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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Ashen v1.15, fully retexturing all the new baby mobs in Minecraft 26.1 Tiny Takeover, is live! 🐂🐖🐓 Which of the new baby models is your favorite? www.curseforge.com/minecraft/te... modrinth.com/resourcepack... #mcdev #minecraft #pixelart

Minecraft; image split in half; at left is a grassy field with four baby chickens and one adult chicken, along with two golden dandelion flowers; at right is a spruce forest scene featuring four adult villagers and a child.

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Love this animal. The ribbit Working on 26.1 support for Ashen, and I absolutely love the model changes so far 🐤 #minecraft #mcdev #pixelart

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Forgot to post this yesterday: Ashen v1.14, with full support for Minecraft 1.21.11 Mounts of Mayhem, is now live! Also featuring brand new Amethyst Block textures! 🖼️ www.curseforge.com/minecraft/te... modrinth.com/resourcepack... #mcdev #minecraft #pixelart

Image split in half; at left is an evening sunset with a Minecraft Husk and Parched riding a Husk Camel in a Desert; at right is a Minecraft Nautilus in a Warm Ocean

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Ashen 1.13 is live! With full support for the 1.21.9 Copper Age drop, and, more importantly, textures for everything that Ashen was missing, it's finally feature-complete! 🎉 www.curseforge.com/minecraft/texture-packs/ashen-16x modrinth.com/resourcepack/ashen #minecraft #pixelart #mcdev #gamedev

A Minecraft copper golem opens a chest at the bottom of a large cave, surrounded by lanterns and beside two armor-clad zombies.

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

First time posting for #mcartday in a while; I can finally say I have all of the game's paintings done! Development is going to slow consideravly as I deal with a family crisis and my new professorship, but I'm still here! #mcdev #gamedev #minecraft #art #pixelart

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Ashen 1.12 is live! Bringing support for the 1.21.6 *Chase the Skies* drop, long-awaited textures for Ravagers and the Enderdragon, spawn eggs, paintings, particles, & more! 🍃 www.curseforge.com/minecraft/texture-packs/ashen-16x modrinth.com/resourcepack/ashen #minecraft #gamedev #mcdev #pixelart

Three images collaged together, from left to right: a seaside scene with a happy ghast wearing a blue harness; an indoor scene with five paintings; a black Enderdragon flying through the void

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Fairly simple #mcartday post this time around; three more paintings coming to Ashen in v1.12, releasing alongside Minecraft 1.21.6. As of right now, Ashen's only sixty-three textures (out of 3375!!!) away from complete! #mcdev #minecraft #pixelart #art

Three pixelated paintings on a grey background.

Clockwise from the top left, a column supporting a potted plant in front of a mountainscape; a Vermont landscape in autumn; and a still life with fruit and flowers

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

And another #mcartday post, this one for Wayward. I'm continuing to (very slowly) plug away at this little side project, and today I bring you six very sweet item textures! #mcdev #minecraft #pixelart #gamedev

Six pixel-art food textures on a grey background. Clockwise from the top left: a chocolate chip cookie; a vanilla cake with white icing and berries on top, three cocoa beans; a pink-and-green slice of watermelon; two golden Glowberries with green stems, and a pumpkin pie.

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

It's #mcartday, and I'm not actually going to miss this one! A couple posts to share today; first, another painting coming with Ashen v1.12 -- this time, a study of Gustave Courbet's "The Rock of Hautepierre," c.1869 🖼️ #mcdev #minecraft #pixelart #art

A pixelated seaside scene framed on a grey background.

The bottom half of the painting features rolling hills and a small farmhouse beside a solitary tree. Behind them, a high cliff occupies the majority of the scene, topped in rolling grasslands. Behind that is the sea, with clouds over the horizon.

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I missed the most recent MCArtDay, but I've still been busy! First up, I finally finished the Enderdragon for Ashen, which I'd planned to leave as the last mob I textured for that pack. Almost six years later, she'll be flying with Ashen v1.12! 🐉 #pixelart #mcdev #gamedev #minecraft

And Enderdragon from Minecraft, with custom textures giving her dark scales, purple wing membranes, and glowing spots. Two viewing angles, one from above and one from below.

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

And another #mcartday post 😶‍🌫️; back to posting Ashen -- eight new paintings coming in v1.12! The top three are studies, the middle left is an original, and the four unused elemental paintings are references to a defunct franchise -- can you guess which one? #pixelart #minecraft #mcdev #art #gamedev

Eight pixel art paintings: A portrait of a redheaded man, a wave crashing onto a shore, a Mediterranean villa on the water, a landscape of a field under pink clouds, and four abstract paintings representing earth, fire, water, and air, respectively.

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

A *very* late-in-the-day #mcartday post! This time around, another peek at Wayward, which I'm hoping to reveal more of in the near future. For now, all the powders I've made, plus a sample of my approach to the GUI. More to come! #minecraft #mcdev #pixelart #gamedev

Six pixel art powders arrayed in two rows of three on a grey background. Clockwise from the top left are Redstone Dust, Gunpowder, Sugar, Bone Meal, Glowstone Dust, and Blaze Powder

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

It's #mcartday! 🎨 Introducing Wayward! This pack, still in its infancy, will be my next major project after I finish Ashen. I started work on Ashen in 2019, and my style has changed drastically since. Here's a side-by-side to compare! #minecraft #mcdev #pixelart #gamedev

A side-by-side comparison of eight items rendered in different pixel art styles. Clockwise from the top left: a piece of grey flint, a leatherbound book with a red bookmark, a golden apple, a blue diamond sword, a green, luminescent enderpearl, an ingot of purple netherite, a loaf of bread, and a bone

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Wishing all my trans, gnc, and questioning homies a very happy and safe Trans Day of Visibility. Whether you're out or not, know that you're loved, and I hope you can spend time today with folks who see you 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Three minecraft bees recolored to represent the Trans, Agender, and Nonbinary pride flags on a grey background, above black text reading "Happy Trans Day of Visibility"

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

And another showcase! This time, all of the mobs that shipped with today's 1.11 update (but only one of the Cat and Tropical Fish variants since I couldn't fit them all on one page) 🐂🐖🐓 #minecraft #mcdev #gamedev #pixelart

A sheet displaying custom textures for several creatures in Minecraft. From left to right: Cold chicken, warm chicken, cold cow, warm cow, goat, cold pig, warm pig, pufferfish, tropical fish, camel, panda, zombie horse, illusioner, calico cat, and ocelot

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

It's that time again! Ashen 1.11, featuring support for the 1.21.5 *Spring to Life* drop, textures for Cats, Camels, Pandas, and more, four new paintings, new particles, and bugfixes, is live! www.curseforge.com/minecraft/te... modrinth.com/resourcepack... #minecraft #gamedev #mcdev #pixelart

Three images collaged together, from left to right: a desert scene with a camel, pig, cactus, and chicken; an indoor scene with four paintings; a forest scene with birch trees, yellow and pink flowers, a cow, and a river

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

And now, one more painting coming with tomorrow's Ashen update. This time, it's a study of Caspar David Friedrich's "Winterlandschaft mitt Kirche." Excited to finally release 1.11 just in time for Minecraft 1.21.5! 🍃🌼 #pixelart #art #gamedev #mcdev #minecraft

A pixelated winter scene framed on a grey background.

The bottom half of the painting features snow, boulders, and three unevenly spaced conifer trees. The right two trees are grouped together behind the largest boulder, against which a figure in blue reclines, having dropped their crutches in the snow in the foreground. The figure prays before a large red crucifix planted in the snow. In the background, disappearing into fog, is the silhouette of a cathedral. Sunlight paints the fog shades of pink.

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Been too busy with thesis work to post here in a while, but I'm still kickin! Four new paintings coming with Ashen v1.11, which'll release with MC 1.21.5 🍂 #pixelart #art #gamedev #mcdev #minecraft

Four pixel-art paintings; three depict stylized landscapes with mountains, and the third depicts a small vignette of peonies. Colors range from blues and greens to pinks.

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

(1/2) Ashen 1.10, featuring support for the 1.21.4 *Garden Awakens* drop, custom textures for Polar Bears and Llamas, a new painting, new Dye textures, + several bugfixes & optimizations, is live! www.curseforge.com/minecraft/te... modrinth.com/resourcepack... #minecraft #gamedev #mcdev #pixelart

Screenshot of a Pale Garden from Minecraft's Garden Awakens drop; features trees, a polar bear, a llama, a Creaking, a campfire, and a blue painting of a rearing lion.

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Very excited to say Ashen passed two million downloads on Curseforge today. Started this pack with exactly zero pixel art experience in 2019 and never imagined I'd even release it. Very weird feeling to now be staring this number down 😶‍🌫️

Screenshot of Ashen 16x's download counter from CurseForge, reading 2,002,022.

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Obviously a long way to go before Ashen 1.10 releases, but that doesn't mean I haven't started working on it. This time around it's a polar bear and a llama (featuring the custom model that will come to the Custom Mobs add-on #pixelart #gamedev #mcdev #minecraft

3D models of a brown llama and a polar bear from Minecraft on a grey background.

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

(1/2) Update 1.9 for Ashen 16x is live, featuring 1.21.3 *Bundles of Bravery* support, custom textures for Piglins and Hoglins, nine new paintings, and many new or reworked item textures. www.curseforge.com/minecraft/te... modrinth.com/resourcepack... #minecraft #gamedev #mcdev #pixelart

Splash image featuring highlights from Ashen 16x's 1.9 update.

From left to right: several paintings in a Woodland Mansion, Zombified Piglins in the Nether, and Hoglins and Piglins in a Bastion Remnant. All feature custom textures from the Ashen 16x resource pack.

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

I lied, I made two more. Here are all nine paintings coming in tomorrow's 1.9 update for Ashen #pixelart #art #minecraft #gamedev

Nine pixel-art studies of historical artworks, arrayed in a mosaic on a grey background.

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Probably the last new painting I'll have time to make before I put together Ashen's 1.9 update this weekend This time it's a study of Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin's "Rye" (1878), which will replace Minecraft's 4x2 "Fighters" painting #pixelart #art #minecraft #gamedev

A pixelated rye field framed on a grey background.

The bottom half of the painting features grass in the foreground and golden rye in the middle, bisected vertically by a curved dirt road. Eight trees stand in the rye, one of them dead. The sky is partially clouded, transitioning from blue at the top to purples and pinks at the horizon.

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

mmmushroom It's pretty rare that I draw something that isn't a texture (I lied, this will probably get worked into a painting) (palettes from FFTA2) #pixelart #pixel #minecraft #gamedev

a tall, pixel-art rock in a small patch of yellowed grass. In front of the rock is a red mushroom, and an indigo butterfly is flying to the left of the rock

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Since I have time for once (I don't, actually), here's a peek at some more in-progress textures. This time, it's some of the blocks from the Pale Garden biome coming in Minecraft 1.22 #pixelart #pixel #minecraft

Texture sprites on a grey background.

From left to right, the image displays work-in-progress pale log, leaves, door, planks, trapdoor, moss, and sapling textures, all with a desaturated tone.

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Mushrooms count as flowers, right? (reposted because the first post was way too compressed) #pixelart #pixel #minecraft

Eighteen pixel-art flowers and two mushrooms on a light grey background.

The first row features a dandelion, a poppy, a blue orchid, an allium, a red tulip, an orange tulip, and a red mushroom.
The second row features a white lily of the valley, a blue cornflower, a white daisy, a black rose, a pink tulip, a white tulip, and a brown mushroom.
The third row features a torchflower.
The fourth row features a rose bush, a lilac bush, a peony bush, a sunflower, and a pitcher plant.

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Should I be grading papers? Yes Am I grading papers? Here, have a Crafting GUI revamp These new GUI textures will take a while to get right and to implement, so they won't be shipping with Ashen's 1.9 update #pixelart #minecraft #gui

Comparison between old and work-in-progress crafting table GUI for Minecraft. On the left is the current texture used in Ashen 16x, a grey-green window with yellowed paper and a grid of inventory slots. On the right is the work-in-progress version, featuring more realistic and detailed paper, more detailed inventory slots, and rough brick detailing. Both textures are placed over a neutral grey background.

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

One more post for tonight since I'm trying to get a bunch of my work up here to start and that's an excuse to post older stuff 😶‍🌫️ Piglins and Hoglins from Ashen's upcoming 1.9 update #pixelart #minecraft

Five creatures from Minecraft split into two rows -- a Piglin, a Piglin Brute, and a Zombified Piglin in the top row, a Hoglin and a Zombified Hoglin in the bottom row, featuring custom textures from Ashen 16x, on a grey field.

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Now that I've turned in another piece of my thesis (shit), I have time to relax (I do not), so here's another set from Ashen. This time, it's all the items with a glow, one of my favorite motifs to work with #pixelart #minecraft

Twelve 16x pixel art items -- a golden apple, a bottle of enchanting, an enchanted book, a totem of undying, an ender eye, an end crystal, a pile of blaze powder, a breeze rod, a blaze rod, a pile of glowstone dust, a nether start, and a fireball -- all of them featuring glowing outlines, evenly spaced on a grey field.

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Taking a (very much unearned) break from my grad thesis (due in a few hours) to iterate some new inventory textures for Ashen #pixelart #minecraft

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Bluesky is open Quote one art to promote yourself! #art #pixelart

An image of 15 pixel-art images, most of them renditions of historical paintings, arranged in a mosaic pattern on a grey-green background. Header text says "Ashen 16x Paintings" in bold font. Signature in bottom right is a stylized "AB."

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