The History of my OLDEST PvP Texture Pack

This right here is my first ever texture pack this and its subsequent versions have also become one of the most downloaded packs on Minecraft bedrock and in this video I want to talk about what exactly went into making this pack and how it became so successful

So first of all I never expected to make a Minecraft texture pack this is probably true for most people that have gotten into pack making it’s just not something that you think of when you download Minecraft you download Minecraft to build or just play Survival or play servers you don’t download

Minecraft to get into pack making and I myself had not even been using texture packs I was using default Minecraft I was a default Minecraft enjoyer which is really weird because at the time I was still watching a lot of YouTubers I’d watched when I was 11 or 12. purple the

Gamer boy 80 and technoblade all of which use texture packs so the fact that I didn’t want to use their texture packs didn’t really make sense maybe I wasn’t smart enough to be able to Google how to download those texture packs or how to get them but I just didn’t want to use

Them however one Monday I saw a video that said that 8X texture packs could give more FPS than a 6X texture pack or default Minecraft and as a laptop user back then who was playing on maybe 25 FPS at best that was a great news because I desperately wanted to have

More FPS it was sometimes impossible to play servers and when I could it was awful so I tried to get an 8X pack and it was awful looking I did not really like it I liked some blocks but the overall 8X pack experience was not enjoyable but I still believe that

Eddie’s texture packs could give you more of PS so what do you do when one or two texture packs aren’t your liking do you a look for more packs or B not use packs at all well I chose C and I made my own texture pack yeah without any

Tutorials any knowledge on how to make texture packs I got Minecraft default texture pack after Googling for hours and I just started changing the wool textures at the time I had no idea that you could just use a program click on the downscale button and then get an 8X

Texture from a 16x texture the way I did it was a really complicated method using paints 3D I basically opened the texture in paint 3D and I then went ahead and chose an 8×8 area from the 16x block and I went from left to right changing all

The pixels on the 16 by 16 texture to look like 8X it’s really difficult to explain I hope it can show some footage on screen of what it looked like but it was awful every single block took north of 30 minutes which is crazy to think

About now that’s how long I would take to make all of the world blocks and then some other stuff but it was really rewarding for me because I actually like the texture and actually used the pack I then went ahead and did some other textures like the sword a couple more

Blocks and I also tried doing the breaking animation now the brake animation was absolute hell because at the time I did not understand how to make a file background transparent so the loading animation I was making was that of a phone battery and the background was is normal transparent but

On Minecraft it showed a lot of the black pixels which was stuff left over from me using my Eraser trying to erase the previous breaking animation texture now at the time I was already using paint.net and I was Googling day and night how to fix this issue I even went

On my sister’s computer downloaded paint.net got the textured to your computer and tried to do it there and it still didn’t work I was super depressed and didn’t know what to do until one day I stumbled on a forums article that showed that you can just paint the

Background white and it does the same exact thing that was one of the few examples of how I had to learn pack making because I was just not very proficient at Googling tutorials I also didn’t have any friends that made texture packs that could show me how to

Do some of this stuff traffic got more into pack making and learn more about how texture packs are made I started to think about releasing the texture pack now at the time I had no idea on how you could release a texture pack I understood that you could use MediaFire

To make a download link but I didn’t want to make an account because I wasn’t sure if it was safe so I did what any 14 year old would do and I went to the biggest Discord server I was in and just sent the texture pack in one of the

Media channels I didn’t really expect much I’m not gonna lie I just sent it in there to see if somebody would react and give me some validation that didn’t happen now this is what I remember gets a bit blurry after a couple of days either one person messaged me on a

Discord server saying he liked the texture pack and then I dm’d him or he dm’d me right away saying he liked the texture pack and then I DN back and with a conversation either way we were in the M’s having a conversation about the texture pack and I decided to keep

Making updates just for him he was a sole user of that texture pack because nobody else was really interested which makes sense it was not really a good pack looking back but the fact that he wanted to use it kept me motivated and kept me working on the pack and

Improving it now I have no idea what his name was I think I mentioned him in a couple of the pack releases which were directed just to him I couldn’t find any of them so I have no idea what his name was otherwise I would be thanking him in

This video but anyways one day he asked me why why I didn’t release a pack on mcpdl or Planet Minecraft now I had heard of planet minecraft but I didn’t want to post my pack there because it was predominantly Java packs it still is now but there’s some texture packs that

Are for Java and for bradrock but that’s why I didn’t choose Planet Minecraft at the time I had not heard of mcpdl but when I checked it out I remember being astonished at how many downloads some texture packs got and I chose it because there was only one other 8X texture pack

Which was Mason and I didn’t like that texture pack at all and I thought okay if that’s how I feel about this texture pack maybe some other people will too so I decided to go for mcpdl and the whole process was very long and annoying it’s definitely improved over time but mcpdl

Back then was a horrible sight to use it had a limit of time that you could spend making the actual post so if you took too long to make the post it would just Auto denied or decide would just crash and when you did manage to send in the

Post it often got denied because you weren’t descriptive enough anybody that has used mcpdl.com will probably have had this issue and I have certainly had it a lot which is why to this day I am still pretty nervous about making a post because I’m scared of what if it gets

Denied because it’s not descriptive enough obviously it’s not a problem now because my English has improved considerably but it’s funny how that experience has scarred me for life now at this point I made one of the smartest decisions I think I’ve ever made which was making a Showcase Video for the

Texture pack I don’t think at the time I knew how important that would be but me making that Showcase Video meant that people would visit my YouTube channel to watch that showcase video of the pack before downloading it and maybe subscribing and checking out my channel

And other videos once I’d made the mcpdl post nothing really happened in the first couple days but after a week the video started picking up a lot of pace which showed me that the pack was getting a lot of downloads I think after a month the video already had 10 000

Views I don’t know how many views it has now but I’m pretty sure it’s like way over ten thousand and the feedback overall was great I think I got 100 subscribers from that video alone it wasn’t first video I had made but it was the first video that I’d gotten this

Much attention and I was honestly just overwhelmed I didn’t really know what exactly to do I just kept updating the pack and the pack kept getting more and more momentum at one point I started seeing other YouTubers review the texture pack it’s like a top three 8X

Pack or the best 8X texture pack which for me obviously was mind-blowing because these were people that I had seen videos of when trying to look for a good 8X pack and me seeing my pack on those channels was a sign that I was on the right track now as mentioned at the

Start of the video this pack got a lot of downloads the total downloads I got from this specific pack was around 20 000. the exact number I don’t know because a lot of YouTubers use their own download links for this texture pack some even used ad fly links so my best

Guess is about 30 000 if you combine the downloads from the revamp of this texture pack which is 8x resurrect that makes it about 200 000 downloads but again that’s not including all the external channels that somebody else might have used if you then add Zion 8xus downloads which is the revamp of

Edict’s resurrect you’d get 303 000 downloads which is just insane again it’s not even counting all the other links that may have been available for people to download from at this point though I did pay attention to the amount of external links used so I still think

It’s only at 320 000 but that’s still insane that’s more downloads than basically 90 of Minecraft texture packs period crazy how one person telling me to make this into an mcpdl post gave me so much success and if the person that actually messaged me is watching this

Video thank you so much for taking the time to actually download the texture pack and use it I got a lot of people asking me to rate their texture packs or try them out and I sadly ignore most of them because I just don’t have the time

But I try to answer as many as possible because that’s how this whole journey started for me one person replying and giving me feed bag on the pack and telling me what to improve and where to post and just helping me out if that person hadn’t told me that the pack was

Really good when it was actually bad I probably would not have gotten to this point now the fact that my first pack that I made blew up like this I wouldn’t call this blowing up this was pretty gradual over two years like my pack didn’t get 10 000 downloads in a day but

This also isn’t your average texture pack that gets a thousand downloads and then has run its course this was clearly something special and I think that got to my head one of the downsides was that I did not want to post anything except updates or we choose of redemption

Because I was scared that they just would not be popular I just kept working off of the established texture pack and trying to grow that and then maybe eventually make texture packs that weren’t just the same blue texture pack I think it was a good decision all of

The feedback and criticism I got was on one video or one download side depending where somebody would comment or post which didn’t improve my pack making drastically but it kept me self-critical and kept me wanting to improve my packs I did some other packs on the side that

Weren’t really good it just had a couple of changes and a cool thumbnail and that was really it they weren’t really special in any way shape or form but eventually I did do other texture packs like the Java crosshairs for Bedrock or the sky bundle or a couple texture packs

For related noobs which also helped me grow a lot but really what jumped started it all was this texture pack and the people that tried it out I’m trying to make a V2 of Zion to keep this Pack’s Legacy alive and I hope it’s gonna turn

Out to be an even better pack than all of these previous packs I have a real soft spot for blue packs so I really try my best when I’m making them but what I’ve learned is that no matter how much time I spend on making a pack it’s

Ultimately up to you guys whether or not you download it and I have to really thank all of you for supporting me for all this time and downloading all of my texture packs even if they weren’t as good as the previous one it’s really kept me motivated and has kept me making

Texture packs and it’s given me honestly a fantastic hobby that I hope I can keep doing for the next couple of months or even years the fact that this could be build me an audience like you guys is honestly incredible and I’m really thankful for everybody that saw this

Texture pack and thought Yep this guy’s gonna become something one day but I hope you guys enjoyed this video this story was quite the Nostalgia trip for me like if you like subscribe if you subscribe and I’ll see you guys in the next video goodbye