Craftmark

Craftmark lets modpack authors give blocks a different skin depending on how they were crafted — the same machine built from brass looks brass, built from steel looks steel, built normally looks normal. Per-instance, not per-block: two barrels can sit side by side wearing different skins.

Why packs want this

You've integrated recipes across mods — a storage controller crafted from Create's brass, a furnace built from Thermal's ingots. The recipes tell that story; the blocks don't. A resource pack can't help: it retextures every copy, however it was obtained. Craftmark makes the skin follow the individual crafted item:

• 🎒 In the inventory — and the hotbar, the cursor, the recipe book
• ✋ In your hand — first and third person
• 🧱 Placed in the world — instantly, no relog
• ⛏️ Broken and picked back up — the skin round-trips forever
• 🖼️ Ground drops, item frames, even breaking particles match

Built like an engine

• Zero code for authors. A variant = one recipe line (KubeJS) + PNGs in a resource pack that mirror the original texture paths. No mapping files, no block registration.
• Works on every block-entity block — barrels, chests, furnaces, and effectively every modded machine, automatically.
• Mixin-free. Built entirely on official NeoForge hooks — including the model-data path that Sodium-family renderers honor. As of 1.2.0, if you are also running the Create mod, mixins are present for kinetic rendering. If you don't have Create installed, 1.2.0 will not mix anything. The 26.x build ships no mixins at all.
• Ships with a working example (craftmark:brass barrel) — one recipe script and you'll see it work in two minutes.
• Variant items that don't stack with their plain counterparts, and diagnostics logging that tells you exactly how many of your pack's textures matched.

Requires: NeoForge, installed on client and server — either 1.21.1 or 26.1.2–26.2. Data can be applied through recipes editors like KubeJs or CraftTweaker, given out as quest rewards, or just through commands.

📦 Which file do I want?

• craftmark-1.5.0.jar — for Minecraft 1.21.1. The complete feature set, including Create and Create Aeronautics support.
• craftmark-1.5.0+26.x.jar — for Minecraft 26.1.2 and 26.2 (one file covers both). The +26.x means what it looks like: the same 1.5.0, rebuilt for the new versions — no new features to learn. Everything from 1.5.0 is here except Create and Create Aeronautics support, which come back once those mods update.

Moving an existing 1.21.1 world to 26.x? Your blocks are fine, but skins already stored on placed blocks are reset — re-place them, or re-run whatever command or recipe applied them.

Optional Dependencies:

• Create (1.2.0) — 1.21.1 only for now
• Jade (1.4.0)
• Just Enough Items (1.4.0)
• Sable & Create Aeronautics (1.5.0) — 1.21.1 only for now

Optional dependencies add new features, but the mod works perfectly fine without them.

Permissions:

• You can add this to your modpack without permission.
• You can make addon mods without permission, as long as they list Craftmark as a dependency.
• You absolutely cannot upload this mod's files to other websites

📚 Author Documentation

craftmark_variants/
└── brass/                                   ← one folder = one variant (id: craftmark:brass)
    └── assets/minecraft/textures/block/
        ├── barrel_side.png
        ├── barrel_top.png
        ├── barrel_bottom.png
        └── barrel_top_open.png

/give @p minecraft:barrel[craftmark:variant="craftmark:brass"]

craftmark_variants/<variant>/by_block/<block-namespace>/<block-path>/<face>.png

craftmark_variants/brass/by_block/refinedstorage/storage_monitor/bottom.png

ServerEvents.recipes(event => {
    event.shapeless(
        Item.of('refinedstorage:controller', '[craftmark:variant="craftmark:ruby"]'),
        ['refinedstorage:controller', 'mymod:ruby']
    ).id('mypack:ruby_controller');
});

craftmark: variant craftmark:brass: 4 texture(s) stitched

Future Plans

Content updates wrapped up with 1.5.0. Craftmark now runs on 26.1.2 and 26.2 as well, and from here it's maintenance: bug fixes, small compatibility tweaks, and bringing Create / Create Aeronautics support back to 26.x once those mods update.

If you find a bug or have suggestions for the mod, let me know in the Curseforge comments here or the Discord server. For bug reports, make sure you are on the most recent version of the mod and give me steps so I can reproduce the bug.