Enhanced Equipment

The Biggest Update Yet

This pack has been rebranded to "Enhanced Equipment" from previously "Keaton’s Enhanced Tools" as it's continued to work its way past just tools and weapons into more generalized gear all around. With this new branding, I can and have safely leaned into adding a wider range of additions.

For a general overview, here's what it adds in less detail:

• Armor item textures
• Much more handheld gear
• Support for a handful of mods
• Many, many tweaks and fixes
• Reached 360 total textures

This rebranding has the goal of leaning into objective texture enhancement rather than subjective enhancement, which would typically introduce personal interpretation and stylistic variation.

If you have any suggestions such as mod support, new additions, or simply feedback, please Discord message me or find my pack on the Modrinth Discord. My username is Keaton42.

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Professionalism aside, here's everything that it adds:

Major Additions

• Armor Item Textures! Added all 29 new textures for every armor item! Does not change the model textures. Every tier has their own palette to match their respective material with adjusted shading, the helmets get small nasal guards to match their model textures, and the netherite leggings get a unique texture, as they don't have one in vanilla. This includes the empty armor slots in the player inventory. That's not all! All horse armor textures are included as well!
• The Shield. What's tools and armor without a shield to go with it? It uses the stick colors from the low-tier tools as its wood and gets a clean new iron polish.
• The Clock. This one as I've always feared, took FOREVER! As I've said, there are 64 textures for this one. I adjusted the shading, filled in an incorrect gold color, used less harsh colors for the night and day… and it only took 4 hours. Enjoy!
• Recovery Compass. A complete overhaul of the extra thick compass you may have loved. It now uses 100% echo shard colors, got the sides shaved off to match the compass, and uses the compass textures from this pack with some reshading.
• The Spyglass. The vanilla texture was kind of a miss. Who thought to have an awesome zoom feature but have the whole scope look like it hadn't been cleaned for a century? So the new spyglass texture adds proper copper and leather handle colors that were almost there to begin with, its scope is much more transparent and less blurry, and the item itself is now gripped in your hand like a stick instead of held like a feather.
• The Brush. I'm gonna brush past this one. It gets a properly colored handle and a cleaner brush. Bottles. Very interesting, I know. They're shifted to the centered left to be consistent with other off-centered items and a slightly reshaded cork. Does not texture the ominous bottle or experience bottle.

Mod Support

• Amethyst Equipment Everything here in a completely new tier!
• Basic Fluid Hopper Who wants to see a bucket full of honey or a bottle of milk?
• [Axolotl Buckets]https://modrinth.com/mod/axolotl-buckets) Looks like I missed the more popular mod! I already had support for [Axolotl Bucket Fix]https://modrinth.com/mod/axolotl-bucket-fix), so here is this one too!
• Copper Tools If you're playing a version before the Copper Age drop, (like me) then this one is for you.
• Simple Netherite Horse Armor Now if you're playing before the Mounts of Mayhem drop, you'd appreciate this one!
• Shyvv's Trickier Trials What a fabulous mod! Just like the mace, I added a breeze rod handle texture for the lance.

Tweaks

• We'd be here all day, seriously. There are 36 documented changes with most of them being very minor. The biggest changes though are thickening every tool head's bottom and changing inner-shading pattern of every stick. If requested, I can make note of more changes, but for now, I don't see a reason to. I hope you have a great time, and enjoy 2.0.0!

I have many plans for this pack for the future, including much more mod support for the most popular ones and any requested, new variants for this pack with both a Chibi Addon and a Bare Bones Edition planned, and consistent support for longevity, and anything else to come!

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The gallery images haven't been updated, so use your imagination.

• Fixed the shading orientation on the spear models to match Vanilla. Curiously, the Copper Spear had already been correct.

• Added the Spears! These include diamond, netherite, iron, golden, copper, stone, and wooden spears! This includes both the inventory textures and extended handheld textures. See the Gallery to check them out! These took a long time to make and were planned for the 2.0 update, but decided to release them early as that update is taking very long, but coming soon!

• Textured the crafting table: this texture includes updated shading on its tools and new handle colors to closely match similar tools
• Removed the nugget textures as they weren't related to the pack
• Extended the blades of the shears a bit to make the handle wrap around better, and slightly modified the handle colors for better shading

• Changed the colors of the handles in the netherite axe, pickaxe, shovel, and hoe to be darker on the edges and alternating in color in the middle to match all other handles

Spears will be coming to this pack soon after they're released

• Added an updated mace handle texture. More is planned.

• Textured the trident! It uses accurate prismarine colors, has copper for the handle, and kelp wraps around it. This includes both the inventory sprite and the entity. I'm not the happiest about the kelp texture on the entity, so I'll likely revisit later.
• Updated Chai's Build Tools wrench to reflect its ingredients. I had accidentally used the texture I made for my datapack with updated ingredients… again.
• Remove the dummy white fishing line entry since it hasn't ever worked

Rahhh I forgot something

• Added one pixel to the bottom of the axe head for the NewWorld Ancient Mattock to match the Netherite Axe

This doesn't matter much but I'm looking for perfection