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Installing Chromawood

Chromawood is an ItemsAdder content pack. It is not a plugin and there is no jar. You merge a folder into ItemsAdder and regenerate the resource pack.

Before you start

You need ItemsAdder 4.0.18 or newer on Minecraft Java 1.21.4 or newer, and a working ItemsAdder resource pack setup. If /iazip does not already succeed on your server, fix that first. Chromawood cannot make a broken pack pipeline work.

Turn on entity blocks

Chromawood's blocks use the ENTITY placed model, which is the only way to get a genuine cube with its own texture on every face. ItemsAdder ships with that switched off.

Open plugins/ItemsAdder/config.yml and set:

blocks:
  custom:
    entity:
      enabled: true

If this stays off the blocks will not place correctly. This is the single most common reason a Chromawood install looks wrong.

Install

  1. Stop the server. Do not do this on a running server, because ItemsAdder reads the content folder at startup.
  2. If you previously ran the older embercraft_timberworks pack, delete that namespace folder from plugins/ItemsAdder/contents/. Chromawood replaces it and leaving both in place gives you duplicate entries in the menu.
  3. Merge the contents/ folder from the zip into plugins/ItemsAdder/. You should end up with plugins/ItemsAdder/contents/embercraft_chromawood/ holding configs/, models/ and textures/.
  4. Confirm the entity block setting above.
  5. Start the server.
  6. Run /iazip to build the resource pack.
  7. Have players rejoin and accept the pack.

Check it worked

/iaget embercraft_chromawood:redwood_log

That should put a Redwood Log in your hand with the texture applied. If you get the item but it is untextured, the client has not taken the new resource pack yet. If you get nothing at all, the namespace folder is in the wrong place.

Who can see the menu tab

The pack registers its own category in the ItemsAdder menu, guarded by:

ia.menu.seecategory.embercraft_chromawood

Grant it to let players browse the family from /ia, or leave it ungranted and let recipes be the only route in.