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Programmer Art Preserved [1.14 - 1.21.5 Addon]

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AceOcarinas
Lvl 53Grandmaster Nether Knight
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NEW MASSIVE UPDATE COMING SOON!



A complete copper overhaul, many texture fixes, and Netherite Armor will finally be complete!

Overhauling copper has been a tremendous amount of work as this next update will cover everything. All copper blocks, items, armor, weapons, chests, golems, doors, and lanterns. As well as several extra unrelated additions I thought of while working on copper. It will easily be the biggest update the pack has ever had!


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Programmer Art Preserved
is a small add-on for Programmer Art to keep textures up to date with newer versions of the game. Since Mojang seems to have forgotten about Programmer Art I decided to fix it myself.

Also, No Optifine Required! This pack works on every unmodded version from 1.14 to 1.21.5 (and Snapshot 25w16a!)


[This pack must be placed ABOVE Programmer Art on the list to work!]


So, what does Programmer Art Preserved currently do?


Programmer Art Preserved is a very thorough add-on pack for Programmer Art, allowing it to function correctly in Modern Minecraft versions as well as a restoration of legacy textures and features that have been completely broken or removed.

This pack aims to fix EVERYTHING, even the most obscure issues that most players would never even notice.

There are many new texture additions over modern textures, keeping them as pixel perfect to Programmer Art's style as possible by using legacy textures as reference whenever they exist.




Some alterations & updates are made to old textures for readability, such as leaves having subtle brightness changes. IE: Oak vs Dark Oak, or if the original texture needs layout changes for new models, such as Horse Armor.



But typically, the original Programmer Art Textures are left completely alone to be as authentic as possible. Which may not always look pretty, but this is Programmer Art Preserved, as it was. Ugly Iconic Puffer Fish and all!


+ See the update log in the included readme.txt file for the massive list of changes!


Last Updated for 25w16a


[​Known issues]

The Panoramic Background is currently missing the blur effect due to 1.13 removing it. This can not be fixed with a resource pack as blurring the images in the texture would cause the blur to be very uneven.

Vexes & Bats use the new textures in 1.19.3-1.21+ for now as changing this texture would make the pack incompatible with older versions.

The Title Logo is not the Programmer Art version in 1.20+ due to a reformatting of the logo textures making a potential fix incompatible with older versions.


BY THE WAY PLANET MINECRAFT!!! I am a Youtuber with a following that knows I have been working on this and I'm going to tell them it's available. PLEASE do not ban me AGAIN for my viewers supposedly being bots.

Thank you.



24 Update Logs

Update #24 : by AceOcarinas 04/21/2025 1:49:06 amApril 21, 2025 @ 5:49 am UTC

+ Small formatting change to allow for a fix to the incompatibility message in snapshot 25w16a while also retaining compatibility with version 1.21.5.
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ThatGradient
07/21/2025 12:01 pm
He/Him • Level 39 : Artisan Waffle Warrior
Which shader did you use in the pictures?
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TheGreenCreeper0
05/09/2025 8:12 pm
Level 4 : Apprentice Explorer
Was looking at legacy resource packs, QoL mods, and other such things on Nexus Mods, saw this and clicked the link to planet MC.

Just casually looking thru the example images, scroll down and bit and I double take "WAIT ACE?" lmfao, had no idea you were making this, I'll share by bafflement in the discord if I remember to lol.
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InfinityBOIIIIII
04/18/2025 11:47 am
Level 1 : New Miner
From the pictures, it seems like the piglin models stayed the same. Can you change the models? I just don't really like the zombified piglin's texture or model. I miss zombie pigmen. :(
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AceOcarinas
04/21/2025 12:03 am
Level 53 : Grandmaster Nether Knight
Not that I know of without making optifine a requirement. I'd also want to revert Bats and Vexes but that would also make the pack incompatible with older versions. I think I might end up making an extended version of this pack in the future either as an add-on or as a stand alone thing that fixes everything for whatever the latest version is.
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jonh-jonh
03/29/2025 6:11 pm
He/Him • Level 1 : New Miner
bedrock plss
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AceOcarinas
03/30/2025 12:46 am
Level 53 : Grandmaster Nether Knight
I'm sorry. I tried but that dumb version is incompatible with half of the fixes and changes. I'm unfamiliar with the weird structure of that version and manually fixing each and every unique texture issue Bedrock Edition has is just too much work for me right now for a version of Minecraft that I honestly don't care about.



You'd be better off for a lot of reasons beyond just texture packs, to just get Java Edition.
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blank3times
07/23/2024 6:16 pm
He/Him • Level 56 : Grandmaster Botanist Programmer
The way you did the blue to purple for the anchor is really cool.
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insertusername_
05/26/2024 8:39 pm
Level 1 : New Miner
This is exactly what I needed thanks dude!
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Starlponeca-Icecats19
10/31/2023 8:53 am
He/Him • Level 39 : Artisan Aesthetic Artist
Cool!
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JosephCrafting_
10/10/2023 10:37 am
He/Him • Level 32 : Artisan Artist
Wow, the notch's original style!
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