I have had several people request that certain blocks in my mod have different textures based on the materials they are made out of. For example, a wooden crucible having the oak log texture if it is made out of oak logs, and the spruce log texture if it is made out of spruce logs.

If I understand correctly, the current paradigm for Minecraft and Forge is that every block have its own block, blockstate, model, and recipe. This seems like an absolute pain if I want to add the same block with different textures. Is there any other way to do this that I just don't know about? I'm trying to decide if it would be worth my time to add all of these different blocks.

 

Thanks in advanced!

1 hour ago, Tikaji said:

Is there any other way to do this that I just don't know about?

Data generators would create this in a matter of milliseconds for hundreds of blocks at once. Writing files manually is not recommended.