Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-213.120.234.146-20160626144314

Objective

The purpose of this suggestion is to revolutionise builds and add a whole new process to design.

Suggestion

This suggestion will add two new recipes: 1. Paintbrush, crafted with string and sticks this is an essential item for any painter. It will have durability and its function will be described later. 2. Paint Bucket, crafted like a dyed pouch with dye around a water bucket, it can come in an almost infinite variety of colours and has 16 durability.

The basic function of these two items is to allow one to change the texture of one side of a block. The base texture will stay the same but be a different colour. Certain blocks cannot be painted (such as dirt, sand, stone and gravel) and if possible doors could be painted too.

To use them you must have a paint bucket in your hotbar, as well as a paintbrush. Like arrows the game will always choose the bucket nearest to the left. You then left click on a block or door. The block will then change colour but not basic texture and take one of the durability of the bucket and paintbrush. When the durability reaches zero, you are left with an empty bucket.

Painted blocks would have all the properties of the original block (i.e flammable or speed when broken with an axe) and would drop the original block when destroyed.

Other Ideas

I have come up with some other ideas, see what you think of them: 1. Plaster, Im not sure of a recipe but its a similar idea. It is always brown but changes the blocks texture to flat, filling in any cracks. It can then be paintec over. 2.Perhaps hobbit and wooden gates could be painted to, allowing for a much wider variety of colours withoutv recipes. 3. I hope paint would be generated inside many structures, such as hobbit holes, perhaps with a slightly random colour (i.e for hobbit holes it would always be an off white.

I have always wanted to have this or a similar feature implemented into this mod, I hope it is original and that you agree with it. As it is not really a particularly lotr feature (though it is canon) I understand if it is not allowed. If anyone wishes to make a small mod they are completely welcome. No credit wanted. 