[solved] Change vanilla block textures without resource pack

[Jay Avery]

I want to change just the texture or model of some vanilla blocks. I know the simplest way to do this is with a texture pack - but there's only a couple I want to change and it seems excessive to require a whole resource pack to go with a mod that only changes a few textures. Is there any way to do this via code instead of using a resource pack?

[larsgerrits]

In your resource pack, you only need to have the models/textures you changed. If you don't have a changed model/texture specified, it will fall back to vanilla Minecraft models/textures. So, if you only want to change the model for the furnace, you only need 1 file in your resource pack.

[Jay Avery]

But it still requires the faff of *adding* a whole resource pack, whether that pack contains one texture or a hundred. If there's a way I can do it with just Forge code it'll be much simpler.

[shadowfacts]

Why would you want to do it in code? You could accomplish this with 0 lines of code, just by adding your replaced resources to

src/main/resources/assets/minecraft

in the correct subdirectory from there. As long as your built mod is in the mods directory and being loaded by Forge, users won't have to do anything to enable the resource pack.

[Jay Avery]

I guess I didn't mean strictly in code, but just without the hassle of needing to separately add a resource pack to make the mod fully functional. I did not know I could override things putting them in a minecraft package within my mod, so that's the answer I was looking for - thank you.

[Draco18s]

just by adding your replaced resources to

src/main/resources/assets/minecraft