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The standard minetest distribution already contains a dye mod (in the
common pseudo game) but now means of acquiring them.

The Simple Dyes mod provides some recipes to craft a bunch of basic
dye colors (currently black, white, red, green, blue and yellow).

Many more colors can be created by mixing the basic dyes (which is
also a feature provided by the standard dye mod).

Recipes:

All dyes are crafted from three ingredients:



where the PIGMENT determines the color of the dye:



"Fermented Grass" is a item defined by the Simple Dyes mod, as there are no
suitable natural blue pigments in the standard game. It is crafted
from grass like this:




Licenses:
just like minetest (not minecraft of cause, as I originally wrote by mistake) itself
Code: LGPLv2.1/later,
Textures: CC BY-SA 3.0
Water Bucket + Gravel

Dependencies:
default, bucket, dye
(all part of the "common" pseudo game in the standard distribution).

Download:
as zip archive:
https://hg.intevation.org/fun/minetest-simple_dyes/archive/tip.zip
or as tar.gz:
https://hg.intevation.org/fun/minetest-simple_dyes/archive/tip.tar.gz

You can browse and clone the source code at the mercurial repository:
https://hg.intevation.org/fun/minetest-simple_dyes/

swilde wrote:Licenses:
just like minecraft itself
Code: LGPLv2.1/later,
Textures: CC BY-SA 3.0
Water Bucket + Gravel

What? Minecraft is LGPL?

Nice idea. Could you exchange clay with something else? Clay is relatively rare, and digging it destroys entire landscapes. Red might be obtained through desert stone.

PilzAdam wrote:

swilde wrote:Licenses:
just like minecraft itself
Code: LGPLv2.1/later,
Textures: CC BY-SA 3.0
Water Bucket + Gravel

What? Minecraft is LGPL?

To my best knowledge, yes it is:
https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/master/README.txt

Sokomine wrote:Nice idea.

Thank you!

Sokomine wrote:Could you exchange clay with something else? Clay is relatively rare, and digging it destroys entire landscapes.

Sure I could change it, but I wont... ;-)

I like clay as an arguable base substance (smooth sticky paste) for
dyes which makes crafting them not too cheap.

Clay is relatively rare, but not very rare to begin with (keep in mind
that one mined block of clay yields four lumps). And you wont be
needing rally much, as you wont be needing much dyes (compared to
other resources). You get e.g. sixteen colored blocks of wool from
one wool + one dye.

Regarding destroying landscapes: indeed this is the price one pays for
mining resources needed for advanced technologies and infrastructure.
;-)

swilde wrote:

PilzAdam wrote:

swilde wrote:Licenses:
just like minecraft itself
Code: LGPLv2.1/later,
Textures: CC BY-SA 3.0
Water Bucket + Gravel

What? Minecraft is LGPL?

To my best knowledge, yes it is:
https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/master/README.txt

That is the README of Minetest, we are talking about Minecraft.

swilde wrote:Regarding destroying landscapes: indeed this is the price one pays for mining resources needed for advanced technologies and infrastructure. ;-)

In a way, yes. Usually that implies other ressources than clay. Digging for coal might destroy landscapes in RL (and not in MT), but digging for clay would hardly have an impact since it is usually not such a rare ressource (well, ok, loam is the common simple cheap material used for simple houses, not clay).
/me puts up a sign: Protect the coastlines! Find alternate ways of creating clay!

PilzAdam wrote:

swilde wrote:

PilzAdam wrote:What? Minecraft is LGPL?

To my best knowledge, yes it is:
https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/master/README.txt

That is the README of Minetest, we are talking about Minecraft.

Oh, that's embarrassing -- I really should read what I and you _wrote_, not what I intended to write... *sorry*

I'll fix it in the original post.

swilde wrote:

PilzAdam wrote:

swilde wrote:To my best knowledge, yes it is:
https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/master/README.txt

That is the README of Minetest, we are talking about Minecraft.

Oh, that's embarrassing -- I really should read what I and you _wrote_, not what I intended to write... *sorry*

I'll fix it in the original post.

*trollface*

Sokomine wrote:Usually that implies other ressources than clay. Digging for coal might destroy landscapes in RL (and not in MT), but digging for clay would hardly have an impact since it is usually not such a rare ressource

Some say RL is nothing but a bad ripoff of minetest...

Sokomine wrote:/me puts up a sign: Protect the coastlines! Find alternate ways of creating clay!

:-)