More Polished Rocks

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Tags:: Cosmetics Crafting Construction
Author:: Hrodulf
Side:
Both
Created:
Dec 16th 2025 at 6:48 PM
Last modified:
Jul 15th at 6:45 PM
Downloads:
7703: Latest release (for Vintage Story 1.22.0 - 1.22.3, potentially outdated):
morepolishedrocks-1.0.3.zip 1-click install

This mod adds new variants of the polished rock blocks, as well as new stone brick blocks.

New variants include a horizontal split pattern and a quartered pattern (similar to the aged polished cobbled rock blocks).

Individual stone bricks can now be crafted and used to create stone brick blocks. These are perfect for tunnel or cellar walls, and help break up the monotony of using clay or mud bricks for everything.

Side note: My original intention was to craft the individual stone bricks using an ashlar block in the recipe, but I then realized that there are no marble or kimberlite versions of the ashlar blocks. I did consider making them myself, but that would have gone too far out of scope, as I wanted to keep this mod simple. If the devs add the missing ashlar block types in the future, I might come back and change the recipe.

Mod Version	Mod Identifier	For Game version	Downloads	Released	Changelog	Download	1-click mod install*
1.0.3	morepolishedrocks	1.22.0 - 1.22.3	863	Jul 15th at 6:45 PM	Show	morepolishedrocks-1.0.3.zip	1-click install
Made some changes to the block files to prevent unwanted recipe variants to show up on the handbook if any mods, such as Material Needs, are installed.
1.0.2	morepolishedrocks	1.21.0 - 1.22.1	5729	Feb 7th at 12:14 PM	Show	morepolishedrocks-1.0.2.zip	1-click install
Tweaked the shadows of the stone bricks block texture so that they more seamlessly blend with other blocks.
1.0.1	morepolishedrocks	1.21.5	510	Jan 24th at 5:00 PM	Show	morepolishedrocks-1.0.1.zip	1-click install
Fixed some sounds not playing. Changed the max stack size of the individual stone bricks to 64 (to be in line with the vanilla ashlar blocks which also stack up to 64).
1.0.0	morepolishedrocks	1.21.5	601	Dec 16th 2025 at 6:52 PM	Show	morepolishedrocks-1.0.0.zip	1-click install
Initial release

29 Comments (oldest first | newest first) (threaded | flat)

Pineas, Jul 26th at 2:09 PM (modified Jul 26th at 2:09 PM)

Serious issue with the latest release of the mod on 1.22.5: all block textures are missing. No clue what's the cause. Reverting to 1.0.2 makes the textures load again.

Heebeejeebees, Aug 13th at 3:20 AM

@Pineas: Serious issue with the latest release of the mod on 1.22.5: all block textures are missing. No clue what's the cause. Reverting to 1.0.2 makes the textures load again.

Had you coonsidered disabling FeugoFish's Need Polished Rocks?

That's where my issues are coming from.

Pineas, Aug 13th at 1:22 PM

@Heebeejeebees: Had you coonsidered disabling FeugoFish's Need Polished Rocks? That's where my issues are coming from.

I'll be relaying that issue to them immediately.

MegaBroBuster, Jun 21st at 4:29 PM

Since this adds stone bricks, would this be incompatible with bricklayers?

Hrodulf , Jun 22nd at 5:49 PM

@MegaBroBuster: Since this adds stone bricks, would this be incompatible with bricklayers?

I'm not sure. I haven't tried that mod, so I don't know what it adds and how. But as long as there aren't any repeated recipes you should be good.

Tels, Jul 15th at 9:17 PM

@Hrodulf: I'm not sure. I haven't tried that mod, so I don't know what it adds and how. But as long as there aren't any repeated recipes you should be good.

Bricklayer's adds "Small stone bricks", which are crafted from ashlar bricks (by splitting them again). Not sure if this is duplicating work, or not. I think the small stone brick blocks look quite different, as they have smaller bricks than your blocks.

Look at the sixts image: https://mods.vintagestory.at/bricklayers

Hrodulf , Jul 15th at 11:24 PM

@Tels: Bricklayer's adds "Small stone bricks", which are crafted from ashlar bricks (by splitting them again). Not sure if this is duplicating work, or not. I think the small stone brick blocks look quite different, as they have smaller bricks than your blocks.

If what you say is true than the recipe isn't duplicated.

My version of the stone bricks is crafted with a chisel and some small rocks. I am positive that these stone bricks will not conflict with bricks from other mods because they won't have the same id.

Foxtrot88, Jul 16th at 4:14 AM

@Hrodulf: If what you say is true than the recipe isn't duplicated. My version of the stone bricks is crafted with a chisel and some small rocks. I am positive that these stone bricks will not conflict with bricks from other mods because they won't have the same id

It's not a matter of incompatibility due to same name of entities but rather a question of whether their crafting conflicts with Bricklayers out of virtue of having similar crafting recipes tbh.
And honestly, I like these bricks better than BL's because they are darker, and fit more into the whole color palette of VS without feeling too much out of flavor with such vibrant colors. Yours look amazingly vanilla! Props!

Pineas, May 24th at 11:12 PM

I want to inform you that a compatibility mod has been made to make your additions work with mods that add new stone types! 😁

https://mods.vintagestory.at/needpolishedrocks

Hrodulf , May 25th at 10:42 AM (modified May 25th at 12:38 PM)

@Pineas: I want to inform you that a compatibility mod has been made to make your additions work with mods that add new stone types! 😁 https://mods.vintagestory.at/needpolishedrocks

Yup, I am aware of it and I'm totally on board. Thanks :)

Dine_Mercury, May 19th at 1:34 AM

What block is the yellow one in the second image I really like the color 🙏

Hrodulf , May 19th at 10:12 PM

@Dine_Mercury: What block is the yellow one in the second image I really like the color 🙏

It's one of the creative blocks. I had to look it up. It is literally named Creativeblock (36) and it is only available in creative mode, or I suppose with mods.

If you're interested, I recommend QP's Chisel Tools. It adds a bunch of useful tools. One of them is a paintbrush that you can use with a bucket of yellow dye to obtain that same block if I am not mistaken.

Pineas, May 2nd at 8:03 PM

Will this and More Ashlar Blocks be getting support for Geology Additions? It's a very good mod to have, so the compatibility would greatly improve them both.

Hrodulf , May 2nd at 8:56 PM

@Pineas: Will this and More Ashlar Blocks be getting support for Geology Additions? It's a very good mod to have, so the compatibility would greatly improve them both.

I'm sorry but no. Since that is not a mod that I play with, I'm not really interested in dedicating time and effort towards something that I won't be using.
But then again, somebody else could do it. I'm not against people creating their own compatibility patches/mods using mine as a base.

Pineas, May 2nd at 9:08 PM

@Hrodulf: I'm sorry but no. Since that is not a mod that I play with, I'm not really interested in dedicating time and effort towards something that I won't be using.But then again, somebody else could do it. I'm not against people creating their own compatibility

Oh, that's great. GA has a lot of fans, you could reach out to them and say people are free to make a compatibility addon! It's gonna be free advertising for your mod if it gets put on GA's compatibility list, and you definitely deserve a lot of exposure for making extra building content. Quality, no-nonsense building addons like this are surprisingly hard to come by.

The_Ancients, Apr 29th at 5:04 PM

Any idea when this mod will be updated to 1.22 if not soon i may look into making a quick patch if thats ok?

Hrodulf , Apr 29th at 6:28 PM

@The_Ancients: Any idea when this mod will be updated to 1.22 if not soon i may look into making a quick patch if thats ok?

I've been trying to juggle between working on a new mod and my actual job. The plan was to release the mod before the game's update so I could then tackle updating my other mods. But, this month ended up being pretty hectic for me, both because of my job and because... personal life.

On the bright side, this weekend I should finally have some free time, so I will probably be installing the new update and see what needs to be patched. If anything comes up and I end up not having time to release anything, feel free to make a quick patch yourself.

ArcaneJelly, Feb 7th at 3:58 PM

Any chance for Geology Additons and Material Needs: Geology support at any point? I crave more colorful stone rectangles and squares

FuegoFish, May 22nd at 5:19 PM

@ArcaneJelly: Any chance for Geology Additons and Material Needs: Geology support at any point? I crave more colorful stone rectangles and squares

I got ya.

Hrodulf , May 22nd at 6:32 PM

@FuegoFish: I got ya.

WhiteScythe, Feb 4th at 4:10 PM

Hrodulf Oh, thanks for getting back to me with that. And I totally understand; you gotta work with what you have. The wonderful thing about modding is that you can change stuff, so this is all par for the course for me. Here's hoping we get all the missing ashlar in the future. I know there's a couple mods that add them, so maybe there could be a compat in the future for them at some point. But for now, I enjoy it as it was provided, assuming I don't get around to digging into the file you mentioned.

Hrodulf , Feb 3rd at 11:10 AM

WhiteScythe, To increase the output of the stone brick block recipe you can do so by editing the recipe file on your local folder:
Open the recipes\grid\stonebricks.json file with notepad or any other editor. In it you'll find three different recipes. On the "output" of the first one, replace "code": "stonebricks-running-{rock}" with "code": "stonebricks-running-{rock}", "quantity": 2
Note that if you're playing on a server that has the mod installed the file needs to be altered on the mod folder instead (I think :P).

Now, as to why the recipe is the way that it is, the original idea was to use one ashlar block to create two stone bricks and then have the stone brick block recipe take in eight stone bricks + one mortar, this would have yielded two stone brick blocks.
Issue is that there are no marble and kimberlite ashlar blocks, and when I realised it, I had to change my plans (sadly). So I changed the stone brick recipe to take in stones rather than ashlar blocks and since stones are so incredibly easy to acquire I changed the final output of the stone brick blocks to just one, in order to balance it out.
If in the future we get the missing versions of the ashlar blocks I'll change the recipe, but for now it will probably stay like this.

WhiteScythe, Jan 28th at 3:30 AM

Any chance you could increase the recipe output for the new Stone Bricks blocks? I understand they're just made from chiseled rocks, but you should at least give them parity with other brick blocks and give us four per recipe (for those of us who don't have limestone or chalk or marble anywhere nearby). You drive a hard bargain, I'll accept 2 per recipe, just make me not have to use so much mortar please.

Hrodulf , Jan 26th at 5:33 PM

Izumo, I'm not entirely sure, but I don't think so. I know I haven't modded anything trader related, and I am under the impression that each trader type has a specific table of items that can be sold (like it says on the wiki), and for a modded item to show up on a trader's item pool it needs to be added to that table.

Now, I could be wrong, and so far on the server I'm playing I haven't stumbled upon any trader selling any of the modded blocks introduced by my mods, but if I do, I'll definitely look into that, as I agree with you about not wanting to bloat the trader's inventory.

Izumo, Jan 26th at 6:39 AM

Hello, I just found this mod and had a quick question, which would also apply to your other mods for More Ashtar Blocks and More Flooring Patterns.

Do any of the new blocks/items that all of your mods add to the game end up in the inventory pool of traders? I've been looking for mods that enhance the building block pallet, without over saturating trader inventories as it makes purchasing the vanilla goods a lot harder.

bintoss, Jan 23rd at 10:01 AM

Hrodulf Nope. I was just writing a changelog for the initial release. At the time, the mod description wasn't informative enough that I could guess whether or not it would conflict with the other mods I mentioned.

Hrodulf , Dec 24th 2025 at 5:57 PM

bintoss Sorry I'm trying to understand. Are you requesting that I add the recepy to create the "running bond" and "1/2 offset running bond" stone brick blocks? Because if so, they are included.

bintoss, Dec 24th 2025 at 3:35 AM

My gut tells me this would conflict with or be semi-redundant with mods like Material Needs: Geology and Geology Additions, so I'll do a quick check of what this mod currently affects vs those two mods. No conflicts nor redundancy.

Changes/additions in v1.0.0:

Add the following blocks...

lang/en.json (block IDs and name strings)

{
"block-polishedrockvar-split-andesite": "Polished andesite rock (horizontal split)",
"block-polishedrockvar-split-basalt": "Polished basalt rock (horizontal split)",
"block-polishedrockvar-split-bauxite": "Polished bauxite rock (horizontal split)",
"block-polishedrockvar-split-chalk": "Polished chalk rock (horizontal split)",
"block-polishedrockvar-split-chert": "Polished chert rock (horizontal split)",
"block-polishedrockvar-split-claystone": "Polished claystone rock (horizontal split)",
"block-polishedrockvar-split-conglomerate": "Polished conglomerate rock (horizontal split)",
"block-polishedrockvar-split-granite": "Polished granite rock (horizontal split)",
"block-polishedrockvar-split-greenmarble": "Polished green marble rock (horizontal split)",
"block-polishedrockvar-split-kimberlite": "Polished kimberlite rock (horizontal split)",
"block-polishedrockvar-split-limestone": "Polished limestone rock (horizontal split)",
"block-polishedrockvar-split-peridotite": "Polished peridotite rock (horizontal split)",
"block-polishedrockvar-split-phyllite": "Polished phyllite rock (horizontal split)",
"block-polishedrockvar-split-redmarble": "Polished red marble rock (horizontal split)",
"block-polishedrockvar-split-sandstone": "Polished sandstone rock (horizontal split)",
"block-polishedrockvar-split-shale": "Polished shale rock (horizontal split)",
"block-polishedrockvar-split-slate": "Polished slate rock (horizontal split)",
"block-polishedrockvar-split-suevite": "Polished suevite rock (horizontal split)",
"block-polishedrockvar-split-whitemarble": "Polished white marble rock (horizontal split)",

"block-polishedrockvar-quartered-andesite": "Polished andesite rock (quartered)",
"block-polishedrockvar-quartered-basalt": "Polished basalt rock (quartered)",
"block-polishedrockvar-quartered-bauxite": "Polished bauxite rock (quartered)",
"block-polishedrockvar-quartered-chalk": "Polished chalk rock (quartered)",
"block-polishedrockvar-quartered-chert": "Polished chert rock (quartered)",
"block-polishedrockvar-quartered-claystone": "Polished claystone rock (quartered)",
"block-polishedrockvar-quartered-conglomerate": "Polished conglomerate rock (quartered)",
"block-polishedrockvar-quartered-granite": "Polished granite rock (quartered)",
"block-polishedrockvar-quartered-greenmarble": "Polished green marble rock (quartered)",
"block-polishedrockvar-quartered-kimberlite": "Polished kimberlite rock (quartered)",
"block-polishedrockvar-quartered-limestone": "Polished limestone rock (quartered)",
"block-polishedrockvar-quartered-peridotite": "Polished peridotite rock (quartered)",
"block-polishedrockvar-quartered-phyllite": "Polished phyllite rock (quartered)",
"block-polishedrockvar-quartered-redmarble": "Polished red marble rock (quartered)",
"block-polishedrockvar-quartered-sandstone": "Polished sandstone rock (quartered)",
"block-polishedrockvar-quartered-shale": "Polished shale rock (quartered)",
"block-polishedrockvar-quartered-slate": "Polished slate rock (quartered)",
"block-polishedrockvar-quartered-suevite": "Polished suevite rock (quartered)",
"block-polishedrockvar-quartered-whitemarble": "Polished white marble rock (quartered)",

"block-stonebricks-running-andesite": "Andesite stone bricks (running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-running-basalt": "Basalt stone bricks (running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-running-bauxite": "Bauxite stone bricks (running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-running-chalk": "Chalk stone bricks (running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-running-chert": "Chert stone bricks (running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-running-claystone": "Claystone stone bricks (running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-running-conglomerate": "Conglomerate stone bricks (running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-running-granite": "Granite stone bricks (running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-running-greenmarble": "Green marble stone bricks (running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-running-kimberlite": "Kimberlite stone bricks (running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-running-limestone": "Limestone stone bricks (running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-running-peridotite": "Peridotite stone bricks (running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-running-phyllite": "Phyllite stone bricks (running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-running-redmarble": "Red marble stone bricks (running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-running-sandstone": "Sandstone stone bricks (running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-running-shale": "Shale stone bricks (running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-running-slate": "Slate stone bricks (running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-running-suevite": "Suevite stone bricks (running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-running-whitemarble": "White marble stone bricks (running bond)",

"block-stonebricks-runningo-andesite": "Andesite stone bricks (1/2 offset running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-runningo-basalt": "Basalt stone bricks (1/2 offset running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-runningo-bauxite": "Bauxite stone bricks (1/2 offset running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-runningo-chalk": "Chalk stone bricks (1/2 offset running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-runningo-chert": "Chert stone bricks (1/2 offset running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-runningo-claystone": "Claystone stone bricks (1/2 offset running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-runningo-conglomerate": "Conglomerate stone bricks (1/2 offset running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-runningo-granite": "Granite stone bricks (1/2 offset running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-runningo-greenmarble": "Green marble stone bricks (1/2 offset running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-runningo-kimberlite": "Kimberlite stone bricks (1/2 offset running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-runningo-limestone": "Limestone stone bricks (1/2 offset running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-runningo-peridotite": "Peridotite stone bricks (1/2 offset running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-runningo-phyllite": "Phyllite stone bricks (1/2 offset running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-runningo-redmarble": "Red marble stone bricks (1/2 offset running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-runningo-sandstone": "Sandstone stone bricks (1/2 offset running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-runningo-shale": "Shale stone bricks (1/2 offset running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-runningo-slate": "Slate stone bricks (1/2 offset running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-runningo-suevite": "Suevite stone bricks (1/2 offset running bond)",
"block-stonebricks-runningo-whitemarble": "White marble stone bricks (1/2 offset running bond)",

"item-stonebrick-andesite": "Andesite stone brick",
"item-stonebrick-basalt": "Basalt stone brick",
"item-stonebrick-bauxite": "Bauxite stone brick",
"item-stonebrick-chalk": "Chalk stone brick",
"item-stonebrick-chert": "Chert stone brick",
"item-stonebrick-claystone": "Claystone stone brick",
"item-stonebrick-conglomerate": "Conglomerate stone brick",
"item-stonebrick-granite": "Granite stone brick",
"item-stonebrick-greenmarble": "Green marble stone brick",
"item-stonebrick-kimberlite": "Kimberlite stone brick",
"item-stonebrick-limestone": "Limestone stone brick",
"item-stonebrick-peridotite": "Peridotite stone brick",
"item-stonebrick-phyllite": "Phyllite stone brick",
"item-stonebrick-redmarble": "Red marble stone brick",
"item-stonebrick-sandstone": "Sandstone stone brick",
"item-stonebrick-shale": "Shale stone brick",
"item-stonebrick-slate": "Slate stone brick",
"item-stonebrick-suevite": "Suevite stone brick",
"item-stonebrick-whitemarble": "White marble stone brick"
}
- The "running bond" and "1/2 offset running bond" refer to the mortared brick blocks. Aside from their cosmetic, tiling patterns, these are identical.
Add item recipes to create the new blocks.

Calbain, Dec 17th 2025 at 8:27 AM

This is the good stuff right here