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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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
Hi! so I've tried this mod out and it's really cool and helpful! I met this mod because I was searching for building mods/ other random fun and helpful mods and this is the only mod that has good building blocks, is not using fabric, and is in the right version. so first I wanted to thank you and second I wanted to ask if you can add more blocks? I know this mod is not about building blocks but it's the only mod that fits the version (1.16.5) and is not using fabric. it's totally understandable if you choose not to add more blocks but I would really appreciate it :)
also, you should totally add more stuff to this mod because it's perfect!
In reply to glitterishjeremy:
I'm not sure I need more building blocks. I've basically done everything there is to do with clay, that is brick variants and terracotta variants. Anything more I feel is overdoing it.
Perhaps try some of my other mods. Inspirations and Simply Tea notably have some unique building blocks (and when I get around to it Inspirations has more range for new decorative blocks)
It would be cool if we could see the old plate armor from the Survival Test of Minecraft. Could it be made with porcelain?
In reply to kirklhtc:
What purpose would it serve? Clay armor is to take the role of early game armor before iron. By the time you have porcelain, you have iron or diamond.
In reply to KnightMiner:
Maybe just to be purely aesthetic and make certain mobs a tiny bit harder early game.
In reply to kirklhtc:
I am not changing mob difficulty. Currently I have no plans for porcelain armor, and it has a lot less historical precedence than clay armor (as porcelain was used for bakeware and pots, way too complicated to make armor that is still quite fragile)
Is it possible to easily change the durability and armor points/damage/mining speed of the clay armor and tools?
In reply to pigporker:
Not in my configs, no plan to add. There might be another mod that lets you change it.
Hey, Great mod! But currently, there is limited compatibility with the fill spout by the Create mod when filling ceramic buckets with modded (and vanilla?) liquids, might be worth looking into that.