Engineer's Decor

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

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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:

• 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 brick wall. Also available as stairs, crafted as usual. There is a reverse recipe to get three clinker brick blocks back from four stairs.

• 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 the vanilla brick wall. Also available as stairs, also with reverse recipe.

• Treated wood ladder: Crafted 3x3 with the known ladder pattern, items are treated wood sticks.

• Metal rung ladder: Industrial wall-fixed ladder with horizontal bent rods. Crafted 3x3 with five iron or steel rods in a "U" pattern.

• 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.

• 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 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.

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

- v1.0.0-b1 [A] Initial structure.
            [A] Added clinker bricks and clinker brick stairs.
            [A] Added slag bricks and slag brick stairs.
            [A] Added metal rung ladder.
            [A] Added staggered metal steps ladder.
            [A] Added treated wood ladder.
            [A] Added treated wood pole.
            [A] Added treated wood table.

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.