--- navigation: parent: items-blocks-machines/items-blocks-machines-index.md title: Color Applicator icon: color_applicator position: 410 categories: - tools item_ids: - ae2:color_applicator --- # The Color Applicator The color applicator is used to paint colorable blocks like [cables](cables.md), wool, terracotta, glass, and concrete. It uses [paintballs](paintballs.md) or dyes, and snowballs can be used in order to clean color off of cables and paintball splotches off of blocks. Its energy can be recharged in a . Color applicators act like [storage cells](storage_cells.md), and their paint storage can most easily be filled by sticking the applicator in the storage cell slot in a Right-click a target to apply the selected color. To change colors, use your scroll wheel while hold shift, or right-click without a target. ## Upgrades Color Applicators support the following [upgrades](upgrade_cards.md), inserted via a : * allocates the same amount of cell byte space to each type, so one type cannot fill up the entire cell * voids items inserted if the cell is full (or that specific type's allocated space in the case of an equal distribution card). Be careful to partition this! * in order to increase their battery capacity ## Recipe