Vanilladendron is a work-in-progress, JAPPA-inspired, vanilla-style

resource pack for the Prehistoric Nature mod for Minecraft 1.12.

This resource pack is not complete, but currently includes new textures for dozens of blocks, many items, and every plant and terrain block found within the Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, and Permian dimensions. I plan to continue working on this resource pack in my spare time, however I am a full time college student and thus development may be inconsistent. If a texture or model looks untouched, I probably just haven’t gotten to it yet!

I recommend using alongside a 1.14+ resource pack, and Better Water.

My goals for completing this resource pack are as follows:

Retextures for all blocks, such that they are all reasonable choices to build with alongside default vanilla blocks
Retextures for most items, likely excluding the hundreds of meat textures for the animals
Simplified, vanilla-style remodels for overly complex block models where possible
Fixed UV mapping and z-fighting

Why Vanilladendron?

The suffix "-dendron" comes from Ancient Greek, meaning “tree,” and is commonly used in the scientific names of many trees, including several of the extinct ones retextured by this resource pack. In addition, the internal name for the Prehistoric Nature mod is Lepidodendron, in reference to the first plant added by early versions of the mod. It seemed fitting to allude to both of these in the name of this resource pack.

For some examples of builds using this resource pack, check out this compilation here!

Version History

Version 1.0 Hit the Organic Ground Running

~25 complete wood families, with several more partially completed

Including doors, saplings, seeds and fruits!

- All ores

Sulfur, zircon, anthracite
Fossils and amber

- Material blocks

- Numerous miscellaneous blocks

Lava rock
Brownstone
All variants of sandstone
Dirt variants: peat, leaf litter, mud, organic ground, etc.
And many more!

- Complete remodels for several block types

Thatch
Benches
Rotten logs
Climbing plants

- Smaller model edits to fix UV mapping errors and z-fighting

- Numerous plants, including every plant found in the Carboniferous!

Version 2.0

Blocks:

-Terrain blocks

All sand
All wavy sand
All sandy ground
All coarse sandy ground
Silty dirt / Coarse silty dirt
Wavy gravel
Red clay block

-Stone blocks

Feric sandstone
Porphyry
Polished porphyry
Scoria
Polished scoria

-Lab blocks

Lab bench
Lab bench hopper
Fossil sorter
Acid bath
DNA recombiner
Coal tar processor
Oligopool production machine
Taxidermy table

-Decorative & Misc. Blocks

Lamp
Glass jar
Zircon glass door/gate
Resin extractor
Bridge block

-Flora & Fungi

Ordovician

Prototaxites

Silurian

Cooksonia
Nematophyta
Zosterophyllum

Devonian

Aneurophyton
Asteroxylon
Calamophyton
Clubmoss
Elkinsia
Flabellopteris
Guangdedendron
Ibyka
Keraphyton
Leclercqia
Lepidosigillaria
Omprelostrobus
Pietzschia
Protolepidodendropsis
Pseudobornia
Psilophyton
Rhacophyton
Sublepidodendron
Tetraxylopteris
Xihuphyllum

Carboniferous

Lepidophloios
Lycophyte trees redone

Misc.

Ptilophyllum
Glossophyllum
Nereocystis kelp
Phoenix palm
All ground cover plants

-Bivalves & Brachiopods

Cream bivalve
Dark bivalve
Inoceramus bivalve
Green bivalve
Grey bivalve
Lithiotis bivalve
Megalodon bivalve
Upright bivalve
Tall bivalve
Dicerocardium bivalve
White bivalve
Orthid brachiopod
Gigantoproductus brachiopod
Spiriferid brachiopod

-Reefs

Stromatolite
Thrombolite
Shelly reef
Glass sponge reef
Bryozoan reef
Sponge Reef
Stromatoporoid Reef
Mixed reef
Bleached reef

Items:

Taxidermy scalpel
Bottle of sulfuric acid
Benzo-solvent
Oligo pool
Glass phial / DNA phial
Glass jar
Redstone component
Centrifuge component
Oligo-forge component
Claw component
Rail component
Bone wand
Respawner
Prototaxites pieces
Stromatolite
Nereocystis kelp
Bivalve items
Brachiopod items
Red clay
Wattieza sapling

Version 3.0 End of an Era

Completed (almost) all plants up to the end of the Paleozoic Era as of PN v.59

-Carboniferous

Botrychiopsis
Rhacopteris
Sanfordiacaulis
Alethopteris (new strobilus)
Macroneuropteris (new strobilus)

-Permian

Arthropitys
Glossopteris
Gangamopteris
Belemnopteris
Skaaripteris
Reed-like Equisetites
Shrubby Equisetites
Brasilodendron
Cyclodendron
Paurodendron
Palaeognetaleana
Gigantopterid
Emplectopteris
Ctenis
Surangephyllum
Palaeostachya
Noeggerathiales
Neocalamites
Zygopteris
Cladophlebis
Phyllotheca
Bjuvia
Quadrocladus
Podozamites block family
Nystroemia
Baiera
Glenopteris
Scolecopteris
Nilssoniopteris
Phasmatocycas
Podocarp block family
Chiropteris
Trichopitys
Quasistrobus
Arid horsetail
Ortiseia
Thucydia
Schizoneura
Lepidopteris
Polyspermophyllum
Pseudovoltzia
Wachtlerina

-Misc. Blocks

Sabal palm
Ferny Groundcover
Volcanic Ash
Outdoor lamp
Scorched Earth
Caustic mud

3.1

-Devonian

Wattieza

-Carboniferous

Synchysidendron
Sphenopteris fern
Seed Sphenopteris
Sturdy Sphenophyllales
Symplocopteris
Porongodendron
Dryland Cordaites
Wetland Cordaites (tweaks)
Calathospermum
Calamopitys
Angiopteris
Archaeocalamites
Nemejcopterus

-Permian

Glossopteris duocaudata
Glossopteris ampla
Rissikia
Paracalamites
Neomariopteris
Vojnovskyales

-Misc. Blocks

Angiosperm organic ground
Angiosperm ground cover
Grey sand block family
Pebblestone + Mossy Pebblestone
Brown clay, brown brick
Peridotite
Megalodon bivalve accuracy tweak
Dicerocardium bivalve accuracy tweak
Gigantoproductus brachiopod accuracy tweak
Gigantocapulus
Glass sponge
Optimized reefs
Optimized bivalves
Animated sprouting algae