Well, we know Minecraft’s vanilla signs are classic yet only having as many signs as wood types with no colors, is a bit boring, that’s why we made Basically Signs which is a mod that adds signs, a lot of signs.

Basically signs add over 40 (41 as of March 30th, 2024), to Minecraft, all of them unique for you to have a variety of signs to choose from. It currently adds 4 different patterns with at least 4 different colors textures each, plus a lot of miscellaneous signs.

Since we wanted to make as many signs as possible without having to think about all the different recipes on the crafting table, we made the sign workbench where you can get the different signs of our mod by adding a dye to a vanilla Minecraft sign.

We know that someone might want to add their custom recipes for the sign workbench as well, so we added a custom recipe type which will help you add new recipes to the workbench even without them having to be signs related.

We also made the tedious work of adding a custom sign on Minecraft simpler, so with the Basically Signs API it would take just a few lines of code and a couple data files for other people to add their custom (and Basically Signs compatible) signs on Minecraft.

If you’re more interested in the development of Basically Signs programming-wise make sure to check out TomTobby’s nerd post, if you’re a bit more interested design-wise you can take a look to scarletsparks’ art log