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I updated the palette. New gold and metallic colors.

Hello you people to whom I have not posted anything for quite some time,

It's nice to have time to be back here!

I have decided to make some more textures and maybe a pack if I like them. Anywhoo, I have created a palette for that pack and would like input before I get started on creating the textures.

Any suggestions? Comments? Praises? Smart remarks?

Quote from zamaj»
The second (this one is mainly just an interesting concept) is that all of the participants make texture packs, (or just a few textures) then post them under new accounts, and we try and figure out whom's pack belongs to whom. (Unfortunately, I believe that there is an forum rule against the same person having multiple accounts.)

Quote from Patch12 »What if we just went and found some random picture from online and made a colab pack trying to copy that style?

Google search "fantasy floating island asian" we should do one of those

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Hello, everyone, I wanted to share some textures I've done recently. I've done about 70 textures or so using Jimmy Walker's pallet, which I took from the Simple Pack Showdown 2 thread.

Here are some pics, tell me what you think about them. -snip-

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But I have ZERO votes! Take that!
EDIT: I was replying to Unctu0usly... what is with the reply system???

I am currently making a comment. I'll update it when I'm finished!

Spirals is a texture pack originally created by Danrul that focuses on vivid colors, simple textures and, of course, stylized swirls and spirals. Danrul originally updated it up to 1.2, but has since been inactive. In the original topic, he gave permission for anyone to edit his pack, so I am taking it upon myself to update it to 1.8.

What I have so far:
I have all non-animated blocks, a handful of items, all of the in-game interfaces (inventory, chests, etc.), a few UI elements, and all of the mobs up to 1.0. For most of the game, it's a fairly complete texture pack, but right now I need to work on more mobs (which is difficult since I didn't make any of the current ones' textures myself) and figure out how to actually animate water/lava/etc. I'm not very experienced at texturing, and the main reason I've been able to work on this pack is that it has a very simple style to follow for most of the blocks. Any tips and suggestions would be much appreciated!

What I could use help with:
I am not very satisfied with the flowers and carrots/potatoes crops. Danrul made saplings very interesting and appealing by giving them a stylized appearance, but all I did with most of the flowers was solidify the colors and add a few spirals. I don't know how I would be able to make flowers stylized as well, so any help or examples would be nice.

As mentioned earlier, I can give water and lava a static texture, but I don't know how I could go about animating it in the style of the resource pack.

Lastly, I didn't do any of the mob textures, which are much more elaborate and detailed than the blocks or items are. If anyone could help with the post 1.0 mobs, I would add you to the credits.

Screenshots:

Download: Spirals 16x

Thistle here. This is a Resource Pack I have been working on since they were called texturepacks. Unfortunately, most of my time up until now has made my put the pack aside, due to life stuff and losing my motivation and ideas. But recently things have been calming down, and my passion for this project is at full force again, I sorely need something to get back into the groove of things, this is perfect for it, and I decided to revamp the thread layout, hopefully it looks better than it used to be.

The pack is designed and developed in the 128x resolution as the main one, but I will be making all resolutions available by the end, for all versions I make. So far, two are planned:

Alrenia/Alien: Meant to be the main pack, but I’m guessing people will go for the default version. This pack will have a bit more of an alien feel to it, with different colours, and a style more suited to the alien planet and species it is based on. All blocks and items, select 3D models, personalised paintings suiting the alien culture, custom alien language, alternate colormap and environment

Default/Minecraft: Sticking closer to default Minecraft and it’s colouring, but with my own personal touch and style to it. All blocks and items, select 3D models, minecraft based and inspired paintings

Screenshots:

Changelog:

Downloads:

Alien

Alrenia Alien V0.1

Alrenia Alien V0.0.9

Alrenia Alien V0.0.8

Minecraft

Alrenia Minecraft V0.1

Alrenia Minecraft V0.0.9

Alrenia Minecraft V0.0.8

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

New Thread Here:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-discussion/suggestions/2541860

Support this idea on reddit! Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/minecraftsuggestions/comments/2ympop/pigeons_a_tamable_mob_with_a_purpose/

Also, please stop giving fixes for a lag issue that has been fixed for half a year. We don't really need it any more, and it's getting quite annoying. If there is still a lag issue that I haven't stated, then please alert me of it.

Isn't it hard walking over 1000 blocks just to deliver a single item? Yes you can make rail systems to send large amounts of items, but I find a simpler way is necessary. My answer: Delivery Pigeons.

Pigeons spawn in forest-like biomes. They can be tamed with 2-5 pumpkin seeds, and 5 hearts. They will then follow you around until you are ready to send a message. The pigeon would look like this:
It would be able to fly (follow), or stand (sit), until you are ready. When you want to send something, shift+right click the tame pigeon, and this GUI will come up.

The 6 slots are for the items that you want to send, the send button sends the items, the cancel button exits the menu without sending, and the black box is for the players name. I decided on 6 slots, so that clever rail systems are not obsolete.

A new block would also be added called the perch, when a pigeon is sent, it will land on one of the receiving player's perches.
Crafting:

A perch:

I'm clueless about redstone, but I think that If a pigeon is on a perch, a comparator could give off a signal, but not if the perch is empty. You could create pigeon alarms using this. Please tell me if this is not how comparators work!

Preches can be named for 0 xp in an anvil, so you can type: "playername perchname" to decide exactly which perch you will send the pigeon to, without too much expense.
Adventure map makers can use commands to give perches custom names, without having the playername. This is so that you don't have to send messages to the author of the map to complete a puzzle.

If the player you are sending the items to does not have enough perches, the pigeon will just put the items back in your inventory (Or on the ground if there is not enough space).

When you send a pigeon to a user, It will appear to fly away, but when it reaches an unloaded chunks, it will teleport to one of their perches, with a delay depending on distance between the 2 objects, the blocks:minutes ratio would be about 500:1. If the distance is shorter than 200 blocks, It will just fly the distance (and load any unloaded chunks). This is so that on small map PVP servers, and UHC's you can have fun shooting down enemy pigeons. It would be hard to do this, as they fly twice as fast as a player sprinting.


It will then appear in the "view" any nearby players, and land on it. If no players are nearby, it will just be sitting there. If it can't reach a perch in any way, it will noclip through the layer of blocks, I cant see how this could be used for griefing. Once the player has found it, and taken the items, it becomes that players pigeon. Only the owners of pigeons can use their inventories.

I'm sure you can see how this can help in multiplayer, but what about the people who are strictly singleplayer? I've sorted this too.
Imagine that you are in the middle of nowhere, and lost. You have been wandering for hours, because you have your diamond armour, sword, and pick with you. You see a pigeon flying around, but ignore it. Then you see pumpkins. You grab them, and turn them into seeds, and tame the pigeon. Next thing you know, your armour, and tools are flying home. You then find a ravine...
You obviously could just have a pigeon follower, or a pigeon farm just for the fun of it.
And there's the potential for minigames/ puzzles. Try an shoot down pigeons before they get to you, or have to send items in pigeons to complete the puzzle... The possibilities are huge.

Pigeons spawn like cows, and pigs, and don't despawn. They lay eggs like chickens, and you can throw these to get baby pigeons
A comparison of adult and baby pigeons:

Since previous tamable mobs like horses, and cats have multiple skins, pigeons would have a chance to spawn with dove colours.

Possible suggestions made by the community:

ThesaurusRex and I worked on creating a more realistic pigeon, that would still fit the game. It has a larger tail, chicken eyes, and a smaller head. The legs are also different.

Reddit user coolreader18 (and a few other people) suggested letters. Crafted with one paper, and one feather, they store a single page of writing, and make a good aesthetic, and are a cheaper way of sending text.

Thank you for reading my suggestion. If you don't like it, don't just say: "No support" Give me a reason like:
"I don't like the trees, No Support." So that I can improve the suggestion.

If you would like to support this thread, press the green arrow button in the bottom right, and if you really like the idea, you could use one of these banners:

These 2 are mine:

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Thanks to Mart_b77 for this next one.

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More banners are welcome!

If you want to make a mod of this, there is no need to ask, but you MUST, tell me about the mod.