[Lilac] Seas of Color

Part of The Lilac Experience, a mod series designed to make the game more accessible to casual players without straying too far from what the game was meant to be.

Seas of Color was my attempt (probably one of my many attempts) to remedy the lack of accessibility of basic dyes. Humor me for a moment, because I have a tendency to ramble and this mod adds a _lot_ of elements.

• Craft Coral Blocks Into Dyes

Each coral block can craft into two dyes: Fire into red, horn into yellow, tube into blue, brain into pink, and bubble into magenta. I figured the easiest (and least cruel) method would be to let it be done with coral, since fish aren’t exactly renewable and the whole thing is very RNG heavy.

• Coral Fans into Corals, Corals to Blocks

I noticed as I was trying to gather materials to do a showcase that it’s very difficult to consistently get one kind of coral, so I added recipes to convert coral fans into corals, and vice versa. Corals are the items used to make Coral Blocks — which is how I tackle the renewability issue.

• Unwhitening

Black dye can now be used to convert lime, pink, and light blue dyes back into their green, red, and blue counterparts. Shapeless recipe exists for 2 colored dyes and one black dye, in an attempt to minimize the use of this recipe to dupe items.

• Okay, now we’re just getting silly

A recipe was added to campfires to cook sea pickles into lime dye.

I think that’s everything? Hope you enjoy 🙂