Better Vanilla is a 16x pack of community-made default-style textures (used with permission from original authors). The textures in Better Vanilla revamp the default textures to look better, to be more vibrant, or to be smoother, all without straying too far from the original feel of the game
Features:
- Different skies for different biomes
- Lighter and clearer water
- More vibrant grass
- Improved and more natural-looking crops
- Variation textures for grass, podzol, and mycelium
- Animated Redstone & Redstone-related blocks
- Greatly improved smoother nether blocks
- Smoother Diorite, Andesite, and Granite
- Better sunset and sunrise, with a custom lightmap
- Natural and atmospheric sounds
- Various tweaks to fix vanilla's inconsistencies
- and more, check it out for yourself!
Credits:
Default Patch by Palladium Knight as base - Permission Granted
https://www.planetminecraft.com/texture_pack/ds-advance-enhance-your-minecraft-experience-17-to-111/
Red's Pack by Justin Redfield for paintings - Permission Granted
https://www.planetminecraft.com/texture_pack/redcraft-textures/
Naturus Bookshelf, planks, cactus, and sounds - CC BY-NC-SA
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding-java-edition/resource-packs/2362523-naturus-finally-updated-to-1-11-10-11-16-make-your
Taunoa Complete for lily pad, ferns - Permission Granted
http://www.planetminecraft.com/texture_pack/taunoa-resource-pack---by-zaliku-3690704/
Sensecraft by SCtester for clear water, netherrack, quartz ore, colormap, rain (edited), and magma - Permission Granted
http://www.planetminecraft.com/texture_pack/sensecraft---a-simple-pleasant-texture-pack-which-improves-upon-the-default-experience/
Flashy Redstone by Water_Gem [Noah] and Coti5432 for Redstone, Pistons, and Observers - Permission Granted
https://discord.gg/PNCmPdc
Stone & Ore Variants by Water_Gem [Noah] and Coti5432 for Stone - Permission Granted
https://discord.gg/PNCmPdc
Better Turf by Evtema3 for grass, podzol, and snowy grass (edited) - Permission Granted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS5SOfHctxI
Default Plus by u/Wert4Nines for smaller crosshair, fishing rod, watermelon, saplings, and language changes - Permission Granted
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/4wh7wl/my_default_plus_texture_pack_goal_is_to_keep_the/
u/Roelof1337's Fixed Iron Golen for fixed Iron Golem - Permission Granted
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/5p5sgv/i_fixed_the_iron_golem_texture_oversights/
u/MrVerece's remade recipe book texture for better recipe book - Permission Granted
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/6gn47s/remade_the_recipebook_texture_to_fit_normal_books/
Unity by CyanideX for all crops and arrows - Permission Granted
https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/unity
Naturalized by Jeffyjeff_yt for logs - Permission Granted
https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/naturalized
PE Pistons by Mickey Joe Alpha for Pistons - Permission Granted
https://www.reddit.com/r/minecraftsuggestions/comments/5ps2up/update_the_piston_model_to_use_match_pes/
Better Atmosphere by u/creamcheese7 for sky (edited) and lightmap - Permission Granted
https://www.reddit.com/user/creamcheese7/submitted/
Pumpkin Patch by u/CodenameAwesome for fixed pumpkin - Permission Granted
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/6si42d/a_simple_model_edit_that_makes_pumpkins_uncarved/
John Smith Legacy by JimStoneCraft, JohnSmith and JohnSmith Technician's Remix (JSTR) for sky (edited) - Permission Granted
www.johnsmithlegacy.co.uk/
Item Frame Fix by Duke for Item Frames - Permission Granted
Permission: https://imgur.com/a/UjBMg
Discord Server: https://discord.gg/ZVA6AV6
Note: Some features will require Optifine, which you can get here.