Making new textures for Chipped

[novel talon]

I am currently working on overhauling a lot of textures for Chipped. I originally started by giving Tuff a series of redesigns and recolors to match the 1.21 Tuff blocks.

The images attached are what i currently have. The cyan wool means I'm borrowing those textures from someone without credit, or they're placeholders, but i will completely swap them out once i finish and send it here (I'll limit doing that in the future, i made these before i realized people are interested in this lol)

Also, at the time of posting, I'm working on Prismarine and I'm ~30% done. I'll post more from that once i make more progress.

oh, and towards the left of the second image, are custom blocks. I had leftover ideas, and my friend, @drowsy slate , was nice enough to make these blocks a reality

Half of the custom blocks are inspired by the mod "Rechiseled", and I did them mostly because that mod doesn't support Tuff blocks period

Also, here's a few blocks you couldn't clearly see in that line up. Me and CarJem decided to put the tops of the official Tuff blocks on top of these.

and the tops of the pillars

[novel talon]

I made a checklist here for how Prismarine is going currently

Green means I'm finished and happy with the texture
Purple means I'm happy with how it looks, but it needs to be animated
Cyan means I finished, but you don't see it here currently
Blue means I'm considering redesigning the block, but you guys can suggest something else instead
Red means I will replace it at some point for sure (again, I will take suggestions)
White means I haven't looked at it yet (also labeled the pillars as this since they're WIP)

Also, I can provide better images of specific blocks if you guys want, i just put them all in one shot so there isn't much clutter here atm

And if you're wondering why the blocks continue to the left of the image, that's is a different block variant related project i was working on, i won't be checking those off or including them in progress updates until everything for base Chipped is done

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made the tiny bricks less shiny, and more closely resemble a plain prismarine brick

still made the top and left most pixels in each "brick" a couple shades brighter though, so it doesn't look flat

gonna be a slow day, texture wise, but wanted opinions on this, so i know if i'm on the right track for retexturing all the tiny bricks, because i wanna knock those out next, since they'll be more of a 1:1, like the tiles and bricks

made a few pixels in the top left of the bricks just a tiny bit brighter.

[novel talon]

here's what I got as a rough idea for what i want to do to the pillars, I'm unsure where to really start with refining these

one themed around a trident, one around a seashell, one around a guardian, and one is a plain, simple design

I settled on the center design, and want them to at least somewhat neatly connect, like i did with Tuff above

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ok, cleaned up the tiny brick design

based it off my small bricks design, which is based on a minecraft dungeons texture

a lot happier with how this looks in comparison to the one i made yesterday

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wanted something different for this one than just a near 1:1, kinda like what i did for Tuff

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all those tiny brick textures mixed together, plus the flat tiles

wanted the flat tiles to more closely match the shape of the tiny bricks, so you can mix and match them better

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for this one, i ended up just flipping the small brick texture

and that's because i want the brick sizes to be more consistent. It looks extremely similar anyways so

just turned this one into a palette swapped cobblestone texture

well, "palette swapped" there's one color there prismarine doesn't have, but you won't notice unless you compare them side by side lol

for tuff, this ended up just being it's own block

checklist update

tomorrow, I'll start chipping away at the connected textures

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the new offeset bricks mixed with the plain bricks

I opted to make the offset bricks visually like the plain brick, even though MC Dungeons actually uses this brick shape, just shaded much differently

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turned that darker center into the polished dark prismarine texture instead

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thinking about using the eroded prismarine texture for the center of this one

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wall of brick textures

i think the eroded stone on the tiny brick border and thick inlayed border was a good idea, i like how it pops

also, this texture is redundant now basically, I'm open for suggestions

[novel talon]

ended up making the border match inlayed prismarine

[split pivot]

Gorgeous. Oh, it's beautiful.

[split pivot]

Not sure what's up with the weird curvy teal highlight at the top of each tile, if I'm being honest it takes a lot away from the texture

[novel talon]

Yeah I'll fix that then

I just ripped that from the Polished Dark Prismarine texture, but CJ mentioned that as well

[novel talon]

I put this in the showcase channel, but saying it here also, as it pertains to the quality of this pack going forward

I got into contact with the user on Planet Minecraft named "Fungus"

He's the artist that made the Prismarine pillar I planned to use before I joined this server and decided this would be available to the public.

He has given me permission to use any of his textures, so long as I link to the original pack when I share mine.

So with that being said, I will use these going forward. They're very high quality, and they save me one texture for most block sets, and give me a good starting point for designing a theme around certain blocks.

For the record, a majority of the work here is still mine, his would make up 53 textures, if i decide to use them all.

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also this will be the new center for the polished Dark Prismarine block (I'll show an in game screenshot after i get some sleep)

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Also, this artist allowed me to use these textures, so long as I also credit them too. So that's a well made start for this set, and means I'll make that block set similar to my tuff set as well.

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based this one off of the conduit blocks in MC Dungeons

unfortunately, wanted to add more to make it look like the conduit, but it shares the common texture that looks like the single prismarine tile i made

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going to overwrite this texture too

the new smooth cloumn and engraved block will be a good enough replacement for this set

and then the column will be this, but with a bare center

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since the smooth column borrows this texture, I figured i'd rework the base texture too. made it almost identical to sand

the right one is mine fyi

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this one is borrowed from Alex's Caves. That mod has a black version of prismarine, so it feels fitting (plus i wanted to make Chipped sets for mods at some point, and AC is high on that list)

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finally figured out what to do with this block

funnily, was going to replace it originally with a completely different block me or CJ came up with, but this is pretty fitting for a "runic carving" i think

might make them actually say something, just have random letters there for now just to sell the idea

[novel talon]

random and animated textures

the stone textures are both!

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Can you stop making Prismarine into such a sexy block ? It's supposed to be that ugly-ass noisy teal thing but now I wanna use it everywhere

[novel talon]

i know right???

i was the same way with tuff too tbh

actually the most pointless block, but then i see 1.21 and i'm like "hold up a sec"

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Yeah but this time it's all YOUR doing. YOU'RE to blame for the feels I feel.

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If I could just be a... pedantic little shrew here, for a sec, but wouldn't it be infinitely better and more minecraft-y if the trident and clam were shaped like an ACTUAL Minecraft tridents and clams ?
(The clam is from Dungeons)

(But make the trident head at a 2:1 pixel ratio, of course)

[novel talon]

I could try that, yeah

The clam is 32 pixels wide, so I'll have to get creative for that one

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hear me out

was gonna make the tiles slanted like this, but i like this better

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Just divide the pattern by 2 ?

M a t h s

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There's even a teal one on the wiki, so you don't even need to colour pick

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i may just make a 32x32 texture for this

cause i like the idea

but i want it to be recongnizable

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also, checklist update

the one cyan wool is a face tile that doesn't have a top yet

decided i'd just replace all the textures i was unsure about

also, animating those three ctms on the left will be more annoying than i thought lol

time to stop procratingnating and try to finish those pillars

though honestly, the "curly" and "simple" pillar might be fine already, I'm just not marking any of them off the list until i finish all four

aaand for the massive bricks, i'll just take the basic prismarine bricks or scales, and make them fit that massive brick style of texture

one of these, to be more specific

and secondly, if i start getting stumped on the remaining textures, i'll move forward with fixing up dark prismarine in the meantime. most of that will be using the same texures, just a different color/noise anyways

Wondering though, should dark prismarine flash like normal prismarine sometimes does, or stay static? I was just gonna leave it a static color, but if you guys think animating it will look cool, I'll do that too. And if so, what colors?

[novel talon]

yeah, the 32 bit route aint it

honestly

i got a seashell in a block, i kinda just want something different for this pillar

thinking something with bubbles

definately still wanna do the trident though

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I also kinda want to make that last block like, a randomized bubble pattern like what's on the pillar

also one thing i learned from these first couple of sets of pillars

i like the idea of there basically being four blocks in one, but i gotta make them less ambitious than i did with prismarine

like they look cool now that i'm sorting them out, but trying to make every orientation blend well with not only itself, or even the other pillars too, but even a couple of normal blocks, was a tiny bit overwhelming lol

like i think they turned out cooler than the tuff pillars, but in the future i feel like i could make a pillar stand out better than tuff, without creating as much of a headache as i did with prismarine

that being said, i will try to make dark prismarine pillars blend similarly to prismarine. they'll be easier though i think, they're more like oddly shaped tiles, rather than wavy patterns

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here's how they look next to the tuff pillars

not lined up with each other, but eh, not too worried about it. so long as they pillars within the same set, or one VERY obviously matching their style line up, i'm not worried

like, calcite (whenever i do that 💀) will line up with tuff, and dark prismarine will line up with prismarine, but that's all i'm worried about

I was looking at the original blocks btw, and i think they work

I did it a little with tuff too, i wanted the single pillar blocks to to be kinda like, trims and accents to multiple block wide pillars and walls. granted, the single tuff blocks look more like the halves of the pillars than prismarine, but I like the prismarine so much on its own, i'd rather just pay more attenton going forward, but keep this here so you guys can use it with just a resource pack

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an idea the last unconnected texture i need

bubble wall

thinking about add ing one or two more textures that feature less bubbles

added one more texture to make it look less cluttered

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it's a start, but idk, i think i could improve this

the thing with the massive bricks, or even those two extra "massive" tuff blocks i made, they look good if you just place a single block

like, this looks fine, but then you use only half the ctm, and it looks terrible

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sorry for no update today, but i made a standard brick texture for the massive bricks anddddd

i might just have to make it this

my only idea to make it stand out would be to like, add a pattern to the bricks, but i don't think the brick shape itself can be changed much, definately not like those scales unfortunately

if anything, when we ship the additional blocks, maybe I'll try and think of something like a massive scale texture with optifine's ctm, cause that'll give me a couple more options

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old

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improved

the frst one was from rechiseled, and i wanted to keep all the original colors, so i added two more shades to not make the brighest and darkest color stand out so much

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the new polished dark prismarine

i'll also update the bordered prismarine column to match this

added a couple more shades here that bridge some of the brighter shades too, so it looks similar to the original, and the top left cormer transitions to those brighter colors more smoothly

ok so

i may have accidentally made this a 16x15 texture

oops

wait what

i literally copy and pasted the original image

and something changed

ok, there you go, mixed the ctm for the cut column with that messed up texture lol

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I don't get it, why doesn't this work ?

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with the other "massive" blocks, they look good as single blocks

not a fan that with this one in particular, it only looks good in you use the whole ctm - especially when these ctms are based on a predetermined grid, not where you place them

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made it basically the same thing as prismarine

i think this is better

so, what i did was use the colors for abyssmarine in Alex's Caves, similarly to how i used dark prismarine to completement normal prismarine

also, matching the noise for dark prismarine on the black tiles, like how i still match the noise of normal prismarine on those checkered tiles

by this logic, it means i gotta make a "polished abyssmarine" for the cut column, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it

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man, that's what's reall criminal with this mod

a lot of these textures are improved by just giving it a more fitting texture noise

and i decided the natural dark prismarine blocks will change color like prismarine

but it won't be onvious, like they flash completely different colors, it'll be like, they shift from the darker parts of the palette i made, to the brighter parts, back and forth

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something like

they have an identical candence to normal prismarine still btw

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WIP

i like how they kinda connect

like i like the pattern, but i'll def mess around with the noise

hmmmm

yeah, i'll work on it

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ok yeah, already much better

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What is it based on ?

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I made the wave pattern on the side of the default pillar come down from the top and bottom of the texture, and meet in the middle

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the sand texture is animated for this one, not the object in the center

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this one was a pain in the ass lol

just cause of the shine i give the edges

also, had two ctms i wanna change

like i'm gonna get rid of these

i think with boredered prismarine, i waana replace that cross pattern with something similar. Thinking something like fork like shapes overlapping each other

I don't think i want brick bordered to even be a ctm anymore though

Idk why, but i really like the idea of "tiny" bricks. And not like chipped's tiny bricks either, i mean the classic minecraft brick shape, but scaled down

Alex's Caves does something like this with one of it's block sets that i am definitely doing with blocks like mud and clay, so maybe i can do it here too?

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oh also, in other news

CJ actually came to me with the idea of making this a mod at some point

like obviously, there's a resource pack component if you just want that

but then there's stuff like the modded blocks i eventually wanna include, then there's stuff like tuff, where i got 10 blocks you just can't use even when we do publish the resource pack, and then there's the bigger projects i had like backporting, polishing, and expanding mods like Chisel and Create Deco

And originally i was gonna offer the KubeJS stuff to you guys, but now i don't think we'll even have to do that, it'll just be an add on for Chipped now

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Abysmarine from Alex's Caves

Polished Abyssmarine

actually relevant for this resource btw, because Prismarine used the Polished Dark Prismarine for the Cut Column block

so the Dark Prismarine Cut Column will use Polished Abyssmarine

(also, side note, when i do get to actual Abyssmarine god knows when, I'll just loop back around to mixing Prismarine with certain blocks, like i did with these two sets)

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ok so i was actually building with my new tuff set with CJ

got me thinking

still doing this idea, but i'll make it overwrite one of the tiny bricks

this one more specifically

when i finish here, i have to go back to clean up a few inconsistencies with tuff as well, so this will include that block too

I'll want it to be similar to this texture, just so we're clear

tbh, i kinda want it to be random, with a few variations

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made them all uniform

there's also "layed bricks", but i'm going to actually change that one a fair bit

It's basically going to become a "tiny chiseled brick", similar to the alex's caves one above

only, there's going tobe multiple textures, and it'll be randomized

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also

getting rid of the deepslate tile shape altogether

instead, it'll be a randomized tiny brick pattern that uses both prismarine and dark prismarine colors

the tuff flat tiles will actually retain the deepslate tile shape though

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how the wall looks now

thinking instead of "cracked flat tiles", i'll just do a neat, non random version of these new discolored bricks

so if you want the messy look, you can, but if you just want stripped bricks, that's an option too

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since the cracked texture wouldn't work with tiny bricks, and i know the randomness is more niche, here's a static, clean version you can also use

again btw, won't be doing this to all the deepslate tiles, just prismarine

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they are completely random, them being in diagonal lines is a coincidence lol

also, fixed the random dark tiles, because it was missing one texture

should look a bit better now

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Localization wise, the "Flat (Dark) Prismarine Tiles" will now be called "Tiny Discolored (Dark) Prismarine Bricks"

The "Cracked Flat (Dark) Prismarine Tiles" will be called "Striped Tiny Discolored (Dark) Prismarine Bricks"

And the "Layed (Dark) Prismarine Bricks" will be called "Tiny Chiseled (Dark) Prismarine Bricks"

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Question though

Should these retain the usual colors tuff has like they do here? Or should I actually recolor and redesign the bricks to look more like the 1.21 bricks

Figured I'd ask since I'm going to clean them up once i finish prismarine

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This is amazing, BUT

It doesn't connect. Bricks on the edges cut-off halfway

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It's a little bit better once I included the extra texture, but yeah I see what you mean

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What extra texture ?

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Sexy 😩

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I was using Optifine ctm for that and I mislabeled the source texture, so it wasn't included in the random textures

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For consistency's sake ? 1.21. You're gonna redo them anyway, might as well make them fit. TBH I'm so pissed Create hasn't updated its tuff palette to 1.21, so you better make sure it all fits or I will unleash my wrath upon you.

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Oh, CJ actually mentioned fixing up the Create windows from Every Compat at one point, and wanted to include some Create Deco blocks in our modpack without the entire mod

And I wanted to update Create Confectionary to use textures from Alex's Caves

So I will go over some inconsistencies in vanilla Create too

I also want to fix those copper textures

Like I get why they changed, but I don't know why it wasn't just a palette change

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also, checklist or dark prismarine

checking off finished blocks, by placing the equivalent prismarine block on them

still not sure what to do with the one ctm marked in red 💀

also, only the one pillar will be identical between these sets, the others will be different

[tepid galleon]

Holy shit that's a ton

this is awesome!

[novel talon]

Thanks!

My switch 2 arrives on Saturday, gonna try and at least finish Prismarine by then

And then, I just gotta polish up the Tuff and I can ship this resource

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rocks!

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face tiles

[tepid galleon]

Ooo

I love the random textures

[novel talon]

Oh, they aren't random!

They're the "Glad" "Angry" "Crying" and "Duh" Dark Prismarine blocks

As for "Sad" and "Spider", I replaced those two with a new texture

I wanted to try and come up with a way to actually transform the original blocks first, but I figured I didn't need both "sad" and "crying" blocks

[tepid galleon]

Ohh okay

That’s cool

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before

after

a little showcase of all the tiny brick textures

[tepid galleon]

I like the variation

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Thanks!

The random black tiles would be the new flat tile texture

and i replaced the cracked version with the striped tiles

[tepid galleon]

That’s nice

I don’t think many people actually use cracked tiles

[novel talon]

yeah true

and i like the shape of the deepslate tiles, but we don't need one for every single palette, so that's one to replace with a brand new texture, at least for a few blocks

[tepid galleon]

I really like those

[novel talon]

Thanks!

The last two are random textures

[tepid galleon]

I like them :D

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one more ranodm texture

[tepid galleon]

Ooo I love how it tiles

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made the center use the blackstone looking texture

when we get to modded variants, i actually found a second new prismarine variant i could make a set for

[tepid galleon]

Ooo that's interesting

[novel talon]

finally working on the pillars lol

trying to make the single blocks connect smoothly, like with normal prismarine

here's the whole pillar

also not intentional, but theydo connect well with the top texture as well

[tepid galleon]

Ooo I love that!!

I'd totally use that in builds

[novel talon]

thanks!

the idea in my head was after seeing CJ use my tuff pillars

I'd treat the single blocks as something like trims or tiles

like you'd border things with them

[tepid galleon]

Oo alright

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and made a top texture to go with it

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made a third top texture

i'm not sure what to do with the fourth yet tbh

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the side

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unsure about this one, but i wanted something that slightly sticks over the border, like the trident texture i made for normal prismarine

[tepid galleon]

Oo I like that

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a couple more

was a lot more productive today than i thought i'd be tbh

I'm trying out what to do to the bottom right one still, that's why that one looks odd

[tepid galleon]

That happens to me a ton haha

[tepid galleon]

I like them

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Makes sense

[novel talon]

Thanks!

wanted to keep a few of them simple

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These are all so fire

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Yeah, no, I don't think so for that one either... the Kirby popstar, that doesn't fit minecraft... Maybe do a Guardian tail ? Or another trident ?

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Sorry for the wait, been busy this week

Gonna continue tomorrow though!

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not much, but i did start animating those ctms!

kinda frustrating because Athena doesn't allow this, i had to use Optifine

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Conduit Dark Prismarine

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I'm a bit stumped on what to do for those marked in red still

And I'm not opposed to changing that star pillar, but i also just need a fourth design in general so

and i was originally wanting to make the massive bricks have a design across them, and I've actually made one for normal prismarine, but i think I'll just make that a completely separate block, because i like how these plain one turned out too (i still have to update dark, which is why i never marked them)

also, going to include the blocks left to the pillars whenever i make the add on to add my leftover textures way down the road. They're borrowed from Rechiseled, and I plan to redesign those as well eventually, which is why they're in the line up

but for now, while i'm trying to think of something for those blocks marked with red, I'm finally going to go back to Tuff and replace those placeholders, and clean up a few of those blocks

speaking of

I am going to replace this with a different prismarine block, if you guys like a particular dark/prismarine block i made

can be literally anything from that set btw, even the ctms or pillars (might as well leave that as an option because this resource will have Continuity as a dependency anyways after anitmating those CTMs)

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[tepid galleon]

Ooo

Tuff,,,

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yes!

cleaning up some of the textures i did

The old ones were basically just a recolor

I'm unsure what to do for the fourth texture, it can really be anything now that i changed how these tiny bricks looked

there are also a few you guys won't see when the inital pack drops, but i'll show them here anyways because i might as well fix up those textures as well so i don't forget

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Can't you make a really small bevel ? Like 1 pixel wide ? It feels wrong to see flat tuff bricks

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I didn't really like when I did a border like that

They didn't look much different from what I already had

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This was a texture CJ got. I didn't like how it wrapped originally, so i cleaned it up

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the old placeholder

new

also, side note, i will shift the Deepslate Tiles up one pixel, to line up with Chipped's Flat Tiles

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so my idea with this one

basically, that block will still reference a Prismarine texture, BUT now I'll try and use a block other than just the normal bricks

also, it gives me options to work with when trying to make it look like a Prismarine block, but also like it belongs in that block family

Also i wanted to do something similar to Prismarine, but i don't think this one will be random like Prismarine was

I mean, I got this idea from Alex's Caves, and the block in question isn't random either, so. I can always make some sets random or animated, but some a single texture like this

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ok so interesting development

CJ was looking for a Prismarine texture for us to use

and found out Twilight Forest based their Nagastone Pillar texture off the original Chisel mod

the same artist that made that pillar also made a Prismarine texture very similar, and we might use that for one of these ctms

Mine wouldn't be a 1:1 though, because Chisel was for 1.4. I'd have to make a modernized version of it basically, but it's a start

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last tuff texture

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So this isn't in Chisel

Maybe they made their own custom textures???

But that doesn't make sense, they physically made Chisel lol

Anyways that's what it looks like

If you've played Twilight Forest, it has similar looking blocks

CJ made this mock up from images they posted on Twitter a decade ago lol

I'll brighten it up of course, and make it's noise match modern Prismarine more

BUT if you guys want it to be darker than normal Prismarine (just not this dark), I could do that too

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The old texture will be a part of the add on instead of the resource pack

i wanted a texture that was more like a "pillar", and in the additional blocks for Tuff, we have a block similar to the original prismarine pillar as well

so this change is moreso for consistency

also if the new texture looks familiar, i redesigned a MC Dungeons texture

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the two pillars side by side

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all three together

ok glad i figured out something more fitting for these

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decided just doing what i did for normal prismarine was probably best

I want the other one to be a star though instead of a trident, especially for the other set I'm adding later on that's a cousin to these two

still gotta make a bottom for this one though regardless, so

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consider

the colors for terracotta might need a bit of adjustment, and i can't orient the glazed teracotta yet, but this is a rough concept

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Also I have the next couple of sets planned out

I'll make a full copper set, and a cardboard set (from Create)

We got the announcement earlier about the next update for the base game, plus copper would just go well with these current two blocks

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last pillar top texture

Also, just so we're clear, I will change that star design for the Fine Pillar, but that'll be last

they look a little similar to the Fine Pillars (bottom right)

but i honestly don't mind that, if they're basically and in between of the Simple and Fine Pillars

[steep vault]

Its looks really cool!

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Thanks!

Also, CJ is making our custom blocks a separate mod

So these completely new blocks I'm showing you should be available around when we get the resource pack up too

This includes the Rechiseled blocks I'm messing with too, because that dev is actually ok with using his work, so long as it isn't a 1:1

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more news!

since the rechiseled dev is ok with me using his mod and textures as a base for these sets

here's a checklist for the rechiseled blocks i intend to add to our extended chipped blocks add on

green meaning i will use the texture as is, cyan meaning i will modify the texture to be more in line with the Chipped portion i designed, and red meaning I'll be replacing those textures (CJ added the block IDs already, and we've since decided we don't want them, but CJ would rather not delete them, and i don't mind making more textures)

also there are more prismarine than dark prismarine atm, but that will eventually change, CJ is just waiting for the textures before making the blocks. So both palettes will have each block

[novel talon]

Finally coming back to this!

Sorry, vacation and Destiny 2 distracted me lol

Gonna continue tonight, so you'll see something in the next day or two

[sick zodiac]

looking awesome, i gotta appreciate some good brick textures

[woeful bear]

Holy moly

Very peak

[novel talon]

thanks!

old

new

unsure about this one tbh

i honestly don't mind it, as a simple block meant to border things

ok, imma lock this one in, but if you guys want a texture similar to the one i replaced, i shall make that as well

[novel talon]

old

new

this'll basically be the unanimated version of the brick bordered texture

[novel talon]

gonna start working on those redesigned rechiseled textures today, since i finally finished the chipped textures (this will be a bit because of a couple of technical things i wanna run by CJ first)

again, the polished rechiseled textures will be a seperate mod, while if you JUST want chipped, that'll be a resource pack

[novel talon]

old

the removal of borders looks odd at first, but

new

it looks fine when combining it with other prismarine blocks

[novel talon]

can't show a before and after for this one cause of techincal limitations

the rechiseled brick i just showed, mixed with the chipped bricks

[novel talon]

these two, i'm thinking with just be slanted and diagonal tiles

and for this one, i'm just gonna remove the border and make the outline the same color as a normal brick

also, gonna remove the ctms, and make them a single texture. one way to reduce file size

and for these ones, i won't change them at all. they're included in the mod because i'll add variations of them for other blocks, and it'd be weird to not have the originals present. they current are only on prismarine, not even dark prismarine. also, the rechiseled dev is ok with me reuploading some blocks, so long as it isn't the entire mod.

[novel talon]

new tiles

the diaginal ones are slightly smaller in size, cause i wanted a clean looking grid pattern. if i made them the same size as the other tiles, the intersections would be a 2x2 pixel area, and i think making this texture by itself look good is more important than making it connect with other textures better.

example of what i mean. the new "rows" texture looks great directly next to the tiles, but the "diagonal tiles", not so much. but i still think this is the better way of handling it

[novel talon]

also shifted the texture slightly

that way it lines up with the tiles

a checklist of the rechiseled blocks we're including btw

green means either they aren't changing, or i've redesigned them already, and cyan means i'm going to redesign them

[novel talon]

working on these next. nothing crazy, just making them match the bricks i currently have

plus a wall made wth the small bricks, and both the connected and unconnected rotated bricks

[novel talon]

oh yeah, i forgot to show

two new blocks

based on other blocks we have

ignore the way the tuff connects. i wanna focus on prismarine for now

but hey, at least the one i made looks good lol

i'll be making a version of those "wrapped pillars" for every block i end up working on that i can btw

and the chiseled blocks too, but not as many. i want these variants to be unique, and you can only make so many unique 8x8 textures, especially when locked to a particular palette each time lol

[novel talon]

i don't know what to do with these three

i know i said i'd redesign them, but if you guys got suggestions, i could replace them altogether (single texture or ctm, either works)

i actually like these by themselves, but i don't want the rechiseled blocks in the mod unless there's a good reason. at that point just also use that mod

In the meantime though, I got 5 I do know what to do with lol

Plus Dark Prismarine so

[steep vault]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1041087046581760021/1186618036204089396/memex.gif

[novel talon]

also i don't know if this would be related, but cj did want custom pottery shards

it's not a stretch to assume we could make some pots with other materials, like prismarine

for now though, next two texture i'm gonna change. thinking these two will look similar when i'm done - one will be wavy, and one will be straight

[novel talon]

still not sure about these

but

i shall start working on the dark prismarine blocks now

[novel talon]

first two dark prismarine blocks i'm working on

plus, i'm also making a "large tile" block, which in an unconnected polished dark prismarine block. i just don't have a before image on that one because there was a typo for the texture name, so the current texture is the typical missing texture

oops, this is the second block i'm working on lol

[novel talon]

gonna work on these two next

also a dark prismarine version of this. i don't have texture for this one already

[novel talon]

Gonna start with the normal version of these rotated bricks today

had to make a placeholder block for this one. guess we forgot to add a space for it already

[novel talon]

also, still don't have ideas for these three

working on these two next

[novel talon]

making a dark prismarine version of this next

[novel talon]

changed that diagonal brick texture so it lines up with the tile and brick textures better

the next one i'm working on

[novel talon]

gonna do these two chipped textures i forgor about next

[novel talon]

Looked at some Minecraft Dungeons blocks, see if I can bring one over

I might do this one, but give it a prismarine look of course

As one of the three textures I gotta fill in with something

[novel talon]

i shifted it a couple pixels compared to what mojang did, and i think it works better

like, at least it can kind of connect to things

[novel talon]

ok, time to suck it up

gonna make the dark prismarine version of these next

gonna have to overwrite those textureless dummy blocks you see in the corner of the image lol

[novel talon]

next one i'm working on

this one is gonna be a pain in the ass, cause the ctm is spaghetti

[split pivot]

Here's some inspiration ! If you're running low on ideas for prismarine, how about the special blocks they made for the Sea Temple in Minecraft Story Mode ?

[steep vault]

How much rework completition percentage?

[novel talon]

ok so, again, sorry for disappearing, health issues this time BUT

[novel talon]

Almost done. For the mod side, I'm cleaning up two more textures from Rechiseled, and making two more dark prismarine variants of already existing prismarine textures I liked. Then I got two textures separate from Rechiseled I'm also adding.

As for JUST the resource pack, that should be done finally I believe, I'll talk to CJ about uploading it to Modrinth shortly.

[novel talon]

wait.

Story mode, as in official content??

cause those were made by the Twilight Forest artist

That'd be pretty sick if they incorporated stuff from community members, i never knew about that lol

though, yes, CJ liked the idea of including Nagastone textures in some block sets, so we could have that if you guys want that for prismarine

though, that'd be a future update, considering i can FINALLY upload these two sets i made for everyone to use

finally, as for this one, upon looking at it some more and thinking about it, the center for this one looks fine imo

i'm just considering whether to remove the border outright, or redesign it to look like the other bordered blocks in chipped

another random bordered block, for reference

oh yeah, and for actual progress being made that i can showcase, gonna finish more of those remaining textures tonight ideally I'd be done with my textures by the weekend, but i'm currently unsure about how that translates to the mod side, i'd have to wait for CJ to get back with me

[novel talon]

Ok, so mini update

CJ said we'll update out server first

And he said he'd be ready but this weekend

So I'll let you guys know more about the resource pack being posted after the weekend

[novel talon]

old

new

ended up leaving it mostly the same, but making the center a bit brighter, and the border a bit darker

[novel talon]

old

new

liked the idea of there being a checkered version of the classic dark prismarine block

as for the old design, i liked it, but i don't think it fits with the rest of these blocks. I'll be sure to make design like this for other block sets though in the future

also, one of the new dark prismarine blocks based on an already existing prismarine block

above it is a connected version, so that's next

[steep vault]

Hope you good, no problem

[steep vault]

Okay, because I really want add Chipped to my modpack

But some textures looks really odd

In default mod

[novel talon]

true!

right now it's just Tuff and (Dark) Prismarine, both for the mod that'll add more blocks, and the texture pack

but i already got ideas for blocks like Ice, Copper, Mud, Sandstone, and Calcite, and hope to be much faster with the next batch of textures

also, if you got a favorite block, i could also work on the chipped textures for that block as well, sooner than others

ALSO, you can just play with the texture pack. i just made way too many textures for it, and CJ had the idea of making a mod that adds extra blocks so we can still make use of them

I even intend to add chipped support for mods like Create eventually (mmm... cardboard)

but yeah, the first version will release after the weekend, just so we're clear. i was considering pinging everyone currently joined in under this post whenever there's a modrinth page

[novel talon]

a wall made with those two blocks and some of the others i made

[novel talon]

next will be this weird pillar texture from rechiseled

this one will suck, because I've used a shortened optifine format for the others - with is almost identical to how chipped does it, texture design wise

but this last one, because of how it connects, will require a full optifine texture map, which is 46 textures 💀

i can copy and paste a few, but having to sort out which ones i can do that for will still be a pain lol

thank god this is at least one of the ones i'm only adding to dark prismarine

[novel talon]

the unconnected block

this is one of those ones i'm taking 1:1 from rechiseled (been a while since i mentioned it, so i wanna make it clear i got permission to do that.)

but only the prismarine one was in reshiseled, so i'm making the dark prismarine one from scratch

also, just so we're clear those blank texture blocks don't mean anything, they were just placeholders in case i needed a block to slap a texture on lol

[novel talon]

this texture

pain

lol

[novel talon]

now i got two more things

well, three, technically

first, i got a partially designed variant of this that puts a little design on the bricks, for both normal and dark prismarine

second, i'm gonna change this texture a bit

i did one change to clean up the sides, so in this particular image it looks fine

but when trying to use the diferent faces together...

yeah, it's bad lol

[novel talon]

thinking i'm gonna change the left texture, so instead of being a row of segmented blocks, it's one continuous line

i know CJ is already building things with this block, but it must be done, for my sanity and your potential creativity lol

i don't think it'll be perfect, but it HAS to be better than this, so i'll do that then post the result here, and go from there

[steep vault]

Wow, really cool for water dungeons

[tepid galleon]

Honestly I like it

It’s a pillar, when used as a pillar it looks good

[novel talon]

true

well, then i'll think about it a bit

in the meantime though, i will work on those large bricks

so for the dark prismarine, i wanted a mural on it that had things like fish, kelp, and coral etched on it

then for the normal prismarine, it'd be waves, mabe a sun

then one mod i wanted include into the mod side for sure was Alex's Caves - he made a prismarine variant called abyssmarine. the place where it comes from has a very ancient alien vibe yes, even next to everything in that mod, so i wanted it's massive brick to have like a moon and stars on it

it's a shame the way Alex handles fair use though, I'm gonna have to make those extra blocks related to it require the mod itself as a dependency 💀

but his art design is sick af, so i'm still gonna do it for fun lol

[novel talon]

but yeah, the idea would be you'd layer these bricks on top of each other

[novel talon]

to, me, this is the prismarine equivalent of those massive tuff blocks

[novel talon]

welp, if you guys are ok with this as it currently is then, that'd mean i am done, and i'll let CJ know he can finalize stuff

And here's everything laid out! Feel free to let me know which you like the most/want to see more blocks look like, or if there are any you think could be improved still.

[novel talon]

gonna be quiet a few days while CJ finishes stuff. i'll respond to comments and replies though

afterwards, i'll think about what to work on next, and post the link to the pack

[novel talon]

Ok so

Looking at suggestions from friends and the builds in my own SMP

Thinking next will be Deepslate and Calcite

[novel talon]

I was looking at Fungus' textures for Deepslate, since he gave me permission to use them, and it'd give me a starting point

And bro

Now, we'll see about the left one, cause I also got perms to use Rechiseled blocks too, and they also had a cool, albeit different vibe going on

[novel talon]

But I think I'll use those pillar textures for the middle of all the pillar CTMs again, and make his "Pillar Capital" just the new Curly Pillar

Unsure if I should do the mosaic tiles though. Like, it's a good texture of course, but I got those tiny bricks layered with random tiles for Prismarine too. So I could do either really. Or a combination of both.

Oh!

[novel talon]

I could use Rechiseled's bricks and tiles here as an alternative to the "Rounded Bricks" Chipped provides

And then make the normal brick more befitting the aesthetic Fungus was going for

[novel talon]

annyways, here's everything

I'm forming a better idea

Because Rechiseled's blocks are named "Cobbled Deepslate"

thinking i can just make two sets here out of these blocks - adding extra blocks than what you see here wherever it makes sense (i.e, we don't need a "Creeper Face" block for both sets, but we'd probably want a "Small Brick" for both sets)

one set of blocks being a "Cobbled Deepslate" set based off of Rechisled's blocks, and a "Polished Deepslate" set based on Fungal's blocks

[novel talon]

had to make a new texture for the single blocks, on the side, but it begins

[novel talon]

i feel like this one was as obvious as the guardian one i made for prismarine

now, fungus made a top texture

but i'm not placing it here

I'm instead gonna place it on the "Cut Blank Deepslate" block, because i gave that block a top texture for Prismarine

[novel talon]

just the top rn

[novel talon]

changed it a tiny bit

[novel talon]

The pillar tops put together. They don't blend as perfectly as the Prismarine, but I fell like I matched Fungal's style with the two I made

[novel talon]

made them slightly darker

based off of a texture fungus made that i intend to split into two textures, so it matches with my other textures better

[novel talon]

a couple tiles were shaded weird lol

[steep vault]

Ого... Cool pattern

[steep vault]

Still doesn't like mini tiles, but that version looks really better

[novel talon]

thanks!

i mean, yeah

i do want to try and make my own version of these chipped textures wherever possible - like they loosely look like the original - rather than just replacing them outright. That being said, there are a few textures that are generally pointless amoung these that i don't see like, ANYONE using. So there is a little room for something new with just the texture pack part

[novel talon]

speaking of btw

the other half of the texture was some larger tiles

this one is A LOT more noticeable

at a glance, they looked too dark, but it turns out that color and shading is comfortably in between the Deepslate Tiles and Deepslate Bricks.

so i guess it is fine like that, though, i will aim to make at least a couple of blocks use some of the lighter shades the brick uses

[novel talon]

i'm excited to basically come up with as many eyeball designs that fit in a 14x14 square as possible throughout the pack

[novel talon]

considering making this the pillar top texture, but i don't think it'd be as good if it could be used as a single texture

wait

you kinda can

make a floor of only this texture

a little odd but, it basically is alternating placing it horizontally, and placing it vertically. that way, it doesn't connect and you get this. if you were really dedicated though, you could be meticulous about it, and make it look better by orienting the pillars well

you could also use a mod like Create: Copycats or Framed Blocks, and line up the textures on the same axis, but this shows it's possible with Chipped being your ONLY mod, so

[novel talon]

ended up giving the original single Simple Pillar block texture to this one, cause that lines up perfectly with the other textures for this pillar

here's all the pillar textures in a row

the three marked by wool were the ones made by Fungus

[novel talon]

now, technically i could possibly use another pillar texture, one that is just a plain block, no ctm

the only reason i'm not gonna replace it, is because i've made a prismarine and tuff replacement of that block that actually is true to the "pillar" and "pillar top" label

but that'll be later, i'm gonna revel in the fact the ctm pillars did not take an embarassing amount of time to finish this time somehow

[novel talon]

A showcase of some of the blocks I've made so far put together.

[novel talon]

I don't like that there's like 4 variants of an "inlayed" tile, so i made one of them a tiled version of the new brick i made

[novel talon]

was looking, and i think i'll do something similar to the face tiles that i did for tuff

instead of just faces, i'll be mobs

gonna base it off of a MC Dungeons texture

gonna give it a top texture though, like i did with prismarine

[novel talon]

that top texture is the last one i got from Fungus

not sure i like it here tbh, i think i'll put it somewhere else

yeah i'll just use that texture here

thinking i will call this "Polished Deepslate"

as the vanilla block is called "Polished Cobbled Deepslate", and i intend to actually make dedicated Cobbled blocks

thus, i'll make the chipped texture for Polished Deepslate, i'll refernce this one

[novel talon]

gonna change that middle texture, but the idea is it's bordered like the rechiseled tile ctms

(if you like the middle texture btw, that's part of the modded side)

but yeah, not gonna retroactively place a new ctm over the prismarine and tuff block, but i hate the smooth column ctm usually, and struggle to see why anyone would prefer that ctm, when you got other blocks with better borders

and i REALLY want to avoid adding extra blocks to this set, because the modded side will be the "cobbled" deepslate blocks, plus a couple rechiseled textures being redesigned to fit the chipped set. so i want less blocks for this set than the previous ones, even if only a few

and god knows how annoying making unique, aesthetically pleasing ctms is. as much as i dislike the default textures, i can't really fault chipped artists on these ones, especially if there's 10 of them

[novel talon]

so uhhhh

these blocks just don't exist in chipped for deepslate

guess it works out, cause as i said before, there's a few blocks i just don't see anyone using, let alone me finding something that matches thematically

and i wanted this set to be slightly smaller

just a little odd chipped devs already did that for me lol

hmm i think i see why

there IS a texture listed for both blocks, but there's a typo

and considering the blocks just don't exist at all either, I reckon the block ID had a typo as well, so it's not appearing in the mod at all

[novel talon]

all my tiny mosaic bricks together

[novel talon]

i think this is better

[novel talon]

better chiseled deepslate

[novel talon]

we have reinforced deepslate at home

for the record this is literally a recolor of the vanilla texture

[novel talon]

i think i could make this one look better, but imma come back to it later

[novel talon]

honestly, i might also make this the top of those face blocks

which by the way, i don't think i will use all 6, so i'll have room for a couple other designs i think

[woeful bear]

These deep slate textures are so tuff

[novel talon]

Thanks!

[novel talon]

Also, before I work again, update on the resource pack

CJ will upload it this weekend. I'll ping everyone currently in the thread whenever it is available on Modrinth

This will only include the first two sets of textures I made, Deepslate will come after I'm done with it and Calcite

[novel talon]

i do like the idea of just being really extreme with the palette change for this block, but otherwise maintaining that shape

changed the border slightly

[novel talon]

you can kinda treat these blocks as tiles

or as a corner/center

[novel talon]

one shall stay, one shall go

thinking basalt for both blocks, but i'd need and alternative for whichever one i decide to change

the chiseled stone texture is a wild card, i can replace it with literally anything

ok i got the ringed deepslate alternative, or inlayed deepslate

probably inlayed now that i say it out loud lol

now that i'm looking at everything, i'm seeing some of these textures, and part of me wants to move them around, and part of me just wants to leave them there cause i feel like if you want this through of a txture overhaul, you don't really care about the textures matching the original block, so much as you care if they look better lol

like this one i'm working on could make a good "smooth inlayed deepslate" block, and the other would be more fitting for just "inlayed deepslate"

idk, if i remember by the time i localize, i'll swap texture names around

[novel talon]

looking at a few mods for ideas, and it got me thinking

replicating the Bordered Tuff with Deepslate, and making the lines alternate the lighter and darker colors from the block, similat to how the tuff alternates the blue and grey colors

and the border will be the tiny bricks outline

got the idea from a mod called "desire" in case you're curious, that mod has quite the pretty set of blocks

[novel talon]

i think i'm cooking

[novel talon]

this one was bothering me, so i cleaned it up

[novel talon]

ok, i like making these patterned tiles, but imma try and make something different next

[novel talon]

replacing a couple of the face tiles with diagonal bricks

[novel talon]

i like it, but idk, it's missing something i think

i'm debating making the sides connect, which i can do with an optifine ctm

an improvement, but i think i could do a bit more

also the side will be odd looking, the center is the only thing i'm modifying

i think this is what i'm setling on

[novel talon]

polished cobbled deepslate

✨But it's connecting✨

all of the polished blocks together

didn't notice how weird this one looked until i laid it out lol

ok so, i was gonna compare the rechisled style tile ctms

and i realized i don't have one for tuff

tbh i might just obliterate this texture to make it happen, and make it so you guys can see without the modded half

ugh, this is annoying though, cause that means you won't see it in the first version that'll get uploaded to modrinth

yeah, i won't make a habit of this, but i'mma change this texture

all the tiles

yes, half of them are deepslate

also

i noticed i've kinda been staying in a similar area in terms of blocks i pick and designs i use

like, two different deepslate sets, two primarine sets, and calcite is coming up which is much like tuff

i was kinda in the mood to do something like ice or bricks next, or make a custom chipped set for cardboard from create now that my SMP has create 6

just something really out there

haven't done one of these in a bit, but here's a checklist of what's left here

imma be ready for the second version of the pack before CJ is ready for the first at this rate

i wanna try something with the curly texture, so i got it marked in cyan lol

[woeful bear]

Awesome work

[novel talon]

thanks!

[novel talon]

gonna work on this more tonight

might start calcite

[novel talon]

Welp

Ended up localizing the texture pack

I should be able to ship it tonight

So nothing to show yet BUT I did do something lol

Also I did update the Tuff and Prismarine textures to the couple I fixed

[novel talon]

ok so

it's is under review offically

so now it's just up to modrinth to verify it and allow the listing to go through

then i'll link it here for you guys

[steep vault]

Wow

I will add it to my modpack update

[novel talon]

Awesome!

And after it's approved, then I'll get back to the Calcite and Deepslate textures

[novel talon]

welp, semi bad news then

in case you haven't seen the other threads, the reglazed terracotta artist has not permitted me to use their textures in my pack

i am unsure what i will do as an alternative, but it seems really awkward one of the most obvious blocks to cover with a texture pack if you were doing a chipped texture pack, won't be in mine

which is mildly frustrating. not because i can't just use them, but because there's no 1.21 version either, and it sounds like they didn't really have a desire to make one either.

so i can't just direct players to their pack and say they should download that, cause most players probably aren't downloading a pack they can't use, and manually porting it just to use it with mine.

which, i know porting the pack is easy - they even replied to me telling me how to do it. but never assume your players just know something off the top of their head, no matter how easy it may seem to you

(Also, side note, there is a 1.20 version of my pack. but the the issue i'm getting at is the latest minecraft version would be the worst. so if they don't at least update their listing, i'll have to come up with something myself. I'd value the consistency more than some admittedly amazing textures)

anyways, rant aside, i got some textures to work on. I know i said i'd wait for the verification, but i got some motivation to at least clean up a couple of the ctms

[novel talon]

i wasn't sure about this one at first, but now that i'm seeing it, yeah this one looks good lol

fixed it a bit

[steep vault]

🙄

[novel talon]

Yeah it sucks

In my mod that adds blocks though, I still plan adding Chipped support to Dye Depot, and I may also have something else cooking that gives you more glazed terracotta like blocks too. Those blocks will be designed similarly to that texture pack.

I just won't have the source textures

[novel talon]

Also mini update

Modrinth is asking I provide proof I got permission from Fungal and SuperMartijn (creator of Rechiseled)

Which I do have screenshots thankfully. But that means another day or two.

[steep vault]

Nah, we can wait

[novel talon]

👁️👁️

https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/samuels-re-chipped

@split pivot @tepid galleon @woeful bear @steep vault @eager pier

Sorry for the ping, I just wanted to let you all know since you're still in the thread, the texture pack is officially public!

[woeful bear]

https://tenor.com/view/one-peak-one-piece-one-piece-cry-its-so-peak-gif-13413926760013023520

[novel talon]

I'll continue work on that first update tomorrow lol

[woeful bear]

Ong

You did great

[novel talon]

Thank you!

[split pivot]

https://tenor.com/view/luffy-sad-one-piece-luffy-one-piece-crying-gif-6456996045401281897

Is it on Curseforge, too ?

[novel talon]

It is not

When I actually have a large chuck of the textures done though, I could consider that, just so it's more accessible.

[split pivot]

Dude, I don't check the server for like two weeks and here you are pulling out ALL OF THAT ?!?!?

[split pivot]

I mean I can always just download it from Modrinth and install it on my CurseForge modpack manually, but, like, what's stopping you, it's not like they're gonna refuse it. Is it just not worth it having to keep two websites up to date ? 😅

[novel talon]

Currently, my schedule is a bit hectic and it took a couple weeks just to to get this up when I was finally ready lol

Thank god Modrinth accepted my appeal

[novel talon]

But yeah! Don't know how much you read, but I settled on Deepslate and Calcite being the next two blocks I include. Figured I'd do two that are more common this time lol

And

I decided Create would be the mod I support first with the mod portion

[split pivot]

I mean, Story Mode is a love letter to Minecraft

A terribly written one, but a love letter nonetheless.

Just look, Story Mode has :

• the Order of the Stone name
• Minecon
• a Nether Highway
• 2B2T
• a literal Redtsone community
• mob grinders and mob farms
• Skyblock
• a roleplay spooky mansion
• actual youtubers cameoing
• a redstone computer
• spleef
• immature admins throwing temper tantrums
  All of these things were invented by the community. They had no obligation to do it, none of these are "Minecraft brand icons", but they did it anyway. And you can be damn sure the villain of Season 4 would've been Herobrine, at that point 😂

[split pivot]

Cool ! So, what exactly will you do about create ? Make variants for collumns for ochrum and co. ?

[steep vault]

Np

[novel talon]

Well Rechiseled has some work I can reference for Rose Quartz

And CJ had textures and ideas for a cardboard box variant

I'd definitely do Cardboard first, because 40 cardboard box variants sounds really funny, but also kinda cool if it's done right

But I do wanna do all those stone types they add too. I'd just do the material blocks and things like Cardboard first probably

Oh, and I'll add a few Copper blocks while I'm at it

[novel talon]

Oh wait

If you mean like, what I'll do for the block sets

I'll treat it like a Rechiseled or Chipped set, and leave the base blocks Create provides there

Though I suppose the aesthetic I try to go for could just be the default Create aesthetic. That depends on if people would have a preference tbh - like, would they want more blocks like what Create has, or do they want to see me do my own thing

[drowsy slate]

I'm asking this so I can prepare for the extra blocks mod release accordingly.

[novel talon]

I started work on Calcite

big post incoming

Chose those 4 calcite blocks to dump for this because they were the cracked and mossy bricks for the tuff set. I figured it was more important to make sure you get to see the alternatives to the 1.21 blocks in just the texture pack if you didn't care for the mod portion. And I'll add the missing bricks to the mod.

Also, these aren't a 1:1 of Qzimyion's blocks, I altered the shading a bit, plus tried to reduce the amount of miniscule shade changes she did.

(I know it's been a while since these were in the conversation, so just so we're clear, I did get permission to use them)

@split pivot Sorry for the ping, but I figured I'd let you know about these, since you suggested them!

And so, now I just gotta translate these Calcite bricks' style to my Tuff set

[split pivot]

But IS THERE a Chiseled Create compat mod that adds cardboard variants ?

[split pivot]

What do you mean ?

I guess, now, all that matters is to find other stone variants to do water and earth themes with 😆😆

I suggest Granite for earth and Ice for water

[novel talon]

I don't think so? Not for the Create 6 stuff anyways. The creator of Rechisled did do his own add on for Create though. And it is up to date, but that's only as far as porting it forward, not adding anything

[novel talon]

Wait, true

Water and fire btw, I think that's supposed to be a mountain on Qzimyion's blocks

If you were serious btw, and got suggestions for what blocks that'd be, I'm down to hear them

[novel talon]

Wait

Hear me out

Netherack

Or some sort of Nether block

Blackstone or Gilded Blackstone maybe?

[split pivot]

No, the calcite is fire. The triangles are stylised flames from the Bedrock elemental paintings. Yeah, wind is supposed to be a circle and on tuff it's a square spiral, and wind is supposed to be white and fire orange, and here it's grey and white, but still.

And you can tell because that is undeniably a flame

[split pivot]

At first I was going to say Blackstone, but :

• Blackstone being fully black would make it a pretty terrible pick to have ornate carvings on because they'd be barely visible
• I think it would make more sense in the "lore" that these elemental carvings were made by one civilisation, thus in just one dimension (otherwise you'd have to pick one from the End for water, like Endstone or Purpur, and wouldn't that be ironic)
• You have 2/4 of the elements made out of overworld stones, it would kinda break the neat pattern to take them from other dimensions

But I mean it's your pack, in the end, you do what you think is best, those are just my autistic two cents 🤣🤣

[novel talon]

oh!

i didn't realize that, then yeah that makes sense

[novel talon]

oh dude, i'm a stickler for details, so i agree with this too lol

ok then

so vanilla overworld blocks, and it would be earth and water themed

actually, i got all these block lined up in one spot, i can look rq

[split pivot]

I know you've used the rounded bricks as placeholders for chiseled bricks, but I had the idea of, for rounded bricks, bevelling the corners. But, neatly. Not smoothly.

Please excuse the poor illustration, this was made on my phone 😅

[split pivot]

Making them stretched octogons, basically

[novel talon]

We could always add more block to the modded portion, or move the current textures over to it if we get a good replacement

a couple of the tuff blocks are a bit dated, being amoung my first textures

[split pivot]

Oh, you can just add new blocks ? Then yeah, definitely add chiseled calcite and chiseled clacite bricks, then !

[novel talon]

yeah, it'd be a mod though, not the resource

[split pivot]

I can't remember, did you make massive tuff bricks ? Like, those that are 2×2 blocks

[novel talon]

cause like, i had several texture i thought were good enough for the texture pack, but you know, not enough blocks. so CJ helped make a mod that adds more blocks to chipped. that's what we're also using to add blocks for mods like Create

[split pivot]

Oh yeah you did, they're visible on Modrinth

[novel talon]

I did!

yeah at the end of the 5th screenshot iirc

[split pivot]

Genius

[novel talon]

ok so

thinking

A few blocks that came to mind for a possible Tuff adjacent set, like Calcite, were Dripstone or Obsidian. Copper also came to mind, but that's mixed with Tuff, so I don't think so

oh, and there's the borderless bricks too, but i'm unsure about that

[split pivot]

Copper is not a stone, though. If you make chiseled copper bricks, where are chiseled iron, gold and netherite bricks ?

[split pivot]

Borderless ?

[novel talon]

yeah

apparently chipped has twice as many brick blocks as other block sets

half with the white borders, half without

[novel talon]

Yeah. The most i would do is make like, two or three blocks to compliement the stone sets, like copper and tuff

man, there aren't many stones to use lol

I definitely like the idea of Dripstone though

yeah, the most i can think for the last one though is Andesite or Granite, but the colors would be really similar then, or Obsidian

To be fair, while both Mojang and Qzimyion stuck to the original color palettes for their blocks, the blocks still give off the illusion of being a different color visually, because the color distribution is far different from the source block

So obsidian could work, and the blocks look dark purple or navy blue, and sparingly use black

[novel talon]

thinking the light blues used for the top of the chiseled bricks will be what i use as a secondary color for this set in general

though i don't think i will too much, I'll probably resort to using it wherever i used a lot of green for tuff, like the cut tuff column or face tiles

and possibly the checkered tile, but idk about that one, i'll mess with it later today

fixed a couple of things

[novel talon]

hear me out

after this next update to the pack

next can be some leaves, and the ice and/or snow blocks

for christmas :3

oh

we can add Create Confectionary blocks too

when i said Create support for the mod protion, I mean add ons that are reliably updated as well, and that is one of them

[novel talon]

Woaw

[woeful bear]

Love calcite textures

[novel talon]

Thanks!

[novel talon]

Gonna continue shortly

Just had a busy last week

Just wanted to let you guys know I didn't die again lol

[woeful bear]

Dw

Take your time

[novel talon]

https://fxtwitter.com/Plantkillable/status/1983345464369164692?t=gVfkRou8UcVQ_TKRs1fTSw&s=19

marc (@Plantkillable)

tuff vs. andesite

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Those bordered blocks

I wanna make my over version of them for Tuff and Calcite

Recolored of course, and the border would be more reminiscent of the other tuff blocks. And instead of skulls, it'd be that little eye design I put on a few of the blocks

And they'd be like logs, and have the same top texture as Chiseled Tuff and Chiseled Tuff Bricks, that way you could use that texture for a wall

[novel talon]

Also urge to make andesite have an urban or under construction aesthetic

Also

https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/ner4ts-wood-tweaks

Considering making new wood and log textures for Chipped based on this pack

This guy is also making a biome and space mod as well, with his own wood and stone types, so it could be a mod I make chipped sets for

But that's up to you guys, and it'll be a while

Mostly wanna know if you guys like this texture pack right now. So I know if it is worth doing

I don't like his Spruce logs, but he said he would change that one, because he didn't like it either

[steep vault]

Tuff looks epic, but too much details

32x32?

[novel talon]

That's what I thought, but no, it's 16x16

[steep vault]

Really??? Omg

[novel talon]

yeah

but yeah, I'll make those new tuff blocks later today lol

[split pivot]

https://tenor.com/view/kronk-its-all-coming-together-gif-15058130

[novel talon]

had to use a different brick and the connecting polished tuff cause this is a 1.20 test instance (since these blocks have to be added, they aren't simply a texture)

but you get the idea

[novel talon]

Before vs after

This will be in the next version of the pack, however

while we're on the topic of correcting a few tuff things

this thing

i hate

this was made before i decided the Chipped texture sucks ass, and just replaced it with recolored sand for the other blocks

and i never retroactively changed it for tuff, as you see

so I think imma do that

m yeah ok

i have no clue how i didn't catch these before

so yeah, tonight will just be cleaning these up then lol

maybe a calcite texture or two, but these are kinda a mess rn

[novel talon]

sand