Secret 4JStudios Packs Revealed

4J Studios were in charge of developing Minecraft consult between 2012 and 2019 and as part of this they made nine official texture packs and 18 mashup packs inspired by other properties from Toy Story to Mario to Fallout this means you can play a version of Minecraft where every texture is approved by Bethesda to officially look like Fallout and you might be surprised to learn that even though 4J stopped being responsible for Minecraft console 5 years ago the version where most of these copies were sold they still update these packs to include a Fallout fed Warden cober block and bamboo raft in fact this is true for all of the 25 different packs which are available on Bedrock to this day despite six major updates having come out in that time containing hundreds of unique items blocks and mobs this represents thousands of textures and today I’ll be looking at every single one before working out just how many there really are and honestly a single texture pack and a single update is already quite wild because 1.14 alone the village and pillage update brought so many new textures which they had to design I mean looking at it right here you can see that even though there’s lots of variants of blocks or mob variants which are kind of variants of other variants you can see that they all still required a lot of work to be put into them and the same is true for the Buzzy Bees update I’m just kidding this is seven blocks in here but the never update has a ridiculous amount of work required here too all of the Blackstone all of the new biomes and all of the blocks that support those biomes and then the mobs that come with them as well and then 1.17 the caves and cliffs update part 1 and two come with a lot of wonderful things including what I really like here the copper but you can see that there’s lots of unique things which make the number of textures for a single texture pack absolutely wild and although these were done over time it is worth mentioning that they are still a you know substantial drain on the amount of time that an artist has to spend working on brand new things versus old things then with 1.20 we have the final update which we currently have textures for and you can see that it goes for bamboo and Cherry and something which I’d be excited to see in future texture packs and indeed something to watch as we go through this video all of these decorated pots because this is how they look more or less in vanilla but I’m curious to see how they look in other texture packs so finishing up here we have the trims which is also another huge form of customization that I’m curious to watch as we go through future texture packs because honestly the second texture pack to release is also kind of a basic one because whilst the plastic texture pack went for an incredibly artificial Vibe the natural texture pack did the exact opposite and so we’ll be covering this from the never update onwards this is where the vast majority of texture packs got their new content started from uh the rest of them would have been technically released on the PlayStation in some form for most packs uh but the never update onwards is where this is brand new content exclusively for bedrock and so here is the neite gear I think it looks pretty decent but where I think the never texture pack really starts to sign shine is when you get your hands to stuff like the respawn anchor and the target block and indeed the new Mobs I think the strid looks absolutely beautiful or maybe the opposite of beautiful but you know I think un beautiful is a type of beautiful too speaking of beautiful look at this too oh look at the amethyst isn’t there something wild going on there and also you can see that although the copper isn’t necessarily my personal taste I think it is a very good block regardless and then you can also say that looking through here we’ve got some nice different variations of things like axotal uh there are lots of effort put into these things but where I would say that this starts to be absolutely wild is looking at 1.20 because you know looking at the warden he is a little spooky look at his chest seriously what is going on with this thing it is an extra crazy dangerous mob but looking at 1.20 you can see that oh yeah bamboo looks great and the same is true for Cherry but even Wilder are these pots this is where you start to realize that these pots actually can be so much better it’s not just that it’s vanilla style to be realistic or not realistic it’s that they can do some really really nice designs if they have freedom with the texture and that’s precisely what they did the same is also true to a lesser extent for the armor trims here but I’m sure we’ll find some better versions of that and the cam will help me out a lot man the camel looks very very different like a much more serious mob I feel like he’d be determined to help you beat the Ender Dragon in this version speaking of defeating the Ender Dragon low let’s move into the next texture pack and this next one is really interesting because when it released it was called the Mass Effect mashup pack something which is interesting if you did know it back then because mashup packs were something exclusive to the console edition they were something kind of made from finire where you would get yourself a texture pack you would get yourself a skin pack as well as a themed World specifically around that I have some Nostalgia about the mass effect them world even though it’s probably the worst of the batch but they all themed around some property from another game Mass Effect was the very first of these because the studio was very excited about being in Minecraft and so around the same time as they were released the first two texture packs they also released this however interestingly if you search Mass Effect master pack on the store you won’t find this because instead it’s now called the N7 mashup pack this is because you can’t reference the game name of a name of a game which has a higher rating than yours in the USA and so to reach compliance of that Minecraft just makes the marketplace have this called the N7 mashup pack in every place and so let’s look through some of the textures I almost want to start with the 1.14 stuff and the bizarre looking foxes and even the bees right here but let’s look through this one right now too so neite armor looks entirely different to anything else you can imagine as you can see so too does the uh the Blackstone I really like this personally I really like quite a few things here you can imagine just how different the never would look given how Wild and strange all of these mobs are but the fact that they have updated and try to work out what a you know Ma Mass Effect Strider would look at is something that I really do find quite Charming the same is true for amamos fist GE and basically everything else in this texture pack that same theme if you will have a very different very unique experience with everything from goats to candles to the I think this is one of the most similar blocks actually the uh the Frog lights um but if we Zoom forward just a little bit and go past the boats and the warden and all of the spawn eggs that related let’s move into the most normal parts of this texture pack which would have to be the brand new wood types it looks almost like default I would say I I could even Hazard a guess that it is the Fault here until you start to get to things like this where you can see that oh actually no actually no this this is fully uh default isn’t it actually interesting I don’t think they’ve updated this I was like you oh no this isn’t default so clearly they have changed some things but very very subtly did they just look at the textures that required the most effort and the left rest they left how they were or are there some subtle changes here too that you’re noticing with it I would say when you look at the armor trims you can see that something has been done but it’s near enough incomprehensible what exactly is going on there and then the same is true for camels they look very much like vanilla C camels and so yeah most of what they changed in this update was actually just things that existed before so armor trims obviously had some existence before this and this one seems to change the color of the armor that it’s actually on although I guess that’s just silence isn’t it um so yeah there clearly you can see that the piglin head and the skull sensor are the only things that are different but interestingly this doesn’t have new textures as best I can tell post 1.9 what a weird place to stop I I bet there’s no one downloading this pack so I I doubt this was needed the success of the mass effect mashup pack was so great that almost immediately afterwards a Skyrim Masher pack was made at least it was originally marketed as the Skyrim Masher pack because of weird Minecraft rules it is now the Dragon Ball Masher pack and interestingly it shares a lot in common with the Mass Effect Masher pack but being a lot more accessible to a lot more people because who doesn’t love Skyrim or that game with the dragon born as we might call it and so look at the Nite armor don’t you immediately just think oh yeah this is some stuff you want to get on you um looking at some other blocks around here they’re a little bit more muted which means you can at least understand what they are without having to do any deep digging and stuff like the respawn anchor and the target block really stand out to me but it’s the mobs that really start to be horrifying Minecraft is you know the scym Edition is a world that has some nice little uh you know ups and downsit the texture pack really uh makes some things look a little bit fantasy but when you get to the mobs you move into an entirely New World in a way that I’m not sure if people love or dislike but I think the copper gradient is a great thing so to are the new ORS and so too are most of the things they did in caves and cliffs but I am very curious to see what happens with the warden and so after we see the goat the glow squid and the ax lutal let’s take a dive across time and see what happens over here so I like the new Mangrove wood I like the new chest boats I like this although it’s very fantasy and weird and this is the warden honestly less terrifying than his normal iteration this might be if I were to Hazard a guess this might be one of the least terrifying things I’ve ever seen uh he looks like a friend that I’d like to make at the local pub and you know what maybe that’s what we should all try to do with the warden anyway have you considered buying him a drink rather than running away from him maybe that’s all he really wants and then as you can see the other similarity of the massic mhup pack is the fact that once it reaches trails and tals it doesn’t have any updates yet and so this might be the end of the line for a lot of their old packs I do believe that there is a chance that at some point forj says yeah if there’s not enough sales happening per month for not enough people who bought the pack overall then they will do this and it also makes sense that they could be doing this for licensing reasons so we have to see as we go forwards which texture packs do and don’t do post 1.20 updates because this is very bizarre to me to have a line drill in the sand and it means that if you want to experience bamboo or cherry blossoms you have a weird mixture of old and new something that you’ll really notice with Mass Effect more than this though although honestly I guess we could argue the naturally generated world is one of the few parts of the mass effect mup pack that actually looks somewhat normal and you could also very much make the same argument that lots of structures look no amount normal whatsoever and so what even is the point seriously what is happening in this stronghold I feel like I’m in a broken texture Minecraft world but this is a real official texture pack put out by some of the people who developed Minecraft itself for many years um otherwise though has to be said lots of the other texture packs look great here like the fantasy texture pack which was the third one to release and honestly in my opinion has some of the best strongholds but I’m sure you’re not in this video just to look at content instead you’d love to see everything from 1.16 onwards and so let’s show you the new textures they did for that but seriously one last look isn’t this nice and so here we are for the never update although I guess I could briefly mention that there are quite a few fun textures they made for this in previous updates I really love zombie villagers as well as the fox even the be is pretty great although I would have to inform the bee that uh current uh you know state of attire is not acceptable in the current political climate and if you could issue an apology soon that’d be really great but you know what else would be great looking at neite which as you can see keeps the neite vibe while still being a little bit fun and quirky and the same is true for Blackstone and also the never Woods looking pretty decent although the the piglin snout Banner pattern looks great as an item but fine as a thing on there I love this never mushroom the uh the never w war fungus is looking real real good and the same too is true for the doors every single door and a lot of other things are gold trimmed in this and that is one of the ways they decideed to make fantasy and honestly it kind of works you know what how this kind of works these respawn anchors look how intricate this texture is it’s like a stained glass window behind a bat or something really really really nice stuff and looking at the never mobs you can see the same is true there I also really like the amethyst crystals and the copper although you know not perfect for copper but definitely looking pretty decent the way it slowly Fades from one to the other it’s interesting how many ways you can have two textures and then the gradients in between them as it slowly goes between um raw copper and raw iron look very very odd as a block but that’s kind of true vanilla and the same is true for stalactites stalagmites Axel and uh to a much lesser extent the candles then we’ve got the Frog lights which are inexplicably gold trimmed like almost everything is uh including the new chest boats which are very very beautiful and then as we get to the warden I have to say this looks like it fits the Skyrim Masher pack more than it would fit here he looks like he works for the cubecraft server based on that logo over there and also it looks like he’s wearing a bit too much chain mail for my liking but that’s cool he looks pretty great the alley also looks wonderful and so too does what what is why is the recovery Compass like this I think they broke something in the texture for this I think I just found a bug in this texture pack but speaking of bugs that I found in texture packs let’s talk about the respawn X and then the Tails and Trails update which interestingly has been updated for this so so far we’ve got three texture packs with the update and two mashup packs of about may be starting to indicate which might be which and the creeper here looks very uh creeper likee I guess you could say and then we’ve got a very silly looking villager so I kind of like these pots I think this is a really solid update to something and I love the way that they’re still innovating with what a texture can be even though they could realistically just slap a gold sniffer on it and call it a day something I love to be able to say but let’s move in now to the SIP texture pack or should I say the city texture pack because that is right this is one of the fun ones they made which was designed for building kind of modernish buildings and so you get a very modern texture pack with very modern never right look at the helmet isn’t it fun uh but you also get quite a few fun variations of textures that don’t realistically fit into modern buildings in any way you’d imagine but do with this texture pack look how great the Crimson wood doors look look how interesting the warpwood doors look you could see these being used to make a skyscraper in a city look at the Fun texture they have going on for most of this stuff it’s very very delightful to see just what you can do if you take a set of textures and go an entirely different way with it look at the piglins this is so ridiculous the piglin brutes being kind of like the the foremen versus the you know the the workmen kind of people uh the laborers I guess it’s very very fascinating to me also so are the piglins who look like they’re a piece of construction equipment and same too for the Striders uh so moving into caves and cliffs we also have some interesting blocks I feel like this is slightly less Charming overall but there’s a decent set of palletes going on right here um the ax lals the glow squids and the Goat all look fairly normal and so too do the frogs Yep this is what a frog is meant to look like meanwhile look Look At The Mangrove wood and the chest bools we get a very different vibe that hopefully gives you a idea of just how different some things are in this pack the skull sensor is very very wild and even Wilder is the warden who is a robot although I love the Ali with his helmet on too there’s some really beautiful decisions being made here speaking of beautiful decisions being made we finally have 1.20 which does in fact have new textures and an absolutely beautiful doorway for Cherrywood and indeed you can see same is true for the PO right here loving the new textures and finally with the sniffer he’s a bus I think and we also have uh the armor trims which is looking pretty darn fine if you ask me so honestly the city texture pack is definitely the most interesting looking so far will that Trend continue let’s find out with the next pack which is the candy texture pack by the way if you ever bought these on console edition they are free on Bedrock you do have to download them the first time you use them and I’ll be honest this is my first time using the candy Tech texture pack in years and I’ll also be honest I imagine if there’s going to be a texture pack and not a mashup pack missing some 1.20 stuff it would be this one but it’s not this one it looks like it does have some new textures but we’re getting ahead of ourselves a little bit let’s go back to the Buzzy Bees update and indeed the never update and see how they made this look delicious well a neite set being gingerbread that is fairly logical then we’ve got Blackstone and we’ve got the never Woods all very edible and wonderful honestly I like that they went green for warpwood it’s an interesting piece of variety I’m sure it makes the never look just a little bit tastier the same is true for the piglins who seem to be um they’re not ice cream sandwiches but maybe they are they look like that weird type of wafer cookie uh that you can get speaking of wafer cookies wow 1.19 is looking delicious over here wow I am loving uh The Vibes I want to eat all these ax lles and especially this goat right here uh and then we’ve got 1.20 which brings with it some new wood types and oh wait this is 1.19 right here although candy Warden and then finally we’ve got 1.20 which did in fact update to include the new Woods I am starting to get to a point now where I’m thinking the texture packs got 1.20 and the mashup packs didn’t but there is a really good data point to test this and it’ll be the first texture pack which they discontinued long before even the Buzzy Bees and the village and pillage update so let’s show you the Halo mashup pack sorry wait that would be that would be a crime to say that inside of Minecraft which clearly is only played by people who have never heard of Halo hearing about Halo is of course uh the first step of going on a mass shooting rampage and so if you want to avoid that happening to you make sure you call this the master chief mashup pack I sure am glad when it comes to protecting children as a collective we put the effort in the right places which is to say exclusively inside of controlling what video games they play so that angry mothers don’t have to look at it but with that said let’s look at 1.14 and 1.15 for the master chief mashup pack which interestingly also this applies to the Super Mario mashup pack uh interestingly as you can see right here it contains a bunch of textures that never would have been used in the Xbox version of the game for which this used to be an exclusive mashup interestingly the only reason I can play it here on PC Bedrock or indeed on any version of Bedrock is because of the fact that they um you know Xbox tried to make all of the mashup packs version neutral and to set a good example they made the Halo Master pack which was XBox exclusive available for all platforms and I believe that you can still get it on maybe Nintendo on Playstation um but this was not enjoyed very much at all by the platforms and so I guess we’ve got a uh you know the one forly exclusive texture pack and let’s talk about pandas in this because I’ve never played Halo but I don’t know if the pandas look like this or if there are pandas in that world at all what I can say is this is one of the best texture packs in terms of like looking like an alien world but still looking like it’s got some you know like I I feel like you can still understand most of these Minecraft features even if some of them are a little bit more contrived than others like seriously what is this the the the ravager I’m going to have to guess what the heck is that it is crazy the wanding trade Alor on the other hand looks delightful and the villagers all look like fun space villagers zombie villagers are a little bit less so and then we’ve got all of the other fun changes like bees and moving into the never update we’ve got neite gear which looks perfectly like a uh I I want to call it a Master Chief suit but I know that’s wrong and you can see the neite sword is one of these uh you know the I love the way that it all comes apart I I think this is absolutely great to see honestly even the textures on the black Stone but yeah looking forwards we’ve got Crimson wood we’ve got warped wood warped wood is very ugly and we’ve also got all of the rest of the never update features looking just wonderful if you ask me 1.17 and 1.18 have a nice collection of blocks nothing really works spacewise here for me but I think it’s nice enough the Frog lights are really really good and so too is the rest of 1.19 but what about the warden oh yeah that is uh that is an interesting way to texture the ward now and finally we’ve got 1.20 where they did decide to give it new textures this is not default bamboo wait this is Cherry if cherry looks like this what the heck does bamboo look like but this is not the default cherry wood you’ll be surprised to learn this is bamboo see this I’m so sure this is bamboo and that’s Cherry why is bamboo wood secretly bricks I’ve got lots of questions but this puts a hole in our theory about it being all of the mashup packs which stop receiving updates uh because as you can see we have a Halo them sniffer what is that is he a truck or something and we’ve got Halo themed armor trims which I actually kind of like there there’s like a red versus blue Vibe sort of going on here I I I like it a lot speaking of things I like a lot I would like to just very briefly mention by the way how many texture packs appear in my collection because of the fact that I bought them all in the console days uh actually a small downside to that is if you ever want to find anything that you own once you get past about 50 it becomes a nightmare it’s not alphabetically organized I don’t think it’s reverse alphabetically organized which just isn’t intuitive to anyone as far as I can tell but also as well as being reverse alphabetical there’s some things that are out of that alphabetical order so you can work it out yeah I think it’s if you’ve got it downloaded and then reverse alphabetical which is not a logical way to do it but you know what is logical the cartoon texture pack which I love a lot by the way but we won’t start on this end although I have to say I kind of want to but instead oh and they’ve got another broken recovery Compass texture I I am fascinated by what this to happen anyway beginning from the beginning or actually a little bit before the beginning because I’ve never seen these villager textures wow this is really really cute see the way the cartoon texture pack has come through here right here but let’s start with the never update the first one that you wouldn’t have received if you were if you bought this on Console you would just get this freely just because you’re playing on bedrock and they would update the pack for you including all of these wonderful things I think it’s looking pretty decent so far I really love W wood having these vines on them really feels like it fit the biome perfectly the campfire has a very lovely trail of smoke and the piglins look like pigs which I kind of find Charming I also love the faces on the Strider he looks so sad when he’s not in lava and a little too smug when he is so really you want to leave him half in lava half out is what I’d say um with the copper again the gradient is done so differently here one of the most pleasing gradients I might say if I was to say so myself and then we’ve got deep slate we’ve got all of the rest of 1.7 and 18 some lovely looking blocks here but then we have the Frog lights these look like traffic lights almost if this was just red instead you’d be able to make some really fun things of it but yeah the cartoon texture pack interestingly does take a lot of very fun Inspirations from a lot of things but then we have moving into 1.20 what I believe is no new textures this obviously received a new texture although I’m not 100% sure um that it actually is it looks like a skull it looks like they’ve taken the regular skull sensor and added a crystal to it and so I think they discontinued this texture pack alongside the N7 or whatever it was called and and uh indeed it looks as though they haven’t updated it since which is a little sad but probably a little bit understandable um so yeah there is no specific 1.20 content for the cartoon texture pack but what about the festive mashup pack spoiler the answer is no there are a lot of great different textures for this pack from 1.16 through to 1.17 and 18 and even up to the warden who is wearing a lovely Christmas jumper but at some point they decided to stop updating it this is something the will be interesting to watch as we go through future texture packs because I imagine it is the less popular ones I mean if we’re being honest I feel like the city texture pack has a lot more longevity to it than the fested mashup pack because how many times a year do you need to play this texture pack and more importantly how many times a year do people feel they need to buy it the answer is probably quite similar for that of Steampunk but we’ll find out for sure in a second yep beautiful as some of these textures may be I really love the Crimson wood and the Never mobs in general they seem like a perfect fit for this pack the same is true for the copper I think that is another interesting way of doing that blend by the way and indeed every other mob up until the warden but that is the hard line that was drawn where they clearly decided no more updates for this oh look at the LA too isn’t that wonderful oh and this texture pack also has a similar thing with the recovery Compass it looks as though whoever was doing the textures for it didn’t necessarily know how it was supposed to work and so we get this instead something that is beyond fascinating to me anyway as you can see 1.20 has no updates for the steampunk texture pack and so presumably future ones will not too but what about the pattern texture pack honestly this is one of my I think the OG console texture packs were really really great in some places and I think this is one that I just never got down with why what what is the appeal of everything having weird patterns on it is this what you want from a Minecraft uh texture pack apparently a lot of people did and I think it really works in quite a few places uh but I also think there are places where I just have to say what is going on here and indeed enough people said that that although you can see the armor looks like it’s got some special trims none of these are in fact unique and none of these uh blocks over here were updated in 1.20 this is something that might change as we move into the next mashup pack it would be the Little Big Planet but this was PlayStation exclusive and so here’s what it looks like on my PC okay we’re going to discover this time together with the Greek mythology mashup pack interestingly this released 3 weeks after the little bit Planet so that non-playstation players wouldn’t feel like they missed out and it’s one of the most beautiful mhup pack worlds but we’re not here to comment on that world we’re here to comment on the textures which do perfectly seem to fit it I mean just to take a second here I really love this copper texture I don’t necessarily love the gradient but I love the way they’ve done it and the same is true for amethyst being pink really seems to fit it and so looking ahead to the glow squid the and the goat and indeed The Mangrove it’s all looking very nice but to the left of this point what do you think happened the answer is we have Greek mythology sniffer Greek mythology Cherrywood and even oh this is so perfect I hope uh this is one of the perfect things for Greek mythology having decorated pots fits it so well look how great this looks wow I love it so we’ve also got hanging signs the camel the Cherry boats and all of this other stuff but yeah I am loving the look of what I see so far and now they I didn’t even pay attention to this guy he’s looking around the wrong way but look how terrifying he is on a really true level wow spooky also I love he’s got a beard I feel like the Ally shouldn’t have a beard but I’m glad he does anyway I wrongly said that the recovery Pumpers texture worked by the way uh it is in fact four compasses all rolling around in my inventory at the same time will that be the case for the Halloween mashup pack though the answer is yes apparently so the interesting thing about the Halloween mashup pack is it didn’t originally release as a mashup pack and although its official releases 2015 it released a few years before this as a skin pack and then the next year as a texture pack and then they decided you know let’s just go for a full mat up pack and that’s what I’m going to be showing you right here I am liking the kind of spooky Freddy style neite armor you would look very Halloweeny if you were to wear that and indeed the kind of creepy vibe that the never fits is really perfect for both the never and this texture pack they really had a field day doing 1.16 it seems wow look how good some of this stuff looks I haven’t seen these textures ever but I’m really glad I get to look at them and then we have stuff like hanging vines that look is this hanging Vines actually let’s quickly confirm weeping Vines my bad uh that look really really decent too I like a lot of what I’m seeing here all the way up until the hoglands and the zins but then we have the 1.17 and 1.18 which is a bit harder to truly make spooky but I think they’ve done a solid enough job especially with these I think this is a really really fun way to do that uh adding eyes to anything can make it just a little bit scarier if you make it a little bit ominous uh the goat is also terrifying I mean a goat doesn’t need to be that terrifying but he is which is great and the frogs have very big eyes just to make you feel a bit weird when you look at them then looking over At The Mangrove and looking over at the rest of 1.19 we’ve got some nice blocks don’t question this and then we’ve got the warden over here who is looking more than I guess he is meant to look like the devil sort of is the vibe we’re going for but then interestingly enough the Halloween meshup pack despite being a once a year useful mashup pack has a 1.20 update including bamboo I like bamboo especially this door this is a nice detail and then also some cherry wood which is very much not Cherry but I’ll give it a pass it looks like someone has a house themed house which is perfect speaking of Halloween themed look at these pots look at these signs and then look at these trims wow I love these covered in Bones look at these trims right here oh that is there is so much going on that it’s hard to even work it out but indeed there are lots and lots of trims uh we do have um lots of different it’s worth mentioning uh that there are lots of different ways you can do armor trims so we could have hundreds or thousands of these the same hisory for most things but yeah having a skeleton camel is definitely my favorite part of this I want to go sit on the skel camel and enjoy the Halloween 1.20 update one of the few it seems to get it it’s almost 50/50 but it’s a little bit under right now will that improve as we move into the next mashup pack it’s a while till we go back to a texture pack by the way so the next mashup pack is the Chinese mythology I mean obviously the Super Mario mashup pack came out in the meantime but this is Nintendo switch exclusive and is an absolute nightmare to play because they insist on it not being available on Realms or servers or any multiplayer games where any non-switch devices are connected but you know what I did actually go ahead and get it so here you go let’s look at the Super Mario mashup pack and all of the textures I have to say this is always the most delightful it is wild to me that Nintendo really did give permission to forj to just like yeah Nintendo fight anything you like take a look at the warden real quick because that is one of the most insane textures it’s a Bowser style replica but the thing I really loved was the uh what they did with the sniffer this is one of my favorite bizarre Super Mario monsters so I love seeing him right here and just in general the number of odd references in here are really really great but that is enough for the Super Mario mashup pack it’s a pain to record on the switch and so let’s head back to the Chinese mythology um which interestingly did debut after the Greek mythology this was where 4J realized they didn’t necessarily have to have a co-branded property and that a lot of people would just like to see various cultures represented and so this is what a Chinese never bu would look like I guess I should say Chinese mythology is not to say it’s the same as the modern day Chinese State uh but there is obviously a lot of uh you know I guess when you picture Greece you picture modern you picture old Greek buildings and in the same way a lot of people picture Chinese as being stuff like this and so this is Chinese mythology Warden Chinese mythology recovery compass and Chinese mythology tales and trails does not exist either so it’s interesting they decided to update the Super Mario mashup pack but not the Chinese mythology I it makes sense that more people would play the Super Mario 1 but also no one is purchasing it so either Nintendo is giving them money or they just love doing it so much and I like to imagine it’s the second one but you know what else I like to imagine that’s right living in a post-apocalyptic Wasteland and I love the bloatfly B I love so much about this but let me show you the Fallout mashup sorry the vault tech dweller mashup pack this is one of the silliest renames in my opinion but you know what else is silly the fact that this is a texture pack they started in 2016 but yet still goes onto the Modern Age I love the way they managed to have these new wood types represent builds that you’d love to make if you are recreating some of your favorite Fallout ones and I think it’s absolutely beautiful of them to continue to update and make new references because this does take a lot of time to make new art for these key figures it does take time to get approvals but yet they do it even into the caves and cliffs update look at the slowly rusting uh copper that we have right here but also take a look at things like the Deep slay and the the axelos and the Very mutated goats absolutely loving those but then 1.19 comes out and I have to say my curiosity is the warden what does it look like okay it’s a death claw I’m pretty sure and then also for some reason the alley has its brains exposed um so yeah there are a lot of weird things happening until you get to the taals and trails which they did decide to update thank God because I I think the Resurgence in popularity of Fallout will probably mean that even though it’s called The Vault deller mashup pack there are lots of people who would love to check this one out and indeed you can see that carries over even into the pots using different colored pots is actually really CL that makes me want to go and collect all the pots if you have this mashup and using them for what I can only imagine is various different brands from The Fallout world is even smarter than that then we have the sniffer weird looking sniffer we have the armor trims and then we have the camels which I have to say the camels are the oddest bit of all of this the rest I’m like yeah this is incredible but the camels make me say something else entirely but you know what else I say uh the mashup packs didn’t stop here Fallout was a great expansion into more video games but they tried other types of properties as you’ll see when we go into the Adventure Time mashup that’s right they really made one of these I know Adventure Time is a very loved series and honestly I love the way the nether pulls off in this I think it’s great I also love the ampus crystals the copper all of these notable things in my opinion look really wonderful and they have continued updating this into 1.20 as you can see some really nice little uh you know pots right here as well as an intriguing Warden a a sniffer that I hope is a reference to something because that is horrifying otherwise and a bunch of armor trims which had cute little uh you know faces from the series very much like the Adventure Time mashup it’s not my favorite property in the world though and they made a lot of these can we just take a second to appreciate how crazy it is that I’ve owned every single one of these texture packs so far I was sure there’d be one that I was missing but NOP Norse mythology time oh I love the O in Norse mythology there that was a tiny little detail but yeah nor mythology has received quite a few updates to add very very highl looking hoglands or maybe just mythical you could say to add very detailed uh neverwood textures which are looking very good to add things like these copper and these neite tools which are Beyond fascinating in their own way and indeed you can see the extra detail texture is really what they went for here and I love these Norse boat chests they really I think the boats were great in general but adding a chest to them really does seem to fit and so as a result they have decided to update this into 1.20 and Beyond oh this is a weird treant with a spooky head but yeah we’ve got over here A bunch of fun inspired pots as well as a camel as well as of course lots of armor trims although I couldn’t tell you for sure that the armor trims look any different to each other but you know that’s just my personal preference I like looking at these boats anyway and hopefully you do too look at the raft it doesn’t have the start on the back it’s silly but I guess honestly fits in this texture pack way more than in vanilla so give some credit for that I guess but let’s also give credit for the next mashup pack Egyptian mythology is the largest download I’ve had to do so far but I am curious as to what it will look like oh yeah that’s a nice logo too so Egyptian mythology brings us back into the days wow got to say uh got some immediate Good Vibes about this one um I’m loving the slight details that you get on things like the chiseled uh you know NE bricks right here it’s a cute detail one that I really appreciate neite tools looking fine same with the entire set you look like an Egyptian when you wear it that’s kind of nice um and as we move forwards it’s clear to see that although uh there is a very fascinating design for the warden that this wasn’t enough to encourage enough people to buy it for them to update it post 1.20 because the Egyptian mythology mashup pack has no unique textures which is a shame they would have had some of the coolest pots but I digress something else I’d love to digress into is Pirates of the Caribbean where as you can see everything is piratey themed in my mind I always thought this would be far too similar to the Norse mythology but if you actually look at the pack side by side they are vastly different in every way besides having overly large boats look at these things I think when you look at a boat texture from this you think about just how great Minecraft really could make some boats if they wanted to if we have a raft now surely we can have boats like this in Minecraft but yeah we also have a very armadillo or maybe hippopotamus looking um sniffer it’s crazy how much of a different mob it looks like the warden very much looks like uh you know your boy uh Frankenstein but he’s grown into a uh he’s grown into a bit of a spooky creature that fires things out of his chest repeatedly at the alley fun fact I don’t think that a warden can kill an alley I think it just heals so fast that it’s never going to work speaking of so fast here is a glow squid here are the wood sets and here is the post 1.20 update where as you can see skull and bones and all sorts of other fun piry things I like that they’ve updated this I’m surprised that they have but I am pleasantly surprised I guess I should say which is a good thing unlike with The Nightmare Before Christmas I’m just going to call it now there’s no way they’ve updated that right I love the Nightmare Before Christmas when I was a child but honestly I never thought it was that appealing to come back to and whenever I look at The Nightmare Before Christmas stuff I’m like why did I find this interesting it’s I I I do think the copper is really well done here I think that when you look at the neite man he’s very lovely looking and indeed there’s a lots of interesting mob designs that have to be praised oh look at the look at the sniffer right here it looks like they did decide to update this and so you get some brand new pots some brand new camels and some brand new armor trims which look like some of the most intriguingly unique armor trims I’ve seen so far um and so I would guess that either this did sell better than I expected or that they are actually you know they have a minimum number of years of updates and so that is at least six because this came out in 2018 it was one of the last things to release during the console edition era uh but there was one last texture pack that released during this time too this is the super cute texture pack and oh it is super cute wouldn’t you say I want to take just a little glance through the past because I haven’t seen seen it since before 1.14 this is one of the texture packs that just really led me into saying yeah Minecraft tried eight very different things of the other texture packs but this one did something so simple but also so Charming I am not someone who necessarily thinks that everything should be cute especially not unemployed zombie villagers but I am someone who got a real kick out of this texture pack and every time I see a new texture in it I’m like a they managed to make that work I think it is a surprising amount of work to make things that are cute especially when you’re working with existing textures so neverwood that makes a hot door I love that idea or never mushrooms that look like this he looks a little more sad than cute honestly but it’s fine uh looking around all of these textures you can see they have one thing in common and it is some really really really heartfelt really warming design it’s not how I would ever choose to play Minecraft on a long-term basis but if you wanted to just give yourself a smile for the day the super cute texture pack was great for that and based on our previous Theory after the Wild update I doubt it’s been discontinued although mang wood also has hot doors so here are the new chest boats here is the Frog and here is the warden he’s a giant teddy bear a look what a cuddly teddy bear is he just wants to hug me so bad but there is also brand new textures post 1.20 like this star door for bamboo and for Cherry it’s got to be a heart right there’s no way it’s not for a pink door so yeah as you can see there are lots of new textures including very cute pots to collect with a sniffer on it oh that is great isn’t it and also some here is the sniffer himself and here are the armor trims which all look kind of wonderful and here’s the camel with a little heart in his back because why not so this is the super cute texture pack the last texture pack that 4J released and indeed it is likely to be the last one they ever released but there were a couple of other mashup packs after this point one of these was Steven Universe which for some reason I I remember spending so long trying to get excited about it like cuz I I never heard of the property and it felt like it was a kid show but I watched a lot of Steven Universe and just it never really fit me but weirdly enough I do not have that file anymore more I don’t know where it is but I paid for it and it is not in my possession I don’t know why that is actually my best guess is that they released it on the PlayStation and so I have it in my PlayStation account but not my Xbox but as you can see this is in fact something they did and also as you can see from around here uh there are lots of skins there’s lots of textures and they presumably would have updated this because of how new it is but again I mean I I would I I would love to join the 33,000 other people who have bought it but instead I’ll join the 36,000 other people who have The Toy Story mashup let’s download it let’s put it on our world and let’s see what this is about so the interesting thing about this mashup pack is it was made long after it was clear that there would be no console edition and so in my opinion this was 4J testing the water as to whether they could make mashup packs and texture packs outside of actually making Minecraft itself effectively becoming Marketplace Partners instead of Minecraft developers um there were as best I can understand all sorts of offers regarding other things that 4J could do but this was a moment where we as the community were most curious and so it’s fun to see what they did with some of these textures but let’s take a look at all of them starting with the never update as you can see it’s a very purple beautiful looking set of gear then we’ve got moving a little further along a fire extinguisher it’s all like a a medicine bottle what is this meant to be I I can’t even work out from Context what this was so just going to a crimson fungus weird that is not what I imagine Crimson fungus looking like Crimson wood on the other hand looks kind of nice and the same is true for warped wood very very different to how you’d expect I love the pencils though you could use that for some fun designs uh honestly they gave a lot of blocks that you could make some fun things out of if you wanted to and also some very intriguing looking mobs oh yeah what what am I looking at over here then as we move into the caves and cliffs update we get a very nice Toy Story themed Vibe on axelos glow squid and goats and then as we move into 1.19 The Mangrove wood the new chest boats come in and honestly this is good also wow he looks mostly like the if it reminds me of anything it reminds me weirdly enough of the Bowser one but yeah as much as I love a lot of what I’m seeing here also the recovery compass works wow look at that it’s a very cute recovery Compass too but there’s a lot of what I’m liking that I’m seeing right here but also quite a few things that give me uh some real curiosity this wasn’t I you know I like Toy Story I like the Toy Story World in my opinion though I would rarely want to play as Toy Story you know around in the Toy Story world even like after looking at the world in a way that I feel like isn’t true for Skyrim or for Fallout or for uh you know indeed Halo even You could argue and so as much as I love looking at the sniffer that’s actually a bus with a silly little design or the the the flower that’s actually a teacup I would have to say um that this is a sad point in the console you in the 4J Studios uh Texture Pack era but I also would like to say that even though a lot of people look at this video and be like ah isn’t it a bummer that some of the texture packs haven’t updated this this is actually the norm for texture packs and not the exception if I am to load up basically any texture pack that I bought in the Last 5 Years it probably won’t be updated this is pure bdcraft one of Minecraft’s most popular texture packs tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people have paid for this pack and downloaded it however there’s a bit of a problem that Minecraft’s you know like thousands of texture packs have and that is that these are basically made on the basis of how many people will buy it when it comes out because there are so many of and the longterm sales are likely to be poor it means that as new content comes out like 1.20 it is very unlikely to be updated into that pack although pure bdcraft as you can see has updated the warden which is kind of nice it little fits into the comic book style this is another pack that just said yeah every year they release new blocks why are we going to bother updating the pack for them because some people will download the pack anyway but mostly the majority of those downloads have already happened one of the problems of moving from a first party system like 4J had to a third party system where there are now tens of thousands in terms of skin packs there’s tens of thousands of choices but in terms of texture packs there are hundreds of other choices that you have is that not all of these choices are going to be maintained forever while 4J was Manning the console edition they made sure every single time they release an update that all of their texture packs and mashup packs would work with it but now that Minecraft or Mojang you could say or Microsoft whoever you feel like labeling for this one now that they’ve outsourced that for the community they can’t force every single texture pack to update every single time and so it means that as text as Minecraft ages as texture packs age they slowly become less and less useful this is something that we’ve spotted in this video with some of the 4J packs but it is something that you’ll notice with even some of the most popular because it takes artists time and money to maintain each of these packs as updates go onwards and so to expect them to do it for free forever is something that is a bit of a hard sell especially when those artists move on to bigger better or even just different things this is a big struggle and it’s it’s one that I don’t know if there’s an easy solution to but it is one more opportunity to ramn about the console edition and it is one more opportunity for me to say that you know what I can finally explode this no I can’t you know it is one one more opportunity for me to say uh that the console era was one of the great ones of Minecraft there are a lot of people who seem to agree with this now there is a big wave of modern Minecraft Nostalgia for the console edition era and I want to say while we’re in this that this is the week of 4J Studios uh the birthday of Minecraft Xbox 360 it will be turning 12 years old and I just want you all to know I plan on doing something special for it maybe you should plan on doing something too play some Xbox 360 Minecraft or whatever first console you first played or check out any of these texture packs that have been updated to 1.20 because it seems likely that they’ll be updated past 1.21 that’s my theory at least uh just just a Minecraft Theory I guess thank you very much for watching giveaway I hope you enjoyed and have a very good day goodbye hope I was recording oh thank God I was [Music]