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title: "Status colors - BuildPrint wiki"
description: "The colors that mark wrong, turned and extra blocks, and the other hints on screen."
url: https://voxelsprout.com/buildprint/wiki/status-colors
---

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# Status colors

The colors that mark wrong, turned and extra blocks, and the other hints on screen.

Clip: A build with wrong, turned and extra blocks marked in color. Video: https://voxelsprout.com/media/buildprint/colors.mp4

## The colors

| Color         | Meaning                                                    |
| ------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| Amber, dashed | Wrong state: the right block, turned or set the wrong way. |
| Red           | Wrong block: a different block than the build asks for.    |
| Purple        | Extra: a block where the build wants nothing.              |

Blocks that are right are not marked. Blocks that are missing show as the ghost.

## Outline or tint

[**Status overlay**](https://voxelsprout.com/buildprint/wiki/settings#setting-status-overlay) in the settings has three choices. **Tint** colors the whole block and is the default. **Outline** draws a border and keeps the block itself visible. **Off** hides the colors.

## Show only one kind

Each build has a **Show** button in the Loaded tab. It switches between **Unbuilt**, **Wrong state** and **Extra**. There is also a key for it, which is not set by default.

## Look at a block

With [**Look-at block info**](https://voxelsprout.com/buildprint/wiki/settings#setting-look-at-block-info) on, a small panel names the block you look at. For a block of a build it says whether it is right, or what it should be and what is there now.

## The next block

With [**Highlight next block**](https://voxelsprout.com/buildprint/wiki/settings#setting-highlight-next-block) on, the next block to place is marked with a box and a beam. It picks a block you carry and can place right now, and prefers the lowest one, so you build from the bottom up.

## Things you cannot fix

With [**Survival sanity checks**](https://voxelsprout.com/buildprint/wiki/settings#setting-survival-sanity-checks) on, states that nobody can place are not counted as mistakes. That goes for creative too.

* Leaves of a tree, how far a crop has grown, a lit furnace, a piston that was extended.
* Dirt where the build asks for grass, farmland or a path, when the block above it would turn that back into dirt anyway.
* A pressed button or a pressure plate someone stood on.

What you can place or click into shape still counts: a lever, the delay of a repeater, an open door. So does redstone that is powered, such as a lit lamp.

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