Frame & Pane

Frame & Pane is a Minecraft Bedrock add-on that adds functional, openable window frames made from 57 building materials. Every frame can hold a removable clear or colored glass panel without requiring a separate block for every glass color.

Features

• 228 functional window-frame blocks.
• 57 frame materials.
• Four layouts per material:
  • Horizontal window.
  • Horizontal four-pane window.
  • Vertical window.
  • Vertical four-pane window.
• Openable paired horizontal windows and synchronized vertical columns.
• Automatic hinges, handles, and vertical frame connections.
• Insertable clear glass and all 16 stained-glass colors.
• Replaceable and removable panels that return the previous pane in Survival.
• Stonecutter recipe for every frame.
• English (en_US) and Mexican Spanish (es_MX) localization.
• Behavior Pack and Resource Pack distributed together as one .mcaddon.

Requirements

• Minecraft Bedrock Edition 1.26.30 or newer.
• The included Behavior Pack and Resource Pack must both be active.

No other add-on is required.

Installation

1. Download Frame_and_Pane_v1.0.0.mcaddon from the Releases page.
2. Open the file with Minecraft Bedrock Edition.
3. Add both Frame & Pane BP and Frame & Pane RP to the world.
4. Place a supported material in a stonecutter to craft its four window variants.

Usage

• Interact with a window using an empty hand to open or close it.
• Use a glass pane or stained-glass pane on a frame to install that panel.
• Use another pane to replace the current color; the old pane is returned in Survival.
• Sneak and interact with an empty hand to remove the installed panel.
• Breaking a framed window also drops its installed panel.

Technical notes

The frame itself is a custom block. Installed glass is rendered by a lightweight internal visual entity with no AI, collision, gravity, or damage. The block stores whether a panel is present while the entity stores its color and visual layout.

Commands that indiscriminately remove every entity, such as /kill @e, also remove these internal visual entities. This is expected behavior for the current architecture.

Building from source

Python 3.10 or newer is recommended.

python tools/build.py

The generated packages are written to build/:

• Frame_and_Pane_BP_v1.0.0.mcpack
• Frame_and_Pane_RP_v1.0.0.mcpack
• Frame_and_Pane_v1.0.0.mcaddon

To validate the source without building:

python tools/validate.py

Repository layout

behavior_pack/   Behavior Pack source
resource_pack/   Resource Pack source
tools/           Validation and packaging scripts
docs/            Publishing notes and images
dist/            Official v1.0.0 release archive

Credits

Frame & Pane was created by AresgettaYT.

The project was inspired by the window concept of Aesthetic Windows, created by Alminoris and published under CC0 1.0 Universal. Frame & Pane is an independent Minecraft Bedrock implementation with its own identifiers, scripts, recipes, interaction system, geometry handling, translations, and universal insertable-panel architecture.

License

Frame & Pane is licensed under the MIT License.

See THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md for third-party acknowledgements.