Colouring Brush

Colouring Brush

With brush and dyes, you can give, change, remove the colour of various coloured blocks: glass, wool, shulker box, terracotta, even planks. you name it!

Dev Status

• 🟦 Active: Actively developing. Working properly.
• Version: v1.0

Compatibility

• 1.20.x
• Multiplayer friendly

Features

Colouring decoloured blocks

Hold a brush and dyes in both hands and use the brush on glasses, terracotta, and more. You can colour following blocks.

• Candles, candle cakes
• Glasses, glass panes
• Shulker boxes
• Terracotta

Recolouring coloured blocks

Same mechanism as above. You can recolour following blocks.

• Banners, wall banners
• Candles, candle cakes
• Concretes, concrete powders
• Glasses, glass panes
• Shulker boxes
• Terracotta, glazed terracotta
• Wools, beds, and carpets

Recolouring wooden blocks

Same mechanism as above. But cannot recolour in lime, green, light blue, blue, and purple. (Mojang plz add these woods) Using purple dye, you can recolour wooden fences into nether brick fences depending on the settings.

• Planks
• Stairs
• Slabs
• Fences
• Fence gates
• Doors (*optional: off)
• Trap doors (*optional: off)
• Pressure plates
• Buttons
• Signs, wall signs, hanging signs, and wall hanging signs

Colouring sand into red sand

Hold orange dyes in mainhand, a brush in offhand and use the brush on sand-related blocks. You can also dye chiselled sandstone depending on the settings.

• Sand
• Sandstones
• Sandstone stairs
• Sandstone slabs
• Sandstone walls
• Smooth sandstones
• Smooth sandstone stairs
• Smooth sandstone slabs
• Cut sandstones
• Cut sandstone slabs
• Chiselled sandstone (*optional: off)

Colouring cobblestones and stonebricks into mossy variants

Hold green dyes in mainhand, a brush in offhand and use the brush on related blocks.

• Cobblestone
• Cobblestone stairs
• Cobblestone slabs
• Cobblestone walls
• Stone bricks
• Stone brick stairs
• Stone brick slabs
• Stone brick walls

Decolouring blocks

Hold a brush in mainhand, water bottle or water bucket in offhand, and use the brush on following blocks. Be careful as you cannot use brush in offhand in this case.

• Candles, candle cakes
• Cobblestone-related blocks
• Glasses, glass panes
• Sand-related blocks
• Shulker boxes
• Stone-brick-related blocks
• Terracotta

Balancing Options

Use commands or click the menu on chat to toggle the options for the following features for balance purposes. In parentheses are default options. (Use /function guris:colouring/settings to evoke the menu)

• Consume dye (on)
• Consume water bottle (on)
• Consume water bucket (off)
• Damage brush (on)
• Green jungle planks (off)
• Maintain banner pattern (on)
• Chiselled sandstone (off)
• Nether brick fences (off)
• Wooden doors (off)
• Wooden trapdoors (off)

Planned Features (Soon™)

• Other stone blocks, stairs, slabs, etc (concerning balances and plausibility)
• Automatic mainhand-offhand swapper when using water bottle and bucket

References

• PuckiSilver’s Multitool data pack for targeted block ray tracing
• Moggla’s Timber data pack for settings menu design, item damaging