The Unfortunate Truth of Minecraft's #1 Texture Pack

The Minecraft Texture / Resource Pack known as "Faithful" was stolen from Vattic, it's original owner, and resold onto the Minecraft Marketplace without Vattic's permission... for 3 years.

AntVenom Links

Vattic's Twitter

== RESOURCE PACKS ==

FaithfulVenom Resource Pack

Compliance Resource Pack

Emulated Vattic Resource Pack

Mullak99's Faithful Resource Pack

== SPECIAL THANKS ==

» Evorp
» FHLX
» Harag0n
» JogurciQ
» Juknum
» mullak99
» Ninventoo
» PeJohn
» Pomi
» Robert
» Sei
» Vattic

Co-Writer
» Furx

MUSIC
» Epidemic Sound
(Tracker, Decision Through Vision, Rethinker, Awaken the Immortals, No Stone Unturned, Soaring)

[VatticTV]

Thank you for making this video and getting the word out! Also many thanks to the community <3

[DanielTGaming]

As somebody who has used Faithful for so many years now, I am really saddened to hear about all of this. But on a brighter note, I'm happy to use the Compliance pack since it's gotten Vattic's approval.

[FitMC]

Wow, this was some insane Minecraft journalism. Never would have thought the texture pack was technically stolen. Kind of scary how easy it was for those logs to be faked and accepted. 10/10 video

[LayJD_]

Ladies and Gents: FHLX here. I just wanted to say that as of 12/29/2021, the Emulated Vattic team has completed a renaming process to be now referred to as the Classic Faithful Team. All logos, repositories, listings, and packs have been re-named to Classic Faithful. This will be our new name moving forward and should be much more recognizable than our previous name. Thanks everyone that sees this.

[texture-packs]

Thanks for this great video! It's good when more people learn what's going on with Faithful

[Genesis-fxjf]

I never knew that there could be much story behind a texture pack. Things like this really makes you want to think what’s really going on behind the scenes of other things.

[Komeiji]

Damn, I knew something was off when I first saw faithful on the minecraft store. Vattic was not mentioned even once but I was under the impression that he gave permission to these guys to continue the project. Turns out that one person claimed ownership without the permission from Vaticc and even made money from it. I appreciate him trying to continue Faithful but trying to take it as his own, proffiting and even lying about it is downright shameful. I will no longer support his, but will look for alternative Faithful packs instead.

Huge props to Antvenom and the team in making this expose possible.

[TheAdvertisement]

11:00 I really appreciate you highlighting the names of these founders. Villains don't deserve infamy, but heroes deserve fame!

[Roman_Shosirobe]

Vizzy: Oh, I thought you were dead.
Vattic: My death was... greatly exaggerated.

[Chillipeffer]

when vizzy said "no democracy" and basically went on a power trip, I instantly got vibes of wheatley from portal 2

[richarde]

I'm gonna be honest with you: I always thought of you as an "average content creator" who makes content for a young audience. When I actually watched your videos though, I started to appreciate them, but I still never thought of them as singular. This video really changes my mind about you. Well worded, documented and extremely reasonable while talking about a topic you definitely have an opinion about. Excellent video!

[RookFox]

Never knew my favorite pack has this much history to it.

[ShortHax]

If I ever had to buy skins or texture packs on the Java Edition, I would commit nether sleep

[BarbusCraft]

*Note:* xMrVizzy has changed his name to Kraineff! So if you don't want to further support Vizzy, don't support Kraineff!

[TheARESClanGaming]

Hopefully legal action is taken and he can acquire the rights to sell his own texture pack on the marketplace.

[MartyMacgyver]

I was wondering why "Faithful" hadn't been updated in a while and now I suspect it's a direct result of everything hitting the fan. The process of looking at their issue tracker led me to Vattic's post and this video. I had no idea any of this was going on... thank you for enlightening me!

[mullak]

Glad to see this story is finally public. EM and Compliance deserve all the positive attention they can get

[AhamkaraMommy]

I just realized this isn't just on Vizzy either, it's on the people running the Minecraft store, how the hell did they accept the *fake* faithful pack without even properly checking the intellectual rights? Disgusting lack of effort.

[offroaders]

Wow, great work! That was very thorough. The whole situation is much clearer now, thanks for making an explanation for it.

I was working on keeping Faithful 32x up to date with modern Bedrock versions (I mostly worked on missing UI textures), back before it had to be taken down in early 2019. I was sharing it on MCPEDL so other players could use it also, and the team at MCPEDL let me know that xMrVizzy required all Faithful packs had to be taken down, because of the new copyright. It's a shame that's what happened, but I am relieved that the right things are happening now! 😎

[corn]

I knew a moderator on faithful and he told me he was always suspicious of Vizzy. He never gave proof that he had permission to update the pack and I'm very happy that he got caught. I hope legal action is taken against him for these last couple years.