I think I need to tear a lot of Haven down and rebuild it from the ground up. I don't want to redo everything I've done so far but I've been stalling on updating this pack since like 1.18 and I just can't find the drive to do it. I load it into my game from time to time to try and get some of my inspiration back but a lot of times I wander around and just don't really like what I see anymore, and I think a lot of that just has to do with my style and texturing ability changing as the years went on.

Despite this, I don't want to let go of it just yet, but something definitely needs to change. I'm missing that creative momentum I had from the last overhaul I did and I want to feel excited about working on it again. Might need to step back and draft up some new concept art before I dive into it again...

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I haven't made much progress with Haven lately, partly since I've been waiting for 1.20 to drop so I can properly update the biome colormaps, but in the meantime I've been tinkering a bit with a Default enhancement pack over the last few months or so.

I'll hopefully have a download ready for this in the near future. It's basically a mix of some light CTM, block randomization, some features ported over from Haven plus other projects that inspired me, and more. Also wanted to see if I could bring back some of Minecraft's old programmer art textures but in the style of modern minecraft pixel art (such as the melons for example)

I'm not planning on it being a huge overhaul of the game's textures, but moreso just an addon to enrich what's already in the game.

New collab video out and about with Mickey Joe Alpha over on his YouTube channel where we check out each others resource packs & 2 of my unreleased Minecraft maps. Feel free to stop by and say a few words if you've got the time.

~Vader


Late to the party, but it's something. I wish it was easier to show off mangrove roots in the natural biome.

1.20 has me inspired to work on texturing again. I really want to get cherry blossoms going in Haven now.

Texturing mangrove leaves is harder than I thought

I'm going through old messages and comments and noticed multiple people asking for permission to use my textures in their own resource packs. So I've gone ahead and updated my 'Legal Stuffs' sections both on PMC and CurseForge to the following.

You may freely use any file in this project for your own projects & purposes without asking me. All I ask is that you give credit with a link to this projects page.


Please do not reupload this project elsewhere without your own changes and project name.



I've also gone ahead and made some small fixes to each projects thread to clean it up slightly and made the following project name changes since the old names and descriptions no longer matched what they represented.

Vader's Alternative Block Pack - Is now - Vader's Alternative Programmer Blocks Pack (Classic)
Vader's Stacked Items Pack - Is now - Vader's Stacked Programmer Items Pack
Dirty Bricks Resource Pack - Is now - Vader's Dirty Programmer Bricks Pack
Plain Wood Doors Resource Pack - Is now - Vader's Plain Wood Programmer Doors Pack
Faithful Dirty Bricks Pack - Is now - Vader's Faithful Dirty Bricks Pack

Thumbnails still need to be updated to match the new name changes, however I won't be doing so until development is started for the matching project. I've also added some information to the top of each project's page to help keep track of planned updates and releases.

There's still a ton of work to be done and things to fix, but it's a start for now. More information will be posted when applicable.

~Vader

Hi there, boy it's been quite some time since I've last logged on here. So much has happened to me since I last did any kind of update post so I'll try to keep this brief. All of my projects have fallen into chaos and disarray, many of them are 6-7 Minecraft versions behind on anything remotely playable (the last of which working for 1.13 & 1.14) this is my own fault. I over promised updates and burned myself out to the point of needing to take a good long break from the internet as a whole.

This in turn has made me incredibly rusty with everything to do with Minecraft and my projects. Even though I took such a long hiatus, I never stopped thinking about Minecraft or the projects I've created. I simply no longer knew where to even begin or how to proceed until the moment of me posting this update. For months, I have wanted to say something but simply didn't know how to form the words I wanted to say. So I'm starting small with a post on Planet Minecraft.

Why here and now? I can't really explain properly, I've just had an itch that never went away and it stems from feeling like I've abandoned this place and its community. Minecraft and this website means a lot to me as it has helped me get through the toughest and darkest times of my life. I anxiously write these words down with a newfound drive to continue what I had started years ago. However, this time around I will be taking things at a much slower pace until I get back in the groove of things.

I'm of course referring to updating all of my Programmer Art resource pack add-ons. However, this may sadden many of you. I will be starting the updating process by first working all the way back to Minecraft 1.8.9, the earliest possible version my Random block pack works with.

I will be starting the updates in the coming weeks to follow, starting with my Dirty Bricks Resource pack for Minecraft 1.8.9-1.19, then I will move to the next pack I feel like working on next. I expect the whole process to take a long time before I get to any kind of new project going as I am going to update everything from version compatibility to every thread and download link.

Please do not ask me when something will be updated to "X" version of Minecraft. In time I plan to get around to it all so I can move forward with future projects, what I am planning on doing is already a huge undertaking for me and I am doing it simply out of passion for my favorite game. I will soon be posting more regular updates on my progress but I'm still working some thing out first.

If you're interested to learn more about what really happened to me since my last update, I recently updated my about me section over on my Patreon page. There I wrote out my story to the best of my recollection on everything I felt necessary related to me and how I've been dealing with my medical condition as of late. Just a fair warning, it is a very big wall of text, I don't expect most people who stumble upon it to actually read the whole thing. I simply needed to have a place where I could explain things as most of what I've been through doesn't even feel real to me at times.

This was meant to be short and simple, however I been holding this back for so long the words wouldn't stop flooding from my mind to my hands. Anyways, thanks for reading up to this point. I'll be updating things as I see fit in due time. Until then, have a good day and or night.

~Vader

I'm still at a loss for how to re-design the warden for Haven tbh. I've really liked the vanilla design for it since the first deep dark trailers were released.

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