Rainbow Wood

Adds tintable wooden blocks which you can color with dyes

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About this Mod

Rainbow Wood

Adds new tintable variants for all vanilla wooden items.
In case the 11 wood types from vanilla aren't enough, now you can have ~16.5 million different ones!¹

¹ One for each possible RGB color, but most of them look the same and thus are pointless haha

Full list of new tintable items

Log
Stripped Log
Wood
Stripped Wood
Planks
Stairs
Slab
Fence Gate
Fence Gate
Door
Trapdoor
Pressure Plate
Button
Sign
Hanging Sign
Hanging Sign
Boat
Chest Boat

Acquiring

In creative mode, just open the creative menu and there are 76 different colors available in the "Rainbow Wood" tab.

When playing survival, you first have to get uncolored items before coloring them. To do that, you can drop any normal wooden item into a cauldron filled with water.
You can also craft colored items from other colored items (i.e. stairs from planks, fences from planks and sticks), just make sure that the inputs all have the same color.
Image depicting 3x3 crafting recipe where the first row is empty and the bottom two rows contain the same squence, which is as follows: slot 1 contains dark purple colored planks, slot 2 contains a stick and slot 3 contains dark purple colored planks. The result is 3 dark purple colored fences, with the exact RGB value of 127, 0, 127

Colors can be applied in two ways:

Averaging

This is the default way. It gets the average color of the input items, and then applied it to the output.
The inputs can contain other tinted items of the same type (i.e. you can't combine stairs with a slab) or dyes.
Examples:

Red Dye + Blue Dye + Uncolored Planks

Coloring planks with a Red Dye (RGB of 255, 0, 0) and Blue Dye (RGB of 0, 0, 255) results in colored planks with the color of (127, 0, 127) as that is the average.

Image depicting 2x2 crafting recipe where the first slot is uncolored planks, second slot is red dye, third slot is blue dye and fourth slot is empty. The result is dark purple colored planks, with the exact RGB value of 127, 0, 127

Red Dye + Uncolored Planks

Coloring planks with a Red Dye (RGB of 255, 0, 0) results in colored planks with the color of (255, 0, 0) aka red.

Image depicting 2x2 crafting recipe where the first slot is uncolored planks, second slot is red dye, third slot is empty and fourth slot is empty. The result is red colored planks, with the exact RGB value of 255, 0, 0

Blue Dye + Uncolored Planks

Coloring planks with a Blue Dye (RGB of 0, 0, 255) results in colored planks with the color of (0, 0, 255) aka blue.

Image depicting 2x2 crafting recipe where the first slot is uncolored planks, second slot is blue dye, third slot is empty and fourth slot is empty. The result is blue colored planks, with the exact RGB value of 0, 0, 255

Red Planks + Blue Planks

Combining red planks (RGB of 255, 0, 0) with blue planks (RGB of 0, 0, 255) results in 2 colored planks with the color of (127, 0, 127) as that is the average.

Image depicting 2x2 crafting recipe where the first slot is Red planks, second slot is Blue Planks, third slot is empty and fourth slot is empty. The result is 2 dark purple colored planks, with the exact RGB value of 127, 0, 127

Purple Planks + Uncolored Planks

It is also possible to combine uncolored items with colored items, which will result in duplication of the colored items. Combining purple planks (RGB of 127, 0, 127) with uncolored planks results in 2 colored planks with the color of (127, 0, 127).

Image depicting 2x2 crafting recipe where the first slot is dark purple planks, second slot is uncolored planks, third slot is empty and fourth slot is empty. The result is 2 dark purple colored planks, with the exact RGB value of 127, 0, 127

Adding

To add the RGB values of the inputs, you need to put an Iron Ingot into the recipe as a modifier.
Examples:

Red Dye + Blue Dye + Uncolored Planks

Coloring planks with a Red Dye (RGB of 255, 0, 0) and Blue Dye (RGB of 0, 0, 255) results in colored planks with the color of (255, 0, 255).

Image depicting 2x2 crafting recipe where the first slot is uncolored planks, second slot is red dye, third slot is blue dye and fourth slot is an iron ingot. The result is magenta colored planks, with the exact RGB value of 255, 0, 255

Red Planks + Blue Planks

Combining red planks (RGB of 255, 0, 0) with blue planks (RGB of 0, 0, 255) results in 2 colored planks with the color of (255, 0, 255).

Image depicting 2x2 crafting recipe where the first slot is red planks, second slot is blue planks, third slot is an iron ingot and fourth slot is empty. The result is 2 magenta colored planks, with the exact RGB value of 255, 0, 255

Available Versions

Version 1.1.0release

MC 1.21.1fabric

April 27, 2025

How to Install Rainbow Wood on Your Server

Order Server

Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).

Set fabric Loader

In the panel under "Egg", select the fabric loader and matching Minecraft version (1.21.1).

Install Mod

Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Rainbow Wood". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

fabric

Minecraft Versions

1.21.1

Server-side

✓ Required

Recommended RAM

4 GB(min. 3 GB)

Frequently Asked Questions

Rainbow Wood server crashes on startup – what to do?

Most common cause: wrong fabric version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (1.21.1). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.

Is Rainbow Wood compatible with fabric?

Rainbow Wood officially supports fabric for Minecraft 1.21.1. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.

Server lagging with Rainbow Wood – how to optimize performance?

Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Rainbow Wood consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.