A texture pack I’ve used personally many times – Isabella is a unique 16×16 texture pack, with a 1.6.4 release.

Having been through Dokucraft, Ovo’s, John Smith & Conquest, whats so great about this pack? Well, first of all it’s 16×16 so it’s better for those of you who might have slower machines. Also, it’s simple yet aesthetically pleasing graphics are easy on the eyes.

For this age, I particularly like the grey skies and the washed out colors. I also set my view distance to medium to bring the fog in closer, and turned off clouds. So I recommend this pack as an alternative to the usual Conquest/John Smith we use.

Here’s the link to the texture pack, along with a few more screenshots of my own.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1877008-16x161718beta-isabella-ii-unofficial-thread/

(texture pack does not include falling cow)

Ruins look pretty good too! 

Celebrations are in order! The Matmos sound generation mod has just been updated to 1.6.4. If you’ve never played Minecraft with it before, you must hear it for yourself. You really are missing out!

Liteloader is required to run it, and instructions on it’s installation are included on the following page, as well as download links.
http://ha3.eu/public/mc-mods/matmos.php

Through a meeting between Shimmermist refugees (saplings) and the Lord of Euloria, the first official village in ages has been founded.

The meeting took place in the lands of Euloria. The guests were escorted through the great halls and were greeted by a great feast.

A flag, a banner, and a title was decided. “Decus”, pronounced deck-us, would be the first village to be formed in the light. The future looks very bright indeed!

( and while I got you reading this, have some shire & the first rift 🙂 )

In the Undeads scramble from the surface in search of someplace dark and secluded, they set their sight on the large underground city of Shimmermist, which was going through a war conflict at the time.

Without the manpower to fight both their enemy and the Undead, the city buckled under the weight.

Underground survivors of Blue Peaks deflected Terth’s final judgement, the Megarift of the North, returning light to the land and cleansing it of Undead. Terth returns to his domain on Orrostar, where he continues to linger.

Underground dwellers can now burst up from underground as Saplings! From here, it will take some time for all the frost & ice to dissolve and for life to return to the dead land. In the meantime, we must keep our attention to the islands to the North, as that is where our common enemy resides.

In the future we can look forward to some of the following possibilities:

• implementation of Towny and an economy system
• implementation of some kind of ranking system, Mcmmo?
• deadly mobs lingering deep underground only
• a new travel system network
• the opening of old continents, and potentially new ones
• the opportunity to fight Terth off of Orrostar, then continuing the engagement onto his last foot hole on Dagon Fel (the red volcano)

A meteor has struck Blue Peaks at 809, 1115. Nether beasts surrounded the region to protect it’s riches, which included diamonds and extremely rare nether quartz.

During a war between the so called “heretics” and the survivors, the Eulorian built portal chamber was damaged, the flag burned, and it’s magic’s leaked. The undead surrounding the chamber have been seen burrowing their way inside to try to extinguish what light remains.

Being difficult to find, I’ve included a download button on drakortha.info for both Conquest texture pack and a mcpatcher.exe. Use mcpatcher first before installing the resource pack. I’ve wrote up some simple instructions, which I’ve included in the download.

In the future I will keep this link updated with any future resource packs & mods we use.

Recently, at a meeting that was called on by the Shimmermist council, it was announced that the introduction of Eulorian currency and land ownership was still out of reach for the many pockets of survivors dotted all over the landscape. The surface world is dark, and the old roads that were once well traveled are now buried under layers upon layers of frost and dust. But not all is lost, yet.

Euloria country is the heart of the world, the Ancient people & entities there form a huge part of this realm’s power against Terth. It is for this reason that he has had his eyes on Euloria and it’s people for some time, and took the necessary steps to capture and enslave many of the Ancient Eulorian’s, and lock away their power.

Lord Drak of Euloria has made it known that many of his people can still be saved, and can be found on the over-world awaiting their doom – that one opening in the vale to take them to Terth’s realm forever..

“work is needed before we see ourselves out of this darkness.. we can not help you when the world is in this state. He knows we have the power to bring back the light if we worked together, so he will continue to divide with either his darkness & army, or his radical believers.”

“these prisons need to be found, beasts slain, and my people released. Save my people, take Terth’s grasp off the mainland, then we may finally face him.”