Minecraft is a silly video game that is not yet complete but can be yours for €9.95 until 20 December. The game world is rendered as a collection of blocks with 16×16 textures painted on them. You can replace the textures, giving the world a whole different look. I have one which I need to call something so I will call it GroovyStipple. Read more
I have updated my Minecraft texture packs, GroovyStipple and SmoothStipple texture packs. the main differences—apart from tweaking sone of the shadow colours—is that I redesigned the bedrock and tilled-soil textures. Read more
Spurred by a comment on Reddit I thought I would have a go at adding items to my Minecraft texture packs. So far I have added textures for signs and boats. Read more
Using a similar process to the sign and boat (as described in the previous post), I have managed to create a sheep: Read more
The latest release of Minecraft introduces several new things that need textures: coloured wool, sandstone, the displenser and some refinements to the appearances of trees and furnaces. I have had a go at adding them to my GroovyStipple and SmoothStipple texture packs. Read more
Mine-cart tracks in Minecraft have two textures: straight track and a 90° corner. You can run diagonal lines, and carts will happily travel on them in a straight 45° line, but because it is rendered using corner pieces, it looks like a wriggly line. This vexes people who do not think that train tracks don’t look right when they make abrupt turns. Read more
The latest release Beta 1.5 of Minecraft introduces several new things that need textures: powered rail, detector rail, and two new sorts of sapling. I added them first to Texturejam’s patches pack—used to upgrade other packs to Beta 1.5—and did not get around to doing GroovyStipple versions until today. Read more
Minecraft Betas 1.6 introduced tall grass and ferns. Read more
OK so I finally decided to resolve my confusion as to where on my site to put my Minecraft texture packs by creating a dedicated GroovyStipple and SmoothStipple mini site. Bascially it is a brochure with two download links. Here’s what went in to it. Read more