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- Game Version
- Minecraft 1.21.5
- Resolution
- 16x
- Progress
- 100% complete
- Changes include
- Armor
- Art
- Audio
- Environment
- GUI
- Items
- Mobs
- Particles
- Terrain
Added CreditHuge thanks to Jappa, Vanilla Tweaks, and any… info
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What's A Programmer Tweak?
The 1.14 texture update polished up Minecraft's textures, but sometimes the polish from this update was too much. Many textures lost detail and personality from being polished too much. Programmer Tweaks was created specifically to fix this.
Programmer Tweaks is a curated collection of tweaked Jappa textures and tweaked programmer art textures, made to fit together stylistically, and assembled into one pack. Programmer Tweaks aims to bring back the personality and charm of some of the old programmer art textures without resorting to making the textures lower quality. There are also some extra tweaks that were just added for fun or my personal preference, such as sparkly redstone ore :]
Also try my pack Betta Balance for beta-like gameplay tweaks to match the beta-like aesthetic!
https://www.planetminecraft.com/data-pack/betta-balance/
List of Tweaks
Texture Tweaks:
- Polished programmer art nether textures
- Polished programmer art sand
- Polished programmer art cobblestone
- Old procedurally generated lava texture animation
- Harsher looking fire texture
- More glittery redstone ore (and a separate lit texture)
- Slightly more textured planks
- Greener grass/plants (and a grass top texture that is a combination of beta and modern)
- More opaque (less glassy) looking diamonds
- Programmer art accurate hues for items/blocks/armor for gold and diamond
- Blazier blaze texture
- Pink pigmen with full pig eyes instead of white dots
- Cooler phantom texture (they're still annoying, but at least now they look threatening!)
- More accurate mushroom item sprites (reds get more dots, browns get a more accurate plateau)
- More realistic granite and diorite
- Contrast and visual noise adjustments to make newer blurry textures consistent with older sharper textures
- There are no longer completely unique sounds for each and every block (most were only small edits to existing sounds)
- Footsteps now mirror the block hit sounds and are audible like they used to be
- Existing sounds are reused a lot more often (sometimes with pitch differences)
- Animals get their old sounds back (new animals were not changed because it would require creating entirely new sounds)
- Swimming and splashing now use the old splash sound
- Doors have their old sounds
- Bows and crossbows have the classic bow sounds (but with volume lowered a little)
- Old explosion sound
- Steve: "UOH!" :]
And SO many more minor tweaks I couldn't be bothered to list them all
In addition, this pack uses many tweaks from Vanilla Tweaks. The full list of them can be found in "Selected Packs.txt" inside the zip file.
Skylight Bug Fix
Ever since 1.17, Minecraft's skylight has been slightly darker than it should be.
Existing Bug Reports:
https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-278012
https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-225088
(please vote for this bug to be fixed!)
Since Mojang still hasn't fixed this bug (and marked it as "Works as Intended"), it is recommended to use Restored Brightness with Programmer Tweaks unless you use a mod that fixes this bug.
- If you use Sodium (a popular performance mod), then the Sodium Core Shaders mod is needed for Restored Brightness to work.
Restored Brightness Resource Pack: https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/restored-brightness
Sodium Core Shaders Mod: https://modrinth.com/mod/sodium-core-shader-support
(make sure you download the right version!)
A fix for the skylight bug would have been included in Programmer Tweaks, but it's very complicated and near impossible to add this fix in a way that doesn't crash newer or older Minecraft versions.
Recommended Mods
Nostalgic Tweaks: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/nostalgic-tweaks
(allows you to tweak lighting, fog, animations, etc. to look like they did in older versions of Minecraft, as well as certain gameplay elements)
Fabrication: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/fabrication
(allows you to tweak certain gameplay elements and graphics)
Moderner Beta: https://modrinth.com/mod/moderner-beta
(brings back old worldgen)
Please let me know what you think of Programmer Tweaks or what other textures you think could be made better from current Minecraft!
27 Update Logs
Announcement and Hiatus (again...) : by ninjakitty844 10/06/2025 3:44:03 pmOctober 6, 2025 @ 7:44 pm UTC
Announcement
Mojang actually fixed the skylight bug! It took so many years for them to go back on their decision to mark it "works as intended". Sad that it couldn't have been fixed sooner, because Minecraft now barely even resembles itself from before the skylight was broken in 1.17.
Hiatus (again...)
I know I haven't updated Programmer tweaks in a long time. Unfortunately I am only one person, and the volume of unique yet redundant textures that Mojang adds with each minor update is not something I could ever keep up with while also having other hobbies.
I've never been very good at pixel art. It takes me a long time to make even one texture from scratch, which is why I try NOT to make textures from scratch. Some of my textures are really just small tweaks or palette changes to the modern textures to give them the Programmer Art vibes. Hence the pack being named Programmer Tweaks.
But despite taking shortcuts like that, I still haven't managed to Programmer-itize every texture that was in the nether update. It is almost 2026 now. And some modern MC textures really DO need that extra time to be redesigned from the ground up. I can't just tweak those ones.
I don't know if I have time to work on Programmer Tweaks right now, many priorities have popped up and I need to spend a lot more time on other projects. And I also don't know if any further work on Programmer Tweaks would even be worth it... You probably don't even want sniffers, happy ghasts, maces, shelves, or spears if you want old Minecraft vibes. No point in retexturing them.
So Programmer Tweaks is on hiatus again. Outside of maybe ensuring compatibility with newer Minecraft versions, I have no other plans for it at the moment. For the foreseeable future, any further work is likely to be done through Betta Balance (via removing/changing features) rather than Programmer Tweaks. But again, I don't have much time to work on this stuff.
But consider this:
Do you really want to play a game that doesn't function like old Minecraft, and is just wearing its skin? I feel like at a certain point you just have to say "enough is enough, I don't need to be on the latest version of Minecraft". Maybe 1.20 and a bunch of mods, datapacks, and texture packs are good enough.
Mojang actually fixed the skylight bug! It took so many years for them to go back on their decision to mark it "works as intended". Sad that it couldn't have been fixed sooner, because Minecraft now barely even resembles itself from before the skylight was broken in 1.17.
Hiatus (again...)
I know I haven't updated Programmer tweaks in a long time. Unfortunately I am only one person, and the volume of unique yet redundant textures that Mojang adds with each minor update is not something I could ever keep up with while also having other hobbies.
I've never been very good at pixel art. It takes me a long time to make even one texture from scratch, which is why I try NOT to make textures from scratch. Some of my textures are really just small tweaks or palette changes to the modern textures to give them the Programmer Art vibes. Hence the pack being named Programmer Tweaks.
But despite taking shortcuts like that, I still haven't managed to Programmer-itize every texture that was in the nether update. It is almost 2026 now. And some modern MC textures really DO need that extra time to be redesigned from the ground up. I can't just tweak those ones.
I don't know if I have time to work on Programmer Tweaks right now, many priorities have popped up and I need to spend a lot more time on other projects. And I also don't know if any further work on Programmer Tweaks would even be worth it... You probably don't even want sniffers, happy ghasts, maces, shelves, or spears if you want old Minecraft vibes. No point in retexturing them.
So Programmer Tweaks is on hiatus again. Outside of maybe ensuring compatibility with newer Minecraft versions, I have no other plans for it at the moment. For the foreseeable future, any further work is likely to be done through Betta Balance (via removing/changing features) rather than Programmer Tweaks. But again, I don't have much time to work on this stuff.
But consider this:
Do you really want to play a game that doesn't function like old Minecraft, and is just wearing its skin? I feel like at a certain point you just have to say "enough is enough, I don't need to be on the latest version of Minecraft". Maybe 1.20 and a bunch of mods, datapacks, and texture packs are good enough.
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