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Villagers Look Less Like Antisemitic Stereotypes

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lemontoad's Avatar lemontoad
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The vanilla villager and illager textures and their context are very antisemitic. Since people don't seem to understand why that is, here is the brief explanation. No, big noses are not automatically Jewish caricatures, but within the context of Minecraft, they well recognizably are and it bothers a not insignificant amount of people. Most obviously, villagers spawn Golems for protection. Golems belong to Jewish folklore, no ifs and buts about it, they just do, and this draws a VERY clear connection between Minecraft villagers and Jewish people. Jewish stereotyping also very often involves greed as its main point, which I think we are all familiar with, and considering villagers' only thing is emeralds, we can connect the dots, maybe. Individually none of these would be a significant issue, but all put together they are pretty clearly a thing. If you think this is dumb, cool, I don't really care, then this pack is not for you. Your negative comments do not affect me in any way, but they will be removed for the safety of those who do find this texture pack helpful.


- REMOVED NOSES -

Removed the caricature sized noses from NPC faces. They look more similar to the player model now.

Mobs affected:
  • Villagers
  • Wandering traders
  • Witches
  • Iron constructs*
  • Illagers including the Ravager


- SKIN TONES -

Added randomized skin tone variation to villagers. 5 variants, spawning unaffected by biome, completely randomized.

Mobs affected:
  • Villagers
  • Wandering traders
  • Witches
  • Might revisit the pack to expand this to illagers as well.


- GOLEMS -

Both golems have been renamed to Constructs, because golems are a part of Jewish folklore.

The renaming of items, entities, achievements and messages related to this is purely cosmetic, because I am NOT a modder and this is only a resource pack. This means that item and entity codes used in commands are unaffected and still say "golem". Any attempt (made by me) at changing this would break the game.

Parts of the game affected:
  • Spawn eggs
  • Subtitles
  • Game messages
  • I don't think I missed anything, but if I did it was accidental. Please do not let me know if I did miss something, I will likely not check back on this page often.




The pack is 1.20.1 compatible and REQUIRES OPTIFINE. I will likely update for future versions, but in case I abandon this, here is how you update (or downgrade) a resource pack manually for compatibility --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDKYIJYOc04
Progress100% complete
Game VersionMinecraft 1.20
Resolution16x
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09/15/2023 3:30 pm
Level 1 : New Miner
moobloomafton
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THANK YOU !! I am so happy someone else reacted to the antisemitism in the game :D
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09/17/2023 3:16 am
Level 15 : Journeyman Lemon
lemontoad
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Thank you for the nice comment! People really don't talk about it enough for how obvious it is. Mojang needs to fix this issue... they can have my texture pack if they want hahaha
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08/25/2023 4:27 am
Level 5 : Apprentice Crafter
LiquidCake
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I made an account just to comment this is so epic I love this!!! Would you ever consider adding randomized eye colors as well? Regardless thank you for making this this is awesome.
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09/17/2023 3:11 am
Level 15 : Journeyman Lemon
lemontoad
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Thank you for the nice comment! I don't plan on making any changes to the pack, but you have my permission to download and modify the textures yourself for personal use. There are great tutorials online on how to make texture packs and the majority of the work is already done, so you should be able to do it pretty easily (and if you mess up, the original file is always here to download again). Sorry for the very late reply to this!
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07/14/2023 5:23 am
Level 1 : New Miner
MasterPotato327
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This pack isn't bad, but I think you should have left them with just a smaller nose. (either 2x2x2 pixels or 2x1x1 pixels)
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07/16/2023 3:55 pm
Level 15 : Journeyman Lemon
lemontoad
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I thought about that but none of the other mobs have 3D noses, so I thought this would be more cohesive. Plus I didn't know how to do that and it already took a lot of effort for something I mainly made for my own use. You are welcome to modify my textures for your personal use if you know how to do smaller noses
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