The current dyeing system is, to be honest, lame. It is very limited and you can't revert colored wool back to white. You have to craft the dyes and wool together on the spot or calculate how many you're gonna need of one color when building something with it. This is why I suggest this. You can't craft colored wool anymore, you still can for leather armor though. You have to craft a paintbrush:
This paintbrush has a durability of 65 and when right clicking on Wooden Planks or Wool, it will dye it. The paintbrush will use up the dye that is closest to it on the hotbar. If no dyes are in the hotbar or there are 2 dyes equally far apart from the paintbrush, it won't do anything. You can have 2 paintbrushes in your inventory and both will use the dye closest to them. If you want to make a checkerboard pattern with Blue and Red you can have 2 paintbrushes next to each other on the hotbar and next to one of them Lapis Lazuli and the other one Rose Red. With the scroll of the mouse wheel you switch dyes. If you don't understand what I mean, your toolbar would be arranged like this:
Lapis Lazuli-Paintbrush-Painbrush-Rose Red
When using dyes on wool, it won't mix. Dyeing a block of blue wool with Rose Red will make it Red instead of Purple. This also means that using bone meal wool can be turned back to the original white.
Currently, Leather Armor needs a cauldron to wash off the dye. But if you actually use leather armor, you probably don't have much iron and you definitely can't afford a cauldron and a bucket just because you want to change your color from Green to Black. My suggestion is that right clicking a water source block with a piece of leather armor will wash off the dye without draining the source block.
Also, Wood Planks will be dyeable. This will make houses colorful without them being made of wool. The color of the dyed plank will also be effected by the type of plank, so spruce will always have a darker color while birch has a lighter one and Jungle a reddish-brownish. These are also returned to their original color with cocoa beans.
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I think you're on to something with a paintbrush to paint blocks post-placement, but not like this. Arguably, having to arrange and re-arrange dyes to accomodate the paintbrush seems a bit cumbersome and awquard compared to old methods, not to mention it could easily clutter up your hotbar.
Why not pre-color brushes instead? For exmaple: take a crafted brush, surround it with purple dye in the crafting table to get a pre-colored brush that paints blocks purple without any need for more dye. This way you can make a whole bunch of pre-colored brushes and you can set them in your hotbar like a color-pallate used in paint programs.
Even then, it's debatable wheather making colorants (and the availablity of wood for coloring) so available would be good idea. On one hand it wouldn't hinder game functionality (provided the old coloring methods remain) and would lend more creative freedom; but on the other hand, it could lead to multiplayer servers looking like they were visited by Pukey the paint monster as some aren't responsible enough for such creative freedom.
It looks like you've put some thought into this idea, which is to be appreciated, but I'd still say this idea is three-quarters baked. No support.
Alright so if it's pre-dyed, would it have a separate durability bar with the type of dye and need to be crated again once the 8 dyes are used up or would it simply break after the 8 dyes that have been supplied with it are used up?
There should not be colored planks as it will ruin of of most importants uses for wools, and make it pre colored,as having to make a pattern on inventories just so a paint brush don't simple get the wrong color is annoying.
I don't completely understand what this is supposed to mean.
What he, Epic Ender Miner and myself are getting at is to combine/craft dye and a paintbrush together into one item that functions independently of whatever else is in your invintory. in other words:
What he, Epic Ender Miner and myself are getting at is to combine/craft dye and a paintbrush together into one item that functions independently of whatever else is in your invintory. in other words:
Brush + Dye = Pre-colored brush.
Okay but my question is can you choose how many you would use? Could you add just 1 or as much as 8? Could you, just like a map, recraft it to have for example 20 dyes on it before crafting again? Would it break after the dyes put on it run out? Can the dyes be removed from it if you accidentaly put in more than you needed?
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Arguably, as some means of making it's cost line up with it's value as a tool, It should cost 8 dye to create a pre-colored brush. To keep in line with other tools it should not be repairable except by the anvil (and even then, it would make more sense just to make a new pre-colored brush). Also in-line with other tools, the crafting materials (paintbrush and dye) should not be reclaimable in the same way cobblestone and sticks cannot be reclaimed from a stone sword. However, that's not to say the color of the pre-colored brush should't be changable after crafting by adding more dye.
This paintbrush has a durability of 65 and when right clicking on Wooden Planks or Wool, it will dye it. The paintbrush will use up the dye that is closest to it on the hotbar. If no dyes are in the hotbar or there are 2 dyes equally far apart from the paintbrush, it won't do anything. You can have 2 paintbrushes in your inventory and both will use the dye closest to them. If you want to make a checkerboard pattern with Blue and Red you can have 2 paintbrushes next to each other on the hotbar and next to one of them Lapis Lazuli and the other one Rose Red. With the scroll of the mouse wheel you switch dyes. If you don't understand what I mean, your toolbar would be arranged like this:
Lapis Lazuli-Paintbrush-Painbrush-Rose Red
When using dyes on wool, it won't mix. Dyeing a block of blue wool with Rose Red will make it Red instead of Purple. This also means that using bone meal wool can be turned back to the original white.
Currently, Leather Armor needs a cauldron to wash off the dye. But if you actually use leather armor, you probably don't have much iron and you definitely can't afford a cauldron and a bucket just because you want to change your color from Green to Black. My suggestion is that right clicking a water source block with a piece of leather armor will wash off the dye without draining the source block.
Also, Wood Planks will be dyeable. This will make houses colorful without them being made of wool. The color of the dyed plank will also be effected by the type of plank, so spruce will always have a darker color while birch has a lighter one and Jungle a reddish-brownish. These are also returned to their original color with cocoa beans.
If you have any additions/suggested changes, please post it!
Give this post a +1 and leave a comment to show your support!
Why not pre-color brushes instead? For exmaple: take a crafted brush, surround it with purple dye in the crafting table to get a pre-colored brush that paints blocks purple without any need for more dye. This way you can make a whole bunch of pre-colored brushes and you can set them in your hotbar like a color-pallate used in paint programs.
Even then, it's debatable wheather making colorants (and the availablity of wood for coloring) so available would be good idea. On one hand it wouldn't hinder game functionality (provided the old coloring methods remain) and would lend more creative freedom; but on the other hand, it could lead to multiplayer servers looking like they were visited by Pukey the paint monster as some aren't responsible enough for such creative freedom.
It looks like you've put some thought into this idea, which is to be appreciated, but I'd still say this idea is three-quarters baked. No support.
lol, I first thought this was "Improved Dying" (like death)
Other than that, support.
I don't completely understand what this is supposed to mean.
What he, Epic Ender Miner and myself are getting at is to combine/craft dye and a paintbrush together into one item that functions independently of whatever else is in your invintory. in other words:
Brush + Dye = Pre-colored brush.
Okay but my question is can you choose how many you would use? Could you add just 1 or as much as 8? Could you, just like a map, recraft it to have for example 20 dyes on it before crafting again? Would it break after the dyes put on it run out? Can the dyes be removed from it if you accidentaly put in more than you needed?