I Found Minecraft’s FIRST Texture Pack. Its Story is Insane.

I have found the oldest, very first texture  pack ever created for Minecraft. This video   is heavily inspired by MCBYT, who has found  the very first skin and the very first mod in   the game. Definitely check out those videos as  well. After seeing that the oldest texture pack  

Hasn’t really been looked into before,  I decided to research it a little bit,   and I couldn’t believe what I found out. And  well, you clicked on this video for a reason… so   here’s the texture pack. This is Eldpack, and this  is the story of Minecraft’s first texture pack.

Now wait just a minute there Mr Ryan. Eldpack  is indeed not the oldest texture pack in the   game. You see if you go onto the Minecraft  forum website, you will find texture packs   from early 2010, and Eldpack wasn’t released  until December of that year. Yeaaah there’s  

A reason I don’t attempt funny voices or  accents other than my own very often on   this channel. Please leave a comment telling me  to never do that again. But you are so right,   there were texture packs technically  before Eldpack. And to be honest, yes,  

Maybe the title was crafted in a way to get  you to listen to me talk about it – Ryan just   say click bait. No Ryan don’t admit to being  a clickbait YouTuber, something you are avidly   against… please just explain to the people  why it’s not clickbait and defend your stance!  

In my defense, this was the first verifiable  texture pack when the official texture pack   button was added into the menu in beta 1.0.  While it may not be the technical first, it was   likely the first pack using the official feature  – the button made for texture packs. Before this,  

You had to actually overwrite the texture  picture files directly in the Minecraft jar,   and this left a lot of room for corruption and  never being able to get the right default textures   back without reinstalling the game, leading to  potentially more corruption. That being said,  

The first genuine texture pack, by definition,  could be some nine-year-old playing Minecraft   Survival test accidentally changing one pixel of  dirt to pink when they were digging around the   Minecraft jar thinking that they were some kind  of genius. There simply is not a verifiable way  

To find the very very first technical Minecraft  texture pack. We make do with what we are given,   and in terms of official texture pack using  the official button, Eldpack is the first.   Anyway, Eldpack was released for beta 1.0 in  late December of 2010, just after that first beta  

Edition of the game came out. One of the major  things that set it apart from the rest of the   texture packs at the time is it also completely  overhauled all of the mob textures alongside of   the blocks. This sounds pretty trivial by today’s  standards, but most people weren’t messing with  

The mob textures back then as much. Like, just  look at these mobs! This was so cool back in the   day. It gave Minecraft an entirely new feel out of  the realm of what we thought was possible at the   time. And Eldpack was 16×16, the same resolution  as Minecraft’s default texture pack… but man,  

It certainly didn’t feel like it. It’s kind  of mind-blowing how nice it actually looks   for a 2010 texture pack. I mean obviously in  Minecraft today, we have f****ng 4K textures   that literally make the game look like real  life, but put yourself back 13 years. This was  

The beginning of something amazing for the texture  pack community. Hey – real quick. I don’t want to   interrupt too long here, and feel free to skip to  the next chapter if you don’t care, but we reached  

1000 subscribers last week and I wanted to say  thank you out loud. That’s a lot of people, and I   can’t wait to keep pumping out videos and stories  about this great game. I genuinely appreciate all   of you individually so much, like much more  than you know. That being said if you’re new  

Here and enjoying what you’re seeing, subscribe  so you don’t miss any of it. It’s free and if you   end up hating me, that’s fine, and you can undo  your subscription at any time. Alright then Ryan,   why did you say the story is insane? I mean  it looks like any old texture pack. Like,  

Sure it’s the first official one which is cool  but is it really insane? To answer my statement   in the title we have to look at Eldpack’s creator:  eldrone. Other than being an all-around cool dude,   he used to work on game development for AAA games  for some huge companies like Capcom at one point.  

He also has worked on many many small Indie Games  over the years. In his free time, he was a digital   artist and began working on Minecraft art super  early on. He really pioneered texture packs as we   know them today. Eldpack was an instant success  and had amazing feedback from the community.  

And the entire time this craze was going on, Big  Brother Mojang was silently watching. And here’s   the insane part – they loved Eldpack as much  as the players do, but no, SO much that they   offered eldrone an entire full-time position in  the company! I mean this guy, who created this  

Masterpiece of art for a game that was still  sort of underground and small at this time,   got an entire job offer for his efforts. Now if  that’s not motivation to monetize your hobby,   I don’t know what it is! What’s interesting is  that eldrone was a lead artist for 0x10c in 2012,  

Which was Notch’s planned space sequel to  Minecraft, but unfortunately was shelved after   a short time. That’s a great story for a different  video, but if you don’t know anything about 0x10c,   I highly recommend looking it up. Unfortunately  beyond that, there’s not a lot of information out  

There on what eldrone did for Minecraft’s art,  but obviously I can imagine he worked on designs   for new mobs and new blocks over the years he  was there. That being said, on December 15,   2016, after four years, he handed in his badge  and had his last day with Mojang. Interestingly  

This was semi-shortly after Notch retired  and Microsoft bought the company. It   makes me wonder how many other OG employees  jumped ship when this acquisition happened.   And what about Eldpack today? Eldrone stopped  working on it pretty much right when he got hired  

Into Mojang. This was right around Minecraft’s  official 1.0 release in 2012. The official pack   still exists on his website: eldpack.com, link in  the description, and it works up until Minecraft   version 1.8. However, there is a small team  that was put together in late 2012 to continue  

Eldpack’s legacy. An unofficial continuation of  the texture pack. This is still being worked on to   date and has been updated for Minecraft 1.19 with  no signs of slowing down for future updates! It’s   crazy to think 13 years later this resource  pack and its crazy legacy is still impacting  

The game today. And it’s great that there are  enough dedicated people in this world to keep   something amazing alive, and after all this  time. It’s truly inspiring to think about that,   But anyway, let me know if I missed  any bits of information in the comments  

Below and let me know if you’ve ever  used eldpack in the past or present.   If you enjoyed this small piece of Minecraft  history, leave a like on the video. It means   a lot, and lets me know this is the type  of thing you want to see going forward.  

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