ColoredM

ColoredM

16 dye colors for blocks and items that don’t have them in vanilla.

What can be dyed

• Flower pots (also with a plant inside)
• Decorated pots (sherds and the stored item are kept)
• Chests (a double chest is dyed as a whole, the items stay inside)
• Barrels (the items stay inside)
• Crafting tables
• Ladders
• Lanterns
• Sea pickles
• Item frames
• Saddles
• Water

How to dye

• Right click a placed block with a dye. Everything is kept: facing, contents, the plant in a pot, pot sherds, both halves of a double chest. Uses 1 dye (none in Creative).
• Item frames: Shift + right click with a dye on a hanging frame (a plain right click puts the dye into the frame, as in vanilla).
• Crafting: the item + a dye anywhere in the grid. Already dyed items can be re-dyed the same way.
• Saddles: saddle + dye.
• Water: water bucket + dye = bucket of colored water.

Colored water

Works like normal water: you can swim in it, it puts out fire, makes obsidian and cobblestone with lava and evaporates in the Nether. Sources of different colors don’t mix.

Details

• Colored chests only join into a double chest with a chest of the same color. Hoppers, comparators and so on work as usual.
• Take the plant out of a colored flower pot and you get an empty pot of the same color.
• All items are in the ColoredM creative tab. The recipes unlock in the recipe book once you have any dye.

Resource packs

The colored textures are not pre-drawn: the mod dyes the textures of your current resource pack when it loads. With Faithful and other packs, the colored blocks match the pack’s style.

Limitations

• Lanterns and sea pickles keep normal white light (Minecraft has no colored light).
• Glow item frames can’t be dyed.
• Sherd patterns from other mods stay undyed on colored pots.

Requirements

• Minecraft 26.3, Fabric Loader 0.19+, Fabric API
• Required on both the server and every client

The mod’s code was written with the help of AI (Claude by Anthropic).