More color variants for terracotta pots and diningware

[trail ore]

Currently the terracotta items, are limited to uncolored, white, yellow, and blue, could more colors be added?

[gritty zenith]

i feel like at some point handcrafted will need to be split up into individually controllable modules

just because of how many gosh darn permutations of everything there are

[trail ore]

they manage chipped, they're probably very familiar with many variants of one thing

[gritty zenith]

there are 16 colors in vanilla minecraft, *2 for glazed versions for 64
lets say we've got 10 terracotta items... that means 640 items. just for colored terracotta.

[gritty zenith]

i know

but at some point you're registering 10k items and the game is gonna start slowing down

[trail ore]

yeah,,,

[gritty zenith]

not saying they shouldn't implement the new colors, but i'm just not sure if that policy will work long-term as the mod expands

gosh darn exponentials

[trail ore]

i think itd be a bit more practical performancewise to just have a base variant of the items, then ability to color them how you wish, kind of like leather armor? which would then mean only one variant of the items are getting registered, and the colors, being defined through code, are now more customizable than they would otherwise be, but would also mean less flexibility for the artists as the texture(s) would need be greyscale and might lose some details because of that

[gritty zenith]

now that could be interesting

then you could, say, customize things however you like

all they'd have to do is reverse engineer how minecraft art creators go from a base color to a terracotta version

[void girder]

fun fact, if I recall correctly 30% of chipped's load time is just the trapdoors and doors due to all their blockstates

but, we do try to make our mods as lag-free as possible

So handcrafted will probably become a mix and match for people to decide themselves, because we do intent to add way more varied content such as futuristic and steampunk furniture

[gritty zenith]

i could make a pretty simple web-based configurator for you guys, if you want

[void girder]

👀

[gritty zenith]

it wouldn’t be particularly pretty, but it would be functional