Go to post #6. Yes, I know there is a mod for some of this, but bear with me.
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Dyes should be mixed with a water bucket to make paint. Dyes can be pre-mixed, then made into paint and added to paintable areas, allowing for color-coding without the need to shear sheep. One water + two dye = twenty uses of paint (Represented by a colored water bucket and a paintbrush).
Adding another water bucket would produce stain (represented by a colored water bucket with a waterdrop), which can then be applied on glass, glass panes and wool. True stained-glass windows can exist within the game-world, and torches can be behind glass panes to produce colored lighting.
Additionally, a craftable black should be included, cooking (char)coal to make char powder, which can be used on it's own as black, or mixed with other dyes to darken their color by 50%. Mixed with pastel dyes, color saturation would be reduced 50%, producing faded colors.
If Notch wants to make dark and faded colors really, really rare, the Ender Pearl could also be cooked into a special "Ender dye" that achieves the same effect.
And yes, all dyes can be crafted into paint or stain.
Yeah that would be goood i reckon but couldnt you just use coloured wool?
wool burn. plus to have differnt colors with the same texture as the original block like blue bricks? or green cobblestone? would be awesome plus stain glass would be killer! and stains like he said for woods, to make cherry wood? or a nice yellowish wood to look like pine?
wool burn. plus to have differnt colors with the same texture as the original block like blue bricks? or green cobblestone? would be awesome plus stain glass would be killer! and stains like he said for woods, to make cherry wood? or a nice yellowish wood to look like pine?
That would be great, actually. Stains can be used on wooden blocks to color them. so you can have a cherry-wood look and feel, or the pine house I'm envisioning, or as a status symbol, like back in the day, a whitewashed wooden home, made from the bones of dead skeletons.
It'd be epic. And also a neat way to identify houses.
Stuff about paint and stain. AGAIN I realize mods like this may exist.
I was thinking about all the materials in Minecraft, and I figured out a flaw in my logic.
Buckets of water should make stain, while paint has to be something crafted, which can then be dyed. So, how can we make paint?
Instead of forging clay into bricks, mixing it with water in a bucket should be able to manufacturer paint, which can then be dyed with your color of choice. But there needs to be a way to apply either paint or stain. Enter the paintbrush.
To make the paintbrush, which needs to be in your inventory, you would need to shear a pig for it's fur, which would be the bristle material. One stick would act as the handle, and one iron ingot would act as the ferrule.
The differences between paints and stains
Paints can color anything wood, except for raw wood. So pressure plates can be colored, fences can be colored and wooden planks. Smooth stone and cobblestone can be colored, but not mossy stone. Paints are completely opaque and leave a low gloss. Painted surfaces can still be torched, and because the paint in question is made out of a fire-retardant material, any painted surface will take longer to burn through.
Stains are transparent, and can be used to color glass. On anything wood, except for wooden planks Raw wood, it will recolor it a different shade of brown, to represent how stains actually work to recolor wood with warmer or cooler tones. Cobblestone can be stained and keep it's texture, unlike paint which would overwrite one face to be a completely solid color. Stains are not fire retardant, unlike paint.
To reset the color of an item, at the expense of paint or stain used, just break it. Color data will not be permanent, which means if you mess up placement, then you can destroy that block or item to remove it's color, or recolor it.
To prevent stacking, and thus, the possible loss (or duplication?) of buckets, a paint or stain bucket will become more "Damaged" as it is used. When you run out of paint, a bucket will spawn in front of you, which you can then recollect to fill with more paint.
Possible icons for each item
Stain: Water bucket with colored water, and a counter on the bottom showing number of usage
Paint: Stain symbol, except with miniaturized version of the paintbrush icon somewhere in the icon
Summarization of items, and placement Non-existent Pig's fur (top) + Iron ingot (middle) + Stick (bottom) = Paintbrush
Clay (top) + Water bucket (bottom) = 20 (gray) Paint (paint bucket)
Paint (bottom) + Dye (top) = 20* Colored paint
Dye (top) + Water bucket (bottom) = 20 stain (stain bucket) * Colored paint will not reset the counter to twenty, but will color what paint is remaining, so it is more economical to color a full bucket
Paintbrush must be in inventory, as well as your paint or stain of choice, and the paintbrush must be selected to color. If more than one of either paint or stain is in the inventory, then the paintbrush will do nothing.
This might also fill the carpet/rug need, since paint on the floor would probably look the same.
Nien. Carpet needs texture. I already made a suggestion for carpet in thread "A womans point of view" But to summarize anyway, fibers for the carpet need to be made from wheat, with wool on top, which should yield some odd number of carpet blocks to lay down.
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Yes, I know there is a mod for some of this, but bear with me.
(Edited for clarity)
Dyes should be mixed with a water bucket to make paint. Dyes can be pre-mixed, then made into paint and added to paintable areas, allowing for color-coding without the need to shear sheep. One water + two dye = twenty uses of paint (Represented by a colored water bucket and a paintbrush).
Adding another water bucket would produce stain (represented by a colored water bucket with a waterdrop), which can then be applied on glass, glass panes and wool. True stained-glass windows can exist within the game-world, and torches can be behind glass panes to produce colored lighting.
Additionally, a craftable black should be included, cooking (char)coal to make char powder, which can be used on it's own as black, or mixed with other dyes to darken their color by 50%. Mixed with pastel dyes, color saturation would be reduced 50%, producing faded colors.
If Notch wants to make dark and faded colors really, really rare, the Ender Pearl could also be cooked into a special "Ender dye" that achieves the same effect.
And yes, all dyes can be crafted into paint or stain.
wool burn. plus to have differnt colors with the same texture as the original block like blue bricks? or green cobblestone? would be awesome plus stain glass would be killer! and stains like he said for woods, to make cherry wood? or a nice yellowish wood to look like pine?
That would be great, actually. Stains can be used on wooden blocks to color them. so you can have a cherry-wood look and feel, or the pine house I'm envisioning, or as a status symbol, like back in the day, a whitewashed wooden home, made from the bones of dead skeletons.
It'd be epic. And also a neat way to identify houses.
I was thinking about all the materials in Minecraft, and I figured out a flaw in my logic.
Buckets of water should make stain, while paint has to be something crafted, which can then be dyed. So, how can we make paint?
Instead of forging clay into bricks, mixing it with water in a bucket should be able to manufacturer paint, which can then be dyed with your color of choice. But there needs to be a way to apply either paint or stain. Enter the paintbrush.
To make the paintbrush, which needs to be in your inventory, you would need to shear a pig for it's fur, which would be the bristle material. One stick would act as the handle, and one iron ingot would act as the ferrule.
The differences between paints and stains
Paints can color anything wood, except for raw wood. So pressure plates can be colored, fences can be colored and wooden planks. Smooth stone and cobblestone can be colored, but not mossy stone. Paints are completely opaque and leave a low gloss. Painted surfaces can still be torched, and because the paint in question is made out of a fire-retardant material, any painted surface will take longer to burn through.
Stains are transparent, and can be used to color glass. On anything wood, except for
wooden planksRaw wood, it will recolor it a different shade of brown, to represent how stains actually work to recolor wood with warmer or cooler tones. Cobblestone can be stained and keep it's texture, unlike paint which would overwrite one face to be a completely solid color. Stains are not fire retardant, unlike paint.To reset the color of an item, at the expense of paint or stain used, just break it. Color data will not be permanent, which means if you mess up placement, then you can destroy that block or item to remove it's color, or recolor it.
To prevent stacking, and thus, the possible loss (or duplication?) of buckets, a paint or stain bucket will become more "Damaged" as it is used. When you run out of paint, a bucket will spawn in front of you, which you can then recollect to fill with more paint.
Possible icons for each item
Stain: Water bucket with colored water, and a counter on the bottom showing number of usage
Paint: Stain symbol, except with miniaturized version of the paintbrush icon somewhere in the icon
Summarization of items, and placement
Non-existent Pig's fur (top) + Iron ingot (middle) + Stick (bottom) = Paintbrush
Clay (top) + Water bucket (bottom) = 20 (gray) Paint (paint bucket)
Paint (bottom) + Dye (top) = 20* Colored paint
Dye (top) + Water bucket (bottom) = 20 stain (stain bucket)
* Colored paint will not reset the counter to twenty, but will color what paint is remaining, so it is more economical to color a full bucket
Paintbrush must be in inventory, as well as your paint or stain of choice, and the paintbrush must be selected to color. If more than one of either paint or stain is in the inventory, then the paintbrush will do nothing.
This might also fill the carpet/rug need, since paint on the floor would probably look the same.
Nien. Carpet needs texture. I already made a suggestion for carpet in thread "A womans point of view" But to summarize anyway, fibers for the carpet need to be made from wheat, with wool on top, which should yield some odd number of carpet blocks to lay down.