Minecraft 1.6 is taking steps towards Mod API support, and today it took a bigger one. Minecraft 1.6 will no longer support the texture pack format in Minecraft 1.5 and below, and will replace it with a more advanced format called 'Resource Packs'. Resource Packs is a new format designed to allow changing a larger number of Minecraft features without modding, such as changing the textures of blocks (like a texture pack), changing game sounds, changing game fonts, and much much more. Nathan Adams at Mojang said:"As an essential step towards the Minecraft modding API, and also for sanity's sake in our own code, we're removing Texture Packs and replacing them with a new Resource Pack system. Ultimately, every mod/plugin will be its own resource pack, vanilla will be a resource pack by itself, and users will be able to apply multiple resource packs at once."
Are you looking forward to the new customization opportunities, or are you still rocking a discontinued texture pack from Minecraft 1.4 that you can't give up? Either way, you might be glad to know Mojang is working on a 'converter' for Minecraft 1.5 texture packs.
Source: Github
10 comments
commentssounds great i m tired of the default music and sounds .
Replysame but its a shame cause i liked texture packs
ReplyI have never used Texture packs in Minecraft, but I use LOADS of Mods.
ReplyResource Packs function as texture packs with more abilities.
ReplyHonestly, Im really excited
ReplyAwesome
Replydoes that mean you can have texture packs with more stuff?
ReplyYes. Like replacing sounds and music, for instance.
Replysweet
ReplyTime to replace the creeper sound with "SUPRISE MOTHERFUCKER"
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