That is a really clever way to visualize what we are missing out on! But it is hard to figure out how we would get those to fit in, and separate to that there's a lot of blocks which are just to textured to reasonably use even if they have the right color to them!

all of ur custom color blocks immediately gave me so many building ideas :( i need them lol

This is my first time seeing the blocks laid out in a 3d spectrum like that, and it really shows what's going on/where massive holes are. Awesome stuff!

The End could implement the purple-blue colors and also the missing green colors, as it has both an purple theming and an dark green theming. Each color theming also seems to carry some "lore" reasoning behind it, and i think it would be nice to see more about that in an End update.

Interestingly, back in classic Minecraft a lot of those missing hues you showcased were wool colors. It's a shame they couldn't have kept a few of them.

My favorite color is blue, but the game is lacking a variety or blue blocks. Would love to see more blues and purples added in the future.

Makes me think we should have some kind of "World of Color, part 2" update. Maybe they can pull a Terraria and add some kind of painting tools to change the base color of a block. I'm not much of a builder but more colors never hurt my feelings

I think the green rock Serpentine could be an excellent use of the color at 5:21. It’s a really pretty rock and surprisingly common

I especially love the deep blue/purple? Colour at 6:46. And I completely agree, Minecraft is especially lacking colours in the blue/purple/cyan range. I have protanopia (a form of colourblindness), which means my red light receptors don't work at all. This results in all the red, yellow, green, orange, brown, and lime type colours looking like one primary colour, and all the blue, pink, purple, etc like another. For me Minecraft doesn't look like a colourful game, because the majority of textures fall under one primary colour for me. If they added more blue related textures it would make the game much more enjoyable for me

A few things I've noted in getting around Minecraft's restricted palette: Blocks behind semi-transparent blocks, especially glass blocks, can greatly increase the palette artificially, although this is only useful for flat surfaces where the glass block can be fully recessed. Light level blocks (or lack thereof) can adjust the shading of a block (this might seem obvious, but it's something that other people I've talked to haven't considered.) Dithering and hue adjusting the source image greatly improves palette conversion. I'm working on a way to best automate this process using imagemagick atm

Honestly i think they could just add another 16 more dye colors, with wool, terracotta, concrete, etc. I know mojang wants a more limited color palette to encourage people to get creative but i feel its time, especially with all the new blocks theyve been adding anyway. Theres actually a mod that does exactly this but i cant for the life of me remember what it was called 😓

As a pixel artist it’s always really hard to colour match some colours, especially with shades of purple. My idea is a leather block, crafted with 8 leather and a wool. You could dye them with a cauldron just like leather armour and horse armour The amount of colours you can get with the leather stuff in the game is astronomical, so having a block that you could dye would be a lifesaver

That dark green spruce leaves coloured block would actually be a game changer. The potential for colour palettes which that single block could add is insane and I really hope they add something like that.

mojang should add wool that can be dyed in a way similar to leather armor, even if its in something like an april fools prank update, it would be really cool to see it ingame

I like building with the cooler tones and it's always a matter of trying to figure out just how many blocks I can use and always being disappointed that I'll once again be using wool or concrete LOL Its interesting because Mojang can't just throw in random blocks for the sake of it, it needs to make sense to the world so it's a battle for sure. An end revamp for purple and maybe some additional work in oceans to bring in some blues could work? Super interesting video, lots to think about :)

This 3D color palette you showcase is a lifesaver! I was struggling to learn what blocks mix good/bad when making gradients, so this world is going to be very useful for me! Thanks a bunch!

It amazes me that this video is so niche. This is fantastic; thank you.

I hope the devs have something like this or see this video. This is a great way to visualize the pallet of blocks we have and is a great tool.

i'd love to see that dark blue be implemented, maybe add a new dark blue dye crafted from black and blue dye. I'd love to see more dye colors in general. Lavender, light yellow, light pink, mint green, dark blue, and dark red would be some lovely colors.

I’m having the exact same problem with map art. And it’s always the same bunch of colors that I always need

I feel like if they added a new dimension to the Deep Dark Biome, with the ancient city portal, a lot of these blocks could be made into interesting new variants of skulk, maybe, or something similar. This palette of missing blocks is very cool. Maybe the purples could be added as new varieties of purpur blocks in an end update, or in a nether update they could add a new forest type.

I feel like the wool, concrete and terracotta dyeing system should be changed to work like leather armour dying to allow you to make these colours, although that would be a nightmare for sorting systems 😂

Some of those really deep, dark colors could be added via gemstones, something along the lines of lapis where you mine the ore block and get gems that are items, but you can craft 9x of them into a block. So like Opal, Sapphire, Ruby, Emerald, etc. That would be a good way to make mining/caving a bit more relevant again, while also getting some of those more intense jewel-tone colors into the game. That "pistachio green" block you showed off looked extremely similar in color to the inside of an avocado to me, so maybe they could add that fruit as a block like pumpkin and melon. The default avocado would have a dark green, heavily textured appearance and you could skin in the way you can logs, and it would then be that creamy light green color. To farm them you have to pit the avocado which turns it from a block to a food item a la melon slices. I guess that would require adding avocado trees, too, but that just gives them an excuse to add a new type of wood to use as well, so that's all upside.

So, a few ideas on how to implement those new colors you showed us, that I came up with: 1. for the green tones they could add a „compressed [leaf type] leaf block“ for every kind of leaves, wich are non-translucent and have a denser leaf texture to them. 2. for that pastel orange you could craft sand and red sand, like you do with gravel and sand for concrete, to create a „mixed sand“ block plus stairs, sandstone, walls etc. 3. for additional color variety and textures maybe making a „condensed [coral type] coral“ block which doesn‘t die without water could be cool. 4. what you had as an idea: a new underwater biome/POI/feature would be a great addition.

I think when looking for opportunities to add the mentioned vibrant colors we could keep in mind the potential of light sources. Ever since the addition of the glow squid and the glow item-frame, there has been a potential for blocks to carry some of that luminescent quality. Frog lights start to do this with their tinted white colors, but it could be cool to see a more saturated variant of that idea. In terms of where to add more unique muted colors, it would be cool to see these blocks as tiles / terracotta-like blocks built into ancient structures (following Minecraft’s shift in providing story telling opportunities through structures you have find). These blocks would have an intrinsic reason for their difference because they’ve been either submerged / decaying in the earth. When thinking on what might be on the other side of the portal in the ancient city, I think it does make sense for the dimension to have little pockets of a “light oasis’s” in the same way the Nether has the warped forest biome to contrast the abundance of reds and oranges around. These light oasis’s provide the opportunity for really strange and new pallets to emerge: imagine a dimension mostly dark and moody like the the current deep dark punctured with spots of luminous iridescence. If the idea of an oasis is a bit unoriginal, there could be something that’s the exact opposite: just how in the deep ocean there are creatures with bioluminescence to attract their prey, in this new dimension, really bright, bold, beautiful colors might actually indicative of something terrifying. I’d love to see what Minecraft’s take would be on a hostile mob that’s a functionally like an angler fish. Anyway - this video was throughly enjoyable and thought provoking. I hope Mojang comes across it to see the community’s thoughts are on filling out the colorspace of the game. For a sandbox game, I think this conversation is really critical for the long term viability of the game, so hopefully future updates can keep this in mind to allow people to fully express the creativity and allow for a legitimate reason to keep expanding the Minecraft inventory of building blocks.

Love what you've done. I made a colour wheel in 1.17 with all the solid blocks and was shocked by how much space there was in there.

Haven't come across anyone showing off the colours in a 3d space, very neat. I remember trying to explain to my non-builder friends how snow was a blue-white and quartz was pinkish :p

One of my personal favorites is the contrast between very dark (black) and a very saturated feature color. Think something like that would look cool and thematically correct for the deep dark dimension. Quite dark base, but with veins of various bright colors running through it. Would be really hype if we finally could have that "colored light source" feature I have always wished for also. So that you can actually change the color of any block by putting tinting lights next to them.

I've never seen the Minecraft blocks surveyed and put into a color cube like this. Nice work. :) I don't think Mojang gives much thought to build palettes or how new blocks may or may not harmonize with existing ones; I feel that for each release they put together a 'menu' which relates largely to itself rather than anything which came before.

wow, seeing everything laid out like this really makes you realize just how many greys there are in minecraft

He even puts a world download in the description... what a legend. Edit: And he included the hex codes he used, too! Wow, that's definitely more than I was expecting.

"Packed" foliage, leaves, grass, bushes, would be a great way to get those yellows and greens in. The blues, teals and cyans would definitely be easiest to add in underwater structures, though some of them could also easily be added in ice biome expansions. Maybe some hybrid water temple for an ice ocean? Some new terrain generation in the snowy tundra or ice spikes biome, maybe. Adding some if not all of the purples to the Nether would help a lot with that, too. Surprised that pale orange color doesn't already exist among the existing terracottas, given it's proximity to actual pottery-related stuff. You could probably get the pink on the end of your bar with a berry dye of some sort, which could also cover some of the missing purples, but that magenta is so flippantly unnatural a color that I think that one in particular might be hopeless.

Dark green easily became what I expect the most to come. Excellent visualization!

Very nice way to visualize the palette! I think another useful one would show how varied the texture is - perhaps arrange in 2d all the colors, then the height would be the variation. Flat shaded blocks near the bottom, blocks where the spread around the average is greater placed higher.

Never seen anyone visualise Minecraft's block color palette like this. Good stuff

Its good to note that distance in RGB space isnt the same as how conceptually different colors appear. In particular some blues appear similar despite being far away in the model, and very different looking reds and oranges are fairly near each other. Would be interesting to see the blocks arranged in a different color space.

Wow! I work in computer science and I've never thought of a 3D cube of RGB before! Such a clever representation of the colour spectrum. Great video!

I love how mysterious these titles are when you are browsing KZfaq and it pops up in your recommended

really really useful way to visualize this! The spectrum of colors available in minecraft already is really cohesive, but builders are constantly struggling for colors and textures that all mesh and match up while still providing gradients/contrast/whatever. Sometimes those limits can lead to really cool and creative projects and techniques, but I do wonder if we're due for something like a "World of Color 2.0" update that just gives us more variants in color and texture on a lot of the more popular families of blocks? Things like glow lichen and other semitransparent blocks also obviously open up even more possibilities when it comes to mixing color and texture together, so maybe an update focused on more overlay, trim, or detailing items makes more sense? Being able to add on a semitransparent layer of black cracks or bright gold trim (for example) to ANY block would mean you can get even more fine tuned tones. I'm really curious to see what Mojang's long term solutions are here!

Gneiss thinks of things that you never notice while playing the game, but when you hear about them, you suddenly noticed them a lot!

I've thought about this many times, thank you for the visualization and I hope the devs/modders see this and use it when designing new blocks

Man I’d love to see mods start using this system for adding new blocks, I had never even thought about the gaps in colours that we don’t have Also I’ve always wanted new dye colours, so new wools and concretes could be a simple solutions. Some of the more muted ones could also be weirder woods, like the nether woods and cherry. The pistachio colour could literally just be pistachio wood. The mustard colour could also be a wood, or maybe like you said just some sort of dead plant block (maybe dried hay bales?) A lot of the more colourful ones could be new crystals and minerals, the bright reddish magenta could be Bixbite or something, or the forest green could be Olivine.

Adding this could be as simple as making a bunch of new dye and coloured block textures by recoloring existing textures and models. That could even give Mojang an opportunity to add some little educational touches about primary colours and colour theory. Maybe they could even give the caldron a unified purpose between Bedrock and Java by having it as the dye workstation.

That 3d design of all the colors is so cool! I'd love to see those colors, especially the blues. You are one of a kind, man.

theres a mod called Block Diversity which adds 16 dyes to the game and all the vanilla blocks that would use those dyes. I'm curious how well those blocks would fit into this. I remember a lot of them being pretty brightly colored

I kinda want a painted copper block or some sort of colorable metal block that has stairs and slabs, that would be really useful i think

It may be too much to ask, but could you add the hex codes for those colors in the description? As somebody who frequently toys with the textures, your list instantly inspired me to try to make fitting textures for some of those colors!! Thanks for the awesome video 👍

The Ocean Monuments and the Warped Forest do SO MUCH for the teal lovers out there...

it's really neat how being able to move around in a 3d plot gives you a sense of its geometry, seems very applicable to general data visualization

I wonder how the texture changes over the years would change this. Like gravel, haybales, potato’s, etc.

I think these colours could be added by blocks that are produced by a mob, like froglights or Sniffer plants. In fact, most (if not all) of them look like they would come from the warped forest, so maybe that's where that mob would spawn. I'd like to imagine these blocks being built by some sort of termite looking insect to make a nest, the player could then harvest the blocks of the colour they want and somehow grow more of them, from there, they would either be turned into a building block set, or crafted into dyes. That's just a random idea though, it probably needs lots of refining before it's actually a good feature. Great video by the way! I found it because Kingbdogz shared it, and he's right, that's a great visualization!

What I would love is getting more pastel tones. We have a few but they're so rare. I keep wanting to build something in a very Nordic style which almost always involves a lot of pastels but sadly I always realise it can't be done because the colours are just not there. I guess there's cherry wood now, and prismarine bricks and sandstone, but I think that's about it. And prismarine bricks have an awkward texture

I hope someday they add more dyes, beds, wools, clays, and concrete colors. And maybe with that adding concrete stairs and slabs

Thanks for providing the hex codes! Def going to try making some textures just for the heck of it now :)

Minecraft should released a new set of 16 colored dyes because for a long time now many players have complained about not having enough colors for their builds

I think adding purple and green wood to the end dimension would fit really well! Could be fun if they made some kind of alien tree with those colors

Yeah Minecraft really needs a "Color Update!" type update. Something I have mentioned a number of times is that I suggested a glowing mushroom to add to deep caves. Hear me out. Basically a slightly glowing blue/green mushroom. And/or possibly a white glowing mushroom that you can dye with dyes to change the color. Then you could grow the mushroom giant and use it's blocks to have different colored lighting sources. Since right now in the game there isn't much to pick from for different colored blocks that produce light. I already know Mojang has stated in the past they will never add different colored light, but at least give us the ability to have different colored light blocks for building with. With that though is the fact we still don't have a paint ability. I have seen mods that do it which look cool but I don't like messing with mods since they tend to be a hassle it seems like. But being able to paint ANY block in the game to a different color thus having multiple different textures but fitting your color pallet would be amazing. But I am guessing it would be to much work to implement that into the base game maybe. Plus if you wanted to mix colors to change them or some stuff that would add a whole another added complexity but if that was possible you could get the really out there colors represented in this video. If they could pull that off though I am pretty sure so many builders would flock back to the base game to be able to build whatever they want with the specific colors without having to worry about it looking all funky.

wow, great visualization. But I feel like you are missing many blocks, for example I didn't spot hay bales and also some blocks with different side textures were missing the crafting table or furnace come to mind. You should create this "diagram" for all block sides so you can look up regardless of building floors, walls or ceilings and then provide a download for that world^^

I am /desperate/ for some more blurples in Minecraft! I feel like all the purple tones we have are so red and bright! Cooler, blue purples would be so fantastic 😭 and some more muted colors! Especially in the green and cyan range!

This is how the ancient Sumerians did math when they played Minecraft.

The pink-orange one is my favorite. Also, it wasn't here, but I've been wishing a long time for light yellow dye.

Minecraft dungeons has some beautiful colors of the end and I hope they'd take inspiration from the color theory they use in that game.

1.12 players who have Xtones And Flatcolored Blocks And Chisel installed: We have no such weaknesses

These colours looks so cool! I think that those greens would be something like nature related maybe with the wood and the purples are just screaming end. If they added something with these colours I would be really happy.

If Mojang actually expanded or just added the Aether dimension, then we would get more light pastel colors. Like light blues and cyans with some yellow moss colors from the grass n’ atuff

A full block made of glow lichen would be nice as one of those minty green colors.

Back in the day, the various types of wood added by the Biome's O'Plenty mod helped in this issue.

5:00 you can turn fancy leaves off which turn leaves textures into non-transparent blocks

I had an idea for the glass colour, maybe Mojang could add something like foggy glass to get the equivalent glass colours but solid

This is really cool, I would love some more vibrant colours to work with!

Thanks so much for this. I really appreciate the detailed color theory type approach.

You're a godsend for this, it's great to have all this visualized. I like to think I'm pretty good with colors in general but it's hard to compare them all in minecraft without meticulously going one by one just because of how the menus organize them all.

6:40 Now imagine they would add more coloured terracotta like blocks that would be available in the new ruins. That could technically make the archeology even better - especially if aside the building they would also maybe add them in chests. Or ancient paint, with ingredients/recipe for them lost in time.

Hey, great video and loving this spectrum. I was playing around with it and noticed that the underside texture, and less prominently, the top side of shulker boxes aren't taken into consideration. They tend to be much darker on the bottom and I can see some potential use for that, so it would be great if they appeared when shulker and underside are active.

what I think would be nice is to be able to customize the colours of concrete by adding dye, kind of like the beacons with the stained glass

ive watched two videos now- the previous one was the one about minecraft's geology and you're the most different youtuber ive ever seen. your voice is calming and your use of command blocks is so clever- i really liked the noteblocks as a substitute for any other toggles. and your range! art and science really are the same thing. you're so cool. i wanna be like you

i feel like the easy fix would be to let concrete, wool, and terracotta be dyed like leather and its more about getting the right hexcode than the right average texture

This is such a cool way to visualise Minecraft's colour space! Thanks for making this!

this is so cool, really puts into visuals how i feel when im picking out palettes and color choices for a build

This is such a cool way to visually represent the colors we are missing. It would be amazing to see some of the ones you have pointed out some how added.

Both of those really nice green tones could be malachite. Light for rough, dark for polished.

I know i saw someone mention altering blocks with stained glass and also shading with light blocks, which are a few really fun tricks to use, but you can actually just go and blend your own colors entirely with stained glass! You can use it to get gradients that look as smooth as banners. I've messed around with it for a while, and stained glass can really just make almost any color you could want. It's just not always the most practical.

This was awesome, love the application of color and theory to Minecraft

We need tan stone, like limestone. Full variants, bricks, etc

I honestly think that mojang should bring back some lost OG wool colors (light blue-light green wool or red-magenta wool) that were removed when infdev came out

I found this really informative, nice visualisations. I have wanted minecraft to have a 32 dye pallet to expand from the current 16.

Such a cool way to layout blocks! We really are missing out on a bunch of cool tones :/

ideas: the swamp trees are still not their own tree type for some reason. make them a new tree type that's not really based on anything and just make it green wood, like some of the greens you showed off of the colors they could add. some kind of aquatic-themed dimension; maybe doesn't have to actually be aquatic and could just have things based on normally underwater stuff just outside of the water, like slime rancher's dry reef, or deep rock galactic's dense biozone. More things not based on real life in general; I know mojang wants to spread their love and passion for the environment and all, I would like to see more made-up stuff. Those have always been my favorite things in minecraft, personally.

i would love to see more purples and pinks of all shades in the end. Perhaps found in some temple out there with strange plants to gain as a renewable source. Or for a that deep dark portal thing, perhaps a new world of sickly and muted colours, a place where the dark wasn’t as all encompassing, but rather a constant fading or draining.

Genius way of representing the block palette

Adding biomes with ground or vegetation texture with these blocks would be awesome, I could totally imagine dry biome or pinkish biome in the end with all sorts of plants to grow, also perhaps some structures with the new blocks, and I a gree the cold blue tones are neat

5:17 They could add a recipe for Compacted [Wood Type] Leaves along with Compacted Dead Leaves to hit some of these green/yellow colors you're talking about. Compacted Leaves would be good fuel for a composter, and make Compacted Dead Leaves extremely flammable, allowing functional fuses, fire traps, and general burning purposes.

Some of those subtler blues could be slate or some new types of stone maybe

The light green could be a new wood type. Some of the purple-ish blue-ish colors give dreamlike vibes, so maybe they could be added to some new biome in the End.

Minecraft should allow you to dye wool like how you dye leather. It would probably help and fill in the colours we're missing and that we deserve!

The ability to be able to craft wax blocks that could be any color like leather armor would be insane... Being wax blocks, they would also be able to be carved into stairs, slabs, walls, and the like.

Very interesting! I like these types of videos, I've subscribed.

I would love if they add more colors to concrete. Plus new patterns of glazed. The Gradient Update! 😃

The forest green colour would be great for an “evergreen” tree type to be added. When it comes to “realism” for Minecraft, I try to remember they can always more “Minecrafty” things that don’t need to make sense in our world. This new tree could have a green wood, or at least be green when stripped. For the blue transitional blocks, they could add an “Oasis” mini biome found in the middle of deserts 🏜️ and have a bunch of new blue blocks

I've never seen a color spectrum thing like this and I think it's really cool how you did that