to the wheat textures, and the netherrack texture are just major factors to why I don't like the new texture pack, honestly if we could get the current textures but someone made them sharper and more defined they'd be better for minecraft
they're good sprites/textures don't get me wrong, its just you get attached to old familiar textures.
As much as i loved the old textures and the nostalgia feeling they gave I think Minecraft needed this revamp in order for the game to continue and grow. The new textures are a lot better and smoother and when you look at them side to side you will thank the new textures. The new ones are just more polished and that's it nothing has changed but some people (like myself) will never overcome this feeling.
At the time i was change averse but pretty quickly i realized that as nostalgic as the old textures are they also contain quite a few eyesores. (Netherrack was pretty bad but the new netherrack is too soft and should have more contrast on the borders of the cobbles and yellow sulfer flecks added back in) And fun geology fact, a cobble is a stone size like a pebble. (And how size is the only difference between clay, silt, sand, and larger stones)
So i remember this era well. What Always struck me was how many of the people who claimed to prefer the old textures, atleast in the groups I where in, so rarely used the base game textures anyway. While a lot of the people who liked the changes tended to be people who used the base game texture pack and made various kinds of builds, arts, buildings ect. Many of them found the new textures improved the art as they worked better off each other. One thing I remember thinking was that the new cobblestone and gravel texture really worked well for making large old builds that used such look a lot nicer, though it did ruin MissingNo arts that relied on the old gravel texture's glitchy look. Ultimately I think the change was needed and I find that most people who claim to like the older textures to either be clinging to the past or just kind of being contrarian. I'm sure there are some who genuinely like the old textures but a genuine old texture enjoyer is very rare. Also personally I find the new netherrack to be better. I get your position and it actually makes sense in theory. However I am someone who found the netherrack to be just, ugly, it wasn't scary because it was off putting it was just, offputting and ugly. I find the new netherrack to feel almost, fleshy, between the sound, the softness of the block and the texture i find it to come off as almost flesh-like now which to me is far more disturbing as a hell like dimension, and it goes well with the soul-sand and soul-soil blocks that make up some of the new biomes
I like all the new texture changes, all great imo
I personally value the recognizability and Indie aesthetic the older textures introduced over these new ones. They're by far more stylistically consistent and less visually grating, but I feel retroactively fixing certain "mistakes" in a game with such a solid core identity takes away from it in a sense.
Tbh imo the new textures are the one with the boring indie vibe, just look at evry other indie game copying stardew valley graphics
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Also consider accessibility. The new ores are distinct in not only colour but also shape, making it easier to distinguish between them when, for example, colourblind. There are also people who can't look at bright colours for long, and I think for them, the newer textures may be an incentive to even play the game in the first place. Overall, the newer textures are mostly better, but it's nice that there's an option to turn them off.
I'm colorblind, and can't for the life of me distinguish the new iron from copper. The only way is programmer art having the old iron texture and copper having the new one.
I am a returning older Minecraft player who originally picked it up in the beta days during high school. My friend in high school was playing it even before I was in the alpha days and when it was a browser game. After having abandoned it in I think it was mid 2013. I did briefly play it on the switch, but not really enough to experience all the new stuff added to the game. I am just starting to get back into Minecraft and I like the newer textures more. They are a lot easier on the eye despte still being 16x16 px However, I almost always used a texture pack anyway (even back then) so it doesn't bother me much. Also, the nostalgia craft texture pack exists for those people who miss the alpha look.
I started around 1.3 - 1.5 and it wasn't the new textures that got me back. So much has been added in the last ten updates that it's like a new game now and that got me back. I started a 1.0 world too to have a world with an older atmosphere and textures. I think the new textures look good too.
its actually alot harder to navigate nether now cuz everything just blends and you can easily just miss a turn in your tunnel when you are mining for debris for example and get lost forever. the amount of times that i was lost in those tunnels has substantially increased after the new update.
skill issue
That was still a problem im the old. In fact i think it was a bigger problem because netherrack was pretty much the only block.
I am a resource pack creator, and still have many players asking for variants of my packs in a "programmer art" style to this day
I never liked how smooth everything looked so smooth with new textures