✨ Vanilla Changes: A Refreshing Upgrade for Minecraft

Vanilla Changes is a carefully crafted resource pack that brings subtle yet impactful improvements to your Minecraft experience. It focuses on enhancing the game's visuals in a way that feels natural, consistent, and true to the original art style. Every texture, tweak, and visual refinement is designed to blend seamlessly with the default look of Minecraft, preserving the familiar charm that players know and love.

Whether it’s cleaner item icons, more readable GUIs, or minor visual adjustments that improve clarity without distraction, Vanilla Changes delivers a polished and immersive experience without ever feeling intrusive. It’s not about changing Minecraft — it’s about refining it.

In addition to its visual improvements, this pack is thoughtfully structured to be developer-friendly. All assets are clearly named and organized, making it easy for creators to explore, understand, or build upon. Whether you're tweaking a few files for personal use or integrating parts into your own project, the layout is clean, consistent, and easy to work with.

❓ Why Vanilla Changes?

Unlike many packs, this one adds polish without clutter. It’s made for those who love Vanilla – but want it at its best.
Vanilla Changes isn’t here to fix Minecraft’s style – it’s here to enhance what’s already great, with a few tasteful extras.
Also, Vanilla Changes is designed to be easy to update when a new Minecraft Version comes out so you are almost always able to use it on the newest Minecraft version.

🎉 What's New?

This pack introduces:

Visual refinements to enhance the original look without overwhelming it.
Quality-of-life features to make gameplay more intuitive and enjoyable.
Modernized textures that stay true to the Vanilla style but are cleaner and more polished.
Unique additions that the Vanilla game does not have such as Fractured tools.

🧩 Compatibility & Notes

✅ Minecraft Version: 1.21.5+
⚙️ Optional Mods: Some features require mods (see table below)
⚠️ May conflict with resourcepacks that alter:
- Chests, beds, arrows, consumables, bows/crossbows and/or tools.

🔧 Recommended Mods

Mod	Purpose	OptiFine Equivalent
Continuity	Emissive/Connected textures	🟢 Yes
ETF	Random entity/item textures	🟡 Partial
EMF	3D models on entities	🟡 Partial
Puzzle	Custom loading screen	🟡 Partial
OptiGUI	Unique GUI designs	🟡 Partial
OptiBoxes	Custom Sky	🟢 Yes

🟢 = Fully replaceable
🟡 = Partially replaceable
🔴 = Not replaceable

Discord 🔵

For developer updates, infos, known issues or if you need help, it is recommend to join the Vanilla Lab Discord server.

See Gallery for example images.
Features marked with "*" do not have images.

Feature	Requirements	Description
🔳 Dark GUI Addon*	Base Pack	Optional Dark GUI. This addon is not a standalone version – load it above the base pack. You can find it after clicking on the version you want and scolling all the way down
⛓️‍💥 Fractured Tools	None	Tools will visually Change their texture when they are about to break
📈 Visual Stack size	None	Depending on the stack size, some items will reflect the amount in their texture
📔 Enchantment Icons	None	Every enchantment will feature a unique icon in thier name.
🧱 Connected Textures	Continuity	Connects Textures from blocks for a more natural look
📚 Unique Enchanted Books	None	Unique textures for every enchanted book depending on the Enchantment and level
🍗 Eating & Drinking Animations	None	When Eating or Drinking, the texture changes over time
📼 Custom Loading Screen	Puzzle	Gives the Loading screen a better look
🔳 3D Blocks	None	Gives some blocks more depth and detail with 3D Models
🖥️ GUI Overhaul	Optional: OptiGUI	Gives every container a unique texture
🌄 Custom Panorama	None	A beautiful new Panorama
📃 Custom Font	None	A new font that is probably more fitting to the game than the vanilla font
💡 Emissive Textures	Continuity	Some blocks now have Emessive/Glowing parts that makes them more immersive
🔊 Custom Sounds*	None	Added some new sounds to make the game sound better
🧸 Small Custom Totem	None	A smaller totem that does not take up your screen
🛡️ Side-Held and Lower Shield	None	A better way of holding your shield
🪽 Elytra Contrails*	EMF/ETF	A contrail for your elytra to make flying less boring
🎊 Colored Text*	None	It just makes some menus look better
🍃 Biome specific creeper textures*	ETF	To make creepers blend in

...and a lot more!

Icons and Colored text are only available in the following supported languages:

English (US, GB, AU, CA, NZ)
Deutsch (DE)

...more languages soon!

Mod	GUI Support	Other	Up-to-date
Mod Menu	🟢 Full	None	✅ Yes
Simple Voice Chat	🟢 Full	Semi-Transparent Icons	✅ Yes
Inventory Profiles Next	🟢 Full	None	✅ Yes
AppleSkin	🟢 Full	None	✅ Yes
Enchanting Infuser	🟡 Raw	None	❌ No
Easy Anvils	🟡 Raw	None	❌ No
Easy Magic	🟡 Raw	None	❌ No
Tom's Simple Storage Mod	🟢 Full	None	✅ Yes
Traveler's Backpack	🟡 Raw	None	❌ No
Tradye Cycling	🟢 Full	None	✅ Yes
Soulbound Enchantment	N/A	Custom Book Texture, Colored Enchantment name, Enchantment Icon	✅ Yes
Veinminer Enchantment	N/A	Custom Book Texture, Colored Enchantment Name, Enchantment Icon	✅ Yes
Cubes Without Borders	N/A	Colored text	✅ Yes

🟢 = Fully Supported
🟡 = A "raw" Version of it
🔴 = No changes made
N/A = Nothing to change

📜 License & Attribution

This pack is licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0.

You're free to use it in your projects, modpacks or servers.
If you feature it, please:

Credit this page
Don’t monetize it
Share your creation under any CC-SA licence
Respect the terms of the creators that are mentioned in the credits (inspirations excluded)

Credits

CREDITS:

Pack Owner - Vanilla Lab:

Just_Syrexx
Mtf_mo
Novacraft
Noxii

Some 3D Blocks:

UnduGT - Modrinth

Visual: Armor Trims:

thanos - Modrinth

Important Assets:

Vanilla Tweaks

Inspirations:

Aukasz - Simply Trims - Modrinth
RobotPants - Bare Bones (Widgets, Hotbar) - Modrinth/Curseforge
theoness1 - Eating Animation - Modrinth/Curseforge
xalixilax - xali's Enchanted Books - Modrinth/Curseforge
Voxel1 - Voxel1's Immersive items - Modrinth
CountXD - Enchant Icons - Modrinth/Curseforge

Special Thanks:

Everyone who downloaded this pack ❤️

💬 Transparency Note

We're not native English speakers. If you spot grammar issues, typos, or missing attributions – let us know and we’ll fix it ASAP. We aim to improve consistently.

All promotional materials and images for Vanilla Changes featured on this page that were created and uploaded by Syrexx are the intellectual property of the author. Unless otherwise stated, they are licensed under the CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 license.