New Slabs, Stairs & Walls

Now also on Modrinth: https://modrinth.com/mod/new-slabs-stairs-walls

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This mod adds some blocks, slabs, stairs, walls, fences and fence gates that I felt like were missing from the game.

The mod adds:

• Quartz Wall
• Purpur Wall
• Prismarine Brick Wall
• Dark Prismarine Wall
• Smooth Sandstone Wall
• Smooth Red Sandstone Wall
• Smooth Quartz Wall
• Stone Wall
• Polished Granite Wall
• Polished Diorite Wall
• Polished Andesite Wall
• Stairs and wall for Smooth Stone
• Stairs and wall for Cut Sandstone
• Stairs and wall for Cut Red Sandstone
• Slab, stairs and wall for Cracked Stone Bricks
• Slab, stairs and wall for Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks
• Slab, stairs and wall for Cracked Deepslate Bricks
• Slab, stairs and wall for Cracked Deepslate Tiles
• Slab, stairs and wall for Tuff (only before 1.21)
• Slab, stairs and wall for Calcite
• Slab, stairs and wall for Smooth Basalt
• Slab, stairs and wall for Dripstone Block
• Slab, stairs and wall for End Stone
• Slab, stairs, wall, fence and fence gate for Cracked Nether Bricks
• Slab, stairs, wall, fence and fence gate for Quartz Bricks
• Fence and fence gate for Red Nether Bricks
• Nether Brick Fence Gate
• Polished Granite Bricks (with slab, stairs and wall variant)
• Polished Diorite Bricks (with slab, stairs and wall variant)
• Polished Andesite Bricks (with slab, stairs and wall variant)

With this mod, all stairs, including vanilla ones, can be converted into slabs using the stonecutter.

The polished bricks can be crafted with four polished blocks in a 2x2 crafting grid. One polished or unpolished block can be turned into a polished brick or one of its variants using the stonecutter.

The slabs can be crafted with three of the slabs' base block in a slab shape in the crafting grid. One piece of the slabs' material or stairs variant can be turned into two slabs using the stonecutter.

The stairs can be crafted with six of the stairs' base block in a stairs shape in the crafting grid. One piece of the stairs' material can be turned into a block of stairs using the stonecutter.

The walls can be crafted with six of the wall's base block in a trapdoor shape in the crafting grid. One piece of the wall's material can be turned into a wall using the stonecutter.

The fences and fence gates can be crafted with the fence's base block and its broken down counterpart (nether brick for all nether brick fences, quartz for quartz brick fences) replacing the planks and sticks respectively in the wooden fence crafting recipe.

There are invisible advancements for obtaining the base blocks of all variants that unlock recipes when you get them.

Mod showcases by NeonSlice:

1.0.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT8kIYIrJSs

1.1.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csh2JYxJr7c

FAQ

Q: Are there plans to add slabs, stairs and walls for concrete/wool/terracotta/[insert block here]?

A: First of all, thanks for the suggestion! I really appreciate getting suggestions from the community. However, for several reasons, including trying to only add blocks that feel like they could be added by Mojang, I have a few rules for what blocks get variants in this mod, so before you suggest something, please make sure you read and understand them. They are as follows:

• The block must be full (16x16x16), solid, and opaque. This should be obvious; only building blocks get building variants.
• The block must be mineable and obtainable with any pickaxe and only with any pickaxe. Apart from the wooden variants, all vanilla blocks with variants disappear when broken without a pickaxe and drop themselves when broken with any pickaxe.
• The block must not have more than one block state. If the block can be rotated or can otherwise change its texture dynamically, its variants wouldn't look correct in most cases, and therefore wouldn't be the best blocks to build with.
• The block must not have special properties. No vanilla block that has variants emits light or a redstone signal. I guess some of these variants could be useful in some cases, but this mod is all about building, not functionality. This also rules out amethyst blocks for retransmitting vibrations, and lodestones for… well, their obvious function.
• Dyed blocks and blocks with dyed variations will not be getting variants. My previous argument for this one was that these felt different than all the other blocks that have variants, and that there was probably a reason Mojang had never added them, but Mojang have now added them, so that argument is not valid anymore. In any case, this rule was established long before that happened, and I still don't want to add any more colored variants, or backport any vanilla ones to old versions.

Apart from these rules, the blocks I have decided not to add variants for are all the chiseled blocks, since their textures are too intricate and would look weird on non-full block faces, and netherrack, since it feels too soft to be part of a building. To be fair, this is Minecraft, so that shouldn't matter, but still I don't want to add variants for it.

Q: Are there plans to add fences and fence gates for [insert block here]?

A: No. Fences and fence gates were added for nether brick based blocks because there is already such a fence in the game, and for quartz bricks because I guess I just felt like it several years ago. No more will be added.

Q: Can I make the blocks craftable with the Chisel mod?

A: If you want the polished brick blocks to be usable with the Chisel mod for 1.16.5, you can use this datapack: Chisel Tags For New Slabs, Stairs & Walls.zip Tags For New Slabs, Stairs & Walls.zip?dl=0)

Q: Can you add [insert idea here] to the 1.12.2 version?

A: No, I don't update that version anymore.

Q: Some of these questions aren't actually frequently asked!

A: That's not a question.