[Mod] Blox Mod - Now with more cobble! [git] [blox]

[Sanchez]

[Mod] Blox Mod



This mod adds new stone, wood and cobble blocks for construction and decoration.
Unified Dyes or the built in Dyes can be used to craft blocks. I have also added Glow Ore that can be used to craft Glowstone.

Glow Ore will spawn underground in small amounts and gives off light. Mining Glow Ore produces Glow Dust (or sometimes a Glowstone). Glow Dust produces a very small amount of light and can be used to craft Glowstone.

License (code): WTFPL
License (built in textures): WTFPL
Depends: Default, unifieddyes, and a Minetest engine build newer than 2017-01-23.

Download: https://github.com/minetest-mods/blox/a ... master.zip
...or browse the code: https://github.com/minetest-mods/blox
For the 0.4.15-stable version, get this ZIP file.

+ "Show screenshots"

The complete set of patterns available, in several of the available colors (since this mod uses Unified Dyes, there are 89 colors available, not just the 10 shown here).


Glow Ore found in a cave

+ Crafting

Glow Dust, Glow Ore and Glowstone

To craft Glowstone (updated as of 0.6)


In most of the recipes below, where you see cobble, you can replace it with either stone or wood (all at once), depending on which base material you want.

To craft checker blocks:

The inverse of this recipe also works. Produces 6 or 8 blocks depending on recipe used. If you have Moreblocks installed, the stone versions of these recipes are not enabled -- use that mod's "iron checker" instead.

To craft stone square blocks:

If you have Moreblocks installed, this recipe is not enabled -- use that mod's "stone tile" instead.

To craft cross blocks:


To craft corner blocks:


To craft loop blocks:

If you have Moreblocks installed, the stone version of this recipe is not enabled -- use that mod's "circle stone brick" instead.

To craft big checker ("quarter") blocks:
X O

If you have Moreblocks installed, the wood version of this recipe is not enabled -- use that mod's "wood tile" (either of the basic ones) instead.

To craft diamond-patterned blocks:


Also, one extra, to craft tinted-wood blocks:

This recipe is only enabled (or even needed) if you have Coloredwood installed, since it overrides default wood. If you don't have that mod, then you can just place and dye default wood directly.

In all cases, once you've crafted the block you want, place it on the ground and punch it with some dye to change its color. Dig the block to get back the white one and the dye you last used.

Digging tinted stone (the kind with no special pattern) will return default cobble and dye, analogous to digging uncolored stone to get cobble.

+ Old Downloads

Blox 0.7 https://www.dropbox.com/s/nbq5en3sw4swjs8/blox0.7.zip
Blox 0.6.1 http://www.mediafire.com/?m31o2c6n7eulwa8
Blox 0.6 http://www.mediafire.com/?kmcd6gc72j49jaa
Blox 0.5 --Not released--
Blox 0.4 http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?j5hh4xcx9hus37x
Blox 0.3 http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?qpalhx7o5t0go65
Blox 0.2 http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?2uk24bi3vduygqe
Blox 0.1 --Source Lost--

DyeCraft-Flowers
http://www.mediafire.com/?ac38im8g7i6oocb

Blox Texture Pack (Blox 0.6.1 or earlier)
http://www.mediafire.com/?wrsh44wc26nbzgc

+ Changelog

New in git (2017-01-28)
The mod has been converted over to use the engine's param2 colorization scheme, and now depends on Unified Dyes. As a result, there are far fewer defined nodes than before, while retaining the full set of patterns and gaining access to the entire Unified Dyes palette. Mesh nodes are used to accomplish the colorized overlays.

2015-10-01:
Uses engine-standard mapgen functions for ores.
Less terminal spam at startup :-)

New for [0.7]
Added full range of cobble blocks.
Completed full range of wood blocks.
Updated some textures.
Node definition and recipe code simplified.
Detects colourmachine mod and if installed removes coloured blocks from creative inventory.
Ability to toggle blocks appearing in creative inventory by changing one line in init.lua (line 18).
Added very powerful sword (Blood Bane) no ability to craft. (used to keep the kids in order on our school server!).

New for [0.6.1]
Change to stone square recipe to remove need for moreblocks mod.
3D cube inventory icons (if, like me, you have the glitch that displays the wrong cube icons in the inventory uncomment the ‘inventory_image’ lines in the init.lua file to go back to 2D icons.

New for [0.6]
Some major changes to the code
Removed inbuilt dye system
Added support for using Unified Dye mod
Added support for using built in Dye mod
Added mini mod to provide crafting recipies for built in Dyes
Created 64x64 texture pack for use with Blox mod
Cyan colour added for all blocks
Diamond pattern blocks added
Added Glow Ore and Glow Dust
Changed Glowstone recipe
Wooden blocks can now be used as fuel

New for [0.5]
Never released due to lots of mistakes

New for [0.4]
More stone blocks added
- Big checker
- Loop
- Corner
Wood blocks have been added
- Coloured wood
- Wood checker
- Big wood checker
Colour cobble blocks have been added
Crafting recipes for new blocks added
Checker recipes changed to make room for big checker blocks
Some textures updated to reduce noise

New for [0.3]
Black dye added
Black blocks added
Cross blocks added
Crafting recipes for new blocks

New for [0.2]
Textures recreated from scratch to avoid copyright issues.
Coloured stone blocks added
Stone block recipes added
Minor code changes

New for [0.1]
Checker blocks added
Stone square blocks added
Glowstone added
Dyes added
Crafting recipes added

Credits: When creating this mod I looked at mods and used code from:
ironzorg, Calinou & VanessaE

[Calinou]

Avoid using textures with a tile size > 16x16 pixels and avoid using Misa's textures for mods, these are under copyright AFAIK.
Oh and also, avoid using Filedropper, use MediaFire or omploader. ;)

[Sanchez]

Avoid using textures with a tile size > 16x16 pixels and avoid using Misa's textures, these are under copyright, AFAIK.
Oh and also, avoid using Filedropper, use MediaFire or omploader. ;)

Thanks, I'll sort the textures out, upload to mediafire then edit my post.

EDIT: Topic updated with version 0.2

[Sanchez]

Blox mod updated to version 0.3

:D

[sfan5]

Nice Mod!

[Sanchez]

Blox mod has been updated to [0.4], lots of new blocks in this version.
Screenshots and download link in the first post.

[VanessaE]

Thought I'd point out the latest on my Unified Dyes mod. It now has a total of 89 colors (including black, white, and three greys), and comes with a BASH script to help you generate all of the colored texture files. There's also a modding template along with it that will help greatly in generating the actual nodes and crafting recipes.

Figured you would be interested since you helped kick off the whole idea of it :-)

http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=28399

(please ignore if you already know about it. :-) )

[Sanchez]

Thought I'd point out the latest on my Unified Dyes mod. It now has a total of 89 colors (including black, white, and three greys), and comes with a BASH script to help you generate all of the colored texture files. There's also a modding template along with it that will help greatly in generating the actual nodes and crafting recipes.

Figured you would be interested since you helped kick off the whole idea of it :-)

http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=28399

(please ignore if you already know about it. :-) )

Thanks for the update. I am aware of the unified dyes mod (good job by the way) and I'll be updating the Blox mod to use it i'll also be adding more block colours based on the dyes mod.

[Sanchez]

Blox mod updated to 0.6 - woohoo!

[Sanchez]

Blox updated to 0.6.1

Only minor changes in this release - see first post

Any feedback or suggestions to help make this better would be good, thanks!

[VanessaE]

Noting the age of your last post, is this mod still being maintained? If so, please consider removing all colored objects from the creative inventory. This will reduce the clutter in the inventory, and we have a coloring machine now (https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=6670) to make them easy to access.

Here's my fork of blox, with the proposed change already in place: https://github.com/VanessaE/blox

[Inocudom]

Noting the age of your last post, is this mod still being maintained? If so, please consider removing all colored objects from the creative inventory. This will reduce the clutter in the inventory, and we have a coloring machine now (https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=6670) to make them easy to access.

Here's my fork of blox, with the proposed change already in place: https://github.com/VanessaE/blox

Sanchez might not come back, so it is a good thing that you made the fork, VanessaE.

[VanessaE]

I figured as much. Oh well, at least it's forked. :-)

[Misty]

VanessaE,
I meant to download your blox package from git, using this link: https://github.com/VanessaE/blox
but it looks like all that's there is an empty readme file.
If its supposed to be like that, I'll go ahead and download it after I get the mod itself, but I dont know how these things work.

[VanessaE]

Oops! I wonder how that happened? Guess I musta missed something. Fixed in git (force-pushed).

[Misty]

I really wondered how an empty readme was going to affect anything.
I thought maybe the contents were magically invisible or something ( who knows what mischief a programming wizard might be able pull on the uninitiated.) : P

Thanks for fixing it, I'm going to go download now.

I found the texture pack and downloaded it already, it makes the blox look so much better.

[Sanchez]

Hi,

Haven't been around for a couple of months, I really like the look of the color machine mod which has spurred me on to update the Blox mod, version 0.7 should be along soon. ;)

[Sokomine]

Glad to hear that there will be an update. Please try to keep the namespace of nodes and textures the same when you update and/or add something. Else I'd have to change much withhin the colormachine.

[Sanchez]

Glad to hear that there will be an update. Please try to keep the namespace of nodes and textures the same when you update and/or add something. Else I'd have to change much withhin the colormachine.

The new nodes all follow the existing naming convention, I'm adding in more wood and cobble blocks to match the existing stone ones. Also the mod now checks for the colormachine mod and if found removes most nodes from the creative inventory.

[Sanchez]

Blox Mod updated to 0.7

Any feedback or suggestions are welcome!

[Misty]

Hi Sanchez,

Can I get the latest version of the Blox mod through the link in the first post on this topic?
I had already downloaded VanessaE's version of the mod, so I'm a little nervous about ripping it out and installing your updated version, but I'd like to try it out.

[balthazariv]

Hello,

Link about 0.7 version is broken.
Can you refresh it, please.

Thanks

[Topywo]

Hello,

Link about 0.7 version is broken.
Can you refresh it, please.

Thanks

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/654 ... lox0.7.zip

[balthazariv]

Thanks Topywo

[VanessaE]

Couple of small updates to this mod in my repo: my git repo is now up-to-date with 0.7 finally (thanks to Topywo's link), and I've weeded out all the deprecated "minetest.env:" calls.

https://github.com/VanessaE/blox

[VanessaE]

This mod has been converted to use the new param2-based colorization scheme.

Start by crafting a patterned block using either wood, stone, or cobble, and a few portions of white dye. Which pattern you get depends on how you arrange those items (see first post). Then, place that white-patterned block on the ground and right-click on it with a colored dye and the pattern will change to that color. In the case of the tinted wood or stone, the whole node's color changes accordingly.

Digging the block gives you back the plain, white patterned one you crafted, and the dye color you last painted it with.

As a side effect of using this new feature, this mod now depends on Unified Dyes, and the entire 89-color Unified Dyes palette is supported now (as opposed to a dozen or so colors prior to this update).

For the patterned objects (but not for the tinted wood, stone, stone square, or cobble), this mod actually uses a mesh node to overlay the colorized pattern texture onto the base material, so that only the pattern takes on the desired color. This may change in the future (and would require another engine update).

You will need a Minetest engine build made on January 24 (actually git commit d04d8aba), or newer, an equivalent update for minetest_game, and the latest git of Unified Dyes, otherwise newly-placed blocks can't be colored and you'll get unknown items for any existing ones.

[VanessaE]

This mod has been updated to use the revised Unified Dyes API -- you now punch the node while wielding dye, instead of right-clicking.

[Fixerol]

Players who are using 0.4.15 stable may prefer this version. Newest version is for 0.4.15-dev and beyond.

[VanessaE]

A few minor updates: Instead of crafting this mod's tinted cobble or tinted stone, now you can just place default:cobble or default:stone and punch them with dye to colorize them.

Similarly, Moreblocks' stone tile, circle stone bricks, regular wood tile (both versions), and iron checker can be dyed to form Blox stone square, stone loop, wood quarter, and stone checker, respectively. If Moreblocks isn't installed, crafts for Blox' equivalents are registered instead.

Digging tinted stone (the kind with no special pattern) will return default cobble and dye, analogous to digging uncolored stone to get cobble.

Also, I put most of the patterned blocks back into the creative inventory. In the interest of reducing clutter, where a Blox item is derived from some other mod's item (as in the substitutions above), don't show the Blox equivalent in the creative inventory. Users should acquire (or craft) and dye the other mod's block instead.