This mod contains several items, recipes and features to make life a little easier.

Items

Bleach: remove color from beds, banners, wool, carpets
Salt: used for creating bleach
Lamps - eight lamps in different colors with a very basic texture. They emit light (luminance = 10), so mobs stay away.
Silk string: Acacia-trees sometimes drop a silk string. Combine four of them to make string!
Wallmount: your lanterns finally have a place to hang

Blocks

Redstone items

Redstone lock: a block which provides you with a key to toggle its redstone state.
AND, NAND, OR-gates

Armor

Recipes

Black Dye from Charcoal - A bowl, a bone and some charcoal make black dye. Animal-friendly.
Brown Dye from mixing - Add red, yellow and blue dye together in a crafting bench to get brown dye (instead of searching for cocoa for a thousand years)
Bleach - You need Salt, a bottle, and some redstone to get the bleach.
Salt - Put a bottle of water in a furnace, burn the water away and keep the salt!
Lamps - The proper colored dye surrounded by redstone gives you some lamps
String to Wool - The almost famous addition to the pack. 4 strings make 1 wool.
White banners from bleaching - Add any colored banner with some bleach to a crafting table to get the white version.
White beds from bleaching - Add any colored bed with some bleach to a crafting table to get the white version
White carpets from bleaching - Add any colored... yeah, you get it.
White wool from bleaching - .... needs explanation?
String from silk string - Combine four silk string to get a string
Slimeballs from milk, caramel and honey. As long as it sticks...

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