Macaw's Windows in All the Mods 11

Macaw's Windows is a decoration mod, and it is all about windows. You get lots of windows that can be opened, closed or locked, so your builds can have ones that actually work.^[1]

It also adds a lot of other building pieces for your walls and frames. That includes blinds, mosaic glass, mosaic glass panes, one way glass, parapets/sills, gothic windows, shutters, curtains and arrow slits, plus more besides.^[1]

In this pack

The pack ships Macaw's Windows 2.4.2. It has been in the pack since 0.0.1 or earlier, so it is a long-standing part of the mod list.^[2]

The sources I have for this mod only cover what it adds and which version the pack uses. They say nothing about quests, so I won't claim a place for it in the quest book. This page also has no recipes or config options to show, because none were provided.^[1][2]

Macaw's Windows is a decorative mod. It adds windows that can be opened, closed or locked, plus blinds, mosaic glass, mosaic glass panes, parapets, gothic windows, shutters, curtains and arrow slits. In this pack, the items below are all made with shaped crafting recipes, and you can see each one in the blocks further down.^[1][3]

First, make a basic window

Start with a plain window in a wood type you already have. The Resizeable Acacia Window is the resizeable version, and the Rectangle Acacia Window is the rectangle version. The recipe list also has the same kinds of windows in birch, cherry, andesite, blackstone and bricks, so pick whatever matches your build.^[3]

4× Resizeable Acacia WindowMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Window Base	Empty slot
Window Base	Acacia Log	Window Base
Empty slot	Window Base	Empty slot

Recipe id: mcwwindows:acacia_window

The resizeable window, shown in acacia as an example.

8× Acacia Pane WindowMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Window Base	Window Base	Window Base
Window Base	Acacia Log	Window Base
Window Base	Window Base	Window Base

Recipe id: mcwwindows:acacia_pane_window

The pane window variant, also shown in acacia.

Next, add a sill and some shutters

Once a window is in place, a parapet works as a sill and shutters go around it. Try the Acacia Parapet and the Acacia Shutter. The mod also has louvered shutters, like the Acacia Louvered Shutter.^[1][3]

5× Acacia ParapetMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Stick	Stick	Stick
Stick	Acacia Log	Stick

Recipe id: mcwwindows:acacia_log_parapet

3× Acacia ShutterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Acacia Trapdoor

Acacia Trapdoor

Acacia Trapdoor

Recipe id: mcwwindows:acacia_shutter

3× Acacia Louvered ShutterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Acacia Slab

Acacia Slab

Acacia Slab

Recipe id: mcwwindows:acacia_louvered_shutter

Then, dress up the inside

For interiors, make blinds with the Acacia Blinds, or hang curtains from a rod such as the Acacia Curtain Rod. Curtains come in colors, for example the Blue Curtain. The mod also has mosaic glass, like the Blue Mosaic Glass.^[1][3]

3× Acacia BlindsMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Acacia Slab	Acacia Slab	Acacia Slab
Stick	Stick	Stick
Stick	Stick	Stick

Recipe id: mcwwindows:acacia_blinds

5× Acacia Curtain RodMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Stick

Acacia Log

Stick

Recipe id: mcwwindows:acacia_curtain_rod

Changing shape and locking

The mod has a hammer that you right click on a window to change its shape. It also has a key that you right click on a window to lock it.^[4]

Good news first: there's nothing complicated to set up here. Macaw's Windows is a decorative mod, and the sources describe no machines, multiblocks, power, fluids or item automation for it. What you get is a big set of building blocks with a few simple interactions.^[1]

Opening, closing and locking

The windows can be opened and closed, and they can also be locked. The mod describes the lock as a right click on a window with the key item.^[1][4]

The mod's description lists blinds, mosaic glass, mosaic glass panes, one way glass, parapets and sills, gothic windows, shutters, curtains and arrow slits alongside the windows. The sources don't say which of these can be opened, closed or locked, so test each type in your world.^[1]

Changing a window's shape

The mod has a hammer tool for reshaping windows. Right click on a window with it to change its shape.^[4]

Crafting

Every recipe shown for this mod in the pack is a shaped crafting recipe. The recipe dump doesn't show the ingredients, and this section doesn't guess at them.^[3]

Unverified The exact item ids of the hammer and the key, their crafting recipes, and whether windows react to redstone are not confirmed by the available sources. There is no in-jar guidebook and no config file for this mod in the pack.

Macaw's Windows is a decoration mod, and the recipes shown for it in this pack are all shaped crafting recipes marked as the mod's own. There is no machine or multiblock step in any of them.^[3]

What you can craft

The recipes cover a few families of items. They come in wood and stone variants, such as acacia, birch, cherry, dark oak, crimson, andesite, blackstone and bricks, and each variant comes in several window shapes.^[3]

• Windows: resizeable and rectangle windows, plus pane and four pane variants, for example Resizeable Acacia Window, Rectangle Acacia Window, Acacia Pane Window and Acacia Four Pane Window. Planks versions also exist, such as Resizeable Acacia Planks Window.^[3]
• Shutters and blinds: plain shutters like Birch Shutter, louvered shutters like Birch Louvered Shutter, and blinds like Birch Blinds. There is also a Bamboo Shutter.^[3]
• Curtains: curtain rods like Cherry Curtain Rod, and coloured curtains like Black Curtain and Blue Curtain.^[3]
• Mosaic glass: coloured blocks and panes such as Cyan Mosaic Glass and Cyan Mosaic Glass Pane.^[3]
• Parapets: wood, planks and stone versions, for example Dark Oak Parapet and Blackstone Parapet.^[3]
• Castle-style pieces: arrow slits such as Cobblestone Arrow Slit and Dark Prismarine Brick Arrow Slit, and gothic windows such as Blackstone Gothic Window.^[3]

Here are two in-pack recipes to show how crafting works for this mod. Every other recipe shown for the mod is a shaped crafting recipe too.^[3]

4× Resizeable Acacia WindowMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Window Base	Empty slot
Window Base	Acacia Log	Window Base
Empty slot	Window Base	Empty slot

Recipe id: mcwwindows:acacia_window

The resizeable acacia window is a shaped crafting recipe in this pack.

8× Cyan Mosaic GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Cyan Stained Glass	Cyan Stained Glass	Cyan Stained Glass
Cyan Stained Glass	Cyan Dye	Cyan Stained Glass
Cyan Stained Glass	Cyan Stained Glass	Cyan Stained Glass

Recipe id: mcwwindows:cyan_mosaic_glass

Cyan mosaic glass is also a shaped crafting recipe in this pack.