Stone Armor Stands / Statues

The statue, which looks just like a player with a camo skin, is another version of the armor stand with arms by default. It can be pre-posed and placed with the pose you set. Depending on what material you sue to make this, the statue can display many different textures like stone, andesite, diorite, quartz, nether brick, or even player skins if you use a command.

Just like the armor stand, you can add armor and tools to the statue, allowing for more potentials for customization, but unlike the armor stand, you can put anything in any slot. For example, if you click the left arm with a diamond chestplate, the statue will hold the item in its offhand. If you put a player head in its mainhand, it will hold it. You can even use an observer as a face!

So where do you make and pose the stone stand? The STONECUTTER. The current state of the block is trash. The recipes that the block offer is easy enough to be done with the crafting table, and it doesn't match the devs' vision of moving complex recipes out of the crafting table system and into a separate mechanic at all. In other words, these recipes are easily customizable via json files in datapacks and don't include any nbt data. Although the stonecutter made stair recipes more resoucre efficient, the concept of separate crafting blocks making things cost less is already used when map expansion got its paper cost reduced from 8 to 1 with the cartography table, and 6÷0.75 is 8, not 4 or 6. Do the basic calculation right! Speaking of the other crafting blocks, I loved those blocks way more than this garbage, because the recipes they took was complex and had nbt. Moreover, the new UI was amazing with more intuitive designs. We couldn't preview banner patterns with the crafting table, but now we can with the loom. There's no place other than the cartography table that says that you can expand and clone maps using paper and empty maps. Stone slabs, stairs, and walls didn't need a preview because the recipe book told us everything.

So back to the topic of statues, how can the stonecutter intuitively tell us how to pose statues? Look at the Armor Stand Generator by Haselkern. Just like this slot, there will be a real time preview section that will show what body part you are moving with a slider. There will also be a slot that accepts all the stoney blocks. Putting sandstone in this slot, for example, will make a sandstone statue and it'll take 2 items when you create your artwork. Using 2 nether brick blocks will make a nether brick statue.

The potentials are for this new stonecutter is endless, unlike the current mess of a block. Let me know what you think.