Minecraft Furniture Mod | FancyPack
For a great many PC gamers, Minecraft has taken over a digital void that The Sims used to fill. Whilst other minecrafters are out and about slaying zombies, riding pigs and creating portals to the Nether, a great many players are quietly changing their settings to peaceful and creating charming homes, towns and even cities if they manage to eek enough time out of their minecraft days.
The problem with Minecraft so far is that once you build your grand palace or stately home, there's very little to put in it. Sure, there are paintings which are part of the base game and which make your walls look a little less bare, and it is possible to create seats by using half stairs and putting signs on the sides, but once you've done that a few times, plus added a couple of grassy dirt blocks with torches on them, your homes begin to take on a very lifeless couch-filled feel.
Minecraft has long needed furniture with which to fill its homes, and finally some bright genius, by the name of ChocolateySyrup (perhaps the best Minecraft name of all time,) has created FancyPack, a dynamic furniture and decoration mod. Hurrah!
FancyPack boasts not just furniture you see, but modular furniture, as demonstrated in this screen shot from the creator.
As you may have noted in the first image, FancyPack works best with Painterly, a texture pack that has increasingly grown in popularity due to its wide range of customizable textures.In case you were wondering, I have indeed tested this mod,and the creator is not kidding when s/he says that you should use Painterly. Using the default texture pack with this mod results in purple furniture, which, whilst stylish and very modern, doesn't really add a great deal to the feel of the game.
So what will you get with your FancyPack? Everything you've ever dreamed of, my friend. There are several different styles of modular furniture which when placed together automatically merge together to create the type of indoor settings you've always wished for. There are also a whole bunch of new harvestable plants and indoor decor items like planters (no more need to have a strip of dirt sitting in the middle of your house in order to see a little bit of green indoors.)
There is also dyed cloth, which enables you to create wall hangings, colored carpets or anything else your mind can begin to comprehend and additional decorations.
Installing FancyPack is fairly straightforward. It does involve modifying the Minecraft.jar file, but this is a fairly simple affair, and instructions for doing so can be found here. FancyPack also includes a custom Painterly set designed to work best with the pack, which is handy. (You will need to install that specific texture pack, or FancyPack won't work at all, as far as my tests have shown.)
Minecraft Furniture Recipes
This listing is taken directly from the Recipes file that is included with FancyPack and is probably only useful as an indication of the great splendor you will soon be able to surround yourself with if you make haste and install the pack. Remember to backup any important saves first
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Furniture
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Try placing furniture pieces next to or on top of other pieces. If you experiment, you can make all sorts of new display pieces!
Chairs (3)
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A..
AAA
A.A
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A= Smooth stone, wood planks, obsidian, gold ore, or iron ore
Chairs are placed with their backs facing you.
Tables (3)
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AAA
AAA
A.A
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A= Smooth stone, wood planks, obsidian, gold ore, or iron ore
Tables place their legs automatically, wherever there is an open corner.
Slabs (3)
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A
A
A
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A= Smooth stone, wood planks, obsidian, gold ore, or iron ore
Slabs can be placed next to or on top of furniture to make new styles. Slabs have no collisions, so you can walk right through them. This makes them ideal for secret passages that look like walls but can be walked right through.
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New decorations
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Road (1)
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A
A
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A= Cobblestone
You travel much faster when walking on road blocks!
Planter Pot (1)
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A.A
AAA
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A= Clay ball
You can place any grown plant in a planter pot and it will grow as if it were the correct soil. Reeds and cacti don't need water/sand, and cacti can even grow side by side.
Chimney (1)
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A.A
A.A
AAA
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A= Cooked Bricks (not brick blocks) or Cobblestone
This block is hollow and gives off smoke. You can look safely up and down it but mobs and items cannot pass through.
Crafts (1)
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.A.
AAA
AAA
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A= Bone or clay ball
These blocks can be placed anywhere for decoration, including on tabletops. *Once placed, cycle through the different types of crafts or totems by right-clicking on the block.* Bone crafts look great placed above and below each other.
Paper Lantern (1)
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.A.
ABA
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A= Paper
B= Torch
These lanterns can be hung from the ceiling, as well as placed on walls and floors. They give off light but no smoke or fire.
Bone Lantern (1)
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.A.
ABA
.C.
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A= Redstone dust
B= Torch
C= Bone
These lanterns can be hung from the ceiling, as well as placed on walls and floors. They give off light but no smoke or fire.
Dyed Cloth (1)
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A
B
C
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A= Any one of the four primary flowers.
B= White Cloth
C= Wooden Bowl
These come in four colors, depending on the flower you use.
Metal Chain / Barred Window (2)
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A
A
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A= Iron ingots
Metal Cage (2)
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AAA
A.A
AAA
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A= Iron ingots
Metal Fence (6)
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AAA
AAA
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A= Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots
Fancystone
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AA
AA
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A= Baked stone
This item can be turned back into 4 baked stone if crafted by itself. In this way it can be used for compact stone storage.
New Stairs
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A..
AA.
AAA
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A= Mossy Cobblestone, smooth stone, gold or iron
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Existing decoration blocks
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Ice blocks (32)
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AAA
ABA
AAA
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A= Snowball
B= Bucket of water
Mossy Cobblestone (32)
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AAA
ABA
AAA
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A= Fancystone
B= Bucket of water
Ore block (1)
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A
B
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A= Ore (iron, diamond, gold, coal)
B= Cobblestone
Redstone Ore block (1)
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.A.
AAA
.B.
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A= Redstone dust
B= Cobblestone
Gravel (1)
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AA
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A= Cobblestone
Lightstone (1)
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A
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A= Lightstone powder
Lightstone now only takes 1 powder to craft, instead of 9.
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Plants and food
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Hybrid Seed (1)
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AAA
BBB
CDC
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A= Mushroom seeds type 1
B= Mushroom seeds type 2
C= Flower Seeds
D= Wooden bowl
This creates a black seed for the rare black hybrid flower. This flower won't wilt or die in sunlight, but only grows in moonlight! This rare plant is necessary to create black dyed cloth.
Pumpkin Pie (1)
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A
B
C
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A= Milk Bucket
B= Pumpkin
C= Bowl
Pumpkin pie will heal 8 hearts!
Golden Apple (1)
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AAA
ABA
AAA
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A= Gold ingot
B= Apple
Golden apples now require golden ingots, not golden blocks! They also provide a full heal.
Dough (1)
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AAA
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A= Wheat
Wheat no longer makes bread directly. Now it makes dough, which you have to bake into bread. But it can stack up to 8 pieces!
Mushroom, flower, or pumpkin seeds (1)
Right-click on a mushroom, flower, or pumpkin with a hoe equipped.
Grass and wheat seeds (1)
Right-click on a grass tile with a hoe equipped.
