4x4 grid that covers the stage WITHOUT clones

Can someone make a 4x4 grid that covers the stage? Using a 4x4 costume and clones like this
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reaches the 5001 clone limit fairly quickly
also it needs to be interactable which means not stamp

Would it meet your needs to make one big costume and populate it with copies of the 4x4 costume? You could probably do that with a couple of RESHAPEs.

How should I do othta

you mean like this?

Ummm, lemme see... I decided to play with a 2x2 grid, just to make things easier to examine. After some putzing around I ended up with this:


The letters a-d would be replaced by RGBA values.