10 Nostalgic Minecraft Texture Packs You Forgot About

Over the years, Minecraft has seen some amazing  texture packs come and go. There’s still a large   community for tweaking the game’s textures  and models and pushing graphics to their   absolute limit. However, as with everything in  minecraft, there have been some famous texture  

Packs that everyone was using and talking about  back in the day that have either faded from the   spotlight or been discontinued entirely.  So today, let’s take a trip down texture   pack memory lane and visit some of those eras,  and talk about the history and stories of each  

One. Hopefully you find a few you either used or  remember and learn something new from the video. https://www.reddit.com/r/GoldenAgeMinecraft/comments/a2tnik/anyone_got_an_old_painterly_pack_texture_pack_for/  First up is Painterly pack. Painterly is one of  the oldest texture packs in all of Minecraft,   being released in Minecraft’s alpha version in  late 2010. It was a 16×16 native resolution pack,  

And as the name suggests, its main schtick is  smoothing out a lot of Minecraft’s rough and   gritty textures. Kind of like well, a painting.  Now the textures are nice, yes, but what set this   particular pack apart, and why it has well over  20 million downloads in history, is because of  

The customizable pack feature. You see, the full  library contained over 5000 individual textures,   and on their old website, you could create a pack  fully tailored to your liking using the tool. This   led to a lot of “editions” being made, with the  most famous you might remember being the Yogbox  

Pack. It’s funny, in 2011 baby Ryan made a video  covering the Yogbox pack, and here I am 12 years   later talking about it again. Now, Painterly was  discontinued somewhere around version 1.12. There   was a lot of drama with the large customization  library, with some other creators claiming the  

Painterly owner, rhodox, stole their textures and  claimed it as his own. Whether or not this was   true, rhodox was very vocal with his frustration  of these allegations, denied any copyright issues   incessantly, and I’m sure these feelings, along  with the ever-busyness of life, ultimately led to  

Him quitting entirely. Something interesting  is that the old website, painterlypack.net,   has been purchased by some random blog called  pack-in-peterly. They really should check their   spelling. There are tons of snapshots of the  old website on the wayback machine though,   and it’s really fun to explore the old pages.  Lastly, there’s a fanmade continuation of  

Painterly that as far as I know is still actively  being updated at the time of this video’s release. Next on the list is Jolicraft. Jolicraft  falls into the list of – still exists,  

But isn’t as popular as it once was and you likely  haven’t heard of it in a long time. It was last   updated for Minecraft 1.19, and according to andre  joliceur, the creator, 1.20 is currently in the  

Works as we speak. It was originally released  in early 2011 for beta 1.2, so it’s crazy that   it’s been actively updated by the same person  for 12 years. It’s another 16×16 texture pack,   though it looked amazing for the time back then.  The Jolicraft torches are probably my favorite  

Torch retexture ever made. It just looks so  nice. Jolicraft took off almost immediately,   being covered and used by some of the Minecraft  creators of the time. Fun fact about me, it was   the first and only texture pack I ever actively  used in Minecraft, as I’ve always preferred the  

Default textures combined with some nice looking  shaders. I used it for probably 2 or 3 years   in the early days of the game. It gave minecraft  an entirely different feel, slightly fantastical   and whimsical, which was pretty different from  other big packs at the time that leaned toward  

Realism and smoothing out textures. The creator  is a super welcoming and friendly guy, and it   shows in the Jolicraft website and forum posts  to this day. So if you used Jolicraft before, or   have never heard of it and are looking for a new  texture pack to use, definitely check it all out.

Possibly the most famous one on this list, next  up is BDCraft. Specifically, the Sphax PureBDCraft   version, which was the original pack released  under the BDCraft umbrella all the way back   in January 2011. Now let me be clear before you  angrily comment that the video is clickbait – this  

One is definitely not forgotten or out of the  spotlight; many, many people still use it in this   day and age. But, I asked in a community post a  while ago about what the most nostalgic packs are,  

And this one came up a lot. Sphax is a comic  book styled pack that changes every block in   the game pretty dramatically. Now, in case you  didn’t know, the Sphax BDCraft pack was used   extensively by huge creators at the time, such  as Chimneyswift11 in his minecraft files series,  

And the original Yogscast group featuring Lewis  and Simon. This, combined with its fantastic art   style and design, led to the pack blowing up  immensely across the minecraft beta community.   Everyone and their mother knew the word Sphax.  Nowadays, BDCraft is literally its own company,  

Having tons of individual packs to try, and even  being featured on the bedrock marketplace and now   working on assets and programs for other games.  There’s so much I could cover on BDCraft as it’s  

A wild story of success, but to sum it up in the  scope of this video, I will just say that it’s   kind of crazy what a bit of luck combined with  a bit of marketing will bring you eventually.

Another one you probably do remember, or maybe  know but didn’t remember what it was called,   is OCDDisco. OCDDisco was made famous because  of the classic temple of notch video by FVDisco,   featuring the pack that the creator also made.  It has very thick, straight lines, and pretty  

Much makes Minecraft look like a grid while still  maintaining the color schemes of the blocks. It   honestly looked really cool and was a very unique  take on texture packs of the time. What’s cool is   that in the time of the temple of notch video and  FVDisco’s other early redstone showcase videos,  

The texture pack was his own personal one,  and wasn’t available to the public. However,   many people loved it, so he ended up releasing  it in August 2011 on planet minecraft,   and the popularity of his youtube content  quickly translated to this new texture pack.  

Unfortunately FVDisco stopped posting videos  a decade ago, and stopped updating the OCD   pack in Minecraft version 1.8. However, like  most popular packs that stop being updated,   this project was also picked up  by a guy named Antonio Sofron,   coining the name Sofron Pack that features  the exact same style right where the original  

OCD Disco pack left off. The awesome thing is  it’s already available and released for 1.20,   so if you want to relive some old nostalgia  in the modern game, definitely check it out. Getting into the more realistic side of texture  packs, next up on the list is LB Photo Realism.  

And when I say realism, I mean that Scuttles,  the texture pack creator, pushed things to the   absolute limit with this one. It started  out as a full scale modpack for the game,   aiming to make Minecraft as realistic feeling as  physically possible, and eventually was released  

As a standalone texture pack in early 2011. This  pack, to me, looks like what would’ve happened if   Minecraft was made in Unity. Like, it literally  looks like a minecraft spinoff made using the   Unity engine. The original LB Photo Realism didn’t  last very long compared to the other packs on this  

List, only surviving a couple years before being  discontinued. Still, it is absolutely one of the   pioneers of extreme realism for Minecraft,  predating the crazy high resolution things we   have today like RTX by a literal decade. Nowadays  it’ll run decently on most hardware, but back then  

You had to have a supercomputer of a PC to run it  with 0 lag. Kind of crazy that Minecraft had only   been around for a little over a year at that  time, and people were already pushing the game  

As far as they could. Now, of course, there is a  continuation of the pack called LB Photo Realism   Reload, and it looks insanely beautiful, so  absolutely check it out and give it some support. Hey, we’re officially halfway through the video  and I want to quickly thank all of my channel  

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Like priority sign up for all future  events and members-only Discord stuff,   and some custom Ryan emojis. Thanks so much  for the support, let’s get back to the video. The next one really hits home for a lot  of people’s nostalgia. One that didn’t  

Last very long at all, but one you’ve probably  seen or remember. This is Dokucraft. Dokucraft   was perhaps the most popular Beta 1.7 texture  pack ever made. Now, you may remember it being   featured in the absolutely legendary youtube  series The Minecraft Project by Syndicate,  

Which helped get it out there. Another reason  it got so popular is that it was one of the only   beta texture packs which featured full support for  the Aether mod, which at the time of beta 1.7 was   arguably the most popular mod out there. Sadly,  like a fleeting romance in a Hallmark movie,  

Dokucraft blessed us with its presence and  immediately dropped off the face of the earth,   never being updated again by the original  creator. Which is an old heartbreak many   probably still feel deep down. However, and  you can see where I’m already going with this,  

Of course there has been a community continuation  of Dokucraft after the creator released the pack’s   assets for free once deciding not to continue.  This is called Dokucraft the saga continues,   and it has an amazing community around  it, plus a pretty snazzy website. When I  

Was doing research on the discontinued packs,  it never failed to put a smile on my face to   see so many passionate people continuing  the work of amazing original creators. Next up, and another pretty short lived pack,  is Ovo’s Rustic. Well, as the name suggests,  

Ovo’s Rustic gave minecraft a rustic feel with  the textures while preserving the overall vanilla   minecraft theme, which when combined with some  rustic style builds led to some pretty amazing   results. It is a pretty high resolution pack for  the time, 64×64, and was released in May 2011,  

And officially lasted just over a year, being  discontinued by the original creator in 2012.   This led to the exact situation of Dokucraft – the  original creator handing off the assets to a team   of people continuing the project. In the case  of Ovo’s Rustic, this became Ovo’s Redemption,  

And it has an active curseforge page and Discord  server. It’s yet another beautiful example on   this list of a lost project being picked up  by people dedicated to preserving the legacy. Next up on the list is the classic John Smith  pack. Probably the most popular medieval RPG  

Style texture pack of the early days, John  Smith was well, made by creator John smith.   It was made for early beta and lasted up until  release version 1.2.1. Due to its rpg elements,   it was extremely popular for adventure map videos,  with many creators, such as RenDog and Monkeyfarm  

Rocking the textures in their videos. “Hey Ryan,  does John Smith have a fan made continuation like   every other fucking pack on this list?” Yes dear  child, of course it does. Like other creators,   the original John Smith got burnt out  after a couple years, but there is a  

Community called John Smith Legacy who are  preserving the legacy so to speak. However,   the OG John smith will go down as one of the  most famous old texture packs of all time. If you’re still watching this far, you’re  in for a treat. The last few had pretty  

Straightforward and similar stories, but  this one’s story is filled with drama and   tainted by blunders. One you may have heard  of from AntVenom before because honestly,   the full story definitely deserves a full video  dedicated to it. But let’s summarize briefly  

And talk about the Original Faithful pack and its  wild history. The OG Faithful pack was originally   made for the earliest versions of minecraft,  all the way back in 2010. It was created by   a dude named Vattic, and continued for 6 long  years, until Vattic vanished off the internet,  

Leaving the texture pack and everything else  behind. Soon after this happened, the texture   pack’s original files were picked up by a guy  named Kraineff. Kraineff seemed harmless at first,   dedicated to continuing a project loved by  millions of people. I mean, faithful was literally  

Minecraft’s top texture pack for a very, very long  time. However, things took a turn for the worst   when all of the sudden, Faithful appeared for  purchase on the bedrock marketplace. This was…odd.   Kraineff had not consulted with anyone before  making this decision, and when asked about it,  

Insisted that Vattic gave him full permission  to distribute the texture pack this way. Well,   spoiler alert, this was massively untrue, and  it turned out that Kraineff took advantage of   the fact that Vattic was gone and looked to  profit off something that he didn’t create or  

Have the rights to. And these shenanigans lasted  way too long, until another texture pack team,   the Compliance project, who by the way,  Kraineff was also involved in, completely   took over the Faithful project. According to  the website, this was due to a disagreement  

With Kraineff that led to kicking him off the  Compliance project team, and subsequently being   angry-mobbed out of faithful. Today, faithful  has been continued by the compliance project,   with full homage to Vattic, and maintaining the  original license as it was set up. It’s kind of  

Crazy, not even something as seemingly innocent  as minecraft texture packs are free from drama. The last but not least story is the InFinite  texture pack. This was created and showcased by a   Youtuber named Fin back in 2015 for Minecraft 1.8.  A big draw for the pack was that it was marketed  

For PvP players, which if you know anything about  anything, 1.8 was the absolute peak for minecraft   pvp. This led to the pack becoming pretty much an  overnight sensation, used by hundreds of thousands   of people and putting Fin on the map. The InFinite  pack saw a couple of changes over the next few  

Months, featuring a christmas themed version, and  a really nice 3D styled version as well. However,   similar to Dokucraft, Fin never really  touched the pack after that. Which is sad,   because even the non-pvp related textures look  really nice. Like, this looks like something  

I would’ve used for general survival back in  the day honestly. Fin slowly faded out of the   Minecraft content sphere and after a brief stint  with vlogging, hasn’t been heard from in a couple   years. Just another dude who grew up with us after  influencing so many early Minecraft memories.

One last thing I find super interesting that  I wanted to bring up is the overall downward   trend of texture packs in Minecraft in recent  years. I think all these packs I’ve listed,   as well as most other ones in existence, peaked  from 2010 to 2014 ish, and at that point,  

Shaders became widely popular and sort of  took over. I mean, just look at the google   trend graph for texture packs versus  shaders. They are essentially inverse,   which is kind of crazy. Anyway though, let me  know what you think in the comments below and if  

There’s other popular texture packs you remember  or used. Remember, this isn’t an exhaustive list,   so if I missed any you can think of, it doesn’t  mean it’s less deserving to be in this video.   If you enjoyed this minecraft list, let me know  by leaving a like and subscribe if you’re brand  

New for a potentially endless nostalgic  minecraft experience on my channel. I love   you all so so very much, thanks for watching  as always, and I’ll see you in the next one.