How To Hack (Mod) A Texture Pack Quickly and Easily

So I was using Ovo's Rustic Pack and ed suggested that I pimp out the minecart. I think he correctly noticed that the cart didn't match the pack. I noticed it too once he pointed it out - thanx for the idea ed!

Now editing texture packs seems like a huge job. I mean you have to open files and draw new ones and look for textures and all that. Well,... forget it,... I'm too lazy for that, I just want to minecraft!

In typical hacker fashion though I've found a short cut.

I looked around for a texture pack that had a pimped minecart that I liked and ran across Glimmars Steampunk and it's just off the hook!

So I downloaded it and placed the file in [user]/AppData/Roaming/.minecraft/texturepacks (this is an HD pack so you might want to check out: How to install an HD (High Definition) texture pack).

I ran the pack and saw that I liked the cart. So I opened up the pack with 7zip and found a a folder called item:

And in there I found cart.png

So I extracted the folder "item" to my desktop. I then opened Ovo's Rustic Pack with 7zip and dragged the "item" folder from my desktop into it. 7zip asked if I wanted to replace the existing item folder, which I did. At this point I could have selected and changed around the contents of the item folder, but I didn't, it's that lazy thing again.

I closed 7zip and fired up minecraft and pow-boom, there it was: Glimmar's cart in Ovo's texturepack.

Now I want to mod the mobs.

And I'm thinking about making a texture pack..... damn.....

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How to install an HD (High Definition) texture pack

I recently found a texture pack I just love!

It makes Apvia look very steampunk and I'm going to start designing around that look.

The first two pictures are of the new Abby terminal 1. It's just a faster way to get to the station.

The only thing that I don't like are the pictures but because it's licensed under Creative Commons I'm pretty sure I can rip them out and put my own in; which I'm going to do shortly. Instead of being decorative I'm going to make them utilitarian for an 1800's technology feel.



How To:

Exit minecraft altogether. You should even back your files up just in case. I do this by copying and pasting in the same folder so I have a minecraft copy.jar. Windows appends the (copy) automatically.

The next step is to patch the minecraft.jar file which you do with the MC HD Patcher.

It's super easy: just download and execute. It does all the heavy lifting.

So the theme I'm using is the very popular [64x][1.5_01] Ovo's Rustic Pack v0.7.

Download it and place the .zip file in C:\Users\[your user name]\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\texturepacks\

Don't extract it. Just place the .zip file in the folder.

If you can't find the AppData folder it's because you have the "Don't Show Hidden Files and Folders" option on. Go to Control Panel, select Folder Options and turn the option off. It's a good idea to turn the option back on again when you're done.

Fire up minecraft and click on Mods and Texture Packs

Select the texture and you're good to go!

I want to thank the people that made this texture pack and the hd patcher.

Also: thanks to everyone that follows this blog and makes comments. I really appreciate the feedback and support.


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