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Dyeable

Dyeable

A vanilla-style mod that gives the player the ability to mix dyes to create millions of unique colors, paint blocks, and make wallpapers.

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Compatibility

Minecraft: Java Edition

26.2
26.1.2

Platforms

Supported environments

Client and server

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Details

Licensed MIT
Published 22 hours ago

Dyeable

This mod introduces a "vanilla-style" way to mix dyes to create millions of unique dye colors and paint nearly any block in the game!

3 Dye vats sit in a room with spruce and dark oak walls and flooring. The vats are made of wood. The vats have shovels in them, and the water in them is colored - from left to right - burgundy, purple, and orange. Above the vats are stained glass blocks with various shades of orange. 2 banners can be seen on the wall, one is rose colored with an orange cross and white dot. One is purple with a cyan diagonal cross with a fuchsia diamond in the middle. There are 2 sheep in a pen to the left, colored light yellow and rose. Lanterns hang from the ceiling.

Features

Dye Vat

The Dye Vat is used to mix dyes and dye items. Using the Dye Vat requires 3 things to function:

  • Water input
  • Shovel
  • 2 or more input items

Water is replenished by filling the block with a water bucket, similarly to a cauldron. A shovel can be placed in the shovel slot. Shovels lose durability as they mix, and better shovels mix faster, increasing further with efficiency.

A menu for a dye vat is on screen in the minecraft UI style. it has an inventory below, with 3 slots above with paint palette icons on them. On the left of the UI is a big water droplet shape with a bucket icon above it. On the right of the UI is a slot with a shovel icon in it. The three slots lead with an arrow to another empty slot below it.

Dye Mixing

2 or more dyes can be mixed together in the vat at a time to create a unique Mixed Dye. A Mixed Dye can only have a total of 10 colors or additives put into it; any more, and it no longer accepts them.

Same UI as before, but the water drop is full of blue. A green dye is in the first slot and a blue dye in the second slot, the arrow is half-filled with white now. The shovel slot has a stone shovel in it. The output slot has a mixed dye with a blue-greenish grey color

Additives are items that don't directly affect the dye's hue in the mixing process, but instead alter its brightness or saturation:

  • Glowstone is used to make dyes more saturated and colorful
  • Glow Ink Sacs are used to make dyes brighter without totally washing them out.
  • Ink Sacs are used to make dyes darker.
  • Gunpowder is used to make dyes dull and less colorful.

Same UI as before, but the water drop is filled halfway blue. A pale purple Mixed Dye is in the first slot, a Glow Ink Sac is in the second slot, and Glowstone is in the third slot. The arrow is half-filled with white now. The shovel slot has a netherite shovel in it. The output slot has a slightly more colorful purple Mixed Dye

Item Dyeing

Blocks and items can also be put in the Dye Vat, and can be mixed with multiple dyes at a time. Only one type of dyeable item can be dyed at a time; any attempts will be unsuccessful. The current dyeable items are:

  • Wool
  • Carpets
  • Concrete
  • Concrete Powder
  • Terracotta
  • Glass / Stained Glass
  • Glass Panes / Stained Glass Panes
  • Banners (only affects base color when put in vat)
  • Beds
  • Shulker Boxes

Same UI as before, but the water drop is nearly full of blue. A blue-greenish grey Mixed Dye is in the first slot, a blue dye is in the second slot, and a glass pane is in the third slot. The arrow is partly filled with white now. The shovel slot has a stone shovel in it. The output slot has a stained glass pane with a dark pale blue.

Paint Mixing

By putting any type of dye, a clay ball, and a bucket in the input of the Dye Vat, the output will result in a Paint Bucket given the pigment of your input's dye. Each Paint Bucket has 64 uses and will convert to a regular bucket once empty; Paint Buckets cannot be refilled or mixed with other paints.

vat ui with paint in output slot

Block Painting

Nearly any block in the game can be painted, as long as you have a Paint Bucket and a Paintbrush. To paint a block, put the paint of your choice in your offhand and the Paintbrush in your main hand; Right-clicking will paint that block. You can use the Paint Scraper to remove paint from any painted objects. (Due to limitations in rendering pipelines, any greyscale paints like greys or white do not affect the saturation of a texture, only brightness)

Various minecraft blocks colored various other colors

Wallpaper Crafting

Wallpapers are placeable items that are very similar to how banners function. A base Wallpaper can be crafted by putting paper and any dye(s) in the Dye Vat, making 4 at a time per piece of paper.

vat ui with paper and purple dye making purple wallpaper. wallpaper item is just a square at an angle

A wallpaper can be put into the Paper Press to add up to 12 patterns on its face; dyes are used to color patterns. Certain types of blocks can be put in the block slot to add an overlay.

UI for a Paper Press block. Looks nearly identical to loom, but the preview is a square instead of a rectangle. The preview showcases a purple square with 2 blue vertical squiggly lines with shading to resemble chiseled tuff

Wallpaper Usage

Wallpapers can be placed on any solid 16x16 face, whether it's on walls, floors, or ceilings. Wallpapers aren't actually blocks, so they don't take up a block's space, allowing for the placement of torches, fences, doors, buttons, levers, etc. on them. Wallpaper is also completely immune to water and lava.

a bunch of wallpapers with different designs on oak planks. there is a torch, 2 buttons, a trapdoor, and 2 cobble walls against the wall.

Banner Making

While certainly not a new feature, this mod allows Mixed Dyes to be used as a pattern color source in a Loom, increasing the original 809 quadrillion amount of possible banners to somewhere over one quinvigintillion (1 followed by 78 zeroes) banners (Note: this is mostly a guess, im not sure exactly how many of the 16,777,216 RGB colors are possible in my system, i just made a rough estimate).

UI of the Loom with a red banner and a vibrant purple mixed dye being used for a gradient pattern.

Sheep Dyeing

Again, not a new feature, but mixed dyes can be used on sheep for an infinite wool source. Breeding mixed dyed sheep results in a baby with the exact mix of the wool colors of the 2 parents, no estimation.

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I hope you find this mod useful for building, and if you encounter any bugs or have feedback, please let me know @ urixmusic on discord and other socials! Thank you.