2024 Update 4:



A smaller but required update.

I've been playing on Beta 1.3_01 for a while and noticed that some textures are very harsh looking on the old lighting engine vs the backported shader lighting I use in Beta 1.7.3. Although this wasn't many blocks, I decided to change a handful as I appreciate the majority of users will not be using shaders for that lower contrast texture look so tried to meet them half way where textures are still nice and not too low contrast on shaders but not too harsh and higher contrast without them.


Blocks that were reworked to have a bit of a lower contrast and overall look smoother:
Cobblestone
Mossy Cobblestone
Bedrock (lighter rather than lower contrast)
Chest
Furnace
Dispenser
Noteblock/Jukebox
Gravel

Note: Piston(s) has not been changed. This is because it was previously reworked and part of that rework was giving it a unique, lower contrast but darker look compared to the Furnace/Dispenser.

Blocks changed:
The cement between the bricks in the brick block is whiter to stand out more, and now looks more like earlier (vanilla) brick textures.
Snow (and snowy grass) has a finer texture with a bit more detail and has a slightly more blue hue.
Signs are very slightly less dark, the previous update made them too dark. This was difficult for me to tell in the past as signs are broken with shaders...
Pine logs have been made a lot more red-brown rather than dark-brown and had the contrast INCREASED. This is to make it stand out compared to the more subtle and mellow contrast of oak. The texture is also quite a bit lighter however it's not as noticeable with the higher contrast added.

Misc:
Bricks (the item) have better texturing to the holes in the brick itself.
The block breaking animation never supported transparency! This is because it's supposed to have a grey background, and instead I left it transparent in Terrain.png - it has taken me 8 years to notice this while I was trying to improve the breaking animation. The animation has been made more detailed, and now has levels of transparency added to the animation itself. I discovered this when I found the animation was completely broken in older versions, and by looking at older packs that fixed the issue I noticed they all had solid grey backgrounds.

In older versions (older than b1.7.3) the game takes the texture of cake and beds from the top of the designated block in the texture sheet (Terrain.png.) In later versions, it takes from the bottom of the designated block/square. Because of this cake was broken in Beta 1.3 however as the cake is exactly half a block, I was able to fit two cakes into the designated block space it is given meaning cake now renders correctly on b1.3 and b1.7.3 using the exact same texture. I wanted to apply this same logic to the bed, however this is not possible as the bed is taller than half a block so you cannot fit two beds into the same designated space available on Terrain.png. Although I've tried to make the main build as cross compatible as possible, I have now released a slightly edited "for older versions" edition which has the bed render in the correct location for older versions. This copy of Legacypack also removes the colour codes from the name of the pack as this is not supported either and would look weird on the texture pack selection screen.