Faithful Programmer Art Creeper Retexture

The creeper texture hasn’t been changed since 2009 because of how iconic it became. However, like many people I think it looks out of place in modern Minecraft. I wanted to make a creeper texture for both times I feel like the creeper texture should have changed: one in the programmer art/1.8-1.13 style (who knows, maybe Notch would’ve changed it himself if he hadn’t have sold Mojang right around then), and one for modern Minecraft.

This page is for the PROGRAMMER ART creeper texture. It does not change the spawn egg because the programmer art spawn egg texture is already a good shade of green. This resource pack is made to be used on top of the programmer art textures, and I’d also recommend using Programmer Art Continuation Project in the middle too.

Other version links:

• Modern version
• Fresh Animations compatible version

All 3 resource packs are also available on Curseforge

Some background:
first, I decided to remake the creeper texture to gain a better understanding of what Notch originally did when he made it. After overlaying the alpha leaves onto a white creeper texture and looking at the discrepancies between that and the current texture, I came up with a set of steps that I think Notch probably followed when making it:

• Overlay the leaf texture onto the creeper base
• Add the face and toes in black
• Add the area around the toes and edges of feet in a dark greyish green
• Darken a few specific pixels around the face
• Add the slash marks that go around the main body
• Add some extra green highlights to a spot in between the slashes, and a few other specific spots
• Tweak a few parts of the base texture that are still visible so it doesn’t look too flat

After approximately following these steps using the programmer art Oak Leaves texture tinted to the forest biome, I ended up with the texture in this pack. I hope you like it as much as I do!