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Iron

Iron is dark.
Have you ever seen an iron fence or an iron gate?

But in minecraft - its white.
We must fix this atrocity!
More texture packs need a darker iron!

This darker iron will look nice - maybe a gray sky to go with it in a dark themed pack - and it will be used more by people who disliked its color before.

But - why is this posted here?

Because I am making a 32x32 texture pack...
StormCraft.

Textures so far:
Redstone ore
Diamond ore
Gold ore
Iron ore

The iron is be a dark reddish gray.

I will post screenshots of the texture pack soon.

Any ideas or requests for other textures?

Cant use that name, just FYi, to many people have used it.

Maybe they made it light so it wouldn't blend in with the stone in the ore block

Well, Iron Ore is orange in game. But when you smelt it, in game it looks sort of gray. However when you make it into a sword it's white, because they don't want the tools to look exactly like stone tools. You'd have to change how the tools looked.

Quote from Richasackboy

Well, Iron Ore is orange in game. But when you smelt it, in game it looks sort of gray. However when you make it into a sword it's white, because they don't want the tools to look exactly like stone tools. You'd have to change how the tools looked.

Stone tools will look more old and worn.

Solved?

Quote from Agjm

Stone tools will look more old and worn.

Solved?

also less shiny? please?

Quote from almosteeen57

also less shiny? please?

Yes.

uh, maybe the ore/nugget itself is brown-ish, but I never saw processed, brown iron.

Quote from Mikejones

uh, maybe the ore/nugget itself is brown-ish, but I never saw processed, brown iron.

Nor a pure white iron?

The block will be a darker color, same with the tools, but not brown.

Iron is quite a bright, shiny substance. The dark iron which is so common in building materials is in fact cast iron, which is somewhat different. Although iron itself is not white, it is usually a shiny silver metal. Its ore is a dark red/brown hue (due to the Fe³⁺ ions), and in it's refined state, it is a shiny, silver metal. The reason it is white in Minecraft is to convey reflectiveness without having to program in a reflection renderer.

Does that answer the question of "why white"?

Quote from Proloe

Iron is quite a bright, shiny substance. The dark iron which is so common in building materials is in fact cast iron, which is somewhat different. Although iron itself is not white, it is usually a shiny silver metal. Its ore is a dark red/brown hue (due to the Fe³⁺ ions), and in it's refined state, it is a shiny, silver metal. The reason it is white in Minecraft is to convey reflectiveness without having to program in a reflection renderer.

Does that answer the question of "why white"?

Cast iron is better ;D

About this color

Quote from Agjm

Cast iron is better ;D

My mod has Cast Iron as a new item.

Cast Iron is, in reality, hopeless for tools. It would not make a very good sword. Or pickaxe, for that matter.