Recolors most of Vanilla's water to be a softer blue. Default vanilla water is very blue, almost purple at times and hard on the eyes. I think the deep blue suits the frozen biomes, but the rest of the biomes could use a lighter tint. All overworld biomes except non-mountain snowy biomes, swamp biomes and underground biomes have their water changed.
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This Resource Pack Requires the Polytone mod to work!
Polytone is a mod that allows resource pack creators to edit more things than usual, like water colors. I have also heard that Optifine works but I have not tested it.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .zip (resource pack)
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.20.1, 1.21.1
- How to install: Download the .zip resource pack — do not unzip it. → Put it in .minecraft/resourcepacks. → Enable it in Options → Resource Packs.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java resource packs walks through it step by step.
- Downloads as retinted_vanilla_waters.zip
- Download size: 11 KB
- Download link checked 29 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.