Grimdark Battlepack 2.0: A Minecraft Resource Pack for Java/Bedrock/MCPE

Are you in search of a Minecraft resource pack  that’s got more than just boring swords and axes?   If so my Grimdark Battle pack is  exactly what you’re looking for.   We’ve got daggers, and hatches, and katanas, and  greatswords… spears, halberds and more! I’m Kal,  

And today I’ll be showcasing all of the  textures contained within my Grimdark   resource pack collection available for both the  Java edition and the bedrock edition of Minecraft. Alright guys, now before I just jump into  it, if you’re new around here and you’d  

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Future updates and more over at my Patreon  page which I’ll have linked below. Okay,   so let’s cover the basics here starting  with the leather armor and wooden tools.   My pack contains custom textures for all of the  Minecraft tools, weapons, and armor but what makes  

It truly unique are the variant textures that  I’ve created to supplement those default textures.   New to this version I’ve now got custom models for  some of these items and we’ve finally got polearms   and other two-handed weapons thanks to the fact  that I’ve finally learned how to use Blockbench  

And create those models for those two-handed  weapons. Alright, so at the top row here we’ve   got the swords. There’s five variants today  that starts with the dagger… there’s katanas,   greatswords, glaives, and spears. Starting on  the left side of the second row there are the  

Axes which include three variants: the hatchet,  the battleaxe, and the halberd. Moving down to   the third row there are the shovels and there are  three variants for the shovels as well including   the spade, pitchfork, and warfork. Now over  on the right side are the pickaxes and hoes.  

I have two variants for each of those at the  current time although I’d like to add more in   the future but for right now there’s the Sledge  and the Warhammer as variant picks and then the   Sickle and Scythe as variants hoes. Now all of  these variants are functionally identical to  

The default tools and weapons as a resource pack  cannot alter the power or effectiveness of these   variants on its own. In the future I may look  into creating some sort of companion data pack   but there is actually another creator here on  YouTube who has already taken the initiative to  

Create just such a data pack. His name is FunkyTok  and I highly recommend checking out his Combat Set   data pack if that’s the sort of thing you’re  interested in. I will have a link to that below.

Of course I don’t just have these variants for  the wooden tools and weapons and here you can see   the textures for the rest of the material types.  That does it for the weapons and tools let’s move  

On to the armor. Each material type has four armor  variants, once again they are all functionally the   same… the light variant doesn’t make you quicker  the heavy variant doesn’t make you stronger.   At least not without the help of a data pack but  what they do allow you to do is customize your  

Look. If you’re like me this is probably something  that you’ve wanted in Minecraft for forever   and it’s ultimately what originally inspired me to  make a resource pack in the first place. The four   armor variants available are the ‘Royal’ variant  over on the left which consists of a crown for  

The helmet, a livery collar and cuffs instead of  a chestplate, belt for the leggings and spurs in   place of boots. This variant offers the least  coverage and I’ve found it to be great if you   want to show off more of your Minecraft skin. The  ‘Light’ variant similarly offers little coverage  

And is typically composed of eyewear for the  head, some pauldrons and a belt for the chest,   hip-plates for the leggings, and low-rise  shoes instead of boots. My default armor set   serves as sort of the medium armor variant and  I drew inspiration from Warhammer Fantasy for  

Some of these. They all offer a bit more coverage  with only the arms and face exposed which is still   a bit less covered than vanilla armor offers.  The leather and chain head pieces are meant to   mimic the appearance of a metal jaw while iron  is inspired by the look of the warrior priest,  

Gold by bright wizards and then diamond and  netherrite are adorned with candles like   some of the witch hunter designs in Warhammer  Fantasy. Finally we have the ‘Heavy’ variant   which was designed for anyone who wants to cover  up their Minecraft skin. You’ll still be able to  

See a little bit of your face in a sliver of  your arm but otherwise this is a full coverage   armored appearance. Oh! I almost forgot the turtle  shell helmets and shields. The turtle helmets come   in four similar variants to the rest of the  armor for the standard I’ve used my goggles  

Texture and added a snorkel and then the heavy is  actually inspired by those old-school scuba helms.   For the shields I’ve got a ‘Buckler’ variant  that is great for anyone who wants to just   barely see their shield in first person view  and a ‘Tower’ variant for anyone who wants the  

Biggest shield possible. I haven’t figured out  how to get the banner designs to work on these   variants yet but it’s something I’d like  to try and add in the future for you guys. For those of you who are new to the Grimdark  Battlepack and are playing on the Java edition  

Of Minecraft here’s how you can access the variant  textures. First, you’ll need to be playing with   Optifine and you’ll need to have custom items  turned on. Then, grab the appropriate tool,   weapon or armor piece that you would like to  change and rename it using an anvil. The name must  

Include the keyword somewhere in the new  name so for a ‘Katana’ that’s ‘Katana’   for ‘Light’ armor that’s ‘Light’ and so on. The  name must include the keyword somewhere in the new   name but you can place it anywhere, it doesn’t  have to be in a specific order. Those naming  

Conventions are extremely flexible so you should  still be able to come up with some epic sounding   names for your weapons without having to sacrifice  the aesthetics of the variant that you like best. But that’s not all I’ve got for you today  while my Battlepack is focused primarily on  

Combat items I’ve also created custom textures  for dozens of other inventory items as well as a   fair number of blocks. You can see here I’ve  got custom textures for the non-combat tools   as well as the arrows, potions, dyes,  some of the food items and a few more.  

Then if you ignore the spruce wood wall in the  back, which is of course the vanilla texture,   the rest of these blocks here in front of me are  custom textures as well. I’ve spruced up a number   of the crafting tables so they appear to be made  from spruce. Same with the torches, scaffolding,  

Item frames and armor stands. Then because I  primarily create medieval and fantasy builds   I’ve actually gone ahead and done some of what  I would consider more appropriate styled stained   glass textures. Since I typically use white  gray and black for my builds… like, windows  

In my builds and the other colors to create  that cool sort of… fog effect on the ground   I’ve used slightly different styles of framing  for each of them. …and new to this update,   all of that glass will now have connected textures  when you’re using Optifine. You can see I’ve made  

A few more edits to block textures here primarily  for consistency to make the iron bits match the   vanilla anvil and cauldron for example. Then  adding spruce anywhere I can. I’m particularly   fond of these new bookshelves I put together which  once again, now appear to be made from spruce.  

I don’t know if you can tell but spruce is my  favorite wood variant to build with in Minecraft. Now I know not everyone out there is  going to love every texture in my pack   and before I made my own resource pack I was  slicing and dicing other people’s packs together  

To make my own remix packs for personal use. So  in the name of choice and customization you will   actually have four packs to choose from for  the Java edition of Minecraft. The ‘Grimdark   Battlepack’ is my flagship pack it contains every  texture I’ve created and shown in this video:  

All the tools, weapons, armor, variants, along  with the elytra, horse armor, custom skybox,   and the decorative blocks. Now if you’re loving  the tools and weapons but you aren’t too keen on   some of the other stuff the ‘Grimdark Tools’ pack  contains just the tools, weapons, and custom item  

Textures along with the variants. Of course same  goes for the armor and apparel. If you’re digging   the armor but want to ditch the rest the ‘Grimdark  Armor’ pack contains just the armor and variants   as well as the elytra and horse armor. Finally  the ‘Grimdark Sky’ pack contains just the skybox,  

Sun, and moon textures. Obviously you can mix and  match the tools, weapons [armor], and sky packs   and if you use all three you basically have the  Battlepack minus my decorative block textures. This video has been filmed in the Java edition  of Minecraft but I’ve been able to bring most  

Of these textures over to Bedrock as well. Up  until recently it was not possible to… or at   least not easy to add weapon variants in Bedrock  so instead what I’ve done is create add-on packs.   This means that on Bedrock you can still access  the variants but you do it by stacking another  

Pack on top of the Battlepack rather than renaming  an item in-game. This will be changing in the   future as I plan to leverage the new custom item  features in bedrock to put all the weapon and tool   variants in one pack with custom recipes. So if  you’re watching this video later in 2022 there’s  

Probably a new video covering that update but  for now here’s how the Bedrock collection works.   The ‘Grimdark Battlepack’ is still the flagship.  It contains all of my default custom textures   which again includes the tools, weapons,  armor, elytra, horse armors, custom skybox,  

And decorative blocks. Then similar to my Java  packs I’ve got a ‘Tools’ pack and an ‘Armor’   pack. These contain just the default tools and  items in the ‘Tools’ pack and just the default   armor and apparel in the ‘Armor’ pack. for the  tool variants I put most of the one-handed tool  

Variants in my ‘Variant tools’ pack and then put  the ‘Katanas’ in their own pack. Unfortunately,   I can’t scale the large weapons correctly in  Bedrock so I don’t yet have a way for you to   get some of the variants like the greatsword, and  halberd or warhammer. At least not yet. I’m still  

Trying to figure it out. I do of course have the  ‘Grimdark Sky’ pack as well, which again contains   just the sky, sun, and moon. Then finally for  bedrock I have three armor variant packs one   for ‘Light’ one for ‘Heavy’ and one for ‘Royal’.  Similar to the variant tools pack that I mentioned  

Earlier these will replace all of the default  armor with the respective variant armor. Much   like in the Java edition of my pack you can mix  and match these packs to customize the options   you’ll have available in Bedrock. I’ve been using  the ‘Katana’ [pack] plus the ‘Royal’ armor on top  

Of my Battlepack. So I get the ‘Royal’ armor look  with the default weapons except for the sword   which will have the katana appearance and then the  rest of the textures come from my ‘Battlepack’.

All right guys, this is it, this is the end of the  video. Thank you so much for watching! Thank you   for checking out my texture pack! I don’t know  what you’re still doing here… go download it!   It’s available on Curse, it’s available on  Planet Minecraft. You can grab it today for  

Java and Bedrock. I hope you guys like it! Let me  know what you think in the comments down below,   be sure to… give this video an  upvote if you’re a fan of the pack   and… have fun! I’ll have another update  for you guys again real soon. That’s going  

To do it for me today, once again I’m Kal and  I’ll see you for the next one. Bye for now!