Craftmark: Data-Driven Texture Variants

Craftmark lets modpack authors give blocks a different skin depending on how they were crafted — the same machine built from brass looks brass, built from steel looks steel, built normally looks normal. Per-instance, not per-block: two barrels can sit side by side wearing different skins.

Why packs want this

You've integrated recipes across mods — a storage controller crafted from Create's brass, a furnace built from Thermal's ingots. The recipes tell that story; the blocks don't. A resource pack can't help: it retextures every copy, however it was obtained. Craftmark makes the skin follow the individual crafted item:

• 🎒 In the inventory — and the hotbar, the cursor, the recipe book
• ✋ In your hand — first and third person
• 🧱 Placed in the world — instantly, no relog
• ⛏️ Broken and picked back up — the skin round-trips forever
• 🖼️ Ground drops, item frames, even breaking particles match

Built like an engine

• Zero code for authors. A variant = one recipe line (KubeJS) + PNGs in a resource pack that mirror the original texture paths. No mapping files, no block registration.
• Works on every block-entity block — barrels, chests, furnaces, and effectively every modded machine, automatically.
• Mixin-free. Built entirely on official NeoForge hooks — including the model-data path that Sodium-family renderers honor. As of 1.2.0, if you are also running the Create mod, mixins are present for kinetic rendering. If you don't have Create installed, 1.2.0 will not mix anything.
• Ships with a working example (craftmark:brass barrel) — one recipe script and you'll see it work in two minutes.
• Variant items that don't stack with their plain counterparts, and diagnostics logging that tells you exactly how many of your pack's textures matched.

Requires: NeoForge 1.21.1, installed on client and server. Data can be applied through recipes editors like KubeJs or CraftTweaker, given out as quest rewards, or just through commands.

Optional Dependencies:

• Create (1.2.0)
• Jade (1.4.0)
• Just Enough Items (1.4.0)
• Sable & Create Aeronautics (1.5.0)

Optional dependencies add new features, but the mod works perfectly fine without them.

Permissions:

• You can add this to your modpack without permission.
• You can make addon mods without permission, as long as they list Craftmark as a dependency.
• You absolutely cannot upload this mod's files to other websites

📚 Author Documentation

craftmark_variants/
└── brass/                                   ← one folder = one variant (id: craftmark:brass)
    └── assets/minecraft/textures/block/
        ├── barrel_side.png
        ├── barrel_top.png
        ├── barrel_bottom.png
        └── barrel_top_open.png

/give @p minecraft:barrel[craftmark:variant="craftmark:brass"]

craftmark_variants/<variant>/by_block/<block-namespace>/<block-path>/<face>.png

craftmark_variants/brass/by_block/refinedstorage/storage_monitor/bottom.png

ServerEvents.recipes(event => {
    event.shapeless(
        Item.of('refinedstorage:controller', '[craftmark:variant="craftmark:ruby"]'),
        ['refinedstorage:controller', 'mymod:ruby']
    ).id('mypack:ruby_controller');
});

craftmark: variant craftmark:brass: 4 texture(s) stitched

Future Plans

I'm probably done making content updates after 1.5.0. Soon Craftmark will be ported to 26.1.2 and beyond, and will be maintained with bug fixes and small compatibility tweaks.

If you find a bug or have suggestions for the mod, let me know in the Curseforge comments or the Discord server. For bug reports, make sure you are on the most recent version of the mod and give me steps so I can reproduce the bug.