Drullkus

Pasting my thoughts expressed to the poster, from Twitter

I doubt strictly embedding it all would be the ideal solution. The ideal solution would to have an internal database storing those references. This is a win-win situation because mods starting in 1.16 (ideally) also add dimensions through datapack means.

This way, everything still in storage and anything that's a reference still remains a reference. If the dimension itself is fine but one of the references errors, it simply has a backup for that reference, instead of defaulting entire dimension to the backup.

Let me add that this issue is occurring because in the packs there exists PBR textures that don't fully match the resolution of the base texture.

As a result for some reason the texture atlas stitcher expects the UV size of the PBR texture to match the base texture and causes this weird problem where a texture can be eclipsed by a different texture, no matter which texture type it is (Diffuse, Specular/MER, or Normals/Bump)

Still occurring in 18w47b...