Texture Updater

A texture pack and Texturepacker recipes for upgrading an orphaned texturepack to the latest Minecraft version.

This package is used by Texturejam.

Wait, what’s a texture pack?

Minecraft is a game that uses 16×16 textures painted on to cubes to define the world. Texture packs replace the default imagery to give the game a different look.

So what’s the problem?

The trick is that with recent releases Mojang have added new types of block to the game, and these need new tiles in the texture pack. Old texture packs will leave them blank or worse. This means you can must give up on using your favourite texture pack until the artist draws the new tiles.

And what is your solution?

Texurepacker is a tool for remixing texture packs using recipes to describe which tiles to get from which pack. We use a special pack called Patches that contains fairly generic versions of the new tiles added in Minecraft Beta 1.2 onward and recipes to add these to an older texture pack to make one that supports the latest Minecraft version.

How could I use this?

Suppose your favourite texture pack is called foobar.zip, but was designed for Minecraft Beta 1.3. With Texturepacker installed, you could use a command like this:

maketexture --out=foobar+patches.zip base=foobar.zip rx/upgrade-beta-13.tprx

This makes the ZIP file foobar+patches.zip that can be used to play the current Minecraft release.

What are those files in the scripts folder?

I have stopped drawing new tiles from scratch, and instead I use these scripts to generate the patches pack using imagery from the installed Minecraft textures.