Texture Update

This article is about the specific update to textures which took place in Java Edition 1.14 and Bedrock Edition 1.10.0. For an extensive history of block texture changes throughout the game's lifetime, see History of textures.

Texture Update
Release date	Java Edition: April 23, 2019 Bedrock Edition: March 19, 2019 PlayStation 4 Edition: April 15, 2019
Major version	Java Edition 1.14 Bedrock Edition 1.10.0 PlayStation 4 Edition 1.90

	“	WHAT IS JAPPA DOING TO MY MINECRAFT? Changing the textures! Except for a few, like the Creeper. Across all versions? YEP, both on Java and Bedrock. You cannot escape my sweet, sweet textures. When? Soon! In the Beta Resource Pack, where all my beloved pixels live.	„
	— Jasper "JAPPA" Boerstra

The Texture Update is an update released in Java Edition 1.14, Bedrock Edition 1.10.0, and PlayStation 4 Edition 1.90 (with further amendments in Bedrock Edition 1.17.10, as well as minor revisions in subsequent major updates for textures which were left behind). The update changes most of the textures in the game, except for a few iconic textures like the creeper. The textures were developed primarily by JAPPA (Jasper Boerstra). The original textures (with the exception of leather horse armor) are available as a resource pack/texture pack built in-game‌ or as a separate download‌ (named "Programmer Art" in Java Edition, and "Classic Textures" in Bedrock Edition).

Textures

Blocks

Plants

Leaves

Name	Old texture	New texture	Notes
Oak Leaves			‌
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Spruce Leaves			‌
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Birch Leaves			‌
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Jungle Leaves			‌
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Acacia Leaves			‌
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Dark Oak Leaves			‌
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Utility

Name	Old texture	New texture	Notes
Crafting Table
Ender Chest
Brewing Stand
Enchanting Table
Beacon
All Anvil Stages			‌
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Broken Anvil			‌
Cauldron			‌
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Furnace
Item Frame
Cake			‌
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Jukebox

Items

Transport

Name	Old texture	New texture
All Minecarts
All Boats
Elytra/Broken Elytra

Plants

Name	Old texture	New texture
Wheat
Sugar Cane
Beetroot Seeds
Cocoa Beans
Lily Pad

Dyes

Name	Old texture	New texture
All Dyes
Dyes in Bedrock Edition

Tools

Name	Old texture	New texture	Notes
All Pickaxes
All Shovels
All Axes
All Hoes
Shears
Fishing Rod
Carrot on a Stick
Flint and Steel
Lead
Name Tag
Empty Map
Map			‌
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Explorer Maps			‌
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Weapons

Name	Old texture	New texture
All Swords
Fire Charge
Snowball
Spectral Arrow

Armor

Name	Old texture	New texture	Notes
Player Armor
Golden and diamond Horse Armor
Leather Horse Armor			‌
Iron Horse Armor			‌
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Mechanism

Name	Old texture	New texture
Redstone Repeater
Redstone Comparator

Potions

Name	Old texture	New texture
Potion
Splash Potion
Lingering Potion

Creative only

Name	Old texture	New texture	Notes
Barrier
Structure Void			‌
Knowledge Book			‌

Entities

Neutral

Name	Old texture	New texture	Notes
Iron Golem
Llama
Polar Bear
Spider
Cave Spider
All Wolves
Zombie Pigman			‌
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Transport

Name	Old texture	New texture
All Boats
All Minecarts
Elytra

Miscellaneous

Name	Old texture	New texture	Notes
All Armor
Shield
Armor Stand			‌
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End Crystal			‌
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Dragon Fireball			‌
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Missed textures

While the vast majority of textures were updated since Java Edition 1.14 and beyond, the following textures remained unchanged since Java Edition 1.13.

Blocks which weren't updated

• Acacia Trapdoor, Birch Trapdoor, Dark Oak Trapdoor, Jungle Trapdoor
• Attached Pumpkin Stem, Melon Stem
• All Concrete and Concrete Powder
• All Colored Terracotta, Glazed Terracotta
• All Shulker Box particles (block folder)
• Stained Glass Pane tops
• All Wool colors
• Blue Ice
• All types of Coral, Coral Blocks, Coral Fans (including dead variants)
• Dirt, Coarse Dirt
• Podzol side
• Conduit (block folder)
• Daylight Detector
• Debug textures (debug, debug2)
• Block breaking stages (destroy_stage_0 to 9)
• Dragon Egg
• Dried Kelp Block
• Fire (fire_0, fire_1)
• Grass Block (side & top textures; overlay was changed)
• Kelp, Kelp Plant
• Lava Flow, Lava Still
• Nether Portal
• Redstone Dust (dot, line0, line1, overlay)
• Sea Lantern
• Sea Pickle
• Seagrass
• Sides of Stripped Acacia, Birch, Jungle, Oak, Spruce Logs
• Structure Blocks
• Tall Seagrass
• Tripwire
• All states of Turtle Eggs
• Water Flow, Water Overlay, Water Still

Items which weren't updated

• Arrow (regular)
• Blaze Powder, Blaze Rod
• Bow (all states)
• Clock
• Dried Kelp
• Filled Map markings
• Firework Star
• Heart of the Sea
• Iron Nugget
• Kelp (item folder)
• Nautilus Shell
• Nether Wart
• Sea Pickle (item folder)
• Seagrass (item folder)
• Spawn Egg
• Stick
• Tipped Arrow base
• Trident
• Turtle Egg
• Scute, Turtle Shell
• Raw Cod, Raw Salmon, Tropical Fish, Pufferfish, Cooked Cod, Cooked Salmon
• Pumpkin Seeds, Wheat Seeds
• All music discs in 1.13 except for 11
• Empty armor slot (item folder)

Other textures which weren't updated

• The nether wart, blaze rod, and blaze powder items still use their old texture.
• Although chests, trapped chests and Christmas chests had their png files changed (file sizes too), they still use their old textures/pixels rather than updated ones.
• The offline default player skins, "Steve" and "Alex", have not been updated in Minecraft: Java Edition unlike Bedrock Edition, creating a mismatch between the "Steve" texture and the zombie texture, which are supposed to be related.
  • The launcher however has the newer models and textures.
  • This is no longer the case as of Java Edition 1.19.3, which introduced the updated "Steve" and "Alex" skin texture as well as seven more default skins.
• The bottom texture of the Enchanting Table is now visually similar to Obsidian (albeit the file size being different).
  • Enchanting Table used to have borders on all sides (to differentiate from Obsidian) before it was changed in this texture update.
• Sugar cane had its file content/bytes altered, but not file size nor texture/pixels.
  • As of 1.17, the item texture itself was changed, but whether it is the part of the same stylistic update is unknown.

Inconsistencies

• The border of the Cactus bottom texture still uses the color scheme of the old cactus side texture, as opposed to the current side texture.

Textures still using pre-Texture Update elements

• The top texture of the observer is still largely based on the old "polished cobblestone" texture, rather than its updated version.
• The top texture of the ender chest is still largely based on the old "cobblestone" texture, rather than its updated version.
• The bedrock texture in natural end crystals has not been updated at all.
• The Tutorial hints still uses the old oak planks texture, rather than its updated version.
• Spectator icons, such as the 'exit menu' and 'teleport to player' are still based on the old barrier and eye of ender textures.
• The pack.png for the default resource pack still uses the old grass block and cobblestone textures, rather than their updated version.
• The favicon for the game window uses the old crafting table texture, rather than the new one.
• Dyed versions of terracotta have not been updated, although their undyed version has.
• The Player Head still uses the old Steve texture in Bedrock Edition despite the skin being updated in that version.

Slots and outlines

• The empty armor slot textures in the Inventory still use the old textures, rather than their updated versions.
• The icons on Statistics still use old item textures, rather than their updated versions.

Unsorted

• Despite being visually similar before the update, the leather tunic overlay lost its transparent textures, where it once had an unused texture, most likely as a placeholder.
• The hand texture of the Drowned uses an old Zombie hand texture rather than the new one. This also affects Zombie Villagers, Illagers and Vexes.
  • Vex texture and model was updated on Java Edition 1.19.3.
• The options background still uses the old Dirt texture, rather than its updated version. This is probably not a Texture Update issue, as the dirt texture was last changed in 1.0.0.
• Podzol still uses its old side texture rather than an updated one, even though its top texture is updated.
• While normal pumpkin stem and attached melon stem use updated textures, attached pumpkin stem and normal melon stem still use the old ones.
• Grass Blocks still use their old top texture rather than updated one, even though their new top texture has appeared in Texture Update Betapack V1 & V2.

Video

Video made by slicedlime:

Downloads

Version	Available	Download
1.0.0	for Java Edition 1.12	Download
2.0.0	for Java Edition 1.12	Download
3.0.0	in Java Edition 18w43a	—
3.0.1	in Java Edition 18w43b	—
3.1.0	in Java Edition 18w44a	Download
3.2.0	in Java Edition 18w47a	—
3.2.1	in Java Edition 18w47b	—
3.3.0	in Java Edition 18w50a	Download
3.4.0	in Java Edition 19w08a	—
3.4.1	in Java Edition 19w13b	—

History

Java Edition
1.14	18w43a	Changed most textures.
18w43b	Fixed a few textures.
18w44a	Changed the textures of sand, stone, andesite, enchanting table (part of obsidian), diorite, obsidian, cactus, and wheat.
18w47a	Changed the textures of all logs, planks, gold and diamond blocks, glowstone, nether bricks, and red sand and sandstone, as well as other blocks.
Minor changes to regular, mossy, cracked and chiseled stone bricks; and wheat crops.
18w47b	Changed the textures of impulse and repeating command blocks, spruce door and trapdoor, raw and cooked cod, and the tuxedo cat.
Changed the top textures of normal and stripped logs.
18w50a	Changed the textures of bed, bedrock, cobblestone, emerald block, end stone, grass, mossy cobblestone, nether quartz ore, quartz pillar, red nether bricks, red sandstone, sandstone, and spruce planks.
Changed the obsidian side and bottom textures of enchanting table, and the top texture of stripped jungle log.
Changed the textures of baked potato, fermented spider eye, all horse armor, potato, poisonous potato, and rabbit stew.
19w08a	Changed the textures of emerald block, diamond ore, diorite, grass block, snowy grass block, podzol, mycelium, oak door, stained glass, and stained glass panes.
Changed the textures of gold armor, horse armor, cake, emerald, phantom membrane, and snowball.
Changed the textures of iron golems, skeleton horses, and zombie horses.
Changed the icons of Luck and Bad Luck effects.
19w13b	Changed the texture of normal quartz block, stairs and slabs included.
1.14.1	Pre-Release 1	Changed the texture of crafting table as to match the textures for oak planks as of 18w47a.
Fixed the texture of iron ore.
Updated the textures of leather and iron horse armor items.
1.15	19w46a	Updated the dragon fireball texture to line up with that of fire charges and other fireballs.
1.16	20w09a	Updated the top textures of purpur pillars to match their sides, as well as to better match Bedrock Edition's.
1.17	21w11a	Updated the back texture for paintings as to match the textures for planks as of 18w47a.
Updated the bottle slot outline in the brewing stand UI as to match the new texture for glass bottle items.
Sign textures are now updated to better reflect the textures of planks as of 18w47a (and later in the case of spruce. Only the six overworld wood signs have changed, as they were the only ones subject to this.
The jungle door item has been updated to reflect the texture change of its block form.
Shot spectral arrow textures have changed to better reflect their item form.
1.18	Pre-release 5	The texture for the base of lecterns has been updated to match the 18w47a oak planks texture.
The textures for the sides of cartography tables have been updated to match the 18w47a dark oak planks texture.
The textures for the edges of non-stained glass panes have been updated to be less noisy and have a more consistent color scheme with glass itself.
The texture for the side of dirt paths has changed to better match their updated top texture.
Other changes to textures have been made in this version, however whether they qualify as revisions to better fit the Texture Update is unclear.
Bedrock Edition
1.8.0	December 13, 2018	Released beta resource pack with the new textures.
1.10.0	beta 1.10.0.3	The Texture Update textures are now the default.
1.11.0	beta 1.11.0.5	Updated some textures.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90	The Texture Update textures are now the default.
Old textures are available in the built-in "Classic Textures" texture pack.

Trivia

• Despite saying that the Creeper texture was not changed, its file size changed during the course of this update.
• On April 1, 2018, the Texture Update was "released" on Java Edition as an April Fools' joke. DOS-styled 8-bit default version of textures, with reductions in detail, were released for Java Edition, available in versions of 1.12.x and 1.13 snapshots from 17w43a to 18w11a, with the thread claiming that all editions of Minecraft would eventually get the textures.
  • The textures were reverted to the way they were before on April 2, 2018. These textures cannot be re-activated by setting the device's date to April 1, 2018 as it is a server-side update.
  • These textures only replaced the default textures, so using a Resource Pack would hide the textures the resource pack would change.
• The Texture Update Beta Pack gallery on the Minecraft Marketplace in Bedrock Edition uses screenshots from the Java Edition.
• In a now deleted Tweet, JAPPA announced on November 10, 2017 that the new textures would be available on "all versions" of Minecraft. However, the update has only been released on the Java Edition, Bedrock Edition, and PlayStation 4 Edition. The Xbox 360 Edition, Xbox One Edition, PlayStation 3 Edition, PlayStation Vita Edition, Wii U Edition, Nintendo Switch Edition, and New Nintendo 3DS Edition still have not received this update.
• The "polished cobblestone" on the piston prior to the texture update used to match the furnace top texture. After the texture update, they no longer share the same design.

Gallery

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  Texture Update logo

Development images

Some unreleased textures Jappa made when developing the final ones for the update.

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  obsidian, block of iron and birch wood, grass textures
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  Old vs unreleased obsidian texture.
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  Old vs final bricks texture.
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  All wood blocks.
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  Obsidian
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  Jungle door, jungle planks, oak pressure plate.
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  An unreleased block of diamond texture.
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  Birch wood and peony.
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  Unreleased block of diamond and cobblestone textures.
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  Block of emerald
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  Chorus flower, chorus plant and end stone.
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  Stone bricks
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  oak planks, oak wood and bookshelves
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  oak planks, oak wood and bookshelves
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  oak leaves, oak wood, grass, grass blocks, stone, cobblestone, coal ore and oxeye daisy
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  oak leaves, oak wood, grass, grass blocks, stone, cobblestone, coal ore and oxeye daisy
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  Hay bale
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  Dead bush and cactus.
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  Glass pane, crops, potatoes and carrots
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  Cobblestone and spruce planks.
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  Skeleton and mossy cobblestone.
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  Oak leaves, oak wood, oak planks, cobblestone, grass, dandelions
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  Glowstone
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  Cave spider. Final texture.
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  Glowstone
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  Quartz blocks
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  Quartz blocks
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  Quartz blocks
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  Sand
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  Nether blocks
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  Nether blocks
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  Nether blocks
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  Items
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  Items
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  Items
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  Cake
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  Cake
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  Totem of undying
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  Gold, diamond and emerald blocks
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  Gold, diamond and emerald blocks
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  An unreleased Melon texture.
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  Mossy cobblestone and spawner
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  Snow golem
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  Ores
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  Glass
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  Glass
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  Birch leaves and logs
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  Oak planks
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  Redstone lamp
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  Diamond blocks
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  Gold, diamond and emerald blocks
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  Emerald blocks
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  Obsidian, block of diamond and cobblestone.
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  Unreleased textures for diorite, andesite.
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  Sand and sandstone
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  Unreleased oak log and oak planks textures.
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  Ditto
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  Stone, cobblestone, granite, sand
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  Nether portal
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  Nether portal
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  Nether portal
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  Spruce planks and logs
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  Swords
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  Ice
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  Ice
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  Cactus
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  Sand and sandstone
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  Sand and sandstone
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  Oak planks
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  Oak planks
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  Cobblestone
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  Cobblestone
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  Bedrock
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  Skeleton horse
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  Skeleton and zombie horse
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  Stained glass
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  Smooth quartz
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  Unreleased diorite texture.
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  Oak logs, planks, and crafting tables.
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  Stone, gold, diamond and emerald blocks.
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  Some unreleased cobblestone, block of diamond, and obsidian textures.