Are you fed up with standard-issue gray minecarts? Have you ever wished you could color your carts so they match your shiny new steam locomotive? Or just stand out from the crowd?
Well, now you can! Cart Livery is a mod that allows you to paint your carts in all 16 glorious sheep colors, and apply colored stickers to them.
Usage:
- Craft an undamaged shears with a piece of paper to get the Livery Cutting Tool
- Sneak + right-click with a piece of dye on a cart to paint it. Stickers will be painted over
- Sneak + right-click with a Livery Sticker on a cart to apply it. This only works if the cart has no sticker on it already
- Sneak + right-click with the Livery Cutting Tool on a cart to remove the sticker from it. The sticker is destroyed in the process
- Right-click with the Livery Cutting Tool to bring up its GUI
- There is a preview in the top left, where you can test how your livery will appear
- You can left- or right-click on the preview with a piece of dye to change the color of the cart or the sticker, respectively
- Change which sticker to craft with the arrow buttons. The colors in the preview are for show only, you will always get white stickers
- Put some paper in the left slot, and you can pull out the Livery Sticker from the right
- The Tool has 100 uses
- Craft your sticker with a piece of dye (shapeless) to change its color
Stickers:
Cart Livery is designed with extensibility in mind. New livery stickers can be easily added with resource packs, in fact, the mod doesn’t contain any by itself. I have made a (very limited) pack to start you off with, this means that you will also need to download that if you want to be able to do more than paint carts.
The stickers you are able to craft are determined solely by your client – i.e. the sum of all resource packs you have active at the moment. In SMP, other players who don’t have the particular pack a sticker comes from will not be able to see it; everything else however will still work (they can color and apply the stickers normally).
Creating a Resource Pack:
My own textures may be bad, but it’s my hope that some more artistically minded people will take off with this idea. Creating a pack is quite easy, take a look at the provided pack to get an idea how it’s done.
Basically you need 3 things:
- A pack.mcmeta file (as always), with some extra metadata to list the stickers it adds
- One or more language files in /assets/cartlivery/lang to define the names of the stickers (yes, you can localize them)
- The textures themselves in /assets/cartlivery/textures/livery (PNG format)
The mod simply draws a textured box around the minecart, with a texture that’s mostly transparent. The easiest way to make a texture is to start off from the test.png texture in my pack. There are no technical reasons to use only white, however colored textures may look weird when dyed.
Mod Showcase:
How to install:
- Download and install Minecraft Forge.
- Download the mod and Basic Liveries pack.
- Go to %appdata%.
- Go to .minecraft/mods folder.
- If the “mods” folder does not exist you can create one.
- Drag and drop the downloaded jar (zip) file into it.
- Put Basic-Liveries.zip in your /resourcepacks folder
- Enjoy the mod.
Download Links:
For 1.6.4
For 1.7.2
Cart Livery Mod: Download from Server 1 – Download from Server 2
Basic Liveries pack: Download from Server 1 – Download from Server 2