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Custom Item Textures Reforged

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Custom Item Textures Reforged

By Aelfwif

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Standalone Custom Item Textures (CIT) engine for Minecraft 1.12.2 that loads OptiFine and MCPatcher packs without OptiFine.

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PROJECT UNMAINTAINED / ON INDEFINITE HIATUS

This project is no longer actively maintained and is on indefinite hiatus. No further updates, feature additions, or bug fixes will be provided. The repository is archived and read-only. Anyone is welcome to fork this project and continue development under the terms of the open-source license.

CIT Reforged

Minecraft 1.12.2 Forge and Cleanroom MIT License

CIT Reforged brings Custom Item Textures (CIT) to Minecraft 1.12.2 without requiring OptiFine.

If you play modern 1.12 modpacks with mods like Cleanroom, VintageFix, Phosphor, or CensoredASM, you probably already know that OptiFine causes constant crashes and visual bugs. But dropping OptiFine usually means losing your custom weapon skins, renamed tools, and pack-specific models.

CIT Reforged fixes that. It loads your existing OptiFine and MCPatcher CIT resource packs natively on Forge and Cleanroom, completely standalone.

What's new compared to CIT Recrafted?

This mod is an optimized continuation of CIT-Recrafted by EclipsedReaper. The original proved standalone CIT on 1.12 was possible, but had noticeable performance hiccups and missing features in actual gameplay. Here is what has been improved:

  • Eliminated rendering lag & micro-stutter
    The original mod cloned every item's entire NBT tag on every single render frame. If you looked at an item frame wall or opened a full chest, Java's garbage collector had to clean up thousands of throwaway objects every second. CIT Reforged switches to pooled thread-local lookups and an LRU cache, bringing memory allocations down to zero during rendering.

  • Working bows and fishing rods
    Custom bows now smoothly transition through pulling stages (pulling_0, pulling_1, pulling_2) when drawing an arrow. Fishing rods also swap correctly between cast and uncast models based on your bobber hook.

  • Enchanted book support
    Minecraft stores enchantment data on books under StoredEnchantments instead of the usual ench tag. The original mod missed this, so book reskins never showed up. CIT Reforged checks both tags.

  • Emissive textures & animations
    OptiFine glowing _e.png companion textures are now registered properly alongside custom models, and animated .mcmeta files play as intended.

  • Loads root-level ZIP packs
    Older packs often put their CIT files right at the root of the zip archive (optifine/cit/... or mcpatcher/cit/...) instead of nesting them inside assets/. CIT Reforged detects both layouts without making you unpack and rearrange the files yourself.

  • Shared model baking
    Identical models and textures are baked once and reused rather than re-baked for every matching rule, saving both startup time and VRAM.

Comparison

Feature OptiFine 1.12.2 Original CIT-Recrafted CIT Reforged
Standalone (No OptiFine needed) No Yes Yes
Cleanroom & Modern Fixes Support Often breaks Works Fully supported
Per-frame memory allocations Low High (clones NBT every tick) Zero (ThreadLocal cache)
Rule lookup speed Linear scan Linear scan O(1) LRU cache
Bow pulling animations Yes No (static only) Yes (3 draw stages)
Fishing rod cast state Yes No (static only) Yes
Enchanted books Yes Broken Works
Emissive _e.png textures Yes Ignored Supported
Root-level ZIP packs Yes Broken Fixed

Quick Setup

  • Requirements: Minecraft 1.12.2 with Forge (recommended 14.23.5.2847+) or CleanroomMC (0.6.x+).
  • Install: Drop cit_reforged-1.0.0.jar into your .minecraft/mods folder.
  • Usage: Put any CIT-compatible resource pack in .minecraft/resourcepacks and turn it on in the in-game menu.
  • Side: Client-side only. You can join vanilla, Forge, or Paper servers without having the mod installed server-side.

Credits & Thanks

Huge thanks to EclipsedReaper for creating the original CIT-Recrafted and establishing standalone 1.12 CIT loading. CIT Reforged continues that work under the original MIT license.