Some people look at Minecraft and see a simple and ugly looking game, whereas others see beyond the simplistic graphics and see the real beauty on offer. Sure, it’s never going to win any best graphics of all time awards, but it has a particular something about it that has kept gamers worldwide coming back to it for the last decade.
Yet even the most ardent Minecraft fan can get bored of looking at the same old textures, over and over again, and you may find yourself yearning for something a little different to add a bit of spice to your game.
The best part of texture packs is the people that create them try to keep to a theme and, as a whole, they usually succeed. This adds a whole new element to your game and makes you feel, at times, as if you’re playing in a different world.
The 10 Best Texture Packs For Minecraft
So today, we take a look at The 10 Best Texture Packs For Minecraft, but before we do, a quick How-To when it comes to installing these things.
How To Install Texture Packs
- Download the pack you want
- Boot up your game
- Click on Options then Texture Packs
- In the Texture Packs Folder, drag and drop the file you’ve downloaded
- When you launch Minecraft, the new texture should be available for you to play with
LB Photo Realism Reload!
You’ll never get a texture pack that looks completely real, like some of the mods you can for GTA V, but CurseForge’s attempt is pretty damn close. Everything is as close to reality as you can expect in a game made up of blocks, and that water effect looks amazing, so if you fancy spending some time in a very pretty world then you could do a lot worse than downloading this.
Cartoon Default Texture Pack
This cell-shaded texture pack might not be easily recognizable off the bat, but the Cartoon Default Texture Pack makes your Minecraft world look more in line with a Borderlands game. Some of the block changes are much more noticeable than the next, but it provides that slight detail that will change the way you see your world.
Modern HD Pack
Are you looking for a more modern take on Minecraft? This pack gives you just that. Make your own home, yacht, or skyscraper, and bring your seed into the modern age. This texture pack comes with tons of furnishings you would see in your standard 2020 house with a lot of other recent era items involved.
Mine Wars
Unleash your inner Jedi / Sith with the Mine Wars Texture Pack. This pack was made with a bunch of older discontinued Star Wars inspired texture packs and made a little darker to give it that galaxy far far away vibe. The Death Star replacing the moon every night is also an excellent addition to help add to the Star Wars feel.
BladeCraft
Fans of Blade Runner will be interested in this texture pack based on the famous 1980’s movie. Recommended to be played on rainy nights in Minecraft, BladeCraft brings the blocky game the future dystopian city that it is sorely missing.
Eternal Hearts
Fans of Final Fantasy and Disney can download the Eternal Hearts Texture Pack and turn your Minecraft game into a Kingdom Hearts inspired playground. The moon has been replaced with the heart-shaped moon. There are many nods to fans of both cartoons and RPG games alike.
PureBDCraft
PureBDCraft is a comic book-inspired texture pack that gives a more colorful style to the blocks in Minecraft. When downloading, you can choose just how pixelated the world will be when you play, from a slight change from the standard graphics to a world filled with bright, crisp blocks like above.
Rick and Morty
Get riggidy riggidy wrecked son with this Rick and Morty texture pack that brings in one of the alternate realities that hopefully will someday appear in the popular show.
Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Craft
Fans of the popular Nintendo 64 Legend of Zelda games need to give Majora’s Craft a try. It brings in tons of textures and mobs from some of the greatest games of all time. Iconic music tracks also make their way into the pack in the form of music discs. There isn’t much better than seeing the iconic moon from Majora’s Mask pass over your head every night.
Retro NES
If standard Minecraft is too high tech and HD for you, give Retro NES a try. Whether you’re a fan of the original Mario, Metroid, or Castlevania games, this texture pack has you covered to make the Minecraft seed you want to pay homage to those classic games.
