I am now back from the dead, and am starting a brand new texture pack, EP4 (Stands for Epic Pack, but I only call it by the acronym because it sounds so much less self satisfied), the latest installment in my longest running texture pack of all (meh).
The only objective here is to make the game look darkly pretty.
(Oh, and excuse the manual update notice on the title screenshot, the TP is still for V1.6)