V8X for Minecraft

Review V8X

V8X

Minecraft isn’t a particularly demanding game by itself. It doesn’t have any graphics that can load your PC and require decent components. But if you have a powerful computer and you want to improve the graphics, download shaders and resource packs that will upgrade the quality of blocks, mobs, and other game details. If you have a weaker computer or even a laptop, then texture packs that change the number of pixels in blocks and mobs will be the best suitable option for you. As we know, the standard block resolution in Minecraft is 16x16 pixels. But you need 8x8, 4x4, and so on. This will increase the FPS number in your game, however, not significantly.

The V8X resource pack has been developed for players who has weak computers or laptops, as well as for cartoon graphics fans. Unlike other resource packs, it not only reduces the resolution to 8x8 wherever possible, but also makes the graphics more contrasting. This is exactly what makes the graphics look so cartoonish. Blocks, mobs, tools, and so on – all of this has been changed. Or rather, everything but for music and sounds. After all, in Minecraft, as in any other game, everything that may require some effort from your device’s components is a visual component.

If you are really interested in how V8X changes the graphics in your game, let’s get down to analyzing each change! Believe me, there really is something to look at here.

The main menu

There are no major changes in the main menu. The only thing is that the color of the buttons, the loading screen, and the tab background have been updated. As you can see, the loading screen style has changed to black and white, although it used to be a combination of red and white before. The main menu buttons have become completely grey and now strongly resemble common grey rectangles. And the background in the Settings, Single player, and Multiplayer tabs has become dark red, somewhat resembling brown color. This detail proves that the V8 resource pack has been developed not only to optimize the game, but to demonstrate the possibilities of minimalism as well. In this resource pack, the author managed to demonstrate all the possible shapes and types of it: vivid and bright, as well as plain and dark. Look at the developer’s work; it’s obviously worth your high opinion.

Blocks

The entire Minecraft world consists of blocks. Due to the plain texture of its blocks, this world looks very simple, but for the same reason, at the same time it looks incredible and unique. Well, V8X has halved the block resolution, which made the world itself began to look beautiful and attractive in its own way. It feels like you’re watching a kind of kids’ cartoon. Everything has become so bright and contrasting everywhere that you keep waiting for the music that you always hear at the beginning of the series. All the blocks have become more flat and pixelated, no matter how strange it may sound. Take the look of the trees alone, which now became very bright and simple. Just think, what game would you like to play more: grey or bright and cartoonish Minecraft? Well, everything is so personal here, let’s look further.

Pictures

Pictures are also blocks you may say. Why dedicate an entire article to them? Don’t rush to make conclusions, pictures in V8X are works of art. What would any artist do if they needed to change pictures from 16x16 resolution to 8x8 resolution? They would just add pixels that mix colors in each particular area. The author took a step further here, and his pictures are really worth attention. Just look at their simplicity and at the same time brilliance. At first it may seem that it was made by a child who got a chance to play Paint, but in fact that’s not the case. Each picture is unique in its own way and involves a particular idea.

Mobs

In regular Minecraft, we’ve long been used to the textures of all mobs. Why not try something new? For example, in the V8 X texture pack, mobs, like blocks, will now look very simple and cute. We can even say that mobs have become more attractive due to their bright texture. Take Ghast or golem alone. The number of their colors has been halved, which makes them more beautiful. However, someone may like the variety of details more, it’s a matter of taste.

Armor, weapons, and tools

Armor and weapons with tools in V8X are a completely different story. Most of the armor consisting of several colors will now have only two dominating ones. For example, the golden armor. Unlike a regular resource pack that offers a few shades of yellow, this resource pack only has two colors:gold and yellow. The situation is the same with other types of armor. Even the armor rack has been repainted red. At first glance, weapons and tools look very strange. As if the author has poorly worked on them and was too lazy to work on stone tools. In fact, this isn’t the case. This texture of the tools is a feature of V8X. It should be mentioned that with the higher quality of tools and weapons, their texture becomes more eye-pleasing. We don’t know how the author managed to achieve this result, but he did it!

So, we are now at the end of this large resource pack. Sometimes even fans of realism want some kind of variety; in this case V8X will be perfect for them, as well as for any other players too. For the fans of PvP modes, BuildBattle connoisseurs, parkour professionals, and many others. There are just beautiful or just light ones, but V8X unites both qualities, which is its most important advantage over other resource packs.

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