Missing Colors 

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!

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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 :)

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

"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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 👍

I wish the people at mojang would see this video and start thinking of block ideas that could implement these colors

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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 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

seeing the very clear strip of grey and random colors dotted elsewhere is a little sad

I feel like Minecraft could use some more bright colors. Personally that bright pink/magenta you showed looks really nice in my opinion. I feel like a cool way to not only add bright colors but also more light blocks would be to add some sort of bioluminescent plants. Maybe mushrooms of some sort, maybe a new plant entirely. It could be added to a new biome, new dimension, or even something you can find using the Sniffer.

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.

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

5:50 this color makes me immediately think of a wasp’s nest. They could work like bees, except they fake you out and aren’t tame-able at all, they’re just a little jerks. 5:31 this feels like it could be a hedge block or something-imagine, like, making a fence shape in a crafting table but with leaf blocks, and getting a solid green hedge that works like a fence and connects to nearby hedges. 4:21 this color evokes like a yucky venom or poisonous goo of some kind…? Maybe some honey-like fluid witches have in cauldrons that causes a random effect or amount of damage when you put it in a splash potion? 4:29 This feels like a color that would fit nicely in the Nether to me for some reason. Like imagine a giant mushroom this color, or structures made of wood that is this color. 4:39 fish bowl! It’s the perfect shape and color!

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

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

Interesting that blues and purples are rare in Minecraft as these colors are also rare in real life nature.

I think colored redstone lamps could totally add most of those colors

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

these colors are really nice! even if we had those textures as just flat colors (albeit with a bit of texture so not just straight flat color, like concrete) would be really nice to have to build with

As somebody big into maparts, doing those really exposed me to MC's limited colour pallette. There's a lot of colours that are lacking that quickly become apparent, most notably light skin tones, blues, purples, and pinks.

I think a good method to create a bunch of new colours is to implement some “modifiers” that add additional texturing to existing blocks. Think something similar to glow lychen, but darkens or lightens a block’s side by adding grunge or sun bleaching like appearance. So like how stone has mossy stone and crackdd stone variants, but applicable to any block by making it a flat texture blovk that can be added ontop

Or they could over hall the dye system by allowing us to combine dyes to make specific color like how we can dye leather. And when we come up with these dyes, we can use them for concrete and terracotta and wool to fill in the gaps we are missing. Maybe even allow us to dye wood planks and stripped wood, or even various stone blocks. And like terracotta, these blocks would have a base color that you add to, so it wouldn't be pure, red or blue or yellow, but something else to give more variety.

I wish they could just add the hex coloring system they have for leather armor to all the colorable blocks, would open things up a LOT

If they made concrete powder dyeable like leather, then you could have whatever color you liked, and in a form like the flat, simple examples you made.

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

i desperstely want blue wood, like the light one on the right side. bamboo is nice but another wood green would be cool too. a new dimension could bring in some alien trees to accomplish this

I'd love an update of the dye system where dyes could be mixed and crafted to any RBG+Saturation level and then applied to blocks as paint. It seems like something thats been missing for a long time

I have always thought we are missing a tan dye

I wish there were more vibrant saturated colors in minecraft a lot of stuff is very dull, like the end city blocks, they could've been way more vibrant and it wouldn't look out of place, it'd be very cool.

Cool stuff, Assumed this was gonna be about the removed wool colours at first. Would be cool to see unused or joke objects thrown in the mix

i’d love to see some cloud blocks - in a dimension where the ground is amde of clouds clouds could be white for a new white block, could have a grey/lilacy hue for rainy/stormy, and and could have shades of oranges and pinks for how clouds look in sunset

Using fallingblock entities with the id of the stained glass, you can get pure tones like the ones you showed off. It's a bit jank, but they're pretty!

I think you should add all blocks, like water, nether portal, end portal, flame, lava, etc. I think Mojang probably has reserved some colors for using them to signal particular game mechanic. Would be cool to see it graphed out

Can't wait for the builders on Hermitcraft to see this video.

this video is great and very interesting but can i just say that your voice is super calm and you sound like a cool person. have a nice day sir

They should really add piled leaf block, where you combine 4 block of leaf, to create one solid leaf where it has the rough texture of leaf but more compact looking

I wish we had more lavender in the game, other than purpur and shulker boxes. I love that periwinkle/cornflower blue. I wish we had more shades of green, including matcha and jade.

I really needed a deep, non-greenish cyan, if that makes sense. Something around 1F3554. But the only block that seemed close was warped stem, and that just didn't look right because of the texture.

I think a couple of those greens could be filled in with bundled grass which you would need to dry to turn into hay. You could make hay it's own block, or just make it the wheat one. Maybe, the color of the grass in the block could correspond to some large biome groups.

I'm working on a mod right now and I'd love to add a lot of these missing colors, to fill the gaps in the spectrum (and my heart)

Okay, I had a comment a few months back that was talking about an automatic generator for textures that would create a texture that would have the missing colors as the average color of the texture itself. But I definitely think that would take the manual/handcrafted nature away from the texture creation. As a fix for the idea, maybe creating a color picker that gently restricts the colors that can be used could be nice. And by "gently restricts" it could either take away all colors that wouldn't average out to the wanted color, OR it could just tell the user if the texture itself averages out to the desired color or not. If it works by the second option, it could offer to fix the texture by just "pushing" the colors of the texture towards colors that do indeed average out towards the desired color. There would probably be a range of different collections of colors that would work, but I'm sure there would be a sort of "closest" match within the color pushing space that would work. With the least amount of color pushing equaling out to the best option.

Still hoping for ice bricks and other varieties of ice blocks, it would fill the light blue color gap and give way to a ton of amazing builds

the way you visualized this was so genius !!

you can actually mix 2 colors and repeat them to a chess pattern. this illusion creates exactly the color between these 2, didnt matter how far they are in your "box". but for this, you have to strech your building at least x2 in all directions

I personally think we're missing green wood, I honestly thought that they would add a khaki green wood when they announced a new wood for swamps.

I just want the old muted wool colors to come back. I miss them.

Gneiss work! This is a great video, makes me want to mess around with some pixel art to see if I could get anywhere close to some missing colours

Keep in mind that RGB (sRGB) values are not perceptually spaced, in particular, greens and cyans are overrepresented. You can map the values with something like HSLuv to get more accurately-sized holes, you wouldn't end up with a cube-shaped space though.

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks about what colours would be good for Minecraft.

nice video. btw you should look into grounding your PC to remove the noise from the recording

A simple solution would be to allow dyeing wool and concrete like you can dye leather armor.

I know others have already described this, but having block sorting options like this would be fantastic. Different Color Spaces definitely are an option, but it could also be useful to sort by the standard deviation of the colors on the blocks, too. Entropy is an amazing topic, too. Chaos versus Order within the texture itself. Would it be possible/reasonable to create some automatic generator to create block textures that fit whatever empty pocket that you want? Perhaps giving a few different variations?

You give me big Etho vibes, great video man

You may want to try a perceptually uniform colorspace, like CIELAB.

Just found this video! Have you ever considered making an MCreator mod for these colors? I believe these’d do nicely in a terracotta or concrete as some sort of weird End Badlands or something.

They could take the existing colours of wool, terracotta, and concrete, and make more saturated and less saturated versions of them.

Mojang should see this, it will inspire new blocks for their development.

You should replace the air blocks with light blocks so that you can see every side of each block fully lit

Something that would be cool would be a "color mixer" where you for instance combine cyan and magenta to create 2 blue dyes, then you can keep combining to get incredibly close to the exact rgb value you want and you could add it do any dyable block like wool, concrete or glass. This would fill out the entire spectrum. Maybe rather than having a separate block for color mixing, upgrade the crafting table to allow this kind of mixing so it can be automated with the auto crafter. This sounds horrible to do if you want tons and tons of the same color, so automating it sounds better.

If you look at the colour of skulk and the warden I’m thinking we’re gonna see a green and black horror esk nether-ish place but I’m excited

Some colors that are missing can be filled in using dithering on very large builds!

All of those greens are better than the ones we have in game!

Would it be easy to set up a colour palette using hsv? I'd really like to see how well filled in the our concept of colour is in minecraft. I absolutely love your videos, they always offer an insight I never knew I lacked!

they wont ever do this, but could be a cool mod if concrete could be dyed multiple times, like leather armour can be. That would let you get so many more colours in the game

people complaining about inventory space and here you are asking to fill all the gaps

What if the hot pink block were some sort of condensed Nether plant or rock? With teal trees already, anything goes down there!

what a fantastic visualization tool. I would hope that Mojang uses something like this to help in their development.

I feel like you would be able to see more different patterns if you had a cone with hue, saturation and darkness.

This is so cool, amazing work.

Hey! I really like this visualization of the Minecraft color spectrum 👀 If it's ok with you, would I be able to feature this in one of my videos? I would, of course, give you credit, both on-screen and in the description. If not, that's completely ok :)

maybe just make them paint for wood. we have dyes for wool and beds and banners so it doesn't seem unreasonable to have paint as well

we don't need 200 more colored blocks, we need 1 plain full block set which can be dyed like leather armor and which can use custom model data when placed