[1.12.2] Megacraft Classic - Be the Block Bomber!

See images of the 1.12 updates here!

In the year 199X, a young user named The Creature Keeper (or CK20XX for short(?)) bought... oh forget it. Just watch this video here. It tells the story better than I can in text.


Megacraft Classic is a complete, definitive Mega Man themed resource pack for Minecraft. EVERYTHING has been modified, including blocks, items, foliage gradients, the End Poem, and... a good handful of sounds. OK, so it's not literally everything, but some of the more noteworthy features include:
- A HUD combining elements from all over the franchise, such as arcade-style energy meters, weapon panels containing your inventory, and a power meter to contain the energy from all the P Chips you collect!
- A custom font based off of Mega Man 6! (The font from 9 and 10 was far too wide and would always force text out of bounds.)
- A custom language file: English (Mega Man)! You have to manually activate it in the game options though, so don't forget to do that!
- Arm yourself with a Mega Buster and many special weapons like the Deep Digger, Super Arm, Leaf Shield, Rolling Cutter, and even the Wire Adapter!
- Work with electronics! Salvage circuit boards from buried scrap heaps, craft computer monitors that flash with streams of data, and watch redstone torches spark with power!
- Testificates that look better and may also be less annoying than the default ones!
- Equip your horse with a seat cushion and three different kinds of Rush adapters!
- Sound effects from all over the franchise! Feel yourself power-up as you eat, get a warning beep before something explosive goes off, and sound like Hard Man when you take a long dive into solid ground!
- Destroy holographic aliens, collect their cores, and use them to defeat the Mecha Dragon and claim Gemini Man's lair as your own personal pocket dimension!
- Megatunes! The game world music consists of classic compositions and the records contain the best of fan remixes! Take a look at the track list in the resource pack's "record" folder!
- NEW FOR 1.8: Randomized textures! Thanks to the new model and blockstate syntax, Megacraft Classic now features 2 varieties of obsidian, 4 varieties of sandstone, 8 varieties of smooth stone, 9 varieties of tall grass, 12 varieties of red sandstone, 19 varieties of coal ore, iron ore, and gold ore, and 256 varieties of netherrack! The timings of many block animations are now shuffled too so they don't look so strange by being perfectly in synch with each other!
- 100% VANILLA! No MCPatcher required!




Mega Man games are known for their distinct artwork, using minimal colors and solid lines to convey depth instead of using pixel-by-pixel shading. They have most famously relied on trickery, taking advantage of contrast and how some colors can look like completely different colors when placed alongside other colors to keep things from looking flat, and animating smooth liquids by having a static tile cycle through three different colors. This effect doesn't work so well in Minecraft though because the player's view of an area is not fixed. Some classic 8-bit graphics look exceedingly strange when viewed up close and you also have to factor in how textures wrap around and tile with each other in a 3D environment. Besides, the games aren't exclusively 8-bit and in fact used the diverse color palettes of 16 and 32-bit consoles to create some gorgeous 2D effects. This is why some concessions, modifications, and a LOT of recoloring had to be done to adapt classic Mega Man graphics to Minecraft.

I originally began with very literal goals. Since Minecraft had apples and melons, Megacraft Classic had to have them too, and I ended up pinching graphics from the ZX and Legends games because of it. As I worked on it though, I began to see further. I realized the netherrack would work better thematically if it was turned into junk circuits instead of another rocky substance, and instead of having a solid, featureless, iron anvil, my resource pack could have something that looked much different, but was functionally the same. The end result is a resource pack that not only functions as a Mega Man tribute with all its blinking lights and food capsules, but also works very well as a general sci-fi themed resource pack.

It is also VERY animation-centric. I even created original animations for many graphics and icons that originally had none!