Typestones

Typestones

Smooth stone blocks that carry a letter, digit or sign on all six sides, and picture stones that together show an image. A Typewriter makes them, and a Pencil puts them into the world.

Typestones

• Any character of any font installed on your computer, in any script, at 16, 32 or 64 pixels: regular, bold, italic or bold italic. A built-in classic face works without choosing a font.
• Letter color and background color from all 16 dyes; without background dye the stone keeps the smooth stone look.
• Top and bottom follow the placement direction, so text reads right on walls, floors and ceilings.
• A broken stone drops itself with its letter and colors.
• No crafting recipes per letter, so the recipe book and JEI/REI/EMI stay clean.

The Typewriter

Type a line of up to 128 characters, set a letter dye and optionally a background dye, and press Start.

• One stone every 5 ticks, repeated up to 64 times
• Takes smooth stone and dyes from inventories on any side, puts finished stones into the inventory at its back
• Buttons for A–Z, 0–9 and every character of the chosen font
• Font preview with scale and baseline settings
• Letters baked by players are kept in the world and sent to everyone who sees them

The Pencil

The Typewriter's Pencil button makes a pencil from a stick and a smooth stone. It lays the last line or picture stone by stone, straight from the Typewriter's output.

• Click the last stone to go on to its right, click elsewhere for a new row, sneak-click to take the last stone back
• Picture pencils build up row by row from the bottom left, like a wall
• Choose with ▲▼ or the mouse wheel which line or picture the next pencil is for
• An empty pencil goes back into the Typewriter's input and is refilled for free
• Throw an empty pencil away and it bursts into a tiny firework in its colors

Pictures

With Billboard API or CC: Tweaked, a program can have the Typewriter type an image as picture stones by using the Lua box which can execute Lua code.

• PNG, JPEG or GIF (first frame), up to 8 × 8 stones by default
• Fit, fill or stretch, for a wall, a floor or a ceiling
• Each picture stone costs one smooth stone and one RGB dye (black, white, red, green and blue dye make 8)
• Picture stones show the image from both sides and name the image they belong to
• A program claims the Typewriter while it works; the Typewriter's screen shows "Program in control"

Without Billboard API or CC: Tweaked, the RGB dye and its recipe stay hidden.

The latest version of the Billbox API (which contains the Lua box, cables and ports) can always be obtained from GitHub Release Billboard API.

Requirements

• Minecraft 26.3, Fabric Loader, Fabric API
• Needed on client and server
• Optional: Billboard API or CC: Tweaked (pictures), Mod Menu (settings screen)

Source and license

Source code on GitHub, MIT license.

Made with Claude AI: Claude writes the code, textures and icon; Konitor decides what the mod does and tests it.