1.18 Connected Ore Outlines (and Old Ore Textures) Apr 2026

Resource packs like the Outlined Ores from or the Ultimate Ores Texture Pack on CurseForge provide several utility benefits:

Many packs allow you to choose between the modern 1.18+ textures or the original "Programmer Art" style textures, with borders for both. 1.18 Connected Ore Outlines (and old ore textures)

Minecraft ores underwent a significant visual change in version 1.17 to improve accessibility for colorblind players. Before this, most ores used the same generic "blob" pattern with different colors. The 1.18 update further adapted these new textures to fit the new variants found in the deeper, expanded world layers. Resource packs like the Outlined Ores from or