Billy Boarding: A Mode 13h Addon

Billy Boarding: A Mode 13h Addon

A resource pack for Minecraft 1.20.1 to 26.3 that turns small 3D blocks into flat sprites, which the Mode 13h shaderpack billboards.

Designed as an addon for Mode 13h: MS-DOSify! 2.1.2 or newer. Turn on Billy Boarding in its shader settings. Without the shaderpack you can still use the pack, but the blocks render as static cross/hatch sprites (like vanilla grass/flowers), because Mode 13h is what turns them to face you.

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🧾 Why This Exists

Old DOS-era 3D games drew their props as billboards: flat pictures that always turn to face you. Mode 13h already does that for flowers, grass, torches and lanterns, but cakes, flower pots, anvils and bells stay chunky little 3D models.

Billy Boarding gives Mode 13h more to work with. It replaces the models of cakes, flower pots, anvils, bells, brewing stands, cactus, crops and fire with flat sprites, and the shader turns them to face the camera.

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✨ Features

🎂 Cakes and candle cakes

• Every bite stage of the cake has its own sprite.
• Candle cakes, lit and unlit.

🪴 Flower pots

• The empty pot and every potted plant: 34 on 1.20.1, up to 39 on 26.3.
• The plant sits between the back and front of the pot, so it reads as in the pot from every side.
• The open eyeblossom keeps its glow.

🔔 Bells

• Standing and hanging bells become billboards.
• Wall-mounted bells become flat plates on the wall, hanging from their stem.

⚗️ Brewing stands

• The stand and each bottle slot: bottles appear and disappear as you fill it.

🌾 Crops, cactus and fire

• Wheat, carrots, potatoes, beetroots, nether wart and torchflower crops.
• The pitcher crop: its leaves billboard over the 3D bulb.
• Cactus, fire and soul fire.

🔨 Anvils

• Intact, chipped and damaged anvils, flat in the inventory too.

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🪵 Resourcepack-friendly by design

• The sprites reuse the vanilla item icons and textures wherever they read well, so most blocks pick up the look of any texture pack you load below this one.
• New art only where no icon fits: cake bites, candle cakes, pot layers, brewing stand bottles, bell parts and anvils.

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⚠️ Known compromises

• Anvils are placeholder silhouettes until their art lands.
• Colored candle cakes all show the plain candle for now.
• The potted cactus is a green square for now.
• On Fabric without the shader, cakes, anvils and bells show dark backgrounds around their sprites. Mode 13h cleans them up; Forge and NeoForge don't have the problem.
• Blocks moved by pistons stay static while they move.
• The pale oak pot stays vanilla on 1.21.2–1.21.3, where pale oak was experimental.

Coming as the art lands: candles, sea pickles, turtle eggs, the sniffer egg, the dragon egg, campfires, the heavy core and the dried ghast. Signs are left to Flatter Signs.

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🧩 Compatibility

Setup	Works?	Notes
Minecraft 1.20.1	✅	Tested in game
Minecraft 1.21.1	✅	Main target
Minecraft 1.20.2 – 26.3	✅	Best effort; one zip covers every version through overlays
Mode 13h + Iris / Oculus	✅	Billboards
Vanilla or other shaders	✅*	Static cross/hatch sprites, like vanilla flowers
Forge / NeoForge	✅	Clean sprites with or without the shader
Fabric	✅	Needs Mode 13h for clean cakes, anvils and bells

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⚙️ Setup

1. Install Mode 13h with Iris or Oculus.
2. Turn on Billy Boarding in the shader settings.
3. Put this pack above the default resources (and above texture packs you want it to use) in the resource pack list.

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🖇️ Credits

• Models, blockstates & idea: HandLock_
• Textures: damikdevv
• Item icons the sprites are based on: Mojang
• Made for: Mode 13h: MS-DOSify! shaderpack

📜 License

CC BY-SA 4.0. You can share and adapt the pack, including in modpacks, as long as you credit the authors and share your changes under the same license.

🛠️ Development

See AGENTS.md.

“The cake is a sprite.”