Engineer's Decor

A Minecraft (Java Edition) mod based on Forge, adding cosmetic blocks for the Engineer's factory, workshop, and home.

Distribution file download

Main distribution channel for this mod is CurseForge:

• Release/beta versions: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/engineers-decor/files
• All versions: https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/engineers-decor/files

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Details

The mod has its focus on non-functional, decorative blocks. If anyhow possible, no tile entities or user interactions are used. Current feature set:

• Treated wood crafting table: 3x3 crafting table with IE style GUI and a model fitting better in the engineer's workshop. Keeps its inventory, has eight additional storage slots on the left side of the crafting grid. Crafted 2x2 with three treated wood planks and one vanilla crafting table.

• Small laboratory furnace: Solid fuel consuming, updraught. Slightly hotter and better isolated than a cobblestone furnace, therefore more efficient. Has internal hopper FiFos for input, output, and fuel (two stacks each). Two auxilliary slots (storage tray). Keeps inventory when relocated. Crafted with one cobblestone furnace, one hopper, and seven metal plates.

• Rebar (steel) reinforced concrete: Expensive but creeper-proof. Crafted 3x3 from four concrete blocks and five steel rods. Texture design oriented at the IE concrete, slightly darker, eight (position dependent) random texture variations with rust traces. Also creaftable in form of stairs and walls. Like the IE contrete tiles, you can craft rebar concrete tiles with corresponding stairs. Reverse recipes available for all blocks crafted from rebar concrete.

• Concrete wall: Solid concrete wall (not the vanilla wall design), crafted 3x3 from six IE concrete blocks (normal wall recipe).

• Clinker bricks: Slightly darker and more colorful version of the vanilla brick block. Eight position dependent texture variations are implemented to make the wall look more "alive". Crafted 3x3 with a brick block in the centre and any combination of bricks and nether bricks around (actually, anything where the ore dictionary says it's a "brick ingot"). Higher explosion resistance than the vanilla bricks. Also available as stairs and wall, crafted as usual. There is a reverse recipe to get three clinker brick blocks back from stairs or walls.

• Slag bricks: Gray-brownish brick, also eight texture variations. Crafted 3x3 from slag in the centre and any kind of bricks ("brick ingot") around. Has a higher explosion resistance than bricks. Also available as stairs and wall, also with reverse recipes.

• Treated wood ladder: Crafted 3x3 with the known ladder pattern, items are treated wood sticks. Climbing is faster if looking up/down and not sneaking.

• Metal rung ladder: Industrial wall-fixed ladder with horizontal bent rods. Crafted 3x3 with five iron or steel rods in a "U" pattern. Climbing is faster if looking up/down and not sneaking.

• Staggered metal steps: Industrial wall-fixed sparse ladder with steps in a zip pattern. Crafted 3x3 with six iron or steel rods in a zip pattern. Climbing is faster when looking up/down and not sneaking.

• Panzer glass: Reinforced, dark gray tinted glass block. Explosion-proof. Faint structural lines are visible, multiple texture variations for seemless look. Crafted 3x3 with four metal rods, four glass blocks, and one diamond.

• Treated wood table: Four leg table made out of treated wood. Crafted 3x3 with three treated wood slabs and four treated wood poles. Guess the pattern.

• Treated wood stool: Simple small stool fitting to the table. Crafted 3x3 with three treated wood slabs and one treated wood pole.

• Treated wood pole: Pole fragment that can be placed in all directions. It does intentionally not connect to posts, fences, etc - just a straigt pole. Can be used e.g. for structural support or wire relay post, where the height of the IE wire posts does not match.

• Inset spot light: Small metal framed glowstone based light source for ceiling, wall, or floor. Light level like a torch. Thin, hence not blocking the way. Allows illuminating places where electrical light installations are problematic.

More to come slowly but steadily.

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Mod pack integration, forking, back ports, bug reports, testing

• Packs: If your mod pack is open source as well and has no installer, you don't need to ask and simply integrate this mod.

• Bug reports: Yes, please let me know. Drop a mail or better open an issue for the repository.

• Pull requests: Happily accepted. Please make sure that use the develop branch for pull requests. The master branch is for release versions only. I might merge the pull request locally if I'm ahead of the github repository, we will communicate this in the pull request thread then.

• The mod config has an "include testing features" option. Enabling this causes blocks under development to be registered as well.

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Revision history

Mod versions are tracked in the readme files for individual Minecraft versions, and of course in the commits of this repository. Beta and release versions that are distributed as compiled jars are tagged accordingly. Release versions are merged into the master branch, while beta/alpha version tags link to develop branch commits.

• 1.12

• 1.13

Community references

Mods covering similar features, or may fit well together with IE and the decorations of this mod:

• Immersive Engineering: Without IE, my little mod here does not make much sense ;). It works without IE, but quite a few blocks are not craftable.

• Engineer's doors has brilliant doors, trapdoors, and fence doors, all made of the IE materials.

• Dirty Bricks applies position dependent variations to the vanilla bricks, similar to the clinkers and slag bricks in this mod.

• Chisel needless to say, Chisel has a variety of factory blocks.

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