Extra Blocks
By steve12487
Build ExtraBlocks – 300+ Advanced Minecraft Bedrock Building Blocks
Create ExtraBlocks, a massive Minecraft Bedrock Edition add-on that introduces at least 300 brand-new craftable and placeable blocks. The goal is to dramatically expand Minecraft's building possibilities with new materials, colors, patterns, architectural styles, and realistic PBR textures.
1. Block Collection (300+ Blocks)
Create a minimum of 300 genuinely distinct blocks distributed across these categories:
- Concrete: 32+ colors and variations, polished concrete, rough concrete, reinforced concrete, cracked concrete, concrete tiles, industrial concrete, and decorative concrete.
- Wood: 50+ blocks featuring new fictional and natural wood species, including unique planks, logs, stripped logs, beams, wooden panels, carved wood, and decorative variants.
- Stone: 40+ blocks including marble, limestone, granite variants, slate, basalt variants, polished stone, carved stone, and decorative masonry.
- Bricks: 35+ variations including colored bricks, glazed bricks, industrial bricks, weathered bricks, and patterned brickwork.
- Glass: 25+ blocks including tinted glass, frosted glass, reinforced glass, decorative glass, colored glass, and textured glass.
- Metal: 30+ blocks including copper alloys, steel, aluminum, titanium, iron variants, metal panels, grates, and industrial plating.
- Tiles and Flooring: 30+ blocks including ceramic tiles, marble flooring, geometric patterns, mosaics, and modern flooring.
- Decorative Blocks: 40+ blocks including pillars, columns, panels, trims, architectural details, carved surfaces, and ornamental blocks.
- Miscellaneous: Additional unique materials such as rubber, plastics, composite panels, insulation, and futuristic construction materials.
Ensure the total exceeds 300 unique block identifiers. Do not count recolored textures alone as separate meaningful additions without providing actual usable block variants.
2. True PBR Textures
Every suitable block must have properly designed PBR textures compatible with Minecraft Bedrock's supported Vibrant Visuals rendering pipeline.
Include:
- High-quality base color/albedo textures.
- Normal maps for realistic surface depth.
- Metallic maps for metallic materials.
- Roughness maps for material-specific reflection behavior.
- Appropriate emissive textures for special blocks.
Concrete should look slightly rough, polished marble should have subtle reflections, steel should look metallic, and wood should show detailed natural grain.
Avoid making every material equally shiny.
3. Crafting and Survival Integration
Make the blocks obtainable in survival mode.
- Add sensible crafting recipes.
- Include stonecutter-compatible recipes where appropriate.
- Use logical ingredients and balanced quantities.
- Organize blocks into intuitive families.
- Ensure every block is obtainable without creative mode.
4. Creative Inventory
Organize blocks into recognizable categories with consistent naming conventions and intuitive inventory presentation. Every block must have a unique identifier and appropriate icon.
5. VibrantVisuals Compatibility
Make ExtraBlocks compatible with the VibrantVisuals graphics framework.
Use shared PBR conventions, consistent material definitions, and documented integration. Declare VibrantVisuals as a resource-pack dependency using its actual UUID and compatible version once available. Do not invent dependency identifiers.
ExtraBlocks should remain functional as a building add-on and should not unnecessarily override vanilla textures or other add-ons.
6. Technical Quality
- Target Minecraft Bedrock Edition.
- Use valid manifests and unique identifiers.
- Use proper block geometry and material definitions.
- Avoid duplicate identifiers and broken textures.
- Ensure correct block placement, mining, sounds, and hardness.
- Optimize textures and assets for mobile hardware.
- Test recipes, inventory organization, and block rendering.
7. Final Deliverable
Deliver a complete, installable ".mcaddon" containing 300+ functional blocks, PBR assets, recipes, manifests, and documentation.
The final result should feel like a professional Minecraft construction expansion, giving builders hundreds of new ways to create modern houses, cities, industrial facilities, futuristic structures, and detailed environments.
