Modrinth: Don's Building Stuff 4.0 — Palette Editor

Release title

4.0 — Palette Editor

Short description

A major update for building tools: Diamond and Netherite Trowels, along with the Gradient Roller, now share a hands-on workspace for configuring materials, orders, gradients, and dithering.

Release post

Don's Building Stuff 4.0 is here.

Building tools no longer rely on a set of hidden inventory actions. Your palette is now laid out in front of you on a worktable: order notes can be moved, collapsed, named, and filled with materials.

Ctrl + Right Click with a Diamond or Netherite Trowel opens the full Palette Editor. Every note is a separate order with its own materials and weights. The same block can be used differently across multiple notes.

The Gradient Roller uses the same workspace for dyes. Its transition direction and dither mode are configured there too: Bayer 2×2, 4×4, 8×8, smooth, randomized, or checkerboard.

The Iron Trowel also receives a clearer mode: one note, selected blocks without numbers, and no unnecessary controls. The Copper Trowel stays simple — it still chooses randomly from blocks to its right in the hotbar.

This is a major interface update, but it does not erase the character of the tools: copper remains fast and rough, iron remains simple and precise, while diamond and netherite offer complete freedom to arrange a palette.

Key changes

• A new Palette Editor for Diamond and Netherite Trowels.
• A shared editor for the Gradient Roller.
• Order notes can be moved, collapsed, removed, and renamed.
• Independent materials and weights in every order.
• The same material can appear in multiple orders with different weights.
• Window layouts are saved on the tool itself.
• A gradient-direction panel and six dithering modes.
• A simplified editor for the Iron Trowel.
• New paper and material sounds.
• Automatic migration of older palette data.