It's quite telling that while a lot of merch makes him lighter, I've not seen any that makes him darker. I guess there's two primary possibilities for why this is consistently happening: either people see Steve as white and reimagine him with somewhat lighter skin, or they see his skin as ambiguous and want him to be unambiguously white. Obviously in a lot of the merch they're re-interpreting the character to some extent because he typically has one tone for his skin on the merchandise rather than a handful of texels, in most cases his skin ends up lighter, sometimes by a bit, sometimes by a lot. I think that much of the merchandise whitewashes Steve (though lighting exaggerates the extent, especially on the box-art for Minecraft and Dungeons). This is a port made from the original Java package, created by its official author, Steven. Also just noticed how old this thread is! Stevens Traditional is a 64圆4 resource pack that adds a personal touch to most textures, significantly increasing blocks and items, while keeping the look relatively close to the default resource pack in Minecraft. I do think it's fairly relevant to the 'why' and clearly his race was a topic of discussion before I ever entered it. He's clearly been white washed in (some, maybe most) merchandise. Having noticed that, I'm now near certain that Steve was originally intended to be white. As far as I'm aware blue eyes are pretty much only found in caucasians, and would be extremely unlikely in a first-generation mixed race person too. I just noticed that Steve has blue eyes which is a major indicator the character was originally intended as white. I doubt artists are making him lighter because they see it as better (amongst white people tanned skin is typically considered desirable), but clearly they do see Steve as white, which may imply some bias on their part.įair haired/red headed people have a massive tendency towards the kind of skin that burns before it tans, and they use lotion to prevent themselves from burning. Some reproductions of the character have lighter skin, which does seem a little questionable. Heavily tanned white people can easily look that dark, so it's simply ambiguious. There's absolutely no way you can tell whether he is white or not from screenshots these screenshots of an intentionally low-detail character in varied light conditions.
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