_zombiehunter's

"Better than Default"

resource upgrade for default Minecraft

v1.7


Last updated:

06.12.2013

Compatible Minecraft versions:

1.7.3 or newer


Contents:

- Basic Information

- How to install

- Troubleshooting

- List of included features

- Legal & Contact

- Changelog


 Basic Information

  

What is that ?
This resource upgrade for the default resource pack of Minecraft is a good compromise between "keep Minecraft faithful" and "make Minecraft more realistic", so it's someting like a "default-realism" resource pack which replaces some default textures and sounds with improved ones and adds more intense colors, more variety and more advanced texture features to the game. Using this pack doesn't change the game's overall appearance, but Minecraft looks better and more realistic in several ways and some of the default textures will be more useful with "Better than Default".

What are the main features of this pack ?
It adds a bunch of improved textures (water, lava, fire and portal animations, several blocks and items, GUI elements, the sun, moon, paintings, armor, ...), not few of them with increased resolution. It also adds a better readable HD in-game font, full Custom Colors support to tweak many hard-coded color settings, random skins for some mobs, camouflaged Creepers, connected and random terrain textures, more realistic glass rendering and a complete new HD skybox to the night sky. Furthermore, it replaces the most annoying in-game sounds with improved or new ones. For a more detailed list of the features, see below.

What do I need to install ?
Depends on how much features you wanna use. Even an unmodded, clean Minecraft installation allows you to enjoy many features included in "Better than Default". For a full-featured "default-realism" experience, you should always install the latest MCPatcher !

Can I use Optifine instead the Patcher ?
All the additional, non-vanilla texture features of this pack are designed work with the latest MCPatcher. You can try it with Optifine too, but don't blame me if anything doesn't work!

  


 How to install

  

1.) Download the latest MCPatcher here: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1496369-
 

2.) Be sure to use a clean, unmodded Minecraft installation. When patching, check the following:

- Extended HD
- RandomMobs
- Custom Colors
- Connected Textures
- Better Glass
- Better Skies
 

3.) Copy the whole "Better than Default" zip-file to the resource packs folder of Minecraft (un-zipping the file is not necessary)
 

4.) Start the game, open Options / Resource Packs, select "Better than Default", click "Done" and enjoy !

  


 Troubleshooting

  

I have a problem concerning "Better than Default": [insert your problem here], what did I wrong ?

Very simple. You've most likely NOT followed the installation instructions !

 

The pack was installed correctly, but all the water is grey. Intended feature or did I something wrong ?

Not intended, the water should have biome-specific colors. First, clean your Minecraft installation, patch it again and make sure to have "Custom Colors" checked. If the mod is not active, you're very probably using an outdated MCPatcher version.

 

The pack was installed correctly, but the night sky lags or is completely white. What's wrong ?

This happens most likely because of memory issues. First, shut down memory-consuming background applications you currently don't need. Also, update your Java, your video drivers and if you run a 64-bit OS, try to allocate more RAM to Java (Google is your friend). If nothing helps, you should disable the "Better Skies" mod when patching Minecraft.

  


 List of included features

  

Feature name Short description
Features availaible using a clean, unmodded Minecraft installation
HD Font  Adds better readable in-game font with 4x resolution
 Adds new SGA font to Enchantment GUI (doubled resolution)
HD Sun and Moon  Adds more realistic sun (4x resolution)
 Adds ultra-HD, quite realistic moon (16x resolution !)
HD Rain and Snow  Adds HD rain/snow (4x resolution)
HD Minecraft Logos  Adds HD Minecraft and Minecraft Realms logos (4x resolution)
HD Paintings  Adds faithful, high-resolution paintings (4x resolution)
HD Water Blur  Adds high-resolution water blur (4x resolution)
Better Darkness Blur  Allows a slightly better view in dark areas and underwater
HD Icons  Changes in-game map icons to be in 4x resolution
 Changes GUI icons and bars to be in 8x resolution
GUI Improvements  Adds better looking hover effect for menu buttons
 Adds better looking achievement and potion effect pop-up windows
 Adds some improvements to the hotbar slots
 Adds several small tweaks to the Creative Mode GUI
 Gives the Beacon GUI a completely new appearance
 Adds some tweaks to the Anvil, Enchantment Table, Trading,
 Brewing Stand and Horse GUIs
Main Menu Splash Texts  Adds some new splash texts and removes boring ones
 (reduced overall amount to 100, resulting in a 1% probability)
Better Grass & Foliage Colors  Adds a less pale color palette to grass and leaves
Improved Block Textures  Adds improved textures for Snow, Ice, Beacons, Iron Bars, Bricks,
 small and giant Mushrooms, Pumpkin Lanterns, Melons, Ferns,
 Cobwebs, TNT, Glowstone, Coal Blocks, Lapis Lazuli Blocks,
 Brewing Stands, Tripwires and Stained Glass blocks/panes
 Makes pale wool blocks more colorful
 Re-adds the old, better looking Iron Blocks known from Alpha/Beta
 Adds more crystalline Diamond Blocks, more similar to Emerald
 Adds better textures for iron doors, wooden doors and trapdoors
 Gives the last growth stages of wheat a more realistic color
 Adds new leaf textures for Birch, Acacia and Dark Oak Trees
Improved Item Textures  Adds better looking items for Doors, Signs, Paintings, Repeaters,
 Comparators, Glowstone Dust, Ender Eyes, Nether Stars, Splash
 Potions, XP Bottles, Compass, Clocks, Maps and Sugar Canes
 Adds ultra-HD items for most 3D entities (Minecarts, Boats, ...)
 Improves colors of all diamond and gold items
 Slightly improves the colors and appearance of music discs
 Adds better looking armor items and armor inventory slot icons
 Centers all oddly placed items for a better appearance in inventories
Better Animations  Adds better looking animations for water, lava, fire and portals
 Adds ultra-HD clock dial/compass needle for smoother movement
Animated Blocks and Items  Adds fire and glowing animations to lit furnaces
 Adds red pulsing animation to Monster Spawners
 Adds a tweaked, animated Command Block texture
 Adds bubble animations to bottles inside a Brewing Stand
 Adds animated XP orbs inside XP Bottles
Better Redstone Stuff  Slightly improves the appearance of Redstone Blocks and Wires
 Addes more useful textures for Repeaters, Comparators, Redstone
 Torches and Detector Rails
 Adds improved Dispenser and Dropper output textures
 Adds more useful, high-contrast Redstone Lamps
Better XP Orbs  Adds better looking, high-resolution XP Orbs (4x resolution)
Better Explosions  Adds a more realistic explosion animation (2x resolution)
Better Mobs  Adds tweaked skins for cows, Mooshrooms, chicken, wolves, bats,
 Villagers, Skeletons, Zombie Villagers, Endermen and Blazes
 Adds new skins for Creepers, Slimes, Iron Golems and ocelots
Better Signs  Adds a better looking, cleaner skin to the sign model
Better Ender Crystals  Adds better looking Ender Crystals and a better crystal beam
Better Beacon Beams  Adds a better looking, golden colored beam for active Beacons
Better Armor  Adds complete new, better looking armor (2x resolution)
HD Creeper Charge  Adds HD animation for charged Creepers
HD Wither Armor  Adds HD Wither Armor animation
Better Enchantment Books  Adds better looking HD enchantment books with readable SGA text
Better Chests  Adds better skins for Trapped Chests and Enderchests
Better Sounds  New, less annoying weather sounds (rain and thunder)
 Improved mob sounds (bats and cows)
 Improved portal, fire ignition, lavapop and water sounds
 New, better explosion, bow shoot and bow hit sounds
Additional features when using a correctly patched Minecraft installation
Connected Textures  Connects glass blocks, Jungle Tree, Spruce and Dark Oak logs,
 Chiseled Stone Bricks, Redstone Lamps, Hardened/Stained Clay and
 Nether Portal blocks
 Connects bookshelfes and bricks horizontally
 Connects sandstone, vines and sugar canes vertically
Better Glass  Adds a new, more realistic render method to glass blocks/panes
 Adds a more realistic, translucent texture to glass surfaces
Random Textures  Adds random textures for Bedrock, Stone, Stone Slabs, Gravel,
 Grass Blocks, Tall Grass, Podzol, Mycelium, Ice, Sand, Dirt, Clay,
 Obsidian, Netherrack, Soul Sand, Sandstone, Glowstone,
 Lapis Lazuli Blocks, Lily Pads, Dead Bushes, Cobwebs, connected
 bookshelfes, Double Tall Grass and all types of glass blocks/panes
 Adds random textures for all ores (60 different textures altogether)
Fixed Textures  Adds thin lines between normal glass panes
 Adds separate bottom textures for pumpkins and melons
 Gives buttons and pressure plates a more outstanding appearance
 Adds a workaround for MC-1451 to Birch Logs and Hay Blocks
 Adds 23 new Huge Mushroom textures to make them more realistic
Custom Colors  Adds better foliage colors to swamp trees
 Adds biome-specific block colors (sand, gravel)
 Adds biome-specific water and water particle colors
 Adds biome-specific fog colors and static blue sky color
 Adds more contrast between on/off state Redstone wires
 Adds better fitting colors for Spawner Eggs
 Makes pale sheep fur more colorful
 Add better firework particle rendering and more intense colors
Random Mobs  Adds biome- and height-specific camouflage skins for Creepers
 Adds random skins for chicken, cows, zombies and Mushroom Cows
 Adds fix for dark mushrooms on the back of Mushroom cows
Animated Mob Skins  Adds blinking-eyes animation to cows, Mooshrooms, sheep, pigs,
 wolves, cats, ocelots, chicken, doneys, mules, villagers and witches
 Adds fire animation to the heads of Blazes
Animated Enderchests  Adds portal animation visible inside Enderchests
Better Skies  Adds a complete new, more realistic HD skybox to the night sky

 


 Legal & Contact

  

You can change or use the included features in any way you want, you don't have to ask me for permission. I'm OK with people using my pack to make texture presentation videos or even to make their own texture/resource packs, but please add a reference including my name and a link to my forum thread !

You're not allowed to ...

... make any money off my stuff ! (no donations, no adf.ly links, ...)
... upload my pack anywhere else !
... use any features I took from other texturepacks without the permission from the authors !
 

I've permission to use textures from the following texturepacks:

 
Best credits to Misa for her amazing 64x64 HD pack, it's currently one of the best HD texturepacks available in public. Please support her by downloading her pack from this forum thread:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/69354-

 

CONTACT:

Feel free to contact me if you've got any important(!!!) questions or suggestions.
- Contact adress:   zombie.hunter@gmx.at
- Contact languages:   English or German

 


 Changelog

  

v1.7 06.12.2013 8.69 MB
v1.6 08.07.2013 6.94 MB
v1.5 13.03.2013 4.80 MB
v1.4 26.10.2012 3.18 MB
v1.3 16.09.2012 2.93 MB
v1.2 21.07.2012 2.39 MB
v1.1 20.06.2012 1.54 MB
v1.0 09.06.2012 1.09 MB