Soartex Grove Texture Pack

Soartex Grove is a high-quality texture pack that is not very well known. This pack focuses on giving Minecraft a smooth and clean, yet detailed appearance. Let us take a look at some of the best features of this texture pack.

Core Philosophy

64x Resolution

HD textures for all blocks and items!

The first thing to be noted is that this texture pack comes in a 64x resolution, which is four times the vanilla 16x textures. With this many pixels to play around with, the creator of the pack has ensured that all textures look as high-quality as possible.

Smooth and Crisp

The core aesthetic.

The main goal of the pack is make all textures look smooth and crisp. But this does not mean that the textures introduces by this pack are minimal. As seen in the images, they are very much detailed. Install a shader pack alongside the texture to make your game look even more beautiful.

Detailing Elements

Detailing Elements

Additional tweaks to improve aesthetics.

Some blocks, like the purpur pillar blocks shown above, have additional detailing on them to improve the visual aesthetics. Certain blocks, like rails now appear to be three-dimensional. Combination of multiple features like this contribute to making the game look and feel more immersive.

Inter-block Detailing

Further detailing on block surfaces

Detailing features are added to make blocks feel more detailed. This is what helps make the textures feel "smooth and crisp, yet detailed", as mentioned above. While the overall appearance remain simple, many blocks are well detailed.

Other Changes

Entity Textures

Mobs and other entities have textures!

Entity textures are something that many texture packs ignore. The game may look amazing, but when a random mob comes into the frame, every goes back to feeling regular. But you will not have to face such issues with Soartex Grove, as new textures are introduced for all mobs in the game to match the texture aesthetics.

Custom GUIs

All UI elements have custom textures!

All in-game GUI's, like player inventories and storage inventories have received texture overhauls. Other UI elements like the main menu, pause screen, settings, etc. have a new appearance as well. The item form of blocks also have custom textures. Basically, this texture pack literally changes how everything in the game looks.

Vanilla vs Soartex Grove

Performance

Performance wise, the pack should perform well on almost any system that can run the base game. While increased texture resolution demands more system resources, it simply is not high enough to make a change in game performance. You will a maximum of 5-10 FPS drop compared to the vanilla game.

Remarks

Being smooth, yet detailed being the core idea behind this pack that has been mentioned throughout the article. This pack achieves that goal with no doubt. Download this pack and try it out for yourself.