Smooth Vanilla HD 256x

Smooth Vanilla HD keeps Minecraft's recognizable vanilla colors, shapes, and style while smoothing pixel edges and adding carefully refined detail.

Vanilla comparison

The left side shows vanilla textures. The right side shows the same diamond block, amethyst block, and diamond sword with Smooth Vanilla HD 256x enabled.

Features

• 256x vanilla-style block and item textures
• High-resolution mobs, shields, minecarts, and worn equipment
• Edge-aware xBR smoothing rather than generative AI
• LabPBR normal maps for 677 shader-compatible block textures
• Water, lava, fire, portal, and other animated textures retain their animation frames
• Transparency fringe repair for leaves, plants, items, particles, and mobs
• Vanilla sky, sun, moon, clouds, UI, crosshair, and fonts

Compatibility

• Minecraft Java Edition 26.2
• No required mods
• A shader pack with LabPBR/PBR support is recommended for normal maps
• Tested successfully on Minecraft 26.2 with Fabric and Iris

Fresh Animations

For Fresh Animations 1.10.5 on Minecraft 26.2, place Smooth Vanilla HD above Fresh Animations. This keeps Fresh Animations' models and animations while prioritizing this pack's high-resolution mob textures.

This pack was generated locally from Minecraft's original textures. No generative AI was used.