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That is not a simple thing to implement.

You mean new textures?

oh. non-ticking tes should not be too bad, I guess.

No, I mean I had planned to make the Force track a Block without a tile entity. You'd need to have a Tile Entity to store the color data.

why?

Because tracks use the metadata for shape information.

Is it a significant concern to simply use 16 block IDs?

Yes, we only have 4k, some big packs hit that.

Hmm, recently vanilla Minecraft team said that they encourage to use more block ids for different block types, instead of using metadata for different colors, etc.

Yes, well Mojang still only officially supports 256 block ids, so they are not a reliable source.

@CovertJaguar Don't we have a tile for laser tracks already?

Wouldn't 1.13 solve this issue since there won't be any block id limitations and metadata usage isn't encouraged anymore?

@sirwindfield No. We still need to save block state onto disk in forms of meta. If they really allows storing any block state, then it may help.

It's not the big of a deal I guess. I just have to factor it into the update.

Fixed in 517f3d0. It actually supports full rgb color.