ViaBackwards-Plus

Chime: The main priority of this project, the structure of the project is build upon Chime. It helps backporting the items in a fast and efficient way.

Optifine CIT: This is a work in progress more detailed in the next section, but it does the same thing, just the implementation of it is a bit slower.

Respackopts: Used to fix the Minecraft logo in the main menu for 1.20-1.20.1, after it it done trough the overlay_pack feature. It is planned to use the capabilities of the mod more.

The Optifine versions of the pack is in the works, and will be done in the pack's 2.0 version with the release of Minecraft 1.21.

The pack will start with the newly added and 1.17 items then it will move on to the 1.20 items and lastly do the 1.19 items, because there's a smaller Optifine pack called ViaVisual. If you want to speed up the development you can do it on Github

Title: [​oldest-newest where items have been backported] + Viabackwards Plus

Versioning: I use the Semantic Versioning (SemVer) system, a.k.a the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH one. I consider an update MAJOR if it's ads a new feature, not just expanding/updating the existing ones. A MINOR update when no new feature was added, only expending/updating the existing ones, like backporting new items. PATCH is pretty self explanatory, it's for updates that just fixes bugs.

The pack works by identifying items by their ViaBackwards Protocol ID, which helps determine the correct model and texture to assign to them. For example, "Copper ore" has a protocol id of "44", the Chime mod will help the pack recognize it as a Copper ore and assign the correct model and texture to it.

Think of it like a special tag on each item that tells the pack what it is, so the pack knows how to make it look and behave correctly. This way, you get to enjoy the latest Minecraft textures and the easy identification of items, even if you're playing an older version of the game!
Implementation on Servers
You can put this resources pack to your server so, it's automatically loads when players join. The only problem is that players still have to install Chime or CIT. As of now the resource pack has a more client-sided approach, but a more server-side friendly version is planned! If I see demand for it I will make and maintain a version of this pack which uses the vanilla custom_model_data feature to backport the items instead of the external ones. Join my Discord if you want to be notified when this happens!

If there's demand for it I can make support for 1.14x and 1.15x.

For versions below that I probably won't, before 1.14 items had different ID's, which means the entire pack would have to be rewritten! The only way to make the pack work for versions older then 1.14 would be Optifine CIT, and I hate to work with CIT, even custom_model_data was implemented in 1.14, Optifine had a monopoly back then...