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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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mario @mariofy.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN! I'm in need of some money and yeah j kinda want to do commissions :D I would really appreciate it Thank you so much ❤️

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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 · 03/09/2025

Thank you! In addition to including them in Ashen, I am actually planning to put out a standalone resource pack with just the paintings when I update the main back for 1.21.9!

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Thank you so much! They've been a lot of fun to make!

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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 · 02/06/2025

That's just how I display sprites to avoid overscaling them and losing detail

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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 · 01/05/2025

If you add <-ai> to your search terms, Google's nonsense hallucinator doesn't show up, which has honestly been a godsend

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

Yeah, it feels very much within the realm of possibility, especially given the apparent focus on less mechanically significant content changes

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

I would kill for a cold biome ambience update 🥶 need me some more than just powder snow and passive mob variants

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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 · 10/04/2025

*Please* tell me the lupines have a chance of making it onto your InPrnt; I would kill to be able to hang that up, they're my absolute favorite flower and the way you've rendered them here is just *gorgeous*!

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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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mario @mariofy.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I miss you Luigi💔

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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 · 21/03/2025

I think what you're looking for may actually exist! Mojang put out this: github.com/Mojang/slice... If you're looking to work with a spritesheet and then automate cutting it up into separate files, this is that tool. Can't work the other way, though, unfortunately

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Release 1.1.4 for Minecraft 1.20.5 · Mojang/slicer

Upgrades to pack format 30 for Minecraft 1.20.5. The migrations automated here are not exhaustive, so some manual work may still be required. See the release changelog for more information. This ve...

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I almost suggested that until I saw that you'd said you grabbed it from the .jar; I still for the life of me can't figure out why they split every GUI element. Even with the automated converter Mojang put out, it's a massive pain trying to maintain both versions 🫠

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Are the new textures just not applying, or is the pack itself throwing a "Resource Reload Failed" error?

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Tagging in that the goat scream isn't causing the failure to load; logs show that error even with just the vanilla pack (because of course they do 🙃) -- likely some other spaghetti, like a wonky filepath or issue with your pack.mcmeta

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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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Fáyer🔥 @fayer.dev · 19/12/2024

Arco is part of the Winter Sale and it's currently 30% off, that's the cheapest it has ever been! Arco has appeared in many GOTY nominations and lists. If you haven't played it, treat yourself before the year ends! Discount is available on Steam and Switch.

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

(2/2) This update also comes alongside updates to the Simple Foliage and Custom Font add-ons. You can read the full 1.10 changelog at modrinth.com/resourcepack... Enjoy! 🏕️

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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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Modrinth @modrinth.com · 21/11/2024

We're aware of an issue with ad revenue being unexpectedly low for the past few weeks, affecting creator income. We've been working on trying to figure out the cause with our ad partners. Due to our investigation and diagnosis, revenue analytics for this week will be unreliable.

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Honestly, out of everything in the game, seagrass was my least favorite block to texture, followed very closely by kelp 🫠

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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 · 05/11/2024

Umpteenth reminder to vote today if you're eligible/haven't already. Read about downballot races and measures in your municipality. Voting is more than just picking a president to preserve a semblance of democracy. Also you get a cool sticker. And today I learned MA's stickers are bigger than CT's

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Aim_Boot @aim-boot.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Heard about it for the first time yesterday, picked it up today. Easily one of the most engrossing new games I've played in years. Gorgeous and fun and wonderfully written. Not very far in yet but it's been a knockout!

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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 · 02/11/2024

Since several people have asked before, I've finally decided to start opening up Ashen to community-driven Mod Support Add-Ons. Gonna be a slow roll-out, but this should eventually mean Ashen's even more mod-compatible. With that in mind, I wrote up a style guide! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Ashen 16x Design and Style Guide

Ashen 16x Design and Style Guide Or “How to make stuff look like Ashen 16x” Introduction Are you looking to make add-ons for the Ashen 16x resource pack? Do you want to add support for a mod that isn...

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