Background

About the pack

How it was made, why it stopped in November 2022, and who made it. One person put the ten releases together, building on work from more than thirty creators who are credited inside the pack.

Method

How it was made

No studio, no brief, no schedule beyond a self-imposed release on the 24th of each month.

Built on credited work
A lot of the pack is other people's work, brought together and adjusted: New Default+, the Minecraft Dungeons and Story Mode item ports, Kalam0n's armor set and more. The credits file grew from 18 names in 2.0 to 36 in the Finale. The base layer never moved: 4,494 files are identical in all ten releases.
The plan changed
The goal at 1.0 was a warmer vanilla that still looked like vanilla. Version 4.0 broke that with 4,841 new files, most of them Minecraft Dungeons and Story Mode gear, plus the first lore folder. The rename in August 2022 admitted the pack had stopped being a vanilla tweak.
Why it stopped
The Finale is called that because it is the last one. The monthly cadence ran from February to November 2022 and then ended. Nothing has shipped since, and there is no roadmap. The files stay up so the work is still checkable.
Credits, as listed in the Finale's credits.txt
7eventy7Kalam0nD3SG4MER24RustillerySeaOfPixelsVanilla tweeksLulrzGam0Bakso SmpPixalr X and EBlock benchMediafireMichiMineInnerToastToxteerObscuriaBeastoStefanJ2Planet MinecraftMojangDragoselidxalixaliBrainimonVexcenotthebaum64oliver_Winz1234Cubeoidal2B2T_HistorianSpryzeenp_ixellcreepermax123Nachitussadlittletree_Mikel_redmatazzHolazasAceOcarinas

The file's own note: "suport them pls they make good ones". New Default, credited from 2.0 to the rename, was replaced by SeaOfPixels in the Environmental Update.

Who made it

Arung

The pack was a side project, put together by one person out of their own work and the work of the creators credited above. Everything else on this page is unrelated to it. It is here because this doubles as a personal page.

Arung, founder of Vantics of Conschesterry
@vanilistics vanilistics@gmail.com

I’m a high-school student in Indonesia. I compete in physics olympiads and build things that sit between software and hardware, mostly ESP32 projects. Vanilistics was a side project in 2022, put together over ten months with Aseprite and OptiFine. Since then I’ve worked on a rain and temperature logger for rural areas, a solar dryer for smallholder farms, and an image-detection experiment for railway track defects. Some of these are finished; most are prototypes.

Competitions · Physics
OSN-K 2025Regency/city selection round of the national science olympiad. Passed this stage; did not advance to province or national.
KOSN 2025Physics and English. Participated at school/regency level.
Bronze · KSC Nasional 2025Kompetisi Siswa Cerdas, physics. Organiser: Lembaga Prestasi Pelajar, a private competition body.
Bronze · POSI 2026Senior High School Olympiad, physics. Organiser: POSI, a private competition body.
Bronze · FUSO 2026Future Science Competition, physics. Also POSI.
Invention contest
Silver · INNOPA IPITEX 2026Solar Agro Dryer, agriculture category. INNOPA is Indonesia's national invention body; IPITEX is held in Bangkok.
Projects
  • Vantics of Conschesterry · Minecraft resource pack, 2022. Finished.
  • Solar Agro Dryer · solar crop dryer with sensor logging. Prototype.
  • ESP32 accelerometer visualiser · real-time IMU plotting over serial. Prototype.
Community trips
  • Literacy expedition, Kotolamo, Riau · 2018
  • Education visit, Suku Anak Dalam, Jambi · 2015
  • Coastal reforestation, Kepulauan Banyak, Aceh · 2014
  • Conservation trip, Tahura Pocut Meurah Intan, Aceh · 2015
Media mentions
  • The Jakarta Post · 2018
  • National Geographic Indonesia · 2015
  • Republika · 2015

Appearances in coverage of the trips above, not awards for them.

What I actually do
Pixel art Texture editing OptiFine CIT/CTM Sound editing Lore writing Applied physics Embedded systems
Tools
Aseprite OptiFine CIT/CTM Blockbench Audacity VS Code Python JavaScript / HTML ESP32 / ESP8266
Timeline
Feb 2022
Vanilistics 1.0
First release: a warmer take on vanilla, built mostly from connected textures and custom items. The release-on-the-24th cadence starts here.
Mar 2022
Vanilistics 2.0
A cleanup pass: items trimmed, status-effect icons redrawn, first credits file.
Apr 2022
Vanilistics 3.0
Biome edges start blending, the custom shields come out, villagers get new sounds.
May 2022
Vanilistics 4.0
The biggest jump: Minecraft 1.18, Dungeons and Story Mode gear, and the first lore folder.
Jun 2022
Vanilistics 5.0
Kalam0n's armor and item set joins; the extra sky from 4.0 is removed.
Jul 2022
Vanilistics 6.0
The quietest release: a few lore-folder swaps and nothing else.
Aug 2022
Vantics of Conschesterry
The rename: folders reorganised, four concept-art sheets added.
Sep 2022
Environmental Update
Shields and banner support come back; OptiFine becomes required.
Oct 2022
Subtle Armor Update
A small pass on armor layers, plus shield sounds.
Nov 2022
Finale
An audio pass: new, quieter and more ambient sounds for 46 kinds of mob.