Palettinator

Find, generate, analyse, and share Minecraft block palettes — without leaving the game. Palettinator brings [palettinator.com](https://palettinator.com) — the free, ad-free block & colour palette generator — straight into Minecraft, as both **chat commands** and a full **in-game GUI**. Stuck on which blocks go together? Generate a palette, ask the mod what's wrong with it, preview it in the world, and build. Made something great? Publish it to the site in one command. > ⚠️ **Alpha:** early access and under active development. Most things work; a few are still missing (e.g. the very newest 26.2 blocks). Feedback welcome! ## ✨ Features ### 🎨 Generate & explore - **Generate palettes** — `/palette generate` makes a fresh, colour-coordinated palette and loads it into your hotbar. Seed it from a colour (`/palette generate blue`) or **from the block in your hand** (`/palette generate hand`). - **Gradients** — `/palette gradient white_concrete blue_concrete` builds a smooth colour ramp between two blocks. No args = a gradient between your main hand and off-hand. - **Scan an existing build** — `/palette capture` gives you the **Palette Scanner**: select two corners of any structure and its most-used blocks load straight into your hotbar as a palette. Straight to the site with `/palette capture publish "My Build"`. - **In-world preview** — `/palette build ` places a palette in front of you so you can see the blocks together, as a strip or a **3-high wall** (`/palette build 42 wall`). It auto-clears (or `/palette clear`), **only ever fills empty space**, and never touches your build. ### 🌍 Community - **Search & discover** — `/palette search cozy` finds palettes by name, tag, creator, or number. `/palette discover trending` pulls the site's featured, trending and most-loved shelves. Both show a **palette preview right in chat** — hover a block to name it, **click one to copy its hex**, click the line to load it. - **Look before you load** — `/palette info 42` shows a palette's blocks and likes without touching your hotbar. - **Load into your hotbar** — `/palette get 73286` drops a palette's blocks into your hotbar. Survival gives one of each, creative gives full stacks, and palettes over nine blocks arrive in a **shulker box** so you still get a stack of each. Anything already in your hotbar is **moved into your inventory, never deleted** — and `/palette undo` puts it all back. - **Publish & update** — arrange blocks in your hotbar, then `/palette publish "Cozy Cabin" medieval,oak A snug little build`. It goes live on your palettinator.com profile with a clickable link. `/palette update 42` refreshes an existing one. - **Share it** — `/palette share Steve 42` sends a palette straight to another player on your server, and `/palette book 42` writes one into a book you can carry and hand out. - **Browse, like & roll** — `/palette browse top`, `/palette mine`, `/palette liked`, `/palette like 42`, `/palette stats`, `/palette roll` for instant inspiration. ### 🔬 Analyse your palette `/palette analyze` reads the blocks in your hotbar the way an experienced builder would, and tells you what's actually wrong with them. - **It understands texture, not just colour.** It knows stone bricks are patterned, cobblestone is rough and concrete is featureless — so it can tell *deliberate* texture work apart from two blocks that genuinely repeat the same tone. - **It checks what builders check:** light-to-dark range, missing darks and highlights, holes in the value ramp, hue harmony, saturation balance, palette size, and whether a loud accent has anything quiet to sit against. - **Every problem comes with a fix.** Suggestions are real building blocks, ranked so common ones win — **click one to load it straight into your hotbar**. - **See it, not just read it.** With the mod installed client-side, the command opens a colour chart with your blocks plotted on it: hue across, stronger colour towards the top, greys along the bottom. Blocks clustered together are a harmony, blocks strung across the width are the "hues pull in different directions" warning, and blocks half a width apart are complements. Hover any one for its surface, lightness, hue and role. - Works on saved palettes too: `/palette analyze 42`. - **Vanilla clients get everything except the chart** — all the findings arrive in chat, with the same clickable fixes. ## 🖥️ Install client-side for the full thing Everything works without it — but the client half adds a lot: - **Real block textures in chat.** Search results, analysis and every other palette row draw the actual block faces instead of coloured squares. - **The palette browser.** Press **P** to open a native UI that mirrors the website: - **Browse** — searchable grid of palette cards with real block textures, author, and a clickable ❤ like button. - **Build** — six slots you can fill by clicking (block picker with live search) or with **Generate** (watch the slots spin like a slot machine and land on a fresh palette). Then **Load to hotbar**, **Build preview**, or **Analyse**. - **Analysis view** — the colour chart with your blocks plotted on it and every finding listed beside it. Opens from the **Analyse** button or straight from `/palette analyze`. - **Palettes** — your own creations. **Likes** — everything you've hearted. - Click any palette for a **detail view** with a big block grid, load/preview, like, and "Open on site". - **A palette strip above your hotbar** showing what you just loaded, so you never lose track of which block was which. It fades out on its own. The keybind is rebindable under **Options → Controls → Palettinator**. ## 🟢 Works on vanilla clients — no install required for players Install it on your **server** and **every player can use the commands**, even on a completely vanilla client — it's all chat commands, clickable links, and colour swatches. No resource pack required. (Singleplayer: just install it normally.) ## ⌨️ Commands | Command | What it does | |---|---| | `/palette analyze [#]` | Colour & texture read of your hotbar (or a saved palette) | | `/palette search ` | Find palettes (name, tag, creator, or #id) | | `/palette discover [category]` | Featured, trending, popularWeek or recentlyLoved | | `/palette browse [query]` | Browse palettes by sort | | `/palette get ` | Load a palette into your hotbar | | `/palette info ` | Read a palette without touching your hotbar | | `/palette undo` | Put your hotbar back after a load | | `/palette build [wall]` | Preview a palette in the world (auto-clears) | | `/palette clear` | Remove your in-world preview now | | `/palette generate [colour]` | Generate a new palette (optionally from a colour) | | `/palette generate hand` | Generate from the block you're holding | | `/palette gradient [from] [to]` | Gradient between two blocks (no args = both hands) | | `/palette capture` | Get the Palette Scanner — select two corners to read a build's palette | | `/palette capture publish ""` | Publish the selection's palette in one step | | `/palette roll` | Generate a random palette | | `/palette mine` | Browse your own palettes | | `/palette liked` | Browse palettes you've liked | | `/palette stats` | Your palette count, likes and top palette | | `/palette tags` | List the site's tags, click one to search it | | `/palette share ` | Send a palette to someone on your server | | `/palette book ` | Write a palette into a book you can carry | | `/palette like ` | Like / unlike a palette | | `/palette publish [tags] [desc]` | Publish your hotbar as a new palette | | `/palette update ` | Update one of your palettes | | `/palette link` | Connect your Palettinator account | | `/palette support` | Support Palettinator (keeps it free & ad-free) | | `/palette help` | Show all commands | `/palettinator` works as the full command name too, and `/palette analyse` is accepted as well. ## 🔗 Publishing to your account Publishing/updating is tied to your Palettinator account. Run `/palette link`, click the link in chat, sign in, and approve — that's it. You can revoke access anytime in your [account settings](https://palettinator.com/settings). Browsing, generating, analysing, previewing, and loading palettes need **no account at all**. 🛡️ For server admins — permissions & config - **Permissions (LuckPerms):** every command has a node — `palettinator.command.analyze`, `palettinator.command.build`, `palettinator.command.publish`, `palettinator.command.generate`, etc. — so you can grant/deny per group. Without a permissions mod it falls back to sensible defaults (in-world build defaults to operators when `buildRequiresOp` is set). - **Config** (`config/palettinator.json`): toggle commands on/off, require op for in-world building, set per-action cooldowns, tune the preview's lifetime and block cap, switch chat block textures on or off, and opt into a palette-of-the-day join message. New options are added to your existing file automatically, keeping your settings. `/palette reload` re-reads it without a restart. - **Language** (`config/palettinator-lang.json`): reword or translate every chat string the mod sends. - **Nothing gets destroyed:** loading a palette moves your existing hotbar items into your inventory rather than deleting them, and the in-world preview only fills empty space — it won't overwrite a build, break containers, or leave blocks behind if the server restarts. - **Survival-friendly:** loading a palette gives **one block each** in survival (no free stacks), full stacks in creative. - **A note on `/generate`:** the bare top-level alias is **off by default** so it can't clash with other mods or datapacks. Turn on `generateAlias` in the config if you want it. `/palette generate` always works. ## 📦 Requirements - Minecraft **26.1.2** or **26.2** (Fabric) - **Fabric Loader** 0.19.0+ - **Fabric API** - Java **25+** (required by Minecraft 26.x) ## 🧩 Install **Server:** drop the Palettinator jar and **Fabric API** into your server's `mods/` folder and restart. Players need nothing (the GUI is optional, client-side). **Singleplayer / client:** put both into your client `mods/` folder, then press **P** in-game. --- Made with ❤ for builders. Palettinator is free and ad-free — [support it here](https://palettinator.com/supporter).