Invariable Paintings: Crafting (legacy) - Crafting Recipes

Archive note: I'm not satisfied with the balance changes this addon brings, and I cannot think of a good way to enhance the concept in ways that haven't already been done since.

This addon for Invariable Paintings contains experimental crafting recipes that have been removed from the main modification.

Different recipe presets are provided as built-in datapacks; each offers varying degrees of crafting freedom. You can manage them in the datapack menu when creating a new world or using the /datapack command in already created worlds. None of these packs are enabled by default.

Creating Copies

Paintings can be duplicated in the same manner as banners or books, by placing an empty one and a filled one together in a crafting grid.

I'm considering adding additional materials as cost (similar to armor trims), but I'm unsure which expensive materials would feel appropriate. Suggestions are welcome.

Creation with Dyes

General Rules

Filling a painting is accomplished by combining it with one or more dyes of different colors. The color of the dyes has no particular significance. The correspondence between each combination and variant is semi-random; it will vary depending on the installed set of paintings but should remain consistent for a given set.

In most presets, the resulting painting is obscured until you take it out of the crafting table.

Provided Datapacks:

Only one of these presets can be enabled at a time.

Unbound: The least restrictive crafting pack. Paintings can be crafted using any quantity of dyes, using either a blank painting or an already filled one. This is the only pack where crafting results are not obscured.

Expensive: Crafting costs 8 different dyes and only accepts blank paintings as ingredients.

Iterative: Crafting requires only a single dye, so only 16 different variants can be crafted from a blank canvas. More variants can be crafted by reusing filled paintings as ingredients. This works better with more painting variants installed in the game.

Recycling: The most restrictive crafting pack. Blank paintings cannot be used as ingredients, making it impossible to craft filled paintings solely from raw materials. The only option is to recycle another one acquired through other means. This works better with cloning disabled.