Colored Items

[Tesch]

Hello, I want to create an item that has a color depending on the color of the dye you use in it's recipe(For example, like the colored cables in Applied Energistics 2, but it's only an item, not a block). Do I have to make a separate item for each color, or there is a better way of doing it?

[imacatlolol]

Different items is generally preferred for this case. Vanilla does this (separate blocks and items for each thing that uses dye colors), and I believe it's better for general usability of the mod as well as performance.

If you're dead-set on using a single item, you would have to use NBT data. That can be a bit messy and is really overkill if you're just using those 16 colors, so using separate items is advisable. If you were mixing colors then I'd recommend taking a look at how leather armor does that using NBT data.

[Tesch]

I'm only going ofr the 16 dye colors. So I will do separate items for each. Thank you for the help.