Don's Building Stuff 3.0

Date: 2026-08-09

Summary

Major update: the Gradient Roller is now a palette-driven recolouring tool. The update also makes matching replacement safe for full blocks and Create pillars.

Changelog

Gradient Roller

• Added a shaped crafting recipe for the Gradient Roller: 4 Create zinc nuggets, 2 copper ingots, dried kelp, and black dye.
• Reworked the roller from a block-replacement tool into a recolouring tool; it does not break blocks or create replacement drops.
• The roller stores a dye palette directly on the item.
• While carrying the roller with the cursor in an inventory, right-click a dye to add or increase its weight; left-click to reduce or remove it.
• Ctrl-click dyes to assign their gradient order. Dyes with the same order are selected by their configured weights.
• Palette weights and order numbers render on dye stacks; the roller tooltip lists its configured palette.
• Recolouring follows the direction from the first selected point to the second selected point.
• Each colour is consumed separately from the main inventory at one dye per four successfully recoloured blocks, rounded up. A one-block operation still costs one dye.
• Added coloured dust particles on every successfully recoloured block and placement sound feedback after the operation.
• The standalone selection limit is 7 x 7. Compatible trowels in the inventory can extend the range.

Recolouring Compatibility

• Added recolouring support for vanilla colour families including wool, carpets, concrete, glass, and terracotta.
• Blocks that expose colour through a DyeColor block-state property can now be recoloured directly without replacing the block.
• Added namespace-local discovery and caching of colour families using red_block, block_red, dyed_red_block, and block_dyed_red naming schemes.
• Verified support for Create's standard coloured toolboxes, seats, sails, and postboxes.
• The generic resolver also supports compatible coloured families from Quark, Amendments, and Create Deco without making those mods required dependencies.

Matching Replacement

• Fixed matching replacement: full blocks can now only be replaced by full blocks.
• Matching replacement cancels safely when no compatible selected material exists instead of falling back to unrelated block shapes.
• Added Create pillar priority: selected Create pillars are used first when replacing a Create pillar; full blocks are only considered when no selected pillar is available.

Previous Quick-Place Fixes Retained

• Large quick-place selections no longer hit an invisible limit before their actual range.
• Small quick-place selections place instantly instead of animating block-by-block.