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Lepidodendron

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Vanilla-like textures for Prehistoric Nature
by NitroHydroRay
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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

 

 

 

 

 

Vanilladendron 3.1
MC 1.12.2
Release 2025-07-03 Get
Vanilladendron 3.0
MC 1.12.2
Release 2024-06-07 Get
Vanilladendron 2.0
MC 1.12.2
Release 2023-09-23 Get
Vanilladendron.zip
MC 1.12.2
Release 2023-01-29 Get

Requirements & install

How to use this resource pack in Minecraft
Resolution
16x
Minecraft
1.12.2
Install folder
.minecraft/resourcepacks

How to install resource packs

  1. Download the resource pack .zip file (do not extract it).
  2. In Minecraft open Options → Resource Packs → Open Pack Folder.
  3. Drop the .zip into the resourcepacks folder (.minecraft/resourcepacks).
  4. Move the pack to the Selected column and click Done.
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