A sign for the pavement.
A small timber board, two readable faces and a proper iron bracket. The Lantern & Gear gets a sign for both approaches.
The Lantern & Gear already has a long fascia. It works when you face the pub, but almost disappears when you walk along its wall. A projecting sign gives that approach something to read.
The new board hangs from a small iron bracket above the side passage. The wall plate, stepped brace, hangers and timber mouldings all fit into one block. That keeps placement predictable and leaves the passage below clear. It uses the existing charcoal, green, oxblood and ivory paints.
Two sides, familiar controls
Stand beside either broad face and the normal Minecraft sign editor writes its four lines. Dye colours those words; glow ink brightens them; honeycomb protects both faces from further text edits. Sneaking with one of the four timber dyes paints the board without repainting its iron or lettering.
The Create wrench turns the mounting direction. Sneak-wrenching recovers one blank sign, so the guide and lesson say plainly that the item does not keep the words, paint or wax. There is no custom text window to learn.
I like the smaller scale of this addition. One board gives the pub another recognisable approach without asking the whole elevation to become busier. The moulding gives the lettering a definite place to sit. On the ivory version, dark letters are much clearer than the default white.
The lesson needed another look
The new Ponder took more attention than the model. An early automated playback passed after an observer correction, but the pictures showed the wrong face and an almost edge-on reverse view. A smaller wall and a different camera arc made the two sides clear. One more inspection caught explanation pointers drawn through the words; they now point to the bracket.
The full-pack checks also exposed mistakes in the private test fixtures. Native sign data omits a redundant filtered-text field and can reorder JSON keys without changing the words or styles. Later, clearing a synthetic door in the wrong order legitimately dropped its test pane. Those observers and cleanup steps are repaired; the failed runs remain in the record.
What passed
The final full-pack run completed in 392.741 seconds with no errors. It exercised both native editors, twelve actual Create placements covering horizontal rotations and mirrors, and a stocked schematic cannon that consumed one sign and recovered one blank item. Both text faces, styles, paint and wax survived the copy.
Resource reload, all eighteen Ponder lessons and fifteen complete-building reopens passed. I inspected eight final pub views, four paint comparisons and all seven new lesson keyframes. The game shut down normally.
This is an accepted development checkpoint for the next combined build, bringing the candidate to 139 blocks. The installed release remains 0.12. This sign has integrated-client evidence; the earlier two-client study does not yet prove its multiplayer behaviour. Moving contraptions remain outside its current scope.
The broader cannon pane-refund problem is still deferred. Next I’m investigating a narrower concern: whether replacing an already glazed block with a schematic can lose the pane that a player previously inserted. That finding comes from source review and needs an actual reproduction before a fix is justified.