This mod aims to improve Sign functionality in Minecraft, mainly by offering variants of Signs that have bigger text.
In the initial release, I added two new variants of sign: The One-Line Sign and One-Line Hanging Sign. These sign blocks have only 1 line of text, as opposed to the usual 4, however the text is large enough to fill the entire sign. Only a few characters may be entered, due to the larger text size and the sign being phyiscally the same size as the vanilla Sign block.
In future, I plan to overhaul the vanilla Sign's GUI by making it more like a traditional text editor. This includes:
- Different text size options for each line
- Text alignment options
- Bold, italic and underlined text
- Coloured text, with different colours on each line, or even within one line
- Hyperlinks to websites, or to run commands (Creative mode only)
Also, I plan to add physically different-sized Sign blocks:
- Billboard block - Essentially a resizable sign. If many of these are placed in a rectangle shape, the sign will adapt to become the size of this rectangle.
- Thin Sign - Like the vanilla Sign text-wise, but with only 1 line, and with a much thinner body.
- Ends can be toggled between square or pointed, to allow for pointing signs.
- Can be placed either on the top, middle or bottom parts of a block.
I am using IntelliJ IDEA with Java and Gradle to develop this mod. I am also using the SpongePowered/Mixin library to allow modification of the existing vanilla code. This is a different approach to my main mod, Better Tools and Armor, since I can now directly modify existing vanilla features.
Big Signs is available to download on CurseForge and Modrinth.
There are no dependencies required - simply add the JAR file to your .minecraft/mods folder, load up Minecraft 1.20.1 with the Forge mod loader, and you're good to go!