I, uhh, don't think today's Preview fixed custom block rendering in the structure block UI.

The new minecraft:random_offset component can be super cursed…

The new “minecraft:input_air_controlled” component introduced this last Preview is tons of fun and very easy to set up! Check it out:

Here’s a demo video of said bug. Note how within the same subchunk, a block of matching rendering type must exist for the chalice base to be made visible.

Ah, another one for items today. Items can use 2 different components to determine off hand usage: the allow off hand component and the armor component. Here’s the comparison:

💪🏼 I’m one step closer to realizing my dream of getting real, powerful schemas and documentation directly into Visual Studio Code.

Take a look at the documentation sidebar. It tells you everything.

And here’s double multiply being used for lightening like night vision:

Here’s a close-up of the exclusion filter for color inversion:

It wouldn’t kill me to post some of my older, more popular stuff here, too. Here is a demo of all the blend modes currently supported by Minecraft.

In order: normal, exclusion, multiply, double multiply, additive, additive blend, premultiplied alpha, and opaque rendering

Leona!

I made some huge progress recently on my own custom Visual Studio Code extension for add-ons. It needs even more shortcuts and better descriptions, but this is a pretty solid start.

This is how you know you’re in deep.

Fun fact: you can view compiled atlases in-game. Just use “atlas.items” or “atlas.terrain” as the texture in any particle or entity. I use this infrequently to double-check that my atlas size isn’t getting out of control.

I took the opportunity to tweak my VS Code setup before getting to work today. Most notably, I added file icons from Panic’s Nova and sidebar documentation for the property under the cursor in JSON. I also tweaked how the sidebar view icons are presented.

Oops.