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3 Responses

  1. File: Dont.Be.Afraid.zip ... Bradley says:
    March 23, 2012 at 12:49 pm

    That’s a sweet texture pack! I so want that but I can’t download that. 🙁

  2. File: Dont.Be.Afraid.zip ... Bokou says:
    March 23, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    Bradly, are you having trouble downloading it from the author? Here’s his Minecraft Forums thread:

    http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/376784-16x-32x-64x-128x-256x-512xmc12-sphax-purebdcraft-050211/

    Here’s the authors official site for the texture pack:

    http://bdcraft.net/

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