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[smakemupagus]

Any ideas for whether is it possible to make a single reaction that takes sand or rocks + dye and outputs blocks that are the color of the dye?

I guess it is easy enough to brute force it with one reaction for each type of dye, but I'm wondering if it can be done elegantly with only one reaction.

[Putnam]

Yes. Material reaction products on the various dyes referring to "x dyed rock", where "x" is the color chosen. One reaction that takes blocks and dye, where the dye is B, makes a product that has the material "GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:B:DYED_ROCK". You'll have to add the DYED_ROCK mat reaction product to each dye, of course.

[smakemupagus]

Aha yes, thanks.  It seems that usually when something is just outside my grasp the answer is Material reaction products

[Deon]

Heh, I've just added this reaction to Genesis and you ask about it, what a coincidence. It happens! If you have any problems, ask and I will share the reaction.

I went with clay + specific dye though, because I don't want to force a player to use burrows to make bricks of the color they want.

[Putnam]

You could also have made them use stockpile linking

[Deon]

Yeah, but if you have a low amount of dyes, it's not relevant.

On a side note, you could use reactions with [REACTION_CLASS:DYE_COLOR] to make them easy to control and to reduce the amount of options if you have different dyes with the same color.

[Putnam]

Of course, you can do the same with HAS_MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT:DYE_COLOR...

[Deon]

Of course, you can do the same with HAS_MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT:DYE_COLOR...

If I understand it correctly, it would mean that you have to specify a material product for each dye. Rather than just a reaction class.

[Putnam]

Which is what I was suggesting in the first place!

[Deon]

I know, but I just like reaction classes more than specifying specific materials within dyes which may be changed and added etc.

Also you may want to use a dye for coloring of DIFFERENT stuff, which would make you to get into a problem with multiple material products. While you could just use a single reaction class with a dye color and use it everywhere. See what I mean?

[Meph]

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Anyway, shouldnt bricks not be glazed with dye to make them a different color ? improvements and such ? ^^

[Deon]

Yeah, the proper way to do it is via glazing, but making a brick painter's workshop works too .