Buildable Textures
by Orlisan
Players who want custom block textures can paint them in-game with Buildable Textures, which turns ARGB hex colors and pixel-art canvases into new blocks.
What it does
Buildable Textures lets a player create textured blocks by building with concrete, or by entering an 8-character ARGB hex code to generate a solid-color block. The hex route covers 4,294,967,296 possible colors. A Scanner Block takes a finished build and converts it into a texture, with a 2D mode that reads a flat grid along the Y and Z axes and a 3D mode that reads an 18×18×18 hollow cube extending toward the south, up and east.
Each face of the resulting block is a separate 16×16 canvas, so a build given to one face becomes the texture of that face, and the six sides can be set independently. Optional frame generation places a guide oriented toward south, up and east so the player can line up the build before confirming the scan. Names accept only letters, digits, spaces, underscores and hyphens, and duplicate names are flagged inside the interface.
The mod runs on the client and server, so the server and every player need it. Fabric API is required. Files target Fabric for 26.2 and 26.3, and the latest is 1.0.0-26.3 for 26.3, published 2026-09-19. The license is All rights reserved, so the mod is not open source, though its source code and issue tracker are public.
Key features
Concrete-built textures
Textured blocks can be built in-game from concrete, starting from a set of 16 concrete colors and extending past them.
2D and 3D scanning
The Scanner Block reads either a flat 2D grid or an 18×18×18 hollow 3D frame and turns the build into a block texture.
Per-face textures
Each of the six faces takes its own 16×16 canvas, so one block can show six different designs.
Localized block names
Generated block names are translated into 10 languages, including English, Italian and French.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
How it compares
Colorful Blocks is open source under the MIT License, runs on client and server, and is published for Fabric across 1.21.1 – 26.1.2. Color Blocks is also client and server and under the MIT License, but it is not open source and covers 1.20 – 1.21.1. Direction Waypoints is a client-side only mod under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, built for 1.21.6 – 1.21.10, so it does not change blocks on a server.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buildable Textures | Fabric | 26.2 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-09-19 |
| Colorful Blocks | Fabric | 1.21.1 – 26.1.2 | Client and server | 2026-08-19 |
| Color Blocks | Fabric | 1.20 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-11-02 |
| Direction Waypoints | Fabric | 1.21.6 – 1.21.10 | Client-side only | 2025-10-03 |
Questions
Does Buildable Textures need Fabric API?
Does a server need Buildable Textures to work with players?
Why must the game restart after new blocks are added?
In the catalog
Buildable Textures is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,982 Decoration mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
Design your own Minecraft blocks using concrete pixel-art structures or any of 4,294,967,296 colors via direct ARGB input — no external tools, no resource pack editors. A quick Minecraft restart is required for the new blocks to be fully loaded, as dynamically registered blocks are initialized at startup. Place…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/buildable-textures
- Owner
- Orlisan
- Published
- 2026-06-23
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-19
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
