Perhaps one of the most striking demonstrations of the pack’s naturalism were these comparison shots Stefan created, in which he recreated beautiful photos using the Conquest textures. We have a realistic approach, but it’s also stylised - it just looks ‘better’ than reality, to a degree.” Those are all aspects of the Conquest pack.

It had the realistic touch of how the world really was back then, but had a comedic factor to it - a mixture of the romantic and the funny - to soften it up around the edges so you didn’t feel totally disgusted by what happened actually in medieval times. I played that for way too large a part of my life, and I really fell in love with the aesthetics. “It was a medieval RTS developed by Firefly Studios.

“The inspiration I had for this style was the game Stronghold,” says Stefan.

It’s been used in a number of the builds we’ve featured on this site - allowing builders an expanded palette of naturalistic landscape textures and manmade structures that offer a rustic, old-world charm. He’s responsible for the Conquest resource pack - and part of the team behind the related Conquest Reforged mod - which transform the textures of Minecraft to create a world of ancient beauty. “I’m a big sucker for medieval things,” says Stefan ‘ Monsterfish’ Krein.

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