LlamaBlocks
LlamaBlocks is a complex, multi-year long development, MCreator mod which adds a ton of features. These include 702 variants of custom building blocks, the complex Computer block with a calculator and much more, a password system for improved game-immersion, many custom storage items, a custom Banana farming item with some cool gimmicks, a custom damaging fluid named Acid, and more!
Building Blocks
There are Custom Bricks and "Large Tiles" added in LlamaBlocks. Bothcome in 19 colors: All 16 vanilla colors (White, Light Gray, Gray, Black, Brown, Red, Orange, Yellow, Lime, Green, Cyan, Light Blue, Blue, Purple, Magenta, Pink), Industrial (Netherite Colored) variants, Cherry (Hot Pink) variants, and Teal variants
There are also the Tiles (Black and White) and the Ceiling tiles (Blue and Light Gray).
Each color variant, or tile type, has a corresponding block set, which includes the following full block, stair, slab, wall, fence, fence gate, trapdoor, pressure plate, and button.
Banana-Adjacent Features
The Banana
The banana is a somewhat bad food item in terms of nutrition, but you can eat them very fast. Banana Plants naturally generate in Banana Patches
The Golden Banana
When you surround a Banana in 8 gold in a crafting table, you get a Golden Banana. These have more saturation/hunger healing, they give you regeneration for a split second (just enougth for you to heal up once), and you get the Luck effect for 45 seconds after eating them.
The Banana Plant
This is a naturally spawning plant which works similarly to something like sugar cane, but it grows 5 blocks high, can be bonemealed, and drops a combination of Bananas/Banana Plants/Bonemeal.
Farm Scraps
Farm scraps are non-plantable items which can be used to duplicate some seeds, be composted, and be crafting into brown dye.
Acid
Acid is a fluid which naturally generates in Acid Lakes in the Outer End Islands, and can be accessed in the Creative menu. When you step into acid, it damages you instantly, kinda like lava. However, it's not based on fire and has a custom damage system.
The Backpacks
The Backpacks are items which store items like a chest, but are kept in your inventory instead of being placed as a block.
The Backpack
This is the cheaper to craft, but less functional, variant of the backpack. It can store 3 rows of items, but that's pretty much it.
The Netherite Backpack
The Netherite backpack is an upgrade to the backpack which:
- Has 4 rows of items
- Cannot burn, which protects your items if you drop them or die in fire or lava.
- Has a Delete Items button
The Variable Light
This is a block which, when a block next to it is updated, will set the light level it produces to the maximum redstone power going into the block.
The Secure Storage Block
This is like a barrel, but:
- It has 7 rows of items
- There is a button which deletes all items, though there's a checkbox on whether or not to show that button in order to prevent accidental deletions
- It supports having passwords with the Password System
The Password System
The Secure Storage Block, Computer, and Authenticator all support passwords. By default, the password is blank. When there is no password yet, the Computer and Secure Storage Block skip the password screen, but the Authenticator instead requires the user to leave the password field blank. The user can change passwords using the Password Changer, though they need to enter the existing password.
Important Security Concerns
- Operators can see any password, meaning that all passwords aren't actually private.
- Passwords are basically stored in plaintext, this means that from a cybersecurity perspective, it is very unsafe to put a real password into LlamaBlocks.
More specifically, passwords are stored in a NBT text tag named
access_password, which can be easily viewed using the vanilla/datacommand.
The Authenticator
This asks for a password using the Password System, and, if successful, gives a redstone pulse for 0.75 seconds.
The Computer
The computer offers a variety of features for information, math, player management, and more. This includes a calculator, random number generator, a player messaging system, a message storage system, a redstone output slider, text with a formatted in-game time, and a list of players.
(BETA CHANGE LOGS ARE AVAILABLE ON GITHUB)
1.3.1:
- The Password Changer now has a dedicated warning UI that shows up on unsupported blocks, instead of just showing a warning in the main UI which allowed attempts to set a password on unsupported blocks
- All mod UIs have had various improvements to make them look better and be more consistent
- The Authenticator is now named Authenticator instead of Authenticator Block in Minecraft’s UI.
- The Authenticator's tick speed has been adjusted to the full `20 ticks/second` instead of `10`, allowing its `15` tick activation to actually last for `15 ticks`.
- The Computer Calculator only refreshes every `5 ticks` when the Automatic checkbox is enabled.
- There have been minor changes to the wording of the Mod's Description in the NeoForge about
1.3.0
- Added Cracked Brick & Large Tile variants
- LlamaBlocks' crafting recipes should now be in the proper category in the crafting table
- The contents of the textboxes in the Computer GUI and the position of the Redstone output slider are now automatically kept when opening/closing the Computer
- The old message saving/loading buttons have been removed due to this automation
- There is now a Clear Textboxes button in the Computer UI
- Acid Drowning and Computer Player Management Kill damage should now bypass armor & enchantments
- Updated the Cherry & Industrial block textures to be more consistent with the cracked versions
- The Computer's Random Number generation functions were merged into the Calculator
- The Computer GUI has been made much smaller vertically
- The Golden Banana now gives Haste, and its Regeneration lasts slightly longer
- The Golden Banana is now Crafted in a smithing table with a Banana + a Gold Block + a Golden Banana Upgrade (which is new)
- The Server Configuration has been removed, and many entries were replaced with Game Rules.
- The formatted time in the Computer and /llamablocks send time now gives the hour in a 12-hour format (ex. 3:19 pm instead of 15:19)
- The warning in the Password Changer about a block not supporting passwords is now lighter
- Updated the Banana and Golden Banana textures
- The Computer Calculator's output is now in a textbox, and there is now a Calculate button which must be pressed to make a calculation
- The Banana now takes 13 ticks to eat instead of 12
- Changed the error for an unknown operator in the Computer Calculator from Invalid operator to Invalid Operation
- More things are now translatable in LlamaBlocks
- Added custom logging
- The Computer Killing functionality now gives 1,000,000 of a custom damage type instead of running /kill. This means there is now a custom death message for Computer killing. It does still work on players in Creative mode
- Added a rotated Reverse LlamaBlocks banner pattern
- Numbers can now be set to RAND, RANDSTD, INF, -INF, and NAN in the Computer Calculator
- Added an Automatic checkbox to the Computer Calculator
- The LlamaBlocks creative tab's icon is now the Cracked Lime Large Tile
- Updated the Incorrect Password Screen to look better & for its text to be more clear
- Changed the java package name to io.github.omegabird113.llamablocks
- LlamaBlocks now has its own dedicated markdown documentation on GitHub
- Internal code improvements
1.2.1:
- Added /llamablocks about version to send the LlamaBlocks in send version
- Added /llamablocks about mcversion to send the Minecraft version in chat
- The Password Changer shows a warning if the block doesn't support passwords
- Updated the Password Changer UI to be more consistent and the Current password text is now green
- Internal code improvements
1.2.0:
• The Banana texture has been rotated
• Added the stronger Golden Banana crafted when a banana is surrounded by gold with a brighter texture which heals more hunger and gives regeneration & luck when eaten
• The warning in the Password Changer that operator's can see your passwords is now its own text instead of a tooltip
• Added the 1 value operator og10 to the Computer Calculator
• Made internal code improvements
• Updated the Map colors for Ceiling Tiles and non-decorative blocks
• There is now a separate password_control_permission_level config options which handles making any changes to passwords
• Got red of the Open Incorrect Password GUI part of the /llamablocks command
• Tiles now can't be crafted with Concrete Powder
• Added a LlamaBlocks banner pattern which looks like 2 Ls (similar to the LlamaBlocks logo)
• Acid pulls in entities less strongly
• The Acid Dissolving particle & effect have a new texture
• Bundles can no longer be placed in storage blocks with prevent_nested_storage_item_placement enabled
• The Computer & Secure Storage Block's path finding effects are default now.
• The item of the Secure Storage Block when you throw it on the ground is now immune to fire
• Moving the Random Number minimum & maximum sliders in the Computer GUI no longer generate a new random number
• The Time in the Computer GUI and in /llamablocks misc send time now includes minutes, it's more accurate, and the percentage through the day/night is now formatted to the tenths place.
• Added a shapeless crafting recipe where 3 Farm Scraps + 1 Milk Bucket + 1 Honey Bottle + 1 Poisonous Potato = 1 Potato
• The password argument of /llamamod password set is now quotable
• There are now Villager trades for Bananas and Farm Scraps
• Re-arranged the textures on each side of the Variable Light
• /llamablocks misc send time now sends the text in Green
• Reduced Banana saturation from 4.1 to 3.65
• Updated the description of LlamaBlocks in the NeoForge about
• Added a backport to 1.21.1
1.1.4:
- The operation for the Computer Calculator now trims leading/trailing spaces.
- The player name for Messaging/Player Management in the Computer is now case-insensitive and trims leading/trailing spaces.
- Added recipes for Sapling Duplication which require 6 farm scraps + the sapling to get 2.
- The Farm Scrap duplication recipes for Wheat, Bamboo, and Sugar Cane now give 2 instead of 3.
- Fixed a bug where MCreator's default Banana Plant generation feature was left enabled.
- Bricks and Large Tiles now have appropriate map colors.
1.1.3:
- The Secure Storage Block recipe replaced the Iron Ingots with Iron Blocks
- Now a single Ceiling Tile plus an Iron Ingot and a Quartz now craft a Large Tile
- The Computer GUI now shows its current redstone output
- The default Player Management Permission Level is now 3
- Added an nth-root operator labeled ROOT to the Computer Calculator
- Bananas now take 12
- The Banana Plant's saturation value
- Made Banana Plants break easier
- Added the LlamaMod version to the Computer GUI]
- You now need 3 Farm Scraps to make 1 Brown Dye
1.1.2:
- Added support for the numbers pi and e in the computer calculator
- Fixed a bug where the link sent when you run /llamablocks about was not clickable
- Changed the link in about to then Modrinth page
- Added the Configuration Files MCreator plugin to credits.
- Renamed the server configuration file to llamablocks.server.toml
- Added a bunch of 1-value operations to the computer: NLOG, ROUND, CEIL, FLOOR, SQRT, 3ROOT, ABS, SIGNUM, SIN, COS, TAN, ASIN, ACOS, ATAN, RAD>DEG, and DEG>RAD
- Removed several parts of the /lamablocks command which had little use
- Added crafting recipes for Tile Trapdoors
1.1.1:
- Fixed a bug where the Acid Effect's texture in the effect GUI was missing
- The package name is now mc.omegabird.llamablocks
- Added the following operations to the Computer's calculator function: atan2, hypot, and (bitwise and), or (bitwise or), xor (bitwise xor), and log (log base with the syntax: <base> log <n>’
1.1.0:
- Rebranded to LlamaBlocks from LlamaMod
- Typo Fix in the Computer GUI
- First version published on here
So… 4 types (bricks, large tiles, cracked bricks, cracked large tiles) * (19 colors: vanilla + teal, cherry, & industrial) * 9 block type variants (Full, stair, slab, wall, fence, fence gate, trapdoor, pressure plate, and button) = 684 blocks (counting variants). You also have to add the checkered tiles with 2 colors (the regular white & black type, and the ceiling light blue and gray type) * same 9 variants (full, stair, button, etc) which gives you 18 checkered tile variants. 684 + 18 gives you 702 in total. Though the mod will have a few more non-decorative blocks also (Computer, Secure Storage Block, etc).
Yeah, I don’t think my greatest strength is my marketing lol. I’ve mainly been working on improving the mod itself and its technical documentation. I think the marketing could be done better, it’s more a question of my graphic design skill , self-confidence, and time allocation.
Perhaps reach out on community channels like our Subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/MCreator/ and perhaps on one of community Discord channels - lots of people help themselves build a team like that or just ask for support if they need it in an area they might not be as strong at :)
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Looks like a very fun mod