Vee's End Update Pt. 29 - Expanded End Block Families
Now that I've wrapped up my deep dives into the new End biomes I'm adding, I figured to round out this project I'd zoom back out to the End as a whole, talk about some last improvements both major and minor, and get all my ideas out on the page.
To that End (pun intended) - I want to expand out the blocksets for our two existing end blocks, End Stone and Purpur, to have more options for decorative building in the End.
In addition to the previously-discussed Porous and Mushy End Stone blocks, End Stone got a ton of new block variants, including...
Stairs, Slabs & Walls for End Stone, for more natural End-based terraforming. Other stone varieties have them, and it's not like there's any grass-like topsoil to worry about like with Netherrack.
Now, instead of making End Stone Bricks, 4 End Stone will create a new block - Polished End Stone. A smoothened yellowed stone block, the craters have all been sanded away, looking similar to other "Polished" Stones. Four of those craft into 4 End Stone Bricks, so they're just as easy to make still.
2 End Stone Brick Slabs will create Chiseled End Stone Bricks, which depicts a large open eye in the middle.
In addition to all of this, the new counterpart in Pale End Stone will also now receive all of these variants as well - with Chiseled Pale End Stone Bricks depicting a closed eye. After all, not much to see in the Dark Side!
As for Purpur...
Purpur now has a Wall variant to go alongside its Slab and Stairs. Finally, a good Purple wall block, and more texturing for ancient city builds!
Smelting a Purpur Block in a furnace will create Smooth Purpur - instead of 4 small squares, it is one huge square ballooned out to fill the whole block. Like other Smooth blocks, it has a slab and stair variant, but no wall variant.
2 Purpur Slabs will create a block of Chiseled Purpur, depicting a square spiral not unlike the bottom of a Shulker. Purpur Pillars, which currently use this crafting recipe, will now be changed to craft with 2 Purpur Blocks much like Quartz Pillars.
A bunch of new blocks for End Stone & Purpur - guaranteed to make anyone building in the End dimension, or just stuck using this odd yellow & purple color palette, happy. Maybe they'll revisit the look of the End City and add these new blocks in? Or maybe they're just for people looking to have fun out in the void.
