Chipped Wiki

Chipped is a building and decoration mod by CodexAdrian and ThatGravyBoat (Terrarium). It takes almost every common vanilla block - stone, sandstone, wool, planks, glass, terracotta, bricks, dirt, mushroom blocks, amethyst, and many more - and adds dozens of new chiselled, carved, patterned, and textured variants of each one.

None of these variants require new resources or ores. They are purely cosmetic building blocks crafted from the base block you already have, using special workbench stations that each cover a material family. The result is an enormous, cohesive palette that lets you add fine detail and personality to any build.

Chipped is a content mod, but it relies on shared libraries (Athena, Resourceful Lib, Resourceful Config) for its connected-texture rendering, configuration, and variant systems.

1. Install the required libraries alongside Chipped: Athena, Resourceful Lib, and Resourceful Config (the mod will not load without them).
2. Craft a workbench station for the material you want to decorate - for example a Mason Table for stone-type blocks or a Carpenter's Table for wood.
3. Place the workbench and right-click it to open its interface.
4. Insert a base block (such as plain stone or oak planks) into the input slot.
5. Pick a variant from the visual grid of every available design, then take the finished decorative block from the output.

That is the entire loop - choose a block, choose a look, and build.

Each workbench is themed to a family of materials and unlocks the variants for the blocks in that family.

Common stations

• Mason Table - stone, cobblestone, andesite, diorite, granite, and other stone-type blocks.
• Carpenter's Table - all wood plank types and wood-based blocks.
• Loom Table - wool and carpet colours.
• Glassblower - glass and stained glass.
• Botanist Workbench - mushroom blocks, leaves, and plant-themed blocks.
• Alchemy Bench and other themed stations - additional special material families.

How a station works

A station does not consume fuel or extra ingredients. You place a single base block in, and it shows you a grid preview of every variant that block can become. Selecting one converts it instantly. Because the conversion is one-to-one and reversible by recrafting, it is safe to experiment freely while building.

Chipped's value is in the sheer number of variations per block. A single base material can have dozens of distinct designs - chiselled faces, brick patterns, mosaics, tiles, carved motifs, smooth blends, and more.

• Cohesive look - variants are designed to match vanilla's art style, so they blend naturally into any build.
• Connected textures - many variants use connected-texture rendering (powered by Athena) so large surfaces look seamless rather than tiled.
• Full building support - variants behave like normal full blocks: they support world generation neighbours, can be placed, mined, and combined with blocks from other mods.

Use the workbench grid as a live catalogue: it is the fastest way to see every option for a given material before you commit.

Chipped uses Resourceful Config for its in-game configuration screen, so options can be adjusted from the mods list without editing files by hand.

Typical options let you control which variant groups are enabled and tune integration behaviour. If you run a large modpack and want to trim the number of registered variants for performance, the config screen is where you do it. Most players can leave everything at default.

• Keep a workbench near your build site. Since converting blocks is the core loop, having the relevant station handy saves constant travel.
• Plan your palette first. Open the grid and pick a small set of complementary variants for a build rather than mixing too many - restraint reads as intentional detail.
• Mix with vanilla. Chipped variants pair extremely well with vanilla blocks for trim, flooring, and accent work.
• Use connected-texture variants for big walls to avoid an obvious repeating grid on large flat surfaces.

The game crashes on launch or Chipped fails to load. Make sure all three required libraries are installed and version-matched: Athena, Resourceful Lib, and Resourceful Config.

Variants look like flat/missing textures. This usually means Athena is missing or mismatched - it powers the connected-texture rendering.

I can't find a block I expected. Each material is unlocked by its own workbench. Craft the station for that material family (for example the Mason Table for stone) and check its grid.

Does Chipped add ores, mobs, or new gameplay items? No. It is a decoration mod - everything it adds is a cosmetic building-block variant.

Is it multiplayer/server safe? Yes. The variants are normal blocks; install Chipped and its libraries on both client and server.