Owl's Vanilla Refined

The Owl's Vanilla Refined resource pack enhances the visual experience of Minecraft, making it more aesthetically pleasing without radically altering the vanilla style. The project is in active development and regularly receives new improvements.

Graphics Features

Blocks

• Watermelon stems are colored green and pumpkin stems orange for better differentiation
• Extinguished campfires show no ash in their texture
• All dirt variants have no gray pebbles
• Stone bricks and their modifications receive updated texture with more depth, inspired by deepslate bricks
• Grass blocks are elongated on the sides to create more realistic hills, with shadows added between soil and vegetation
• Dark oak leaves are darker than regular ones and have a unique pattern
• The height of regular and tall grass is reduced
• Ferns are wider but shorter, while large ferns connect better to the ground
• Hay bales are colored closer to real life for improved building possibilities
• Moss on blocks is recolored to match moss block colors
• The inscription on TNT is replaced with standard galactic alphabet (enchanting table language)
• Unstable TNT receives a more orange texture
• Petrified oak slabs have a unique gray wood texture
• Magma blocks are visually closer to netherrack but less saturated for better blending with oceans
• The front of the chiseled bookshelf is made smoother and less contrasty 1.jpg
• Bedrock is darkened and based on deepslate texture
• Glowstone and its dust are brighter and glow more intensely
• All chests are completely reworked: green elements are removed, detailing is added
• Cobwebs are darker with a bluish tint and receive a new volumetric model 48.jpg
• Gold, emerald, and diamond blocks use textures from the third Texture Update beta with color correction
• Decaying leaves are colored in autumn colors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example_video_2
• Deepslate tile and its cracked version are completely redesigned for better blending

Items

• The shield is positioned lower to reduce view obstruction
• A simplified version is used in chests
• Brick color matches brick blocks
• All shovels receive a darkened blade part to show the curve
• Most music discs are retextured in modern Jappa style
• Disc Fragment 5 is recolored gray
• Sniffer egg height is reduced for better display in inventory
• Basic seeds receive additional shading
• Wheat seeds are colored golden
• Totem of Undying is not visible in the offhand
• Beds in inventory are shown as 2D sprites

Entities and Environment

• Beacon beam is more pixel-consistent
• Blaze rods use correct texture for the underside
• Enderman texture is smoothed
• Cows and mooshrooms have properly aligned spots
• Interface is completely redesigned in dark style with flat buttons and green highlighting
• Experience and boss health bars are more square and brighter
• Heart and armor icons receive more details
• Critical damage, effect, and enchantment particles are reduced 90.jpg -sunandmoon.gif
• Moon and sun are rounder
• Rain is less intrusive

Resource pack capabilities video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example_video_1

Additional Enhancements

The carved pumpkin mask is made semi-transparent for better visibility. Vegetation color maps receive increased saturation, making grass brighter. In arid biomes, grass acquires a golden hue, while in cold ones - a slight bluish tone - vanilla style with modern improvements.