Minecraft’s visual design and aesthetics might be the most iconic in all of gaming. The game’s indie roots are clear to see through its pixelated textures and blocky generated worlds. However, this simplistic design, as great as it is, has a downside: it can become quite stale over hundreds of hours of gameplay.
The Minecraft community has, as usual, stepped up to fix this issue. Mojang has made it incredibly easy to make custom texture packs for the game. The community has created a plethora of realistic texture packs for the game, the best of which are detailed below.
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Realistico, Stratum, and 3 other great realistic texture packs for Minecraft 1.19 as of 2022
1) Clarity
Realistico has two different versions available for players: one that is free and another that is a paid-for-premium texture pack.
The free version of the texture pack, known as Realistico Lite, has a texture resolution of 128 x 128. The premium version is fully featured and has a resolution of 512 x 512.
Realistico, as the name suggests, aims to turn the game into a much more realistic experience while still keeping the game feeling like itself. The pack attempts this by upscaling the textures, but it strives to leave the textures similar enough to their vanilla versions to feel familiar.
The extra resolution comes with added depth of the textures, thereby elevating the resource pack.
3) Brixel
Brixel takes the idea of a “realistic” texture pack in quite a unique direction. Instead of making Minecraft look like real life, it changes the game to look like Lego, a natural transition as both are block-based building toys. This means the game looks real, as Lego exists, but still like a toy, which is a very cute interpretation of realism in Minecraft.
There are a few different premium options offering increased resolution. The higher resolutions are so realistic that the game truly feels more like Lego than Minecraft.
Brixel is a great choice for players who want a new experience from the monotony that a lot of realistic texture packs can have.
4) Stratum
flowers are so realistic that it’s almost comical to think about their original appearance.
5) Patrix
water can collect in small puddles on top of other blocks when it rains. This adds a layer of realism to the game.
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