> All blocks and items are now individual files found The water and lava textures can only be changed with the HD Texture pack patch. Since Beta 1.8, the chest has its own texture located in item/chest.png, (and item/largechest.png) similar to that of mobs, however the textures in the terrain file are still used for the particle effects when breaking a chest. The redstone particle's color cannot be changed. The text shouldn't be too long or it will not appear. Optional description of texture in pack selection list.

Thumbnail of pack in texture selection list.

Below is a list of files and subfolders of interest while creating a new texture pack:

Exact procedure for locating the game archive and extracting the files from it varies by operating system. Any zip archiver should be able to extract files from it as the Java Archive format is just a subset of the common zip format. The original textures are located in the game Java Archive file minecraft.jar.