Ceramics

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**](https://slimeknights.github.io/assets/images/updates/general/growth/rainbow-clay.gif): 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, check out the gallery tab. You can also come discuss Ceramics on the [SlimeKnights Discord](https://discord.gg/njGrvuh). Feel free to use this mod in a mod pack, provided you give a link back to this page If you want to support me on Patreon, use the link in the sidebar.