Quark



From The Developer
"'Quark is a fully modular mod with the objective of improving the vanilla gameplay experience. In other words, I would call it 'what I would add if I was hired at mojang - the mod'. Modules can be turned off and all features can be turned off individually. Some even have more in-depth configs.'"

Features
Quark is a wide reaching mod that modifies dozens of small things about the way Minecraft works from introducing several new blocks like the Feeding Trough to help automate animal feeding and breeding to adding/changing functionality of some blocks to make them make more sense or be more useful such as modifying chains to be able to attach to items horizontally, vertically, and allow them to pull/push items similar to gel blocks.

Automation
These changes are designed to assist with and provide additional automation for players.

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Chains
! style="border: 2px solid white;" | ! rowspan="2" style="border: 2px solid white;" | Chains can be used to link blocks, carts, and vehicles to produce various effects

Right clicking two blocks/carts/boats while holding Chain will link them. Linked objects will remain close to eachother.

Additionally, the sticking behaviour for chains connecting to slime blocks and other sticky sources has been changed: Chains will now only connect to them if they do so visually, which allows for some extra cool trickery.
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Chutes
! style="border: 2px solid white;" | ! style="border: 2px solid white;" | Items can be inserted into the Chute block via automation (Hopper, Dropper, etc), and any items inserted are instantly dropped under it, always precisely in the center.

The Chute can be disabled with a redstone signal or by placing a block under it. ! colspan="2" |

Multi-Colored Slime
! style="border: 2px solid white;" | ! style="border: 2px solid white;" | Slime blocks can be dyed Red and Blue. The primary color blocks (Red, Green, and Blue) can be combined to create secondary colors (Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow).

While being moved by pistons, two slime blocks will only connect if they're the same color, or if one is made of another (so Red won't connect to Blue, but it'll connect to Magenta). Any color of slime will connect to non-slime blocks around it normally. ! colspan="2" |

Dispenser Placed Blocks
! style="border: 2px solid white;" | ! style="border: 2px solid white;" | Dispensers will now place blocks in the world. Any blocks that already had a placement behaviour, like TNT, are ignored.

The blocks are rotated so they're placed forward from the dispenser. Note that crops such as Wheat Seeds or Potatoes also count. ! colspan="2" |

Ender Watcher
! style="border: 2px solid white;" | ! style="border: 2px solid white;" | The Ender Watcher is a new redstone input block. It emits a redstone signal if a player is looking directly at it.

The signal is higher the closer to the center of the block the player is looking.

It's crafted with an Eye of Ender, Redstone and Blocks of Biotite (new block from Quark) or Obsidian if not enabled. ! colspan="2" |

Feeding Trough
! style="border: 2px solid white;" | ! style="border: 2px solid white;" | The Feeding Trough is a new block you can craft with some planks and fence gates. When right clicked, a menu will pop up where you can put food inside it. ! colspan="2" |

Pistons
! style="border: 2px solid white;" | ! rowspan="2" style="border: 2px solid white;" | Pistons are allowed to move Tile Entities (blocks with extra data attached, like Chests or Furnaces). Attempting to move a block to an invalid position will cause it to break and drop its contents, though.

For a block that pistons can't move, now that furnaces can't be used, look into Sturdy Stone in the Building category.

Note that some blocks such as Monster Spawners can't be moved this way, so you don't go and break the game!
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Building
These changes are designed to provide players with additional building options like vanilla material and color variations to existing blocks such as Item Frames and Signs. 

 

