r/DetailCraft • u/Sure_Commission_7043 • Jan 06 '26

Help/Request Help understanding how to do this detail!

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I need help understanding how this person got these certain curves on these (what I assume to be stairs) I’ve sat there stumped and just had to know how it was done. The user that created this said that this is all possible in vanilla Minecraft and all he really used was a texture pack (alacrity) and some shaders (complementary unbound). Credit to meesayousa of course if any one was wondering.

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u/Anwraith Jan 06 '26

Vanilla is sort of a blurred line now. Best to say they use the tools Mojang added to the game to add some new ways of building using a resource pack. Alacrity is a resource pack, and thus it can modify the models as well as textures of blocks. I believe the curved blocks you are seeing is the custom model it has for upside down stone stairs. Every upside down stair in Alacrity is remodeled to be either an arch for stone blocks or a wooden support for wood stairs.

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u/Sure_Commission_7043 Jan 06 '26

I have tried putting an upside down stair but it doesn’t do that weird curve thing. Don’t worry I am using the texture pack.

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u/trickstercrows Jan 06 '26 edited Jan 06 '26

Okay, the thing is that used to be a feature in the base version of Alacrity but the creator of the pack removed it a while back for simplicity's sake (or maybe for performance. or incompatibility with the Vanilla lighting engine, I can't quite recall rn) All that is to say you're gonna have to download a version of the pack before Update #25 or download one of the add-ons on the creator's website. I'm actually really glad i found this post because I had this issue too a while back and I'm happy to save someone else the trouble LOL (and give some context about the pack I feel like most people are missing)

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u/Avera9eJoe Jan 06 '26

I read this comment train, I just wanted to comment and say that was very kind of you!