Minecraft texture packs will boost your in-game experience with better graphics quality. Let's make your Minecraft world look more realistic and amazing with texture packs. This step-by-step guide on how to install texture packs for Minecraft may help.

I. How to Download Texture Packs to Minecraft

Before downloading a texture pack, you must have a folder for the texture pack where you will save the file. Name the folder with the name of the texture to make it easier for you to locate it for installation. It doesn't matter if you name the folder randomly whatever you want.

Then, download the texture pack and save it in that folder. There are many sources of texture packs to download from, such as Curseforge, Real Source Pack, and Planet Minecraft. Choose the desired packs and check the reviews before downloading.

Minecraft Texture Packs Differnce
Minecraft Texture Packs enhance the look of the game world.

II. How to Install Texture Packs for Minecraft

You can add and use some texture and resource packs at the same time. When the texture pack is ready for installation, follow the steps below to install it for Minecraft 2024.

  1. Open the folder and locate the file of the texture pack.
  2. Select the file, right-click on it, and select the option "Extract Here".
  3. Remove the .zip file after unzipping it.
  4. Copy the entire folder.
  5. Open the game and select the box "Option" in the Settings Menu.
  6. In the follow-up screen, select the box "Resource Packs".
  7. Click on the box saying "Open Pack Folder" and paste the folder you have copied to there.
  8. Turn back and you can find your texture pack available for selection in the left column of Available packs. Select it and click on the arrow to move it to the column of Selected Pack. Then, it'll be applied to your game.

That's how to install texture packs for Minecraft 2024. Now, play the game and experience the new texture.

If it does not work, remove it and add it again. Or else, check other players' comments to know if the texture pack you have added works properly or not in their Minecraft. You can also add a resource pack to this game in the same way. These packs of resources can help improve your in-game experience.

III. Bonus: Most Realistic Texture Packs 2024

Many vivid and stunning texture packs make your Minecraft world look more realistic and less pixelated. Here are some top-picked packs voted by Minecraft players that you can trust and try.

#1. Legendary RT Textures

This texture pack turns your Minecraft from a pixel game into a 3D graphics game. The combination of shiny and matte patches makes every detail in your Minecraft world look as if it's brought from the real world into the game.

You may feel as if you were watching a documentary film about the real world when even the Ender Pearls look like real eyeballs.

Legendary Rt Textures Ender Pear
Legendary RT Textures

#2. Realistico

This is also one of the most stunning and realistic texture packs for Minecraft with a combination of realism and the cartoonish style of the game. It still retains some faithful pixelated and blocky textures of Minecraft, allowing you to feel the original beauty of the game. You can download the Relistico pack from Curseforge.

Realistico
Realistico

#3. Clarity

Clarity is also available to download from Curseforge. It does not remove Minecraft original blocky and pixelated feelings. But you can see realistic skies without any shader. This texture pack will bring you a clear modern or medieval building style.

Clarity
Clarity

#4. Optimum Realism POM & PBR

This gorgeous texture pack makes more than 200 blocks like obsidian look realistic. As these blocks are the main materials for building in Minecraft, you can build realistic houses and structures in this game after installing this pack. Despite the large number of modified blocks, this pack can run on mid-end PCs.

Optimum Realism Pom Pbr
Optimum Realism POM & PBR

#5. Brunozamp's Foliage

As clarified in the name of the pack, Brunozamp's Foliage texture pack enhances the look of foliage in your Minecraft world. This creative game features hundreds of floral species, so installing this texture pack will bring your game world a different appearance and bring you a different feeling when playing Minecraft.

It will make the tree foliage or flower bundle look more true and realistic by adding soft texture to the borderlines and trimming the blocky edges. You can see realistic water lilies with small roots growing on the riverbed.

Brunozamps Foliage
Brunozamp's Foliage

That's how to install texture packs for Minecraft as well as the most used packs by players. Which style of texture are you seeking? Leave a comment to let us know or stay tuned for more recommendations about the newest texture packs for Minecraft.

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