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The Deceiver block! The chameleon of the blocky world!

The Deceiver block: A block that can change its texture when powered by redstone to whatever block you've put inside its 9 slot inventory.

How to obtain: The Deceiver block could either be a creative only block or be crafted from 8 cobble around the edges of the crafting grid and one prismarine in the middle slot, that could be up to Mojang to decide though.

Appearance: It would look like a dispenser or dropper but with a sly face like 😏. Hopefully you can imagine it from that description.

What it does: The Deciever has a 9 slot inventory, in each of these slots you can place any block type, when it’s powered it'll change its texture to whatever you've put inside, however if two or more different types of blocks are inside and the Deceiver is powered with a signal of 10 or higher it will cycle through them, from top left to bottom right, you can pause the cycle by turning off the power, turning it on again will change it immediately to the next texture. o revert it to the blocks default texture you must either break the block or remove the items inside of it.

Advanced stuff: You can increase the time it stays on a texture by stacking more of that block type, for example, a quarter of a full stack (16) of the same block will keep the Deceiver on that texture for 16 seconds. If you want to choose a certain texture in one of the nine slots give it a redstone signal strength between 1-9.

Why?: The creative possibilities of this block are enormous! You want a bookshelf that changes into a crafting table, sure! You want to make a traffic light go from red to green? Sure! As I said the possibilities are enormous!

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    It is already possible to do this with a row of command blocks with the /setblock command.

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    @Bilbo Baggins

    I think this would be quite a bit easier to use and it would mean survivalists could do it too (assuming they are deciding to play without commands)

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    Cool idea

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    Wouldn't it make sense to instead make it cycle with a redstone clock

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    I think the crafting recipe should be more expensive.

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    I agree with other comments saying a single prismarine seems a bit cheap for this.

    On the other hand, dispensers are notorious for annoyingly requiring a bow to craft. Even a single prismarine is harder to acquire than a bow.

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    Finally. I'd love this. I suggest also an option to let players through the block if say it was an air block or something used to resemble air in the inventory. Maybe like signposts or etc. It'd be nice.