Modular Poké Balls

Ever dreamed of catching a Pikachu in a matching yellow Poké Ball? What about a Gengar in a purple one with a red button? Well, dream no longer, now you can!

Introducing Modular Poké Balls: the first Cobblemon addon that lets YOU design every inch of your Poké Ball. Mix and match 16 apricorn colours across 4 visual parts, drop in a core material to set your catch power, and walk away with a ball that's entirely your own. No two throws need ever look the same again.

How It Works

Craft the Modular Ball Workbench using one of every apricorn colour, an iron ingot in the centre, and a crafting table at the base. Pop it down, slot in your apricorns for the lid, rim, button, and base, choose your core (copper, iron, gold, diamond, netherite, or a nether star) and out comes your personalised ball.

Need colours you don't have? Dye any apricorn by combining any standard apricorn with a matching dye in a crafting grid to get one of 9 new colours: orange, magenta, light blue, gray, light gray, cyan, purple, brown, and khaki.

Items placed in the workbench persist when you close the GUI. A floating 3D preview of your ball appears above the block when a valid recipe is set, and a flat 2D sprite sits on the tabletop facing you. Drop any finished modular ball into the core slot (with the apricorn slots empty) to put it on display.

Ball Tiers & Catch Rates

Ball	Core	Catch Rate
Poké Ball	Copper Ingot	1×
Great Ball	Iron Ingot	1.5×
Ultra Ball	Gold Ingot	2×
Giga Ball	Diamond	3×
Zeta Ball	Netherite Ingot	5×
Master Ball	Nether Star	Guaranteed

All six tiers share the same customisation system. The only thing that changes is the catch power. Each ball displays its catch rate as a grey subtitle, right on the item. Hold Shift over any modular ball to see which colours were used for each part.

Features

6 ball tiers with colour-coded names, from humble Poké Ball to legendary Master Ball
16 apricorn colours, 7 standard Cobblemon colours plus 9 new craftable dyes
Dye any apricorn to its matching colour via shapeless crafting
Your colours show everywhere: inventory, thrown, in-hand, party, PC, and summary screens
Thrown and send-out animations faithfully reflect your custom design
Floating 3D ball preview above the workbench when output is ready
Drop any finished ball in the core slot to display it on the table
Workbench drops itself and its contents when mined
Colours survive world reload, throwing, missing targets, and capture

Requirements

Cobblemon 1.6+ for NeoForge 1.21.1
Kotlin for Forge

Planned Features (if this addon gets popular)

Modular Lid Press, craft special lids (Great, Ultra, Beast patterns) with multi-colour support
Ancient Modular Balls with matching animations
Dye blending for custom colours beyond the standard sixteen
Modular Poké Rods

This mod is a passion project, my first mod, built in my spare time. If people enjoy it, I'll gladly expand it. Feedback and suggestions are always welcome.

Cobblemon Modular Poké Balls