Ceramics is a mod designed to increase Minecraft's gameplay using clay. Originally inspired by the clay bucket from Iguana Tinker Tweaks, this mod simply added a clay bucket, but now it adds quite a few other features made from clay to both improve the early game and be used in long term builds.
In the mods current form, it adds features in three categories.
Tools
Ceramics adds various tools designed to extend options for tools using clay. Available tools include:
Terracotta buckets: Early game bucket alternative.
- Can transport cold liquids with ease, but cracks when filling with hot fluid.
- Cracked buckets break on emptying, making it effectively single use for hot fluids.
- Cool fluids can be transported freely.
- Unlike other clay bucket mods, these are fully dynamic and will automatically add variants for all available fluids (such as Tinker Construct or Forestry).
Terracotta plate armor: Alternative to leather armor early game.
- Leather is often hard to obtain before iron, so clay provides a more affordable alternative.
- Apparently clay plate armor was once a thing, so kinda historically accurate.
Fluids
Ceramics adds several different fluid related blocks to store and transport fluids in world.
Cisterns: An extendable liquid storage block.
- In comes in all 17 clay colors which have a capacity of 4 per barrel, plus an additional 16 porcelain colors which have a capacity of 6 buckets per barrel.
- The capacity can be further extended by stacking the cistern vertically, which add the base value for each extension placed on top.
- Will visually connect to faucets, channels, and gauges.
Gauges: Read fluid level.
- Place on the side of any fluid tank, including cisterns and those from other mods.
- Right click to display the name of the contained fluid and the amount.
Faucets: Allow simple fluid extraction.
- Can connect to the side or bottom of a block and pour into one below the faucet.
- Can be activated by right click or redstone, and will slowly pour until the tank below is full or it runs out of fluid.
- Primary way to fill channels.
Channels: Allow simple fluid transport.
- Cannot extract fluids, require a faucet to fill. Will push fluids into nearby tanks or blocks.
- Each side has a direction, which will be set on placement and can be configured afterwards by right click.
- Can additionally pour downward, which can be enabled by hand or redstone.
All fluid blocks come in two variants:
- Terracotta: Will crack over time if filled with hot fluids, but can transport and store cool fluids freely. Cracked terracotta can be repaired using raw clay.
- Porcelain: Heat resistant, allowing transporting hot fluids without damage to the block. Require the addition of porcelain.
Decoration
Apart from functional blocks, Ceramics adds a range of decorative blocks to spruce up any base.
Porcelain: Decorative block that is similar to stained terracotta or concrete, but in pastel colors.
Porcelain Bricks: White variant of bricks. Can be made into slabs, stairs, and walls
Fancy Bricks: Six additional styles of bricks with a slightly more random pattern. Each type comes in slabs, stairs, and walls.
- Dark Bricks: Dark red bricks with a factory tones
- Monochrome Bricks: gray bricks with the occasional black accent
- Golden Bricks: Bright yellow bricks designed to show riches
- Marine Bricks: Oceanic bricks to decorate a prismarine build.
- Lava Bricks: Magmatic bricks to improve a Nether base
- Dragon Bricks: Endish bricks to provide a dark pop
Rainbow Bricks and Clay: feature a colorful, but gradual rainbow animation.
- Clay comes in 8 variants based on where the animation starts.
- Bricks can be made into stairs, slabs, and walls.
More Information
For information on 1.12 and earlier, check out the images tab or read about Ceramics on the official Feed the Beast Wiki. You can also come discuss Ceramics on the SlimeKnights Discord.
Feel free to use this mod in a mod pack, provided you give a link back to this page
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How do I use the filled clay buckets in datapack recipes? I want to set a recipe to take clay buckets filled with water and lava, and I've tried every combination I can think of and it doesn't work. I even dove into the source code and the only example I see is for milk which has special handling.
I am trying to replace the buckets in this recipe:
{
"type": "minecraft:crafting_shaped",
"pattern": [
"RRR",
"WGL",
"RRR"
],
"key": {
"W": {
"item": "minecraft:water_bucket"
},
"L": {
"item": "minecraft:lava_bucket"
},
"G": {
"item": "minecraft:glass"
},
"R": {
"tag": "minecraft:logs"
}
},
"result": {
"item": "cobblefordays:tier_1"
}
}
In reply to luminaire0:
You need an NBT sensitive ingredient. Alternatively, use a proper fluid ingredient instead of hardcoding to specific item IDs
The fluid system seems to not work with the version I downloaded; however, many of the new crafting variants for buckets and shears are perfect for early game. With that being said, I would like to come back to this mod when it has an update.
I love your mod! Any plans to bring it to 1.18?
I like your mod so much I made a little datapack for compatibility between this mod and charcoal pit
what if you made plated clay armor that is almost as strong as iron? or maybe even thicker armor. i was suggesting this because i am using a lot of iron because of my mods and would like a cheaper alternative that's almost as good.
i would like you to answer this please
In reply to Fin_Mun:
I did not respond because I did not think its a good idea. It is a bad idea to make a mechanic that outright replaces something in vanilla with a cheaper alternative, and multiple types of clay armor is just bloat. Your problem with not enough armor is better solved by adding armor from another mod (I see many non-iron metal armor choices) or just accepting the fact that cheaper armor is not as good as expensive armor.
In reply to KnightMiner:
i see, thank you
Can you make the buckets dyeable?
In reply to ShadeTDW:
No plans, too much work for little gain. Most people move onto iron buckets pretty quick, and the color of the liquid matters more than the color of the bucket.
Hm.. any plans on bringing back the Ceramic Melter/heater or would that be a separate add-on for tinkers/ceramics?
In reply to MK4000000:
Doubt it. The whole point of that feature (In Tinkers Complement by the way) was to allow gating seared bricks without losing access to melting.
The new 1.16 recipes make the smeltery controller more expensive so you can gate it more easily, and porcelain is gated to nether access in ceramics now making it harder to get than seared bricks. So the whole point of the mechanic is gone
You mean Tinker's Construct for 1.16? It is compatible, if that's what you mean.
is this compatible with tinkers 3.0? Awesome mod btw. (:
Can you input fluid into blocks? Example: lava -> furnace or kiln or something??
In reply to celsiusqc:
No, that is not the furnace or the kiln work, neither accept fluid inputs. Ceramics fluid storage is not meant to provide anything super complex on its own, its mostly decorative without mods that use fluid in crafting.
Can you please update to fabric 1.16? ❤️
In reply to k4dj1t:
"Update to fabric". Fabric is not an update, it a port. Completely different modloader. No plans to do it.
If anyone else wants to port this mod to Fabric, I will gladly link to a Fabric version from this page, but I don't have time to do another mod loader myself.
In reply to k4dj1t:
I wouldn't call switching from full-featured Forge to Fabric "an update" ;p