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These last few days of snow have given me lots of time to work on my homework and many personal projects play Minecraft.

So I made you some screenshots.

I took the plunge and installed a couple of mods. The only one that I've really stuck with though is BetterLight (formerly Ambient Occlusion) which makes the lighting look much nicer (at the cost of a bit of a performance hit, at least on my Mac mini)

First up, my new favorite theme ever, Linecraft (note: work in progress). It has exactly the style I was looking for, and it just happened to go on /r/minecraft today.

I do have one nitpick: the style is not very consistent when you get into the more manufactured-looking blocks (wood, cobblestone, wooden things, items). As I said though, it's a work in progress, and I hope that it improves in this regard.

Second, a mod I tried out but ultimately decided against (for performance reasons) added some nice depth of field blur: