YogMod

YogMod

Perfect for building your own science lab. Not perfect if you want a working coffee machine. Don't worry about it!

Brief Content Overview

Hello fellow Yognau(gh)ts, and welcome, to YogMod! What is YogMod, you may ask? Well, YogMod is a reimplementation of the VoxelBox Scientific texture pack used in YogLabs as separate blocks, meaning you can now build your own YogLabs without having to change resource packs to avoid texture conflicts (notably ores) making survival a difficult task. At present, the blocks largely follow the original texture pack's decisions, so pumpkins correspond to monitors, coal ore is dark stone brick, and so on. We have made some changes, mostly for making full-color wool variants available, as well as ensuring that the blocks that originally corresponded to unobtainables (such as the floors being made of bedrock) now correspond to obtainable blocks.

Current Features

Crafting

To construct anything in YogMod, you will need the Yogifier, crafted using two quartz blocks and two planks. It converts between the block or item that the original texture pack used for that texture and the YogMod equivalent, and it also works in reverse, converting YogMod blocks back to their vanilla counterparts.

Armor

Suits, sanitation worker, and riot gear. You never know what you're going to need when the testificates revolt.

Blocks

The entire complement of blocks to build your own version of YogLabs, the home of innovation, where the only limit is your (un)limited imagination.

Food

Coffee, hamburger, and jaffa. We're not sure why the coffee machine is working or why the jaffa looks more like an oreo.

Mobs

Scrubber-bot. Use riveted steel, a YogMod piston, and a lit monitor to create. Cleans the floor.

Weapons

Lasers and pencils. Currently implemented as a sword and axe respectively. Why doesn't the laser actually work as a laser? Don't worry about it, it's fine!

Backstory

YogLabs premiered on YouTube on October 19, 2012, replacing the earlier mod showcases the Yogscast had done over the previous couple of years. YogLabs became one of their most beloved series, and soon, users wanted to utilize the texture pack from YogLabs in their own builds. From Welcome to the Facility until Iron Dwarf, the series utilized TheVoxelBox Scientific texture pack. This texture pack, while ideal for creative builds, made survival an impossibility. Ores were often retextured to completely different decorative blocks, as were foods. This became something of a running joke within the series, such as the countertops actually being melons, or the ceiling lights actually being jack o'lanterns. This texture incongruency meant that if someone wanted to build using the YogLabs blocks in a survival mode world, they either had to put up with the strange textures or switch the texture pack on and off. Later on, the Yogscast switched from the low-resolution resource pack to a high-resolution one built on top of Sphax PureBDcraft, which although being unavailable to the public for many years, suffered from the same problems.

NosLabs Custom Blocks

When we started using Sphax PureBDcraft regularly, we quickly became annoyed with the texture incongruency, but for about a year and a half, we put up with it. By late 2015, however, this had become a nuisance, because switching between resource packs on the slow hardware we had often took a significant amount of time and often led to game crashes. It was an even bigger annoyance on 1.6.4, where multiple resource packs couldn't be loaded at the same time, and thus two full copies of the resource pack had to be maintained. We created the NosLabs Custom Blocks mod, the precursor to YogMod, to host all the textures on separate blocks so we no longer had to constantly switch resource packs. It remained under this name until July 2019, when we reached out to Lewis for permission to use the "YogMod" name and textures, which he granted us, and YogMod was publicly released in March 2020.

Sphax PureBDcraft

In the episode Bad Trip, YogLabs debuted with a new, high-definition resource pack, which was unavailable to the public for many years, although it is available here today. While by default, YogMod ships with the original, low-resolution textures, you can obtain the high definition ones here. This resource pack is designed to work in tandem with the Sphax PureBDcraft resource pack.

For your convenience, we have links here as well.

1.21.1 - updated 2025 August 2

1.20.1 - updated 2025 June 3

1.19.2 - updated 2025 May 17

1.18.2 - updated 2025 May 17

1.16.5 - updated 2025 May 17

1.12.2 - updated 2025 May 17

1.7.10 - updated 2025 August 31

Credits

Code

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Assets

cineminecraft

Teutron

TheVoxelBox

The Yogscast

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